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The best team in the West gets a rematch against the East-leading Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night.

Bo Jackson, the legendary NFL and MLB player and Nike pitchman, abandons $21-million judgment awarded to him in an extortion and harassment case.

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Ovechkin is about to break one of The Great One’s records, but there’s something else to keep in mind.
Alexander Ovechkin’s pursuit of The Great One is approaching its final stage. Ovi needs just 22 goals to overtake Wayne Gretzky as the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer with 895.
Not only is Ovechkin on pace to break the record, he’s also trending to do it ahead of Gretzky. It took 1,487 career games to set the mark in 1999, and considering Ovechkin has 20 goals in 28 games this season he’s set to hit the mark by game 1,454.

With the NBA season at its midway point, let’s take a spin around the league as we approach the trade deadline and playoff push.

This February will market the 45th anniversary of what I think the vast majority of us would agree is the greatest moment in American sports history, the Miracle on Ice.
To commemorate the win over the Soviet Union and ultimately a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, congress is reintroducing a piece of legislation to award the team Congressional gold medals.
Look, if this can’t pass — given it may be the most no-brainer, slam-dunk bill to ever make its way to Capitol Hill — I may lose hope in the legislative process.

TGL’s debut broadcast earlier this month put up more-than-respectable ratings numbers, especially given that Tiger Woods nor Rory McIlroy played in the opening week’s match. Woods did tee it up in the second week of action, and the ratings prove that the Tiger effect is still very much a real thing.
The debut of the simulator league on ESPN on January 7 drew an average of 919,000 viewers, a 22% uptick from the Pittsburgh – Duke men’s college basketball game that preceded it on the network.

Dana White is calling off the Conor McGregor vs Logan Paul fight before it even begins. 
In a new interview with Pardon My Take, the UFC President immediately shut down any possibility of McGregor – who hasn’t fought in the UFC since 2021, taking on Paul, which was rumored to be happening in India later this year in a boxing match of all things.
Which needless to say – NOBODY wanted. 
“Is Conor McGregor ever going to fight for you?” one of the show hosts asked White, who quickly responded “eventually.

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The Fever are the latest WNBA team to announce they are building their own state-of-the-art practice facility.
The Indiana Fever announced on Thursday they will officially be building a $78 million, 108-square-foot practice facility in downtown Indianapolis. The facility — which will be ready ahead of the 2027 season — will include two courts, a weight room, a first-class recovery, an outdoor courtyard, and more.

A Texas school district official was caught on camera attempting to utilize “loopholes” in order to allow transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.
A journalist for Accuracy in Media (AIM) went undercover as a parent who wanted her biological boy to play for the girls’ soccer team. She met with Dallas Independent School District (ISD) LGBT Youth Program Coordinator Mahoganie Gaston, who attempted to skirt state laws and regulations in order to make it happen.

The ongoing conversation surrounding Deion Sanders and the Dallas Cowboys continues to build, as the Colorado head coach has had conversations with Jerry Jones about the opening. If you wondering if Coach Prime would take the job, one report states that he would almost certainly take it if offered.
This discussion around Deion Sanders is not going away until either the Cowboys fill the position, or Coach Prime makes it known without a doubt that he isn’t leaving Colorado.