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Stephen Strasburg made eight starts after signing a $245 million contract in 2019.

North Cinderella State just got clocked.
No. 1-seed Purdue is one win away from completely erasing its embarrassing upset to No. 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson last year in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Purdue 7-foot-4 center Zach Edey became Captain Midnight personified as he ended No. 11-seed North Carolina State’s Cinderella ride with a 63-50 clobbering Saturday night at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The Boilermakers (34-4), playing in their first Final Four since 1980, have reached their first national championship game since losing in it in 1969.

In a postseason littered with enticing rematches, Iowa and Caitlin Clark face undefeated No. 1 overall seed South Carolina in Sunday’s national title game.

It’s weird to look back on the COVID-affected 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. That was when the teams that made the Stanley Cup Playoffs (as well as teams that appeared in the “qualifying” round) spent weeks in bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton, much like the NBA did in Disney World.
Of course, being stuck in a locked-down hotel for weeks doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, but Barry Trotz — who was the New York Islanders head coach at the time — says that was his favorite memory of coaching the team.

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In this new world of Name, Image & Likeness and the NCAA Transfer Portal in college athletics, everything is geared toward the “student”-athletes.
They have no contracts, so they can leave a program virtually on a moment’s notice for no particular reason and be eligible immediately for the next season. They can make hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions in addition to free scholarships, room and board and medical care.

Did you watch the women’s college basketball Final Four matchup between UConn and Iowa? Well, you were far from the only one.
Caitlin Clark and the No. 1-seeded Hawkeyes took down Paige Bueckers and the  No. 3-seeded Huskies 71-69 to earn a berth in the national title game. It was certainly the most anticipated women’s college basketball game in recent memory, if not all time.
Much of that anticipation centered around Clark’s marketability for the women’s game, and with good reason.

Spencer Strider, the Braves’ ace and the major league leader in wins and strikeouts last season, has damage to the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, the team said on Saturday.

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley hold differing opinions on what a national title would mean to Clark’s status among the all-time greats in women’s college basketball.

Iowa’s win over UConn Friday night in the semifinals of the women’s Final Four drew a record average of 14.2 million viewers for the matchup.