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The Cincinnati Bengals and star wide receiver Tee Higgins have agreed on a four-year contract extension worth $115 million
Sunday, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reported the news: “Tee gets: 4-years, $115M with the first two years guaranteed — making him the highest paid WR2 in NFL history.”
In the same announcement, Schultz revealed the monster contract extension for Ja’Marr Chase, too.

As the 2025 NCAA tournament bracket was revealed on Sunday, there were bound to be a few notable exclusions. One of these was West Virginia, who fell just short of the tournament as the first of the first four out.
With a 19-13 record, and a 10-10 Big 12 record, the Mountaineers were quickly viewed as one of the tournament’s biggest snubs. West Virginia seems to agree, with the Mountaineers publicly stating that they believe they deserved that final spot.

Women’s basketball has not slowed down at all this season as March Madness arrives.
A year ago, the women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark. The question was whether some fans would step away as Clark, Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso and other standouts headed to the WNBA.

All eyes have turned toward the 2025 NFL draft after the San Francisco 49ers made the choice to financially reset and avoid dishing out a ton of high-dollar free agency contracts. The 2025 draft class has a lot of pressure to perform right away, but a handful of players from the 2024 draft class will now carry additional pressure on their shoulders in 2025 as well.

TOKYO (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts will not play in the two-game Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs because of an illness that’s lingered for the past week.
Manager Dave Roberts said Monday that Betts is starting to feel better but has lost nearly 15 pounds and is still trying to get rehydrated and gain strength. Roberts added that the eight-time All-Star might fly back to the United States before the team in an effort to rest and prepare for the domestic opener on March 27.

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Chelsea Gray exploded for 39 points to lead the Rose club to a victory over the Laces, while the Vinyl upset the Lunar Owls thanks to a Dearica Hamby game-winner.
Chelsea Gray did it all in Sunday’s Rose club win against the Laces, exploding for an Unrivaled-record 39 points on 15-23 shooting — including 21 points straight in the second half.
Then, she sealed the deal with a top-of-the-arc three-pointer to lift the Rose to a 63-57 win, securing a spot in Unrivaled’s championship game on Monday.

We look at every team in the women’s NCAA bracket.

UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, who all had a turn at No. 1 this season in the Associated Press poll, joined USC Sunday as the four top seeds in the NCAA’s women’s basketball tournament, which begins this week and will conclude with the Final Four in Tampa.

Every college basketball player’s dream is to make the NCAA Tournament and play for a national championship, and while many of them unfortunately don’t get the chance, a select few will get the opportunity to play for another postseason title.
The National Invitation Tournament − commonly known as the NIT − is another postseason tournament put on by the NCAA that actually started in 1938, a year before the NCAA Tournament we know today began and actually was the more prestigious event for decades.

The Texas Tech women’s basketball season isn’t over yet.
The Lady Raiders will play at No. 4 seed Wyoming in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament, the NCAA announced Sunday. The winner will face the victor between No. 1 seed Virginia Tech (18-12) and North Carolina A&T (19-11).
The WBIT is considered the second-highest postseason competition. The first four teams left out of the NCAA Tournament receive No. 1 seeds in the 32-team WBIT. Regular season champions that did not make the NCAA Tournament automatically qualify as well.