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TOKYO — The Major League Baseball season kicks off at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers face the Chicago Cubs.
It’s the first of a two-game series and features five Japanese players. Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and rookie Roki Sasaki pitch for the Dodgers while the Cubs have outfielder Seiya Suzuki and left-handed pitcher Shota Imanaga.
The two MLB teams have been in Tokyo for several days, playing exhibition games against two Japanese teams — the Hanshin Tigers and Yomiuri Giants.

The Cincinnati Bengals were never in the sweepstakes for free-agent guard Teven Jenkins, it seems.
While one report suggested the Bengals had expressed interest in Jenkins, The Athletic’s Paul Dehner Jr. added his own reporting on Monday to the topic:
“Teven Jenkins is a name out there in recent days, but was never a realistic option for the Bengals. There’s a reason the former Bears guard wasn’t scooped up early in free agency and reportedly is taking a visit to Seattle on Monday in a league where players rarely take visits anymore.

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Flexible wings were a major talking point during the 2024 season, and F1’s governing body is implementing new tests in response
The 2025 Formula 1 season got off to a chaotic start last weekend, as Lando Norris survived wet conditions and a late charge from Max Verstappen to win the Australian Grand Prix.

UCF officially accepted an invitation late Sunday to the inaugural College Basketball Crown, a 16-team postseason men’s basketball tournament in Las Vegas.
The Knights (17-16), who advanced to the second round of the Big 12 Tournament last week before falling to Kansas in overtime, will face Oregon State in a first-round game at 5:30 p.m. on April 1 inside MGM Grand Garden Arena. The bracket was revealed live Monday morning during FS1’s Breakfast Ball, a talk show hosted by Craig Carton, Danny Parkins and Mark Schlereth.

In order to recognize and give some publicity to the talented players in and from the state, NJHoops.com will once again this season select College Players of the Week. For years we selected Players of the Month for the Newsletter and for a few years after that we selected Players of the Month on NJHoops.com. For the tenth consecutive year we have decided to celebrate the NJ stars four times as often.
The NJHoops.com College Players of the week are for games from Monday March 10 through Sunday March 16.

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The field is set for college basketball’s newest postseason tournament: the College Basketball Crown.
Put on by Fox Sports and the Anschutz Entertainment Group, the College Basketball Crown is a new postseason tournament in Las Vegas aimed at giving teams that didn’t make the NCAA Tournament a chance to continue their season and play for a title, similar to the NIT. The 16-team tournament features some guaranteed selections from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East. Other teams included come from the West Coast Conference, Mountain West, Atlantic-10 and American Athletic Conference.

College basketball is getting a new and exciting post-season basketball tournament this year. The College Basketball Crown will feature 16 men’s teams from March 31 to April 6. The tournament will feature schools from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East, in addition to at-large participants. Teams were announced on Monday, March 17, live on Breakfast Ball at 9:30 a.m. ET.
Check out the full 2025 College Basketball Crown schedule below.

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Purdue is set to host one of the top transfer defensive backs on the market for a visit next week, according to Rivals. North Alabama cornerback Ashaad Williams will be in West Lafayette for a spring practice visit on March 28th, which Boiler Upload subscribers knew was in the works for a week.
As a junior in 2024, Williams elevated his play to become a key contributor for North Alabama, racking up 26 total tackles, two interceptions and eight passes defended for the Lions last season.

Mar. 17—***
The countdown continues.
On Sunday, I rated Ohio State’s nonconference schedule, which includes a home game against Texas, as the most difficult in the Big Ten.
Up next …
2. Wisconsin.
The Badgers didn’t make a bowl last season, finishing 5-7. That prompted Luke Fickell to overhaul his offensive staff, with Phil Longo replaced as coordinator by Jeff Grimes. Grimes spent the 2024 season at Kansas following stops at BYU and Baylor.
Kenny Guiton will coach the quarterbacks after working with the receivers in ’24.

The money is flowing bigtime this NFL offseason, backing up Brinks trucks and setting records. And we have another one in the contract extension the Houston Texans just gave cornerback Derek Stingley Jr.
Stingley Jr. has agreed to a three-year extension worth $90 million. The deal was first reported by ESPN.
And, doing some quick division here…
That extension makes Stingley a $30 million per year player.
He thus becomes the NFL’s first-ever $30 million-a-year defensive back and, quite obviously, also the league’s highest-paid defensive back.