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Xavier Musketeers’ Jack Nunge hammered in a powerful two-handed dunk against the Providence Frairs.

The YouTube star-turned-boxer suffered his first professional boxing defeat on Sunday.
Jake Paul may have suffered the first loss of his professional boxing career to Tommy Fury on Sunday, but he certainly didn’t walk away empty-handed.
The YouTube star-turned-boxer announced on his podcast BS With Jake Paul on Wednesday that he earned $30 million for the fight.
Paul also noted on his podcast that the fight garnered 500,000 pay-per-view purchases. According to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, the price for the fight in the United States was $50 and $19.95 in the United Kingdom.

There is optimism that Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry (leg) could rejoin the lineup as soon as next week.

Kitchens returned to college coaching in 2022 after 16 years in the NFL.
After 16 seasons coaching in the NFL—peaking with a one-year stint as the head coach of the Browns in 2019—Freddie Kitchens returned to the college ranks as an analyst for South Carolina in ’22. Now, he’s on the move again.
Kitchens was announced as the run game coordinator and tight ends coach at North Carolina on Tuesday, the school announced. Kitchens will join head coach Mack Brown’s staff as Brown enters the fifth season of his second stint with the Tar Heels.

Emmanuel Acho, LeSean McCoy, Joy Taylor, and Ric Bucher discuss whether the Dallas Mavericks should have a problem with Kyrie Irving after he missed a potential game winning shot vs. the Indiana Pacers. McCoy weighs in on Irving’s performance and explains he loves that Irving took the last shot even though he missed it.

Teams already had causes for concern about the Georgia defensive tackle. The new charges connected to the death of a former teammate could shake up the draft.
Workouts don’t start until tomorrow, but NFL’s annual de facto league-wide convention is already well underway here in the Midwest. Here’s what’s buzzing at the combine …
• Teams didn’t know that reckless driving and racing charges—stemming from the incident that killed a Georgia football player and a Bulldogs recruiting staffer—were coming on prospective top-five pick Jalen Carter.

The number has been banned in regular-season competition since 1973.
Most rule-change proposals in the NFL tend to revolve around hot-button issues: player safety, replay review, overtime and other topics that generate media discussion and fan interest every fall.
The Eagles, however, have proposed a rule that falls outside that realm. Philadelphia has asked the competition committee to allow players to wear uniform No. 0, according to a Tuesday report from Kalyn Kahler of The Athletic.
NFL players have not been allowed to wear No. 0 or No.

Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator and ex-Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores advanced his lawsuit against the NFL and several teams regarding “discriminatory” hiring practices against black coaches.
On Wednesday, Flores’ legal team got a small win when his discrimination case against the league was OK’d to go to court. The NFL had been seeking arbitration in Flores’ lawsuits against the Dolphins, Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Houston Texans.
Flores, NFL Discrimination Lawsuit Moves Forward
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The star tight end went full Indiana Jones in the ‘Saturday Night Live’ teaser.
Chiefs tight end and reigning Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce is set to make his Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, having been announced as the guest host for this week’s episode. Ahead of his appearance, Kelce got fans excited for what’s to come with a short teaser clip.

Illinois basketball star Matthew Mayer was back at practice on Wednesday afternoon. He had been away from the team since Sunday night after coming down with a unique medical condition.
Mayer had caffeine poisoning.

The fifth-year guard, who transferred to the Big Ten after four seasons with Baylor, is taking advantage of his extra season of eligibility that was granted to all athletes during the 2020 season. He is currently second on the team in scoring with 12.6 points per game.
Most recently, Mayer dropped 11 points with three rebounds and an assist in a loss to Ohio State.