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Let’s face it: golf is better when Tiger Woods is playing. And Sunday, when some PGA players were competing for the Valero Texas Open championship, Woods showed up at Augusta to get ready for The Masters.
Sure, no one needs practice at Augusta less than Tiger Woods. He probably can visualize the entire course with eyes closed. He’s probably hit every shot possible on the course.
Tiger Woods of the United States ride is a golf cart in the practice area prior to the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 02, 2023 in Augusta, Georgia.

Sunday’s national championship game between Iowa and LSU was a matchup for the ages, filled with star power on the court and the sidelines.
Naturally, the game’s biggest storyline would up being about the officials.
Late in the third quarter, Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark was issued a technical foul after appearing to push the ball aside in frustration. The indiscretion saddled Clark with her fourth personal foul, putting Clark in danger of fouling out of one of the biggest games in the history of women’s college basketball.

The Tigers broke the record for points in a title game and contained Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark enough to claim the program’s first national championship.

LSU made history on Sunday when it defeated Iowa to win the program’s first-ever women’s basketball national championship. The physical, and at times controversial, game was largely impacted by the officiating with 37 fouls being called. 
The game started with both team’s respective stars getting hot. Tigers forward Angel Reese was getting to the rim at ease and picked up a quick seven points while Caitlin Clark started off shooting 4-of-5 from behind the arc. But things quickly took a turn when the officials got more involved.

Odell Beckham Jr. remains unsigned in NFL free agency and a recent report from Rich Cimini of ESPN claimed the 30-year-old was seeking as much as $15 million per season.
Beckham Jr. appears to have caught wind of that report, taking to Twitter to dispute those claims from the Jets’ beat writer. 
The three-time Pro Bowl receiver questioned the notion he was seeking $15 million, going as far as to ask Cimini if this was some sort of April Fools’ Day prank. 
“April fools was yesterday no? I be so confused where all these reports and numbers are comin from.

When Steve Fisher and his longtime right-hand man Brian Dutcher arrived at San Diego State in 1999, the two tried selling what seemed like an impossible dream to most casual observers: competing for national championships.
At the time, San Diego State was, well, ordinary in the grand scheme of college basketball. It had finished over .500 just once in the last decade, had its last 20-win season in 1985 and had never won an NCAA tournament game.

No one is seriously buying South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley’s overreaction to comments made about her team, especially Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder.
After the Gamecocks’ loss to Iowa, 77-73, in the NCAA women’s Final Four, Staley went off on the postgame podium. She referenced past comments made by Bluder, describing SC’s style of play as a “bar fight.”

(Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Dawn Staley Cries Discrimination (Again)
Staley claimed that Bluder and the media were characterizing the Gamecocks as “thugs” or “monkeys.

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark has had a transcendent NCAA women’s tournament, apparent to all observers.
Now, she has a hallowed record to prove it.
With her 18th point in the national championship against LSU Sunday afternoon, the Hawkeyes superstar passed Hall of Fame Texas Tech guard Sheryl Swoopes to set a new mark for most points in a single NCAA tournament.

US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is considered one of the best stadiums in the United States. The Vikings call that stadium home and it hosted the Super Bowl in 2018.
But to stay one of the best stadiums in the country, US Bank needs millions of dollars in maintenance and updates. And that money, as of now, doesn’t exist.
The stadium requires $280 million over the next 10 years, with $48 million of that due over the next year alone.
A view outside the stadium before a game between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The only thing distracting from the up-and-down pace of the first quarter of Sunday’s national championship game between LSU and Iowa was the sound of the referees’ whistles. By halftime, there was not stealing the spotlight from the white-hot Tigers.
The referees called 12 fouls in the first quarter and 21 in the first half, with several key players getting into early foul trouble. But LSU’s elite shot-making stole the show in Dallas, as the Tigers opened up a 59-42 halftime lead behind a perfect first 20 minutes from guard Jasmine Carson.