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It’s never too late to throw down a Goal of the Year candidate, and Nashville Predators rookie Juuso Parssinen waited until overtime of regular season game No. 81 to drop a gross between-the-legs game-winner.
Nashville went into Thursday’s game against the Minnesota Wild knowing that their playoff hopes were gone, having just lost out on the Western Conference’s second wild card spot to the Winnipeg Jets.
As for the Wild, they’re locked into third place in the Central Division and will wait to see whether their first-round date is with the Avalanche or Stars.

The 2023 NFL draft is almost upon us, so diehard fans and fantasy managers alike are waiting with bated breath to see who their teams will select and how rookies will affect fantasy values. Until then, there’s been a lot of chatter around the social media spaces about the best and worst draft picks of all time based on stats and titles.
Since I live in the world of fantasy football, that topic got me thinking.

Mikey Williams, a top high school basketball recruit and Memphis Tigers signee, has been arrested on five charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The five-star hooper was arrested in Souther California on Thursday and released on bail of $50,000 on Friday morning.
While the San Deog Sheriff’s Department does not release booking photos to the public, the department did confirm the basketball star had been arrested. Williams’ Instagram account was deactivated shortly after he was released on bail.

Memphis signee Mikey Williams was arrested in Southern California on Thursday, Jackson Brown of ABC 24 Memphis reports.
According to the report, Williams was arrested at 3:30 p.m. local time Thursday afternoon on five charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Williams was then released on a $50,000 bail early Friday morning, and his first court appearance is April 20, Brown states.
The specifics of the arrest are currently unknown.
If convicted, Williams’s charges can each result in a minimum of six months in county jail, per California law.

The longstanding feud between former teammates Spencer Dinwiddie and Kyle Kuzma has taken another bizarre twist.
This time former Lakers great Rick Fox got involved.
Here’s a quick synopsis of what has happened so far:
Dinwiddie said in a postgame press conference as a member of the Mavericks that the Wizards don’t play winning basketball. Kuzma responded by saying Dallas does not play winning basketball. 
Kuzma then further escalated the feud by tweeting that “The wizards and I have so much real estate on Dins—tie Island.

1. I realize that some of you reading this don’t follow wrestling, don’t care about wrestling and aren’t interested in wrestling. And that’s why this video is so good—because even if you fall into that category, you will still enjoy watching this behind-the-scenes look at Pat McAfee’s WrestleMania day.
McAfee’s appearance on Night 1 of WrestleMania was a surprise for WWE fans. He was not promoted nor advertised to be at the event. He ended up coming out for a segment with The Miz, which also featured Niners tight end George Kittle.

Micah Parsons thinks a team’s best players should get paid accordingly. So much so, he’s advocating for a division rival.
On Thursday, the Cowboys linebacker snapped back at a Twitter user who suggested New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley was losing steam near the end of the 2022 season. The random hater pointed out Barkley had 931 rushing yards in the first nine games, but only 359 in the last eight.
“He was wearing down and not as effective in the final half of the season. No ‘weird sh-it’ just facts,” he tweeted.
But Parsons wasn’t having it.

One thing that became clear during Thursday’s press conference with his new team was that Odell Beckham Jr.’s prior team managed to hide the fact that Beckham had no ACL in his knee for his entire stay with the team in 2021.

It’s spring practice season across college football, which means tailgates at spring games for fans and the first taste of football ahead of the fall.
It’s also, of course, a time of overreactions to positional battles, the performances of offensive and defensive coordinators and more.
That doesn’t mean that Lane Kiffin, who of course knows these details as well as anybody, couldn’t get a shot in at an SEC rival.

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Is winning the regular season series with your playoff opponent really an indicator of postseason success?
Playoff predictions are far more simple than people make them out to be, especially in the first round — at least if recent history is any indication.
Over the last eight years — since the Stephen Curry-led Golden State Warriors started a 3-point shooting explosion that has changed pace of play in the league — top-three seeds advance out of the first round at a really reliable rate.