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It’s not just fans who don’t like the current state of the NBA, Charles Barkley is also concerned about the league in which he came to fame.
“The Round Mound of Rebound” went on “The Stephen A. Smith Show” to discuss the NBA’s current product. Smith asked Barkley to compare it to the product of years past, and Barkley said he wasn’t impressed.
“You have to be concerned,” Barkley said. “Everybody has to be concerned. Because the one thing you can’t do is alienate your fans.

With the NFL Combine starting on Monday, Feb. 26, the New Heights podcast reposted a clip with Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones from four months ago when he spoke about his unfortunate experience at the event in 2016.
It all started with the pants Jones chose to wear during the combine.
“I was so big on being different from everyone,” Jones told Jason and Travis Kelce. “Everybody was wearing the f—— long tights. I was like ‘You know what, I am not going out there and copying everybody. Imma wear the short tights.

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The Mercedes boss previewed the Bahrain Grand Prix, and the encouraging signs with their W15
Mercedes had one goal heading into the 2024 Formula 1 season.
Give drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell a consistent racecar for the season.
Ahead of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff made it clear: Based on the results from pre-season testing last week in Bahrain, the team has achieved that goal.
Now the team will take the W15, their challenger for the 2024 season, to the track for real.

With each passing day, the NCAA loses more and more control over college athletics. The emergence of NIL sped up a process that had been in motion for years. ESPN college football expert Kirk Herbstreit joined OutKick’s Dan Dakich and suggested the SEC and Big 10 join forces to create a new governing body. 
Perhaps the idea of an entire governing body for all college sports is an outdated concept. That’s something Herbstreit hinted at while discussing the topic.

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Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry wants to set the record straight on his fitness status going into a critical stretch of the regular season.
The 35-year-old trudged through a rough shooting night in his team’s 119—103 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, and coach Steve Kerr was asked after the game whether Curry might be fatigued at this point in the season. Kerr noted that Curry has looked “tired” this past week and said he would consider giving the superstar a rest day.

Zach Edey can become the first person to win back-to-back national player of the year awards since Ralph Sampson did so in 1982.

Breanna Stewart and the Liberty structured her contract to improve the super-team’s bench.

Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is proposing a revolutionary idea to end court storming in the college basketball world.
Byrne suggests that the home team should forfeit the game if a mass of fans swarm the court after a victory. 
“You have two kids run out there, no, but when you have a sustained rush like what just happened the other day at Wake, you lose the game,” Byrne said, via AL.com. “That will get people to stop.

The Mid-American Conference board today voted to add the University of Massachusetts as a full member, beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, per The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach. The news was confirmed by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. 
UMass is expected to join the conference in all sports. Up until now, the program had been an FBS Independent. UMass football was in the MAC from 2012-15, and with the program’s return, UConn and Notre Dame stand as the last FBS independent programs. The Fighting Irish, however, have a long-term scheduling agreement with the ACC.