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⚾️ Dodgers dominate gross sales: The 2-time defending champs boast 5 of the highest 12 because the finish of final season, led by Shohei Ohtani on the high of the listing. No different staff has greater than two gamers within the high 20.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Olympics trans ban: The Worldwide Olympic Committee introduced a brand new coverage on Thursday that from competing within the girls’s class within the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and past.

🏀 Again in Baton Rouge: LSU is , who had a profitable five-year run on the faculty earlier than he was fired in 2022 following an NCAA investigation into recruiting violations. Wade went 70-23 throughout the final three seasons at McNeese and NC State.

⛸️ “Quad God” shines: Ilia Malinin, in search of redemption after stumbling on the Olympics, on Thursday on the world championships, the place his personal-best free skate put him in place to win his third straight world title.

🏀 Kon hits 250: ROY favourite Kon Knueppel hit six extra threes within the Hornets’ win over the Knicks to turn out to be (20) with no less than 250 triples in a season. In reality, he leads your complete league and has Charlotte surging in direction of the playoffs.

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⚾️ Who will outline the MLB season?

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Who’re the figures probably to outline, affect and dictate the 2026 MLB season? When the mud settles in November, what and whom will we bear in mind? Yahoo Sports activities’ Jake Mintz .

Prime 3:

Shohei Ohtani: Who else? There are a gazillion attention-grabbing issues in regards to the two-way sensation, like there are stars within the sky. Such is life as the sport’s most transcendent determine. This 12 months, the Ohtani storyline is all about his full-time return to pitching.

Tarik Skubal: Barring an unexpected contract extension, the two-time reigning Cy Younger will attain free company for the primary time at season’s finish. Every begin will really feel like a referendum on his future and his staff’s future. It is an interesting dynamic.

Aaron Choose: Choose is the best Yankee ever with no World Sequence ring. From now till the day he retires or raises a trophy, that actuality will outline his skilled life. Such are the stakes within the Bronx, the place the common season is only a preamble, a house run derby exhibition for one of the best to ever do it.

4-5: Franciso Lindor and Juan Soto

The 2025 Mets weren’t a trainwreck as a result of Lindor and Soto did not turn out to be besties, however issues undoubtedly weren’t all peaches and cream between these two superstars. Each are on the staff for the lengthy haul, so it could behoove everybody in Queens if Soto and Lindor may get on the identical web page. Once more, they need not have scrapbooking sleepovers or something, however there’s room for them to determine a extra productive working atmosphere.

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6-7: Rob Manfred and Bruce Mayer

With the collective bargaining settlement set to run out Dec. 1, your complete baseball world is making ready for a messy, acrimonious battle. A league-initiated lockout is sort of undoubtedly occurring. Crew house owners desire a wage cap. The union doesn’t. Lacking video games is an actual risk. As a result of negotiations will start throughout this upcoming season, the commissioner and the union’s new interim government director will discover themselves making headlines very often.

Rounding out the highest 10: Paul Skenes (8) struggled on Opening Day, however he is a unicorn with the form of expertise that not often comes alongside. Is Bryce Harper (9) nonetheless elite? That is the query being requested inside his personal group. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (10) must reemerge as one of many very best bats within the sport if the Jays need to win one other AL East crown.

Maintain studying:

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🏀 Scoreboard: Males’s Candy 16

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(Ezra Shaw)

Purdue 79, Texas 77 — Trey Kaufman-Renn to ship the Boilermakers to their second Elite Eight in three years (and third prior to now seven tournaments).

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(Alex Slitz)

Iowa 77, Nebraska 71 — The Hawkeyes rallied late (they did not maintain a lead till the ultimate two minutes!) to finish the Cornhuskers’ first tourney run and . Hats off to move coach Ben McCollum, who’s now 38-8 within the NCAA match (D-I and D-II).

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(Thearon W. Henderson)

Arizona 109, Arkansas 88 — The Wildcats from begin to end in a recreation that . After a 25-year drought, is that this lastly the 12 months Arizona and makes the Remaining 4 once more?

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(Kenneth Richmond)

Illinois 65, Houston 55 — The Preventing Illini , utilizing a smothering defensive effort to win ugly. Houston shot simply 34% from the ground and obtained to the free-throw line simply twice.

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⚾️ Snapshots: Opening Day

Rookie Carson Benge will get a Gatorade tub. (Ishika Samant/Getty Photos)

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New York — Opening Day obtained off to a shocking begin when the new-look Mets within the first inning of the day’s first recreation, placing up 5 runs on the reigning Cy Younger in two-thirds of an inning (with the assistance of ) en path to an .

A day for debuts: There have been over 25,000 days of video games in MLB historical past. Thursday was the primary during which 4 totally different gamers homered of their debuts. First was Mets RF , joined later by White Sox 1B , Cardinals SS and Guardians RF , who hit .

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(Aaron Gash)

Milwaukee — The Brewers blew out the White Sox, , behind 12 hits from the offense and a lights-out efficiency from fireballer Jacob Misiorowski, who allowed simply two hits in 5 innings and struck out 11 — a Brewers Opening Day-record.

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Extra of the day’s greatest performances: Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez (6 IP, 10 Ok, 3 H, 0 R) was nails in a win over the Rangers; Tigers’ rookie Kevin McGonigle (4-5, 2 2B, 2 RBI) turned the sixth participant since 1900 with 4+ hits of their MLB debut on Opening Day.

Everyone be cool, it is a theft! (Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Photos)

(Dilip Vishwanat)

St. Louis — Cardinals LF Nathan Church made the play of the day in among the best video games of the day, within the fifth inning earlier than St. Louis and Tampa mixed for 14 runs within the sixth inning of the Playing cards’ .

Wild inning: The rating was 1-1 getting into the sixth. Then the Rays scored six within the high of the body on seven singles, a stroll and a sac fly, and the Cardinals answered with eight runs on 5 singles, two doubles, two sac flies and a homer.

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(Griffin Quinn)

Chicago — The Cubs could not have gained their season opener, falling to the Nationals, however the Wrigley Discipline facade stays undefeated. Simply attractive.

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Enjoyable truth: Wrigley Discipline shouldn’t be named after the chewing gum firm, however slightly after William Wrigley Jr., the chewing gum magnate who additionally owned the staff within the Nineteen Twenties. That makes it one in all eight that hasn’t offered its naming rights, together with Angel Stadium, Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Kauffman Stadium, Yankee Stadium, Nationals Park and Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

📺 Weekend Watchlist

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🏀 March Insanity

The NCAA males’s and ladies’s tournaments proceed all through the weekend with the Candy 16 and Elite Eight.

Males: No. 1 Duke and No. 5 St. John’s face off tonight (7:10pm ET, CBS), adopted by No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 4 Alabama (7:35pm, TBS), No. 2 UConn vs. No. 3 Michigan State (9:45pm, CBS) and No. 2 Iowa State vs. No. 6 Tennessee (10:10pm, TBS). The Elite Eight begins tomorrow with No. 3 Illinois vs. No. 9 Iowa (6:09pm, TBS) and No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 2 Purdue (8:49pm, TBS).

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Ladies: Right now it is No. 2 Vanderbilt vs. No. 6 Notre Dame (2:30pm, ESPN), No. 1 UConn vs. No. 4 UNC (5pm, ESPN), No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 4 Minnesota (7:30pm, ESPN) and No. 2 LSU vs. No. 3 Duke (10pm, ESPN). Tomorrow it is No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 3 Louisville (12:30pm, ABC), No. 1 Texas vs. No. 5 Kentucky (3pm, ABC), No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 4 Oklahoma (5pm, ESPN) and No. 3 TCU vs. No. 10 Virginia (7:30pm, ESPN). The Elite Eight begins on Sunday.

⚾️ Opening Weekend

Baseball is again, and there are to remind you that the winter doldrums are really over.

Sunday’s new dwelling: After spending the final 36 years on ESPN, “Sunday Night time Baseball” will now air on NBC and Peacock, with the Mariners internet hosting the Guardians within the inaugural recreation (7:20pm, Peacock).

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🎾 Miami Open

Prime-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and second-ranked Jannik Sinner will each look to observe up their victories at Indian Wells with their second straight Masters 1000 titles.

Males’s Semifinals: No. 21 Jiri Lehecka vs. No. 28 Arthur Fils (Fri. 3pm); No. 2 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 3 Alexander Zverev (Fri. 7pm); … Winners meet in Sunday’s remaining.

Ladies’s Remaining: No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka vs. No. 4 Coco Gauff (Sat, TBD) … They’ve cut up their first 12 conferences courting again to 2020. How will this one fare?

🏒 NCAA Males’s Hockey Match

The continues this weekend. By Sunday evening, the Frozen 4 might be set.

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Friday: No. 1 Michigan vs. Bentley (Fri. 5:30pm, ESPNU); Minnesota Duluth vs. Penn State (Fri. 9pm, ESPN2); No. 4 Western Michigan vs. Minnesota State (Fri. 2:30pm, ESPNU); Denver vs. Cornell (Fri. 6pm, ESPN+) … Winners face off in Sunday’s regional finals.

Saturday: No. 3 Michigan State vs. Wisconsin (4:30pm, ESPN2); No. 2 North Dakota vs. Quinnipiac (7pm, ESPN2) … Winners advance to the Frozen 4.

Extra to look at:

⚽️ Pleasant: USMNT vs. Belgium (Sat. 3:30pm, TNT) … The Fifteenth-ranked Individuals host the ninth-ranked Belgians in Atlanta.

🏀 NBA: Spurs at Bucks (Sat. 3pm, Prime); Pistons at Timberwolves (Sat. 5:30pm, ABC); Knicks at Thunder (Solar. 7:30pm, NBC); Warriors at Nuggets (Solar. 10pm, NBC)

🏒 NHL: Crimson Wings at Sabres (Fri. 7pm, NHL); Wild at Bruins (Sat. 5pm, NHL); Flyers at Crimson Wings (Sat. 8pm, ABC)

⛳️ Golf: Houston Open (Fri-Solar, ESPN+/Golf/NBC); Ford Championship (Fri-Solar, Golf) … (-7) leads in Houston and (-12) leads in Phoenix.

⚽️ NWSL: Angel Metropolis vs. Houston (Fri. 10pm, Prime) … The league’s high two groups sq. off in Los Angeles.

⛸️ Determine Skating: Worlds (Fri-Solar, Peacock/USA/NBC) … Ilia Malinin leads the sector .

🏎️ F1: Japanese Grand Prix (Solar. 1am, Apple) … With F1 canceling races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, that is the ultimate grand prix earlier than Miami on Might 3.

🏁 NASCAR: Martinsville Speedway (Solar. 3:30pm, FS1) … Can Tyler Reddick win for a fifth time in seven races?

🏁 IndyCar: Alabama (Solar. 1pm, Fox) … Birmingham’s street course hosts the fourth race of the season.

🏈 UFL: Week 1 (Fri-Solar, ESPN/Fox) … All eight groups because the third season of the spring soccer league kicks off.

🏈 IFL: Week 3 (Sat-Solar, Yahoo Sports activities Community) … Here is your Indoor Soccer League .

Acquired plans this weekend? Gametime is one of the best place to attain last-minute tickets to the occasions in your metropolis. 

⚾️ MLB trivia

The Commissioner’s Trophy. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Photos)

(MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Photos)

No staff from the AL or NL Central has reached the World Sequence since 2016, when two Central groups met within the Fall Basic.

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Query: Are you able to identify these two groups?

Reply on the backside.

🏀 Enjoyable learn: NBA growth mock draft

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For the primary time in additional than 20 years, the NBA seems to be on the verge of growth, with two franchises doubtlessly coming quickly in Seattle and Las Vegas.

Enjoyable train: .

(Spoiler alert: Zion Williamson headlines the Sin Metropolis squad, who we have dubbed the Las Vegas Neon. As for the Seattle staff, we have now creatively named them the SuperSonics.)

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Trivia reply: Cubs vs. Indians (Chicago gained 4-3)

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