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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State coach Ryan Day confirmed that the Buckeyes national championship football team will visit the White House on April 14.
Ohio State’s visit comes after it wraps up spring football practices.
“It’s an honor to be invited,” Day said. “I remember growing up and watching the national championship teams go to the White House. I always looked at that, like, ‘Man, what an honor that would be.’ So, it’s part of the celebration of our team. I’m looking forward to getting that all planned out.

The two-versus-seven seed in the West will see the Victoria Royals take on the Tri-City Americans. These two teams last faced off in 2018, when Tri-City swept Victoria in the second round. 2018 was also the last time the Americans captured a series win, while the Royals last advanced past the first round in 2019. 
Victoria dominated the season series, winning three of the four games. The last time these two met was early February, when the Royals skated away with a commanding 9-1 victory.

JuJu Watkins’ torn ACL changes the 2025 women’s title race, and the effects could linger into next season.

World Athletics, the global governing body for Track & Field, took a massive step toward protecting women’s sports. The organization, which oversees Olympic track and field, announced it will perform biological sex tests on female athletes to keep males out of the women’s category. 
Sebastian Coe, the President of World Athletics (also known as the IAAF), said that “the pre-clearance testing will be for athletes to compete in the female category” and added that the testing is “important.

The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook caused some major crashouts from PGA Tour players at the Valspar Championship last week, and Patton Kizzire was among the group who lost their cool on the difficult track.
Kizzire, a three-time winner on Tour, reached his boiling point during Thursday’s opening round.
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At one-over par through his first five holes of the tournament, Kizzire was faced with a par putt from just inside six feet.

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The Titans said they’d take a ‘generational talent’ at No. 1. They lied.
With just under a month until the 2025 NFL Draft we now have a pretty good idea of who the Titans are going to take with the No. 1 overall pick. All signs are pointing to Miami QB Cam Ward having his name called first, with the Titans spending ample time with Ward at his pro day on Monday, paired with the obligatory dinner with the prospect — all things that happen when a team is zeroing in on a player.
As a result Ward is now the runaway favorite to be the No.

Oakland men’s basketball coach Greg Kampe recalls exactly when he realized that mid-majors had become a farm system for power-conference programs.
It was when Kampe lost a standout player who grew up minutes from campus, who attended dozens of Oakland games as a kid and who always hoped to play for the Golden Grizzlies just like both his mom and dad once did.
Trey Towsend blossomed from unwanted recruit to Horizon League player of the year during his time at Oakland.

In a span of months, Puka Nacua went from fifth-round draft pick to fighting for a roster spot in training camp to starting receiver in Week 1. It was a rapid rise that no one saw coming in 2023 and he eventually went on to have statistically the best rookie season ever by a wide receiver.
His NFL debut was a memorable one, catching 10 passes for 119 yards in a 30-13 win over the Seahawks. One thing he’ll never forget from that game is a simple gesture by Matthew Stafford on his first target as a pro.
Nacua dropped the pass on an under route when the two weren’t on the same page.

We continue to hear from Steelers fans who aren’t thrilled with the prospect of the Steelers signing quarterback Aaron Rodgers. While much of the pushback focuses on the perception that Rodgers no longer has high-end skills (we disagree), an email that arrived overnight points to a different concern.
The question is whether Rodgers fits with the city’s culture, where there’s a stubborn commitment to tradition and family.
“How can you root for your QB when they have no regard for tradition or family?” the reader argued.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota hired Colorado State’s Niko Medved, agreeing to a six-year contract with the Twin Cities-area native and former student manager for the Gophers who had the Rams within one basket of the Sweet 16.
Medved was the front-runner from the start to succeed Ben Johnson, who was fired on March 13 after going 56-71 overall and 22-57 in the Big Ten in four years on the job. Minnesota athletic director Mark Coyle has been eager to revitalize a struggling program that has made the NCAA Tournament twice in the last 12 seasons.