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A tearful Lionel Messi left Barcelona in 2021 due to the club’s financial difficulties, headlining soccer’s most shocking transfer news ever. Since then, Messi has played two seasons for Paris Saint-Germain but his time in French soccer might be coming to end as a return to Spain looks more plausible than ever before.
For a possible Lionel Messi return to Barcelona he must take a significant pay cut from his current $32.5 million PSG salary.

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The Hawks outlast the Heat and the Lakers survive in OT as the 2023 postseason begins.
Hawks grab East’s 7th seed with 116-105 win over Heat
Last season, the Miami Heat took the Atlanta Hawks to task in the first round of the playoffs, handling business in just five games. Trae Young and company — under new leadership in their postseason-tested head coach Quin Snyder — were hell-bent on ensuring that the same disappointing result did not come in this year’s play-in tournament.

Shohei Ohtani took the mound Tuesday night for the third time this season and once again showed everyone why he’s the coolest player in Major League Baseball. 
Ohtani had another laughably impressive night for the Angels, as he gave up just one hit and struck out six in seven innings and improved to 2–0 on the season with a 2–0 victory over the Nationals. He also had a hit in four at-bats.

Everyone makes bad choices. Whether it’s a signing, a trade or a poorly executed decision, these are the moves that haunt AFC teams.

Laeticia Amihere did not start a single game for South Carolina this season. Of her 127 appearances in four years for the Gamecocks, she came off the bench for all but a handful of them, recording just four career starts. Yet there was no surprise when her name was called in the first round of the 2023 WNBA draft.
Why? Simple: Amihere is not your typical bench player. Her role at South Carolina was a product of both the organizational depth in the program and of her personal versatility.

With the NFL draft less than three weeks away, we have officially entered the goofy season.
This is the time when NFL teams — through their coaches and general managers and leaked whispers to the media — say stoopid stuff. And they expect people with a brain capable of critical thinking to nod our heads and believe what they say.
I recall when Jimmy Johnson, now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, decided he was not drafting Randy Moss under any circumstances in the 1998 draft. And, sure enough, he didn’t.
But he selected East Carolina receiver Larry Shannon in the third round.

Hanna and Haley Cavinder are done playing college basketball, and the two reportedly will attempt to cash in with some huge new deals.
The pair announced Tuesday the college basketball era of their lives has come to an end, and it’s time for a “new chapter” to begin.
“Hanna and I have decided to not take our fifth year and start a new chapter in our lives. The U will always be home and we are forever proud to be Hurricanes.

News, notes and observations from Tuesday’s play-in games, as we are still reeling from an absolutely bonkers Lakers-Timberwolves play-in clash:
It wasn’t pretty, but the Lakers move on

What a wild game in Los Angeles. Through three quarters the Timberwolves—the Rudy Gobert-less, Jaden McDaniels-less, barely functional Timberwolves—looked poised to force the Lakers into Friday’s win-or-go-home game just to make the playoffs. Karl-Anthony Towns was outplaying Anthony Davis. Mike Conley was dominating D’Angelo Russell. L.A.’s vaunted defense was allowing Minnesota to shoot 51.

Tuesday night’s play-in victory was a microcosm of a tumultuous and often ugly season for the Lakers.

While ESPN has gone from a sports powerhouse to a left-leaning culture company due to the mere existence of Donald Trump, Stephen A. Smith has gone against the messaging of his employer about the former President of the United States. Smith, who knows Trump personally, doesn’t believe he’s racist.
Smith spoke at the Semafor Media Summit on Monday and during the Q&A segment of his appearance, the topic of Trump came up.
He explained that prior to the 2016 election, he “thoroughly enjoyed talking” to Trump as the two had a common interest in the world of sports.