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“My madness is very calculated.”
Marlon “Chito” Vera will headline UFC Fight Night on Saturday, facing off against Cory Sandhagen in a bout critical in determining the top of the bantamweight division.
At the moment, bantamweight is a complicated division. Reigning champion Aljamain Sterling is expected to move to featherweight after his title defense in May against the returning Henry Cejudo, and a win would allow Sterling to set the record for most consecutive bantamweight title defenses.

Lamar Jackson could re-energize the Falcons’ fanbase, so why is Atlanta out on the QB? Plus: Quiet-quitting Cardinals and Detroit finally has a plan.

This season, you will have to pay up to watch exclusive games on Apple TV+.
1. Throughout the World Baseball Classic, we kept hearing about how the tournament exists to help grow the game of baseball. Grow the game. Grow the game. Grow the game. People love to use that phrase.
Personally, I don’t see how someone who isn’t an MLB fan will now tune into ESPN next Thursday to watch the Astros play the White Sox just because they got wrapped up in the WBC, but that’s me.
When it comes to growing the game, MLB should start with evaluating some of its TV deals.

The Broncos quarterback had been dealing with a knee issue for several years.
Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee this offseason to address a nagging issue that he has dealt with for several years, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. It was a minor scope procedure and he is already working out and throwing. 
He is expected to be good to go for organized team activities and will be at full health for the 2023 season. It’s good news for Wilson, who will look to make a vast improvement next year after a disappointing 2022 campaign.

Breaking down the biggest story lines heading into the second weekend of the men’s tournament.
The men’s 2023 NCAA tournament continues Thursday with the Sweet 16 and a packed schedule of matchups in the East and West Regions.
SI’s Pat Forde and Kevin Sweeney provide the latest on what you need to know from the Big Dance:
Which Sweet 16 game are you most looking forward to?
Sweeney: Gonzaga vs. UCLA is the obvious choice, and for good reason. But Houston’s matchup with Miami on Friday intrigues me.

The feud between Warriors forward Draymond Green and Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks continues.

We have major drama in the rodeo world, and people need answers – PRONTO!
And when that happens, you come to OutKick. That’s always the safest bet when it comes to disputes like these, and one longtime reader did just that late Tuesday night.
And now, after doing a little Big J deep dive, pouring through hundreds of angry comments, and watching the replay – which, you’ll learn, is a pretty big sticking point here – I’m all in. I’m invested.
I’m #TeamBeau.
Beau Cooper penalized and people ain’t happy.

Plus, upset picks, updated national championship odds and NFL free agency fantasy reactions.
After the madness that ensued last weekend, there’s thankfully been a few days to recover. But as the saying goes: We sleep in May.
Four more men’s NCAA tournament games are coming Thursday as the Sweet 16 begins and, as you well know, the NFL news cycle never stops.
Catch up with everything you might have missed and prepare for what’s coming down the pike over the next few days.

Ole Miss baseball can mash. The Rebels are defending their national title in 2023 with a roster that looks very different from a year ago, but cannot be stopped when everything is clicking.
Mike Bianco’s team is 15-6 thus far into the year, with a series win over Maryland and a win over Southern Miss, but hit a slump last week with a loss to Jacksonville State and series sweep on the road at Vanderbilt. It was a rough four-game stretch that saw Ole Miss get out-scored 10-37.
The Rebels bounced back in a big way Tuesday. A bad Arkansas Pine Bluff team rolled into Oxford and got rocked.

Virginia running back Mike Hollins believes he’s very lucky to be playing football again.
Hollins was shot and wounded during a rampage on UVA’s campus allegedly carried out by Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. in November. Fellow UVA football players D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were all killed.
Now, Hollins, who heroically tried to intervene to save his teammates, is just happy to be back on the field for team drills.
Virginia football players D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr., and Devin Chandler were murdered in November.