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Peter Malnati won the 2024 Valspar Championship, his first PGA Tour victory in nine years. | Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images
Tommy Fleetwood and Xander Schauffele arrive at ‘The Snake Pit’ as the favorites. Here are the odds and staff picks for the Valspar Championship.
The final event of the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing heads to the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook, which is in Palm Harbor, just outside of Tampa. It’s a doozy, too, with eight out of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) teeing it up this week.
That includes World No.

The dominos are lining up for Cam Ward to be the first overall selection in the NFL draft, whether that’s via the Tennessee Titans or another team that trades up. It’s very unlikely that team will be the New Orleans Saints.
While the chances of Ward landing on the Saints are slim to none, that didn’t stop the quarterback from saying “it would be a dream of mine to play for (the Saints) if I get a chance some day.”
Ward has some childhood nostalgia from watching Drew Brees and Marques Colston as a youth.

Former New York Giants linebacker Olen Underwood has died at the age of 82.
The father of four and the grandfather of 13 passed away peacefully on Friday, February 28.
Underwood was a 14th-round pick of the New York Giants in the 1965 NFL draft but played just one injury-shortened season with the team. He also had brief stints with the Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos but is more well-known for his time with the Houston Oilers.
During his time in the NFL, Underwood attended the University of Houston and earned a law degree.

DAYTON — It’s an interesting and challenging dynamic.
After the vast majority of high school basketball games, coaches and players talk casually with reporters, perhaps just outside the locker room or in the middle of the gymnasium or some hallway.
After a state championship game, many coaches and players get to experience a news conference setting for the first time.
And so Rootstown girls basketball players sat, pained but proud after a 65-46 loss to Columbus Grove in the Division VI state title game.

England and Chelsea right-back Lucy Bronze has spoken about her autism and ADHD diagnosis for the first time and believes it has made her “so successful” in her football career.
Bronze, 33, explained she received her diagnosis in 2021 and was choosing to speak about it to help “get rid of the stigma”.
“Growing up as a child who was misunderstood, I don’t want that for anyone else,” she told BBC Sport.

NORTON — Playing in an all-star game two days after falling in a state championship game might seem like a tricky transition, but Rootstown’s Addy Germann and Nadia Lough didn’t blink.
“This game was mostly just fun,” Lough said. “It was kind of like a practice after such a big thing, and Addy and I were talking, we were like Saturday we would normally play and then Sunday we would get off and then we’d be back at it on Monday. That’s kind of what it felt like for us. We were just back at it on Monday.

The Commanders will have a different player wearing No. 1 for the 2025 season.
Noah Igbinoghene, a cornerback who came to Washington for the 2024 season to rejoin head coach Dan Quinn and defensive coordinator Joe Whitt Jr, wore No. 1 last season. Igbinoghene had been with Quinn and Whitt in Dallas for a single season (2023) and signed as free agent to play in the Commanders secondary last season, and chose to wear jersey No. 1 after wide receiver Jahan Dotson was traded.
Interestingly, Igbinoghene is returning for the 2025 season, having again signed to play with the Commanders.

Bob Long, a wide receiver who was on the Packers’ teams that won the first two Super Bowls, has died at the age of 83.
Long went to Wichita State to play basketball, but after finishing his basketball eligibility he decided to give football a try, and in one year of college football he led the NCAA in touchdown catches. That two-sport athletic talent caught Vince Lombardi’s eye, and the Packers took him with the 44th overall pick in the 1964 NFL draft.

Barcelona prioritising €45m-rated captain’s renewal with new three-year deal
According to an update shared by SPORT, it has come to light that Barcelona are prioritising a contract renewal for Frenkie de Jong, with Deco and Hansi Flick keen to secure the Dutch midfielder’s long-term future at the club. 
As such, there are claims that talks over a renewal have already begun with the player’s camp, and there is growing optimism that an agreement can be reached soon.

PHILADELPHIA − In the span of a calendar year, Brandon Graham became the third Eagles icon to announce his retirement.
You would think it would be impossible to replace that leadership, experience and knowledge that Graham brought through his franchise-record 15 seasons with the Eagles, along with Jason Kelce’s 13 years and Fletcher Cox’s 12.
Yet the Eagles won a Super Bowl less than a year after Kelce and Cox retired with their 13 combined Pro Bowl selections.