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Iowa guard Caitlin Clark has dazzled basketball fans this March with a bevy of high-scoring feats, including a 41-point triple-double against Louisville in the Elite Eight followed by another 41-point outing against South Carolina in the Final Four.
Her feats become even more impressive, however, when weighed against the gridiron accomplishments of the Hawkeyes—perennially one of the lowest-scoring teams in the country.

Savage! That’s how basketball fans reacted after a star women’s basketball player pulled the ultimate disrespectful move on an opponent in Friday night’s Final Four game.
Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, who is the Associated Press National Player of the Year because she’s so damn good, was supposed to be guarding South Carolina guard Raven Johnson.
That was, until she wasn’t.
But not only did Clark not guard Johnson at one point in the game, she did so in the most IDGAF way – by blowing her off with a hand wave!

Caitlin Clark is cold af for this pic.twitter.

Josh Heupel’s second season in Tennessee was a big one, as he led the Volunteers to an 11–2 record and Orange Bowl victory and earned a contract extension after the year. It was the first time Tennessee won double-digit games since 2007, and the first time they lost two games or less since 2001.
As a result, Volunteer fans were reenergized by the team and excited for what Heupel can do for the program in the future. One specific fan was so excited that he got Heupel’s face tattooed on his leg.
On Friday, Heupel finally got to meet the fan with his face on his leg.

New York Yankees outfield Aaron Judge made the ultimate faux pas this week that has diehard Yankees fans scratching their heads.
The recently re-signed $360 million Yankees captain gave fellow New York athlete and Knicks star Julius Randle and his family some merch on Opening Day.

Aaron Judge sent Julius Randle and his son some stuff to celebrate Opening Day @TalkinKnicks pic.twitter.com/KqHZmiUny9
— Talkin’ Yanks (@TalkinYanks) March 31, 2023

COME ON AARON!
A cool gesture between two of the city’s stars, right?
You’d think so.

The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have come to terms on a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement, which is set to begin next season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The tentative deal is expected to be ratified by league governors and players “in the coming weeks” per Wojnarowski, which will mark a significant victory for the negotiations involving the NBA and NBPA, led by new president CJ McCollum.
The CBA has a mutual opt-out after year six.

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark’s 41-point outing in Friday’s Final Four win over South Carolina was an all-time performance. The Hawkeyes star was already a household name as a two-time unanimous First-Team All-American and the 2023 National Player of the Year. On Friday, she took another step towards cementing her legacy, and is one win away from the program’s first national championship.
Clark scored well more than half of Iowa’s points in its 77–73 win over the previously undefeated, No. 1 Gamecocks.

HOUSTON – Sometimes the best game plan in sports and in life is simple: eat well and get enough sleep.
That could be easier said than done for the No. 4 seed Connecticut Huskies (29-8), who play No. 5 seed Miami (29-7) in the Final Four Saturday (9:20 p.m., CBS) in NRG Stadium. No. 9 seed Florida Atlantic (35-3) and No. 5 San Diego State (31-6) open the national semifinals at 6:09 p.m.
UConn top players Jordan Hawkins and Adama Sanogo each are expected to have stomach issues on the day of the most important game of their lives.
Hawkins, a 6-foot-5 sophomore guard averaging 16.

For 36 games, it seemed the Gamecocks were the epitome of unbeatable.

Fifty years ago, two things happened in college basketball that shall never be duplicated: UCLA won its seventh straight NCAA championship, and Bill Walton made 21 out of 22 shots in the title game.
Nobody knew it at the time, but a dynasty ended that night in St. Louis after the Bruins blitzed Memphis, 87-66. More significantly, the entire concept of a men’s college basketball dynasty died. Nothing since has approached the utter hegemony the Bruins exerted over the sport.
Duke came closest, reaching five straight Final Fours from 1988-92 and winning it all in the last two of those trips.

The man on the Zoom screen, the one clad in a white T-shirt, his black hair closely cropped, is a runner.
Growing up in Dnieper, near Ukraine’s northern border, Artem Moroz ran and ran and ran. At first, he ran because running called to him. Then he ran because he cared about his health, because he wanted to stay active. Then he ran to complete marathons, grinding through the pain and lowering his times. But in all his days, through hundreds and hundreds of jaunts, he loved running through the forests in his hometown.
These forests were green, lush, magical.