One of the few bad elements of a national championship – depending on your perspective – is that suddenly the powers that be start looking at other programs on a college campus and wonder, “Why not you, too?”
The Georgia football team has won back-to-back national championships.
The Georgia baseball team has not been close to a national championship since it reached the national championship series in 2008 before losing to Fresno State.
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LSU forward Sa’Myah Smith fainted at the White House on Friday while the women’s basketball national championship team was visiting.
President Joe Biden was giving his remarks, while the LSU team stood right behind him, when there appeared to be an issue in the team area. Biden stopped speaking to get a sense of what was going on and the proceedings were stopped for around six minutes as doctors attended to Smith.
After a few minutes, Smith regained consciousness and was helped out of the area on a wheelchair.
Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan won six NBA championships together back during their playing days with the legendary Chicago Bulls teams of the 1990s. They were one of the most dominant duos in NBA history and will forever be linked thanks to all the success they had on the court.
Over recent years, however, it’s become clear that they are no longer close and that Pippen didn’t appreciate the type of teammate Jordan was during those championship seasons.
The Yankees announced the release of outfielder Aaron Hicks prior to Friday’s game against the Padres, officially ending the former standout’s tumultuous eight-year stint with the club.
The news of Hicks’s release came nearly one week after New York designated the 33-year-old for assignment. In his 28 games played this season, Hicks recorded 13 hits, one home run and five RBI while slashing a paltry .188/.263/.261.
Now free to join any team of his choosing as a free agent, Hicks, a 2008 Twins draft pick who joined the Yankees via trade in Nov.
Ever since Jaylen Brown entered the league in 2016, he has played on a handful of very successful Celtics teams. As a result, he has played with a lot of talented players, some more disrespectful than others.
Ahead of Boston’s Game 5 win on Thursday, Brown named the most disrespectful player he’s ever played with. While he could have gone with higher-level talents like Jayson Tatum or Kyrie Irving, he went with an unheralded Boston star.
“I’ve played on some teams with some interesting guys who talked a lot of words to the refs,” Brown told GQ.
Rose Zhang has been the top-ranked amateur golfer for a record 141 consecutive weeks, and won more in fewer outings at Stanford than Tiger Woods did.
Even on his rare day off, Charles Barkley still managed to go viral on Friday after the NBA legend and TNT analyst delivered a soundbite for the ages in defense of Pat McAfee’s upcoming move to ESPN.
Appearing on Friday’s episode of The Pat McAfee Show, Barkley offered a few strong words of encouragement to the popular talk show host amid backlash he’s received over his recently announced deal with ESPN. McAfee opened the conversation praising Barkley and Inside the NBA for keeping the masses, including the new dad himself, entertained throughout the postseason.
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John Daly gave it a shot this week at the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship but left after 13 holes in Round 1.
John Daly attempted to play in the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship this weekend, a week after missing the 105th PGA Championship. After 13 holes, he chose to withdraw from the tournament and took to Twitter to blast the PGA of America for their tee boxes.
“So hard to play tee boxes that are down grade.
DeAndre Hopkins is unemployed. He should enjoy the downtime.
On Friday afternoon, the Cardinals released the five-time Pro Bowl receiver. After months of attempting to trade him, Arizona general manager Monti Ossenfort instead cut Hopkins, saving $8.9 million this season while taking a dead cap hit of $21 million.
For the Cardinals, the tank appears to be on for the No. 1 pick next spring. For many contenders, the chase for one of the league’s best receivers now begins.
While nobody was willing to pay Hopkins’s base salary of $19.
Watch this incredible 211-shot badminton rally from this week’s 2023 Malaysia Masters
In the second-round match of the 2023 Malaysia Masters badminton tournament this Thursday, the Malaysian Women’s Doubles team of Thinaah Muralitharan and Pearly Tan led the Japanese duo of Rena Miyaura and Ayako Sakuramoto 16-14 in the third and decisive set.
What happened next left the competitors, and the fans watching in the stands, breathless.