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One of the biggest talking points following the first weekend of the 2025 Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament surrounds all remaining teams hailing from Power 5 Conferences.
The entire Sweet 16 comprises four conferences: the SEC (seven teams), Big Ten (four), Big 12 (four), and ACC (Duke). That’s led many people to ask: is the transfer portal and NIL killing the opportunity for “Cinderella teams” to make runs in the NCAA Tournament? 
The lowest-seeded team remaining is #10 Arkansas. However, the Razorbacks are an SEC school coached by John Calipari.

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These guys might not get drafted early, but have a chance to make an instant impact.
The 2025 NFL Draft is one that many pundits agree might not have the top end talent of previous years, but due to NIL and the transfer portal keeping guys in college football longer, the depth in this draft might be better than previous years. That means this year there’s going to be more guys that get drafted late who have a chance to make an instant impact from round four and beyond.

Hailey Van Lith is in the midst of her fifth season of college basketball, but given her abilities and playing style on the hardwood, she was thrust into the national spotlight years before her collegiate career began. Like many young adults, especially those under the sports world’s microscope, Van Lith was faced with a fair share of struggles, and recently shared that she was suicidal early on in her college career.

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Azzi Fudd will not enter the 2025 WNBA Draft and will instead return to UConn to play alongside Sarah Strong next season.
UConn Huskies star guard Azzi Fudd will not enter the 2025 WNBA Draft and will instead return to Storrs, Connecticut for the 2025-2026 women’s college basketball season.

Tony Finau made one TGL appearance this season. | Photo by Megan Briggs/TGL/TGL via Getty Images
Tony Finau addressed his TGL future and in doing so, came up with an idea that Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods should consider.
Tony Finau has an idea for TGL’s future that resembles America’s Manifest Destiny in the mid-19th century.
Head west.
“I think a lot of us guys on the West Coast would entertain it if they moved the SoFi Center west,” Finau said Tuesday ahead of this week’s Texas Children’s Houston Open.
“It would be a lot easier for me.

The effects of James Krause’s betting scandal bled into the careers of fighters at his gym. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)Chris Unger via Getty Images

The Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) held a disciplinary hearing Tuesday to determine the fates of temporarily suspended UFC veterans Jeff Molina and Darrick Minner in the James Krause betting scandal.
At the hearing, Minner, 34, received a 29-month suspension retroactive to Nov. 5, 2022, the date of his last fight. The suspension terminates on March 26, 2025, and Minner must pay a $235 fine.