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Joey Votto already is making headlines in his first plate appearance for his hometown team, the Toronto Blue Jays.
Votto, who batted second in the order, homered on the very first pitch he saw in the Blue Jays’ Grapefruit League game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday in Clearwater, Fla. The former Cincinnati Reds slugger connected on a fastball from the Phillies’ Zack Wheeler to give Toronto a 1—0 lead in the first inning.
The ball traveled 392 feet and appeared to bounce off the top of the wall back onto the field.

The PGA Tour’s month-long Florida Swing ends on one of the Tour’s better courses, the Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort.
The Valspar Championship falls immediately after the Players Championship but still attracts a solid field, with 11 of the top 30 in the Official World Golf Ranking scheduled to compete—and it would have been 12 had Tom Kim not pulled out due to illness after being on the entry list.
Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay and Brian Harman are top-10 players competing.

The Madness of March is officially here! Selection Sunday is in full swing and the Yale Bulldogs kicked off the day with a buzzer-beater to officially reach the field of 68 teams for the NCAA Tournament. Brown and Yale faced off in the Ivy League Championship, the first game to tip off on Selection Sunday. 
Like with many leagues in this wild year of college basketball, the Ivy League Championship did not feature the regular season conference champion. Despite a 12-2 Ivy League record and a 24-3 record, the Princeton Tigers lost to 4th-seeded Brown in the Ivy League semifinals on Saturday.

Former Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski believes that college sports fans should accept the fact that NIL is here to stay and stop complaining about it.
Speaking on “The Dan Patrick Show,” Coach K talked about how NIL has radically changed the landscape of college athletics. Despite many of the negative side effects it has caused, Krzyzewski said that it did not contribute to his retirement in 2022.
“I didn’t retire because of the new environment in college sports. It would’ve been exciting to try to adapt to that. You have to keep adapting.

Chet Holmgren makes timely plays on and off the court. 
The Oklahoma City Thunder big man, who’s enjoying a stellar rookie season on the court, appears to have enjoyed an amusing moment off the court during a recent interview. 
Holmgren, 21, sat down with two female interviewers and was asked to name his celebrity crush—and the Thunder center responded with a pick-up line that promptly went viral on social media.

Connor McCaffery, the son of Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery, took to social media Sunday to shut down a rumor claiming his father wants out of his job. Connor responded to a post on X, formerly Twitter, suggesting that the elder McCaffery “wants out” of Iowa City but that his “ego won’t let him take a smaller job.” 
The account that posted the claim, which goes by the username “Coaching Changes,” went on to say that the coach “hates this recruiting era.”
Connor McCaffery, a former Hawkeyes player, didn’t hesitate to shut down the rumor.

Jerome Bettis Jr. announced his commitment to Notre Dame on Sunday and will follow in his father’s footsteps.

A series of replay reviews and shot-clock malfunctions in the final two minutes of Saturday’s Lakers-Warriors game left both teams flustered and restless.

Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo will not play in Sunday’s game against the Suns because of left hamstring soreness.

Justin Fields, whom the Steelers are acquiring for a conditional 2025 sixth-round pick, will not compete with Russell Wilson for the starting QB job, a source told ESPN.