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Why’d he do it? “Gotta bring some excitement to this team.

The Miami Marlins are making a serious play to put some butts in seats this season — something that hasn’t always come easy for them — and they’re doing it with a ticket option that will also give fans a deal on the food front as concession stand prices continue to get more and more absurd.
The team announced the new ticket option on Wednesday.
The way it works is that you buy a ticket — which start at $52 — and you’re allowed to eat as much as you want from a menu of selected items and you can wash it down with non-alcoholic drinks.

This is the funniest thing to happen this season
Throughout his career, Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden has never been known for his defense. Often remembered more for his defensive lapses than his lockdown play on opposing defenders, Harden never took the star defensive assignment, opting to chill in the wings while guys like PJ Tucker or Trevor Ariza did most of the defending.
That all changed Wednesday, as Harden finally took the challenge of defending the toughest offensive player on the court … his Clippers teammate Kawhi Leonard.

Tom Izzo is making his 26th straight NCAA Tournament appearance as the head coach of Michigan State. Given that reality, most would assume that he wouldn’t have any issue with the selection process or the size of the field, but that doesn’t appear to the be the case.
Speaking ahead of the Spartans’ first-round game against Mississippi State, the 69-year-old made some eyebrow-raising comments about March Madness. Specifically, Izzo isn’t sold, at least not anymore, on mid-major teams getting automatic bids into the tournament.

Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. I have so many questions about the firing of Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
In today’s SI:AM:
💫 Potential Cinderellas
⚾ Ohtani caught up in scandal
🏈 Caleb Williams’s pro day
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Almost time for tipoff
The best sports day of the year is here, as March Madness gets underway with 16 games over more than 12 hours. Here are the five games today and tomorrow that I’m most looking forward to.
No. 4 Kansas vs. No. 13 Samford (9:55 p.

The NFL’s free-agency frenzy has been a wild ride, as several big-name players will be wearing new uniforms this year. We’ve also seen high-end players get traded, released and re-signed, and all of it has seriously shuffled my 2024 seasonal player rankings.
At quarterback, the biggest mover is obviously Justin Fields. Traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers and projected to back up Russell Wilson, Fields went from a top-12 field general to being ranked outside the top 30.

March Madness is officially fully underway, and that had me thinking one very simple question:
What are the greatest moments from tournament history for OutKick readers?
If you’re reading OutKick, there’s a near 100% chance that you’re a huge college basketball fan and love the NCAA Tournament. If you don’t, then I have to start asking a lot of questions.
There’s nothing that gets the blood pumping like the start of the NCAA Tournament. Naturally, I was curious to see what the readers were thinking (always feel free to reach out to David.Hookstead@outkick.

The softies on social media are spending the first day of March Madness crying into their pillows because the Dallas Stars tweeted out a picture of a dead coyote after beating the … Arizona Coyotes … Wednesday night. 
I’m talking pitchforks, graphic content warnings, threats to the team to take the post down, and emergency PETA meetings to discuss next steps. 
That last one may or may not be true, by the way. I made it up. But, if we’re being honest, it’s probably true. Those people are nuts. 
Anyway, here’s the tweet.

The former lottery pick is making an impact in Dallas after years rife with shooting slumps and injury woes that once left him labeled a bust.

In the wake of Virginia’s disastrous offensive performance in the men’s NCAA Tournament’s First Four on Tuesday night in Dayton, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is calling for Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett to be fired.
No, not because Bennett isn’t a good coach. Bennett won a national championship five years ago and is a future Hall of Famer. But instead, because Virginia basketball is boring.

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“It’s not funny. I take no joy in saying this. But if it were me, I’d fire him,” Smith said. “Strictly because of being boring.