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THE NCAA TOURNAMENTS AND COLLEGE BASKETBALL FANS … FOR NOW
NCAA president Charlie Baker mentioned the choice concerning NCAA Event enlargement may come “someday this fall,” which may imply the 2026 males’s and girls’s tournaments will keep at 68 groups.
- The Division I males’s and girls’s basketball committees met earlier this month to debate potential enlargement to 72 or 76 groups however tabled any decision-making.
- Baker had beforehand set a free August deadline for enlargement to occur this upcoming season.
Matt Norlander has written at size many instances about why enlargement is a nasty thought, and I share that sentiment. Most school basketball followers do, too. It is perhaps only a small victory — one that would show fleeting — however we’ll take it.
😁 Honorable mentions
🏈 And never such a superb morning for …
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CHRISTIAN WILKINS AND THE LAS VEGAS RAIDERS …
I am undecided we have ever seen one thing like this: The Raiders are releasing defensive lineman Christian Wilkins and voiding the $35.2 million of ensures left on his deal after a months-long dispute concerning his rehab from final yr’s foot damage.
- Wilkins suffered a Jones fracture in Week 5 and had season-ending surgical procedure. The Raiders wished him to have one other surgical procedure; he opted to rehab, however he was positioned on the bodily unable to carry out listing forward of coaching camp.
- The Raiders did not mince phrases of their assertion, saying partly, “This franchise has a Dedication to Excellence on and off the sphere. With no clear path or plan for future return to play from Christian, this transaction is important for your entire group to maneuver ahead and put together for the brand new season.”
- Wilkins signed a five-year, $110 million deal final offseason after a breakout marketing campaign with the Dolphins.
Wilkins filed a grievance with the NFLPA concerning the remaining ensures. Here is a breakdown of your entire scenario and what comes subsequent.
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… AND JUSTIN FIELDS AND THE NEW YORK JETS
NFL coaching camp is an ideal time for overreaction. This man appears to be like like a star! This man might be a shock minimize! It is virtually all the time simply that — overreaction. Guys aren’t even in pads but.
Above all else, groups wish to keep wholesome, particularly in these early days. And the Jets had been the primary group to expertise a major damage scare. Justin Fields was carted off the sphere with what was later recognized as a dislocated toe.
The excellent news is it isn’t a severe damage — he is solely day-to-day — and longtime consummate professional Tyrod Taylor can preserve issues transferring with Fields doubtlessly sidelined.
The unhealthy information is, effectively, it is nonetheless an damage. Accidents aren’t any enjoyable. Plus, with Fields on a brand new group, in a brand new system, surrounded by new teammates, you’d need him to get all of the reps he can. Some coaching camp accidents can result in gradual begins, too; Joe Burrow‘s calf damage two years in the past involves thoughts.
For now, Jets followers can breathe a sigh of reduction. Nonetheless, it isn’t the best headline out of Jets camp.
As for different not-so-fun coaching camp information:
😞 Not so honorable mentions
Hulk Hogan dies at 71
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Former wrestling famous person Hulk Hogan died Thursday after struggling cardiac arrest at his Florida residence. He was 71.
Attempting to compact Hogan’s life into bullet factors is unimaginable, however we’ll attempt.
- Essentially the most well-known wrestler ever, Hogan wrestled from 1977-2012. He debuted because the “good man,” received six heavyweight titles and was the face of the explosive progress of the then-World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
- He additionally grew to become a task mannequin to many — the “Hulkamaniacs” — and was an enormous determine in popular culture.
- In 1994, Hogan moved to World Championship Wrestling and received six extra heavyweight championships. After WWE bought WCW, Hogan received his last heavyweight title in 2002.
- Adam Silverstein authored this obituary that gives a complete view.
Hogan, legally named Terry Bollea, has been inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame twice. His listing of iconic moments — the 1987 bodyslam of Andre the Large, the 1996 heel flip to nWo and 2002 combat in opposition to The Rock chief amongst them — are a few of the largest moments in wrestling historical past. His legacy as a wrestler and entertainer is unmatched and undisputed, and a number of legends paid tribute.
However there’s an unpleasant aspect to Hogan’s life and legacy, too: a leaked intercourse tape that featured him utilizing racial slurs repeatedly, his divisive political stances, his lies concerning performance-enhancing medicine and plenty of different issues, his behind-the-scenes popularity. The listing, like his listing of iconic wrestling moments, goes on. Brian Campbell explores Hogan’s tarnished legacy in full.
⚾ MLB commerce deadline rumors, huge questions
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With the MLB commerce rumor mill churning, we acquired some precise motion Thursday! The Diamondbacks despatched Josh Naylor to the Mariners in change for pitchers Brandyn Garcia and Ashton Izzi. Naylor is slashing .292/.360/.447 this season and hopes to offer an offensive increase for Seattle, which at present occupies an AL Wild Card spot. On the opposite aspect, it is step one of what might be a main Arizona sale on the deadline.
The Diamondbacks are removed from the one group within the will-they-or-won’t-they class, as R.J. Anderson notes in his 5 burning deadline questions.
- Anderson: “What’s going to swing groups do? — Keep watch over golf equipment who’re in comparable conditions because the Diamondbacks. Suppose: the Cardinals, Guardians, Royals, Twins, and Angels. Heck, even the Rays, relying on what occurs over the following week. Ought to a few of these groups open themselves as much as promoting, names like Seth Lugo, Jhoan Duran, Taylor Ward, Steven Kwan, and Emmanuel Clase may change into extra outstanding within the rumor mill.”
📺 What we’re watching this weekend
Friday
⚾ Marlins at Brewers, 4:10 p.m. on MLB Community
⚾ Braves at Rangers or Nationals at Twins, 8:05 p.m. on MLB Community
Saturday
🏀 BIG3 — Week 7, 1 p.m. on CBS
⚾ Phillies at Yankees, 1:05 p.m. on MLB Community
🏀 Sparks at Liberty, 7 p.m. on NBA TV
⚾ Dodgers at Crimson Sox or Guardians at Royals, 7:15 p.m. on Fox
⚾ Mariners at Angels, 9:38 p.m. on MLB Community
Sunday
🏀 Valkyries at Solar, 1 p.m. on CBS Sports activities Community
⚾ MLB Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1:30 p.m. on MLB Community
🏀 Fever at Sky, 3 p.m. on ABC
🏀 Dream at Lynx, 7 p.m. on NBA TV
⚾ Mets at Giants, 7:10 p.m. on ESPN