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The columnist missed his first Super Bowl in February 2023.
Longtime Detroit newspaper columnist Jerry Green, who covered each of the first 56 Super Bowls, died on Friday at the age of 94, The Detroit News announced.
Green joined the Associated Press in 1956, after spending three years in the Navy, and ultimately worked his way up to become the AP sports editor in Detroit. He started writing for The Detroit News in 1963 and became the Lions beat writer from 1965 to ’72, when he moved into a columnist position.

Jerome Tang finished his first year as the head basketball coach at Kansas State with a loss to Florida Atlantic in the Elite Eight. The Wildcats, a three-seed, were upset by the nine-seed in a thrilling down-to-the-wire classic.
Senior Markquis Nowell, a Harlem-native, played the game of his life at Madison Square Garden. He became one of four players in history to score more than 30 points with at least 10 assists in March Madness, but it still wasn’t enough.

Unbelievable effort from Markquis Nowell and Kansas State tonight #MarchMadness @KStateMBB pic.twitter.

Sandhagen made his case for the No. 1 contender fight following an impressive win over Marlon “Chito” Vera in San Antonio.
Bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen took another step forward in his march toward the UFC title with an impressive win over Marlon “Chito” Vera in the main event of Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 43 event in San Antonio, Texas.

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Owls! Huskies! Hurleys!
Two spots in the Final Four secured. One by a powerhouse with more national titles than any program since 1999. The other by a program that had never tasted an NCAA tournament victory this time two weeks ago.
Let’s get to it.
Best game
(9) Florida Atlantic 79, (3) Kansas State 76 (East)
Florida Atlantic, a program which two weeks ago had never won an NCAA tournament game and had appeared in the Big Dance just once before, is headed to the Final Four.

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The Owls are headed to the Final Four, the third no. 9 seed to ever make it this far.
All season, the Florida Atlantic Owls never wavered.
The Owls were ranked fifth in the Conference-USA preseason poll, behind teams like Middle Tennessee State, yet they never wavered.
Entered the NCAA Tournament as a No.

Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell is locked in on Tanner Mordecai as the team’s starting QB going into the 2023 season.
Ever since the former SMU star transferred to the Badgers for his final year of eligibility, the belief has been he’ll be under center slinging it as QB1. That’s even what former backup Chase Wolf was reportedly told, which caused him to leave the program.
Well, that’s exactly what happened when spring practice opened, according to Zach Heilprin. However, it wasn’t Nick Evers who took most of the QB2 reps. It was former Mississippi State QB Braedyn Locke.

Ramirez dropped Commey twice in the 11th. Commey managed to get up after the first, but Ramirez pinned him in a corner and went viciously to the body.

The Bulldogs’ era of consistently being among college basketball’s elite may be closing after they crashed out of the NCAA tournament.
Gonzaga has been the best program in college basketball over the last seven years, its record a ridiculous 223–24 since the start of the 2016–17 season. But once again, the Bulldogs have missed out on the ultimate prize in the NCAA tournament, blown out Saturday by 28 points against UConn to end the career of star big man Drew Timme and leave the program still without a national championship.

Young owned up to his mistake postgame, coach Quin Snyder said.

The Huskies head coach had a bold claim after clinching a Final Four berth.
UConn has pulled off statement win after statement win en route to the Final Four, but it was head coach Dan Hurley making a statement of his own after the Huskies sent Gonzaga crashing out of the 2023 NCAA tournament. 
In his post-game interview, Hurley briefly discussed UConn’s win over the Bulldogs before boldly declaring that the Big East was the best conference in college basketball.
“Just kind of got back to the team that we were early in the season.