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The NFL insider tried his best.
Last week, we found out Aaron Rodgers wants to play for the New York Jets this coming NFL season.
We also found out he wants ESPN’s Adam Schefter to lose his phone number, which is something the QB made clear after the ESPN reporter tried to get some info from him following his stint in a darkness retreat. 
Schefter, who shared the screenshot of the text Rodgers sent him, further explained to Peter King how the moment played out and what he was trying to accomplish by reaching out to Rodgers.

Golden Bears head coach Ian Herbers feared for his team’s safety “every time” they went on the ice.

He already knows who he wants to face when he’s ready to return to the ring.
Paul Wight is ready for his next big match.
As long as his body cooperates.
Wrestling’s signature giant of the past three decades had his knee replaced last summer, but he is making progress in his recovery. If all goes according to plan, there will be one more run in the ring—and, potentially, a must-see bout against Kenny Omega.
“I want to get in the ring with Kenny Omega,” says Wight. “I want that real bad.

One stat tells fans everything they need to know about the Big Ten’s horrific NCAA Tournament performance.
The Big Ten started the tournament with eight teams in the field. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State, and Purdue all made the field.
Through the first two round and onto the Sweet 16, only one is still alive:
Michigan State.
Michigan State is the only remaining Big Ten team.

Plus, why the trade market has been flat, Laremy Tunsil’s big deal with the Texans, Jonah Williams’s situation with the Bengals and more on Lamar Jackson and the Ravens’ offense in our free-agency takeaways.
We’re almost a week into free agency, and we’ve got some takeaways.
• It’s been five days since Aaron Rodgers’s appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, and, as of this writing, he remains a Packer.
I think with some time, cooler heads will prevail.

The Miami quarterback was in concussion protocol twice this past season.
The Dolphins announced Monday that they have exercised the fifth-year option on quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s contract. The move guarantees he will be paid $23.2 million in 2024, according to Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. 
Tagovailoa is coming off a difficult 2022 season, in which he suffered multiple head injuries, including two stints in the NFL’s concussion protocol. But Miami’s decision signifies that the franchise is committed to the young quarterback going forward despite the injury history.

Alabama, Arkansas and more are hoping to usher in a new era with fresh coaching personnel.
The silly season never really stops in college football, as there are almost always coaches moving around across the sport and to the NFL. But with some of the defensive coordinator moves, questions abound about what they mean for the future of those programs.
The below teams include coordinator changes of only teams that did not also have a head coaching change.

Hokies fans created a home-court advantage for their top-seeded women’s basketball team.
Virginia Tech sports have become intertwined with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” in recent years, as the song helps create a raucous home-court advantage in Blacksburg. So when it was revealed that the Hokies women’s basketball team earned a No. 1 seed to host games in the first weekend of this year’s NCAA tournament, fans were probably fired up to hear the famous song.

In what was once the most hot-blooded, geopolitical-infused hardball rivalry on the planet, the Cuba-USA baseball clash has devolved into a tepid mismatch.
Time erodes even the most adamantine of rivalries. Athens vs. Sparta. Leno vs. Letterman. USA vs. Cuba in baseball.
What was once the most hot-blooded, geopolitical-infused hardball rivalry on the planet devolved into a tepid mismatch Sunday night. In what otherwise has been a thrilling World Baseball Classic, the expected tension and heat of an international semifinal game withered into a varsity-vs.-JV scrimmage.

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This was a chance to extend a hand to the marginalized, and it was squandered.
I’m Catholic, although admittedly not always a very good one. My wife needs to remind me of Holy Days of Obligation so I can hastily seek out a lunchtime mass. Every Lent I still need to be reminded not to eat meat on Fridays. I’m the guy who wipes the black smudge off my forehead in the car on Ash Wednesday because I don’t want to answer questions about it all day long.
My faith is something I traditionally guard. Not out of shame, but personal conviction.