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If you haven’t been watching the Women’s March Madness alongside The Big Dance, you’ve been missing out! This year’s tournament has been exhilarating, and viewership only continues to grow.
The 2022 women’s tournament averaged 634,000 viewers per game, which was a 16% increase over 2021. This year’s ratings are likely going to shatter that number. The passion and fanfare, coupled with massive upsets, made for a very exciting first weekend.
Virginia Tech’s fanbase showed out in full voice to spite the NCAA with its home-court advantage.

Petr Cech made a name for himself on the soccer pitch. Now, he’s on the verge of winning another championship, only this time it’ll be on the ice.
Cech spent 15 seasons in the English Premier League playing for both Chelsea and Arsenal, but when the now 40-year-old retired from pro soccer, he wasn’t done making saves.
Cech played hockey as a kid and he decided to pursue that after his soccer career was over. He signed with the Guildford Phoenix of the National Ice Hockey League 2 South. Guildford is an affiliate of the Guildford Flames who play in the Elite Ice Hockey League.

Beware of Ken Francis — an apparent scammer contacting NFL teams about Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson.
OK, there’s obviously more to the story. But what a WILD way to start our Thursday night!
Here’s the memo that was sent out to all 32 teams this afternoon regarding some random dude named Ken Francis cold-calling teams about the star QB.

Here’s the full memo from the NFL Management Council warning teams not to negotiate with a man named Ken Francis about Lamar Jackson.
“Violation of this rule may result in disapproval of any Offer Sheet or resulting.

The program announced that Dale Lindsey had retired earlier this week, but he had a different take on his departure.
On Tuesday, San Diego announced the retirement of longtime football coach Dale Lindsey, who had led the Toreros to seven conference titles in 10 years. In a statement, USD athletics director Bill McGillis wrote that Lindsey “will retire from USD as one of the greatest head coaches in our university’s history and one of the elite head coaches in college football.”
Given his many accomplishments, that last part is undeniably true.

Mustapha Amzil is one of three Dayton basketball players who have entered the transfer portal following the 2022-23 season. The list may only continue to grow, and could end up including as many as eight players when it is all said and done.

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The Flyers began the year with a lot of hope for head coach Anthony Grant’s sixth year with the program. They were coming off of a 24-win season in 2021-22, added a lot of talent during the offseason, and were riding the excitement of Mongolian Mike.

The Portuguese superstar added another record to his legendary career.
Cristiano Ronaldo added a new record to his legendary career on Thursday when he became the most-capped men’s player in international soccer history.
The Portuguese forward made his 197th appearance for his home country on Thursday against Liechtenstein in a Euro 2024 qualifying match. He surpassed the record held by Kuwait’s Bader Al-Mutawa, who has made 196 appearances for his country.
Ronaldo currently plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr after signing with the team back in December shortly after the World Cup.

In a strange stroke of irony, some victory cigars turned out to be a pretty significant loss for Ferris State Bulldogs head coach Tony Annese.
The NCAA announced that it’s suspending Annese for one game after two of his players lit up some victory stogies. It happened following the team’s second straight Division II national championship last December.
If you’re wondering how Joe Burrow got away unscathed after puffing away after the LSU Tigers 2019 National Championship, there’s a reason.
It’s because you’re normally allowed to.