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ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins’ role in the NBA race last season was shameful. But it was profound.
Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was the prohibitive favorite to win his third straight MVP award until one cold day in March when Perkins accused white voters of favoring Jokic to satisfy their “Great White Hope” fantasies. 
From that moment, weaselly white voters began justifying voting for other, less deserving black candidates. Perkins’ quantitatively disproved narrative (fewer than 14 percent of MVP winners are white) ultimately cost Jokic the award.

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Zhang remained uncertain about the lake tradition if she were to take home her first major at the Chevron Championship.
Rose Zhang is making her Chevron Championship debut this week, as the youngster is approaching her one-year anniversary on the LPGA Tour.
She started 2024 with a full course load at Stanford and played in multiple LPGA Tour events. Zhang’s quarterfinal loss at the T-Mobile LPGA Match Play event two weeks ago marked her best finish of the year, a T5.
Now she is looking for her first major title.

The former Patriots coach is not owed a new job, but the least he could ask for is loyalty from Kraft, a guy he helped make richer and more famous.

The latest updates and analysis from the quarterfinals of the 2023-24 Champions League season.

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Aberg detailed what went wrong at The Masters that saw him settle for runner up ahead of the RBC Heritage.
Ludvig Åberg made his major championship debut at The Masters last week and shocked the world when he finished solo second behind Scottie Scheffler.
Ahead of RBC Heritage, the Swedish golfer reflected on his time in Augusta National.
With a veteran caddie on his bag, Joe Skovron, the duo took Augusta National head-on despite the high winds and made it look easy.

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Lilia Vu was on point with her analogy of Nelly Korda and Caitlin Clark, the rising star of women’s basketball.
Women’s sports are having a moment right now.
The women’s March Madness tournament set records, with Iowa’s Caitlin Clark taking over the sports world. So much so that twice as many people watched the Iowa vs UConn Final Four game than did The Masters, as Augusta National ratings plummeted.
But it is not just college basketball that is seeing a rise in women’s sports.
The LPGA continues to grow and expand.

Please start being normal about Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark’s iconic college career with the Iowa Hawkeyes is over, her WNBA career with the Indiana Fever is just beginning, and people are already being weird about it.
Two days after being selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft by the Fever, Clark was introduced by her new team for the first time. This should have been a celebratory event free from bad vibes, but unfortunately Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyel couldn’t help himself.

I’ve taken a lot of heat over the past 10 days for asking Dawn Staley a perfectly reasonable and appropriate question about the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports. 
But my question didn’t make Staley nearly as uncomfortable as IndyStar reporter Gregg Doyel made Caitlin Clark feel at her Indiana Fever introductory press conference. 
The moderator called on Doyel, who then introduced himself to Clark before saying, “Real quick, let me do this…” 
According to some in the room, Doyel did the heart gesture that Clark frequently does.

An old Bill Burr rant on the fake outrage over the pay gap between male and female athletes – more specifically, the NBA and WNBA – has resurfaced this week at the perfect time. 
It obviously has to do with Caitlin Clark, who was drafted No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever. Monday’s WNBA Draft predictably brought in record ratings because of Clark, which is great, because enthusiasm for women’s basketball is at an all-time high right now. 
Right now being the key term there. It hasn’t always been this way. Hell, I’m not sure it ever was.

Betting big on yourself to go under a prop for 3-pointers, like Jontay Porter did, and then bowing out of a game early with an illness is beyond ridiculous.