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Deion Sanders has emphasized the transfer portal over traditional high school recruiting since taking over as coach at Colorado in late 2022. However, his biggest recruiting addition ahead of the 2024 season is Jordan Seaton, an IMG Academy offensive tackle and consensus five-star prospect.
Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders faced constant pressure in 2023, and Seaton will be tasked with keeping the Buffaloes signal-caller upright this fall.

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Thomas took a safe route when he explained the post-Tiger Woods era ahead of this week’s PGA Tour event at the Valspar.
Scottie Scheffler has emerged as one of the most dominant names in recent PGA Tour history. The things he has accomplished in the last three years are now being compared to Tiger Woods.
He easily holds the No. 1 World ranking. After going back-to-back at Arnie’s Place and capturing his second straight Players Championship, people are starting to wonder if golf is better when someone is this dominant.

New McNeese State basketball coach Will Wade – alias former LSU and NCAA outlaw – will be going after more than just No. 5 seed Gonzaga (25-7) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday night in Salt Lake City.
Wade has had a spectacular season at McNeese, leading the program to a record-breaking season at 30-3 after it went 11-23 a year ago. But he apparently still wants revenge against various media members who ripped him back when the NCAA was investigating and confirming his many recruiting violations while LSU’s coach from 2017-22.

As has been outlined by several people now, the NBA seems to have undergone a not-so-subtle downturn in scoring, roughly since the All-Star break.
Tom Haberstroh has been all over this topic on his Substack. As has Ethan Strauss. You may have heard about it on a podcast from Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo. The NBA even sent Joe Dumars and Monty McCutchen on Zach Lowe’s podcast to discuss the league-wide dip in scoring, and whether the NBA itself was responsible.

Friday’s NCAA Tournament schedule brings 16 more Round of 64 games and draws perhaps the most exciting 36-hour stretch in sports to a close.
Three No. 1 seeds, including the defending national champion and title favorite UConn Huskies, are on the docket on Day 2 of March Madness, but our attention is elsewhere with a pair of best bets in two games with tight spreads.
[ March Madness 2024: News & Analysis | Schedule | Bracket ]
(Odds via FanDuel.)
No. 11 New Mexico Lobos vs. No. 6 Clemson Tigers
Game Info: 3:10 p.m. ET | truTVSpread: New Mexico -2.5 (-102) | Clemson +2.

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The Cavs coach shared some chilling comments about his interactions with fans who gambled on Cleveland’s games.
As sports betting has grown into an integrated part of American sports culture, coaches, players, and officials across all sports are starting to feel the pressure and challenges of fans actively gambling on the outcomes of games.
Cleveland Cavaliers head coach JB Bickerstaff was adamant about those challenges and the pressure of coaching during this era of sports betting after the Cavaliers’ loss to the Miami Heat on Wednesday.

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This is everything we know about the the wild gambling allegations against Ippei Mizuhara Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter.
Shohei Ohtani has the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball in damage control mode after reports emerged on Wednesday that MLB’s most marketable global megastar was adjacent to a swirling gambling scandal.
It’s a story that involves an illegal bookmaker, claims of theft, accusations of fraud by a long-term friend, and explanations that have raised more questions than given answers.

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The Masters updated its website to feature the 2024 field and gave fans a massive gift that included Tiger Woods.
There are three weeks until the 2024 Masters Championship begins at Augusta National on Thursday, April 11. Things are starting to come together for the first major championship of the year.
The Augusta National team updated their website Wednesday to include new information which included the field of players who will be participating.
Tiger Woods was one of the names on the list, giving fans even more to be excited about.

Sure, the First Four technically represents the start of the NCAA Tournament and March Madness. However, everyone knows that the tournament REALLY starts on Thursday afternoon. The first game on Thursday features the #9 Michigan State Spartans against the #8 Mississippi State Bulldogs. 
The 8-seed vs. 9-seed games are usually some of the best of the Round of 64 because the teams, theoretically, are the most evenly-matched. That’s the case in the Spartans’ matchup against the Bulldogs, with the game closing with Michigan State as just a 1.

Kobe Bryant’s father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, has put Kobe’s 2000 Los Angeles Lakers NBA championship ring up for auction.
Bryant gifted his parents his first NBA championship ring, and the Bryants reportedly considered selling it in 2013 along with several other pieces of memorabilia. They later took the ring off the market, instead opting to keep the championship ring.
The ring is not an executive version of the team-issued ring, according to Goldin auctions. Instead, Bryant ordered an identical copy at the time as a special gift to his father.