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The kid’s still got it!
Ken Griffey Jr. stepped into the batting cage during Friday’s Team USA World Baseball Classic practice and it was AWESOME.
The coolest part? Even the younger players understood just how important and how damn GOOD Griffey was and apparently still is at baseball.
Oh, and the fact that he can STILL hit home runs.
And here’s Junior. #WorldBaseballClassic https://t.co/0O3A9rHBez pic.twitter.
D.J. Turner’s combine-best 4.26 40-yard dash time could help him rise up draft boards as the NFL Draft approaches.
The Retrievers became the first team in men’s NCAA tournament history to win as a No. 16 seed in 2018.
UMBC made history in 2018, becoming the first No. 16 seed in the history of the men’s NCAA tournament to beat a No. 1 seed, with its dominant 74–54 blowout of Virginia. On Friday, a second men’s team joined the exclusive club of No. 16 seeds to win an NCAA tournament game, with 2018 UMBC and 1998 Harvard women’s basketball: Fairleigh Dickinson.
The Knights stunned No. 1 seed Purdue, 63–58, to make history in Columbus.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – If one must be in a Tigers’ den, growl like one.
No. 1 seed Houston (32-3) has been ranked No. 1 in the nation this season and has the top NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool) ranking with a 7-2 record against Quadrant 1 opponents, who are the highest rated. And the Cougars are 8-0 against Quad 2 foes.
Not bad, right?
AUBURN, ALABAMA TICKETS HOTTEST IN NCAA TOURNAMENT
But the NCAA sent Houston to Birmingham, which is only two hours from the No. 9 seed Auburn Tigers (21-12), who have a No. 32 NET ranking.
The Jayhawks coach has missed the last four games after being hospitalized.
Kansas coach Bill Self will not coach Saturday’s men’s NCAA tournament game vs. Arkansas, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. This will mark the fifth straight game that Self has missed.
Self was hospitalized before the Big 12 tournament with what the school described as “chest tightness and balance concerns.” According to Kansas, Self underwent a “standard heart catheterization” and was treated for blocked arteries, but the school expects him to make a full recovery.
The two-time All-Star tore his patellar tendon celebrating a Puerto Rico World Baseball Classic win.
In the aftermath of a freak injury in the World Baseball Classic, Mets pitcher Edwin Díaz was feared to be lost for the entire 2023 season.
However, the New York closer is reportedly taking aim at beating that timetable.
“The Mets may have increased Díaz’s odds, however slightly, of returning to the mound in time for a potential World Series run,” according to a Friday report from The Athletic‘s Will Sammon.
Sixty-eight teams have been cut down to 32. We’ve reranked the teams that move on to the second round.
Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee better get back to the drawing board STAT, because his Olympian mother ain’t happy with his latest loss.
And you wouldn’t like Cathy Lee when she’s angry.
Amazing scene at the Division I Wrestling Championships. Iowa’s Spencer Lee, going for his fourth national championship, loses in the semifinals.
His mother was quite upset with it. pic.twitter.com/uHIXOvMIFx
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 18, 2023
Spencer Lee’s mother is not happy with his loss
Holy hell. What anger. What fury.
The running back led the league in rushing touchdowns last season.
After two seasons with the Lions, running back Jamaal Williams left Detroit to sign a three-year, $12 million contract with the Saints. However, it doesn’t seem like the Lions tried hard to keep the running back around.
At his introductory press conference in New Orleans, Williams said he wasn’t happy with the Lions’ offer before signing with the Saints.
16 Seed Farleigh Dickinson shocked the basketball world and beat the 1 Seed Purdue. Bracket shockwaves rattled fans around the country.
OutKick’s Dan Dakich went on Fox and Friends to breakdown the madness.
Dan said the reason Farleigh Dickinson won was simple. “You gotta make shots, Zach Edey is the player of the year in basketball and he gets 21, great. The rest of the team show 12-42.”
Farleigh Dickinson lost their conference tournament final to Merrimack 67-66.