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Louisiana, Marshall, and Southern Miss are the favorites in the Sun Belt men’s basketball conference tournament.
The run to the Final Four kicks off in earnest on Tuesday night, with the Hercules Tires Men’s Basketball Championship.
This has been a rather tumultuous year in the “Fun Belt,” thanks to conference realignment.

NFL execs reportedly believe the best QB prospects aren’t even draft eligible: Drake Maye and Caleb Williams.
The 2023 draft class has some solid QB options, most notably Bryce Young and C.J. Stroud. Past that there’s also Will Levis, Anthony Richardson and Hendon Hooker.
All five of those QBs are generating plenty of buzz. However, a lot of the hype is apparently being saved for 2024.

Indianapolis can erase the mess of the Jeff Saturday era by coming away with a top quarterback. They should trade up ahead of their division rival to do it.
It’s been a fascinating few months to be a fly on the wall in Jim Irsay’s office.

He will replace Shane Steichen, who was recently hired by the Colts as their new head coach.
The Eagles have decided to promote quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson to fill the role of offensive coordinator, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday.
Johnson served as the quarterbacks coach for the last two seasons, working with Jalen Hurts for two out of the three years that the 2020 second-round draft pick has been in the league.

The Falcons said they’ll be adding to their quarterback room this offseason.

The veteran signal-caller started 13 games for Atlanta last season.
The Falcons have released Marcus Mariota, the team announced Tuesday, ending the veteran quarterback’s run with the team after just one season.
Mariota signed a two-year deal with Atlanta last offseason, but the franchise will save approximately $12 million in salary cap space following his release, according to OverTheCap.com. The Falcons, who already had the second-most cap space in the league heading into free agency, will now have approximately $65 million in total cap space to use this offseason.

ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. released his second mock draft of 2023, and he has the Chicago Bears trading down twice and still landing Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter.

Baylor AD Mack Rhoades thinks the Big 12 needs to be ready for chaos to break loose with the PAC-12.
George Kliavkoff and the west coast conference he oversees has been engulfed with issues amid failure to hammer out a new media deal.
A recent report claimed Washington and Oregon believe their departure to the Big Ten is inevitable, and once that happens, the PAC-12 could collapse in a very short period of time.
Rhoades wants the Big 12 to be ready.
Will the Big 12 raid the PAC-12. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
Will the Big 12 offer a life raft to PAC-12 programs.

Some think every at-bat should start off like this. Others absolutely disagree.
The MLB pitch clock is here and it is perfect. Well, not everybody might think it’s perfect but this new rule is speeding up spring training games and should do the same to the real games when the regular season starts in a few weeks. 
If you need proof that it’s awesome then check out this video of a Dodgers pitcher getting through a whole half inning in the same time it took a former Dodgers pitcher to throw one pitch in a game a few years ago.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Buffalo Bills brain drain continues as the team announced Tuesday morning defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier will take the 2023 season off and return in 2024.
This is part of a pattern for the Bills who last year lost offensive coordinator Brian Daboll when he became the Giants head coach and assistant GM Joe Schoen when he became the Giants GM. There were other coaches who also left in that string of departures to the Giants as well.
The Frazier move is stunning because of the timing. It comes well after the Bills season ended Jan.