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All right, NCAA men’s national championship game, let’s see if you can match the women.
No. 1 seed South Carolina’s 87-75 win over No. 1 seed Iowa in the women’s national championship game Sunday afternoon in Cleveland on ABC peaked at 24 million viewers with an average of 18.7 million. Those were the highest ratings for any women’s non-Olympic sporting event since the World Cup soccer final nine years ago, according to Nielsen Ratings.
Team USA defeated Japan in that match, 5-2, in front of 26.7 million viewers in 2015.

Which teams will wind up in the NBA’s play-in tournament? Which contender is the most vulnerable to a first-round upset? Our writers weigh in with a week to go in the regular season.

All the Yahoo Sports NBA writers have serious concerns about Milwaukee heading into the playoffs. A few other high seeds also face early exits.

Nike unveils logo for Spurs’ rookie Victor Wembanyama.
San Antonio Spurs rookie big Victor Wembanyama has been shattering records since he stepped into the league, and another one just fell for the Spurs’ wunderkind.
During the total eclipse on Monday, Nike unveiled a new logo being based somewhere in South Texas, and whew buddy does this logo absolutely COOK.

The total eclipse has just begun. pic.twitter.

Tiger Woods and Will Zalatoris shake hands after a practice round at the 2024 Masters. | Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Tiger Woods and Will Zalatoris, who have sustained similar back injuries in the past, played a practice round together at The Masters.
One year ago to the day, Will Zalatoris underwent a microdiscectomy to repair a herniated disc in his back.
But what made matters worse for Zalatoris was that his operation came on the same day as the third round of the 2023 Masters Tournament.

Man walks into a press conference in Albany, New York …
Asks a perfectly legitimate question from something he just observed covering an assignment, which is something real journalists do almost every day. But apparently not so much among much of the media fraternities and sororities that cover women’s college basketball with kid gloves, like it’s a junior high tournament. … And all Hell broke loose. 
The question by OutKick writer Dan Zaksheske was a simple one.

Cooper DeJean played football, baseball, basketball and ran track at Ida Grove High School back in Odebolt, Iowa. He was something of a local legend before he went on to become a starting cornerback for the University of Iowa football team the past two seasons and draw attention from NFL teams as a 2024 draft prospect.
But despite the accomplishments, and tape, and NFL interest, there were still curious questions about his athleticism the past couple of months leading up to the draft.
At the combine, there were teams that asked DeJean about moving from cornerback to safety.

John Calipari’s departure from Kentucky left a lot of fans with a sour taste in their mouths. But Kendra Randle — wife of NBA All-Star Julius Randle — has nothing but love for the longtime Wildcats basketball coach.
Kendra shared on Twitter / X Sunday night that Calipari once helped save her grandmother’s life.
“4 years ago my grandmother was very sick in a small hospital in eastern KY,” she recalled. 
“Julius called Coach Cal and asked if there was anyone he knew that could get her transferred to UK hospital.

Scottie Scheffler is the odds-on favorite to win the 2024 Masters, and rightfully so. Scheffler has had an unbelievable start to his campaign and is by far and away the best player on the planet at the moment. While it would be a massive surprise not to see his name at or near the top of the leaderboard come Sunday, this is major championship golf, unexpected things happen.
With only 89 players in the field at Augusta National this week, it’s not the easiest of tasks to pick out names a bit further down the board, even with Scheffler having historically low odds.

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Heading into Monday night’s title game, is America not giving enough credit to college basketball’s second-best team?
The narrative has been everywhere for the last couple of weeks: UConn is a juggernaut, a monster, an unstoppable force. Some of us have even written that the Huskies becoming college basketball’s first back-to-back national champion since Florida in 2006-07 feels inevitable.