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It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
The Major League Baseball regular season hasn’t even started and yet there is an ominous feeling coming from Mets fans that something seems off.
The latest incident came on Friday when their star outfielder Brandon Nimmo appeared to get his cleat stuck in the dirt as he was sliding into second base, causing him to suffer a leg injury.
Nimmo immediately went down and began grabbing his leg, as the Mets training staff and manager Buck Showalter jogged over to him surely thinking “You’ve got to be kidding me.

The wide receiver is currently a free agent.
With most NFL free agents off the board, Odell Beckham Jr. is once again the most prominent player on the market. The veteran recently worked out for teams as he tries to prove he is fully recovered from his torn ACL.
Even if he is healthy, there is a question of how much Beckham is worth on the open market. ProFootballTalk reported that Beckham Jr. is looking for at least $20 million a year on his next deal.

Hindsight is 20/20, but maybe we all should’ve jumped on the Fairleigh Dickinson wagon before it took off like a rocket ship Friday night?
One brave soul took the leap ahead of time, placed $33,000 bucks on FDU to upset Purdue, and casually woke up this morning with $495,000 in his or her bank account.
Not a terrible way to start the holiday weekend!

A bettor placed a $33,000 wager on Fairleigh Dickinson to beat Purdue.
It netted $495,000.@DKSportsbook has confirmed the authenticity of this bet.
(H/T @zachkoval) pic.twitter.

Kansas head coach Bill Self will miss Saturday’s NCAA tournament game against Arkansas as he continues to recover from a heart procedure last week, the school announced.

Cathy Lee was a Pan Am Games silver medalist in judo in 1991.
The biggest upset in college sports involving Purdue Friday evening might not have taken place on the hardwood.
In the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Tulsa, Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee suffered a shocking upset loss in the 125-pound semifinals to Purdue’s Matt Ramos. Lee is considered one of the most dominant collegiate wrestlers in history, and Ramos’s last-second pin denied him a record-tying fourth straight national championship.

The kid’s still got it!
Ken Griffey Jr. stepped into the batting cage during Friday’s Team USA World Baseball Classic practice and it was AWESOME.
The coolest part? Even the younger players understood just how important and how damn GOOD Griffey was and apparently still is at baseball.
Oh, and the fact that he can STILL hit home runs.

And here’s Junior. #WorldBaseballClassic https://t.co/0O3A9rHBez pic.twitter.

D.J. Turner’s combine-best 4.26 40-yard dash time could help him rise up draft boards as the NFL Draft approaches.

The Retrievers became the first team in men’s NCAA tournament history to win as a No. 16 seed in 2018.
UMBC made history in 2018, becoming the first No. 16 seed in the history of the men’s NCAA tournament to beat a No. 1 seed, with its dominant 74–54 blowout of Virginia. On Friday, a second men’s team joined the exclusive club of No. 16 seeds to win an NCAA tournament game, with 2018 UMBC and 1998 Harvard women’s basketball: Fairleigh Dickinson.
The Knights stunned No. 1 seed Purdue, 63–58, to make history in Columbus.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – If one must be in a Tigers’ den, growl like one.
No. 1 seed Houston (32-3) has been ranked No. 1 in the nation this season and has the top NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool) ranking with a 7-2 record against Quadrant 1 opponents, who are the highest rated. And the Cougars are 8-0 against Quad 2 foes.
Not bad, right?
AUBURN, ALABAMA TICKETS HOTTEST IN NCAA TOURNAMENT
But the NCAA sent Houston to Birmingham, which is only two hours from the No. 9 seed Auburn Tigers (21-12), who have a No. 32 NET ranking.

The Jayhawks coach has missed the last four games after being hospitalized.
Kansas coach Bill Self will not coach Saturday’s men’s NCAA tournament game vs. Arkansas, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. This will mark the fifth straight game that Self has missed.
Self was hospitalized before the Big 12 tournament with what the school described as “chest tightness and balance concerns.” According to Kansas, Self underwent a “standard heart catheterization” and was treated for blocked arteries, but the school expects him to make a full recovery.