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It’s not just fans on edge about a potential deal.
Like every football fan, Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson is on high alert for a potential trade sending Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to New York.
Wilson, however, may have jumped the gun Monday afternoon as the NFL’s legal tampering period began.
The 2022 Offensive Rookie of the Year disavowed a pair of tweets in which he reacted to erroneous reports from the early afternoon that a Rodgers trade was complete.

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant has entered a counseling program during his time away from the team, following a spree of troubling actions and headlines regarding the 23-year-old star.
ESPN’s Tim McMahon and Adrian Wojnarowski reported the news of Morant’s decision to undergo counseling at a facility in Florida.
Leading up to the announcement, Morant kept trending in the NBA circles for all the wrong reasons. Morant’s recent controversies first appeared in early February and have continued to pester the Grizzlies more than a month later.

Memphis’ star guard remains without a timetable to return.
Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant has reportedly entered a counseling program and remains without a timetable for his return to the team, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The counseling program is located in Florida. 
Based on the Grizzlies’ initial timetable for Morant, his first chance to return to action following his absence from the team would have come Friday against the Spurs. Following this latest update, it’s unclear when he will return to action.

The 21-year-old Duque Hebbert had never pitched in affiliated ball before striking out a trio of All-Stars at the World Baseball Classic.
The World Baseball Classic returned this month after a six-year gap since the last iteration. And the event’s absence has robbed the baseball viewing world of unforgettable moments like the one that took place on Monday in the Dominican Republic’s 6–1 win over Nicaragua.
Though the final score does not indicate much in the way of dramatic conclusions, it wasn’t until the top of the ninth inning when the game’s most pivotal sequence unfolded.

Chicago traded the No. 1 pick and then added a pair of linebackers, finding good value in every move.
While March is always a dubious month for a general manager to claim victory in, it’s hard to ignore how dominant Ryan Poles has been, and what that might mean for the Bears going forward.
Last week, he dealt the No. 1 pick in the draft and stole a top wide receiver (DJ Moore) at a Hunter Renfrow price point in that deal. Through those actions, he assuaged any back-of-mind concerns quarterback Justin Fields may have had about the team’s confidence in him going into his third season.

Charles Barkley is sorely mistaken. Alabama fans are not going to root for Auburn basketball. Auburn fans are not going to root for Alabama basketball.
The vast majority, at least. There are always exceptions and apparently Barkley is one of them.
The 60-year-old Basketball Hall of Famer will be one of few Tigers fans rooting for the Crimson Tide.
Barkley, who chose to play his college basketball at Auburn instead of other in-state schools he liked more, grew up in the town of Leeds, Alabama. As of 2020, the population of the city was just over 12,000.

Concerns over Carr arose during his first year with Josh McDaniels, who is deeply familiar with Garoppolo from their time in New England.
Free agency is well underway …
• By midseason, the Raiders knew they may be pulling the mid-February escape hatch they’d built into Derek Carr’s three-year extension. And one reason they felt, at the time, like they’d be on solid ground to do it is because there promised to be options out there for Vegas with institutional knowledge of what Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler are working to build.
One was Tom Brady. The other was Jimmy Garoppolo.

The transfer portal era of college sports, coupled with Name, Image and Likeness, has created a period of unprecedented player movement across the NCAA. Take Monday for example.
College basketball’s transfer portal set a record on Monday. (Graphic assets via Getty Images)
For the majority of teams in men’s college basketball, the season came to a close with the conference tournaments last week and/or last weekend. There are 358 teams in the country, and only 116 of them are still playing in either the NCAA Tournament, NIT or CBI.

The former third-round pick has accumulated over 280 tackles since taking over as a starter in 2021.
The Giants are reportedly poised to add one of the premier tacklers in the NFL after agreeing to terms on a contract with free agent and former Colts standout linebacker Bobby Okereke on Monday.
New York and Okereke, 26, reportedly agreed to terms on a four-year, $40 million contract that will include $22 million in guaranteed money, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. The lucrative deal is expected to become official when the new league year begins on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET.