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Yahoo Sports activities AM: Blissful Opening Day!

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🏀 LeBron is inevitable: LeBron James lifted the Lakers previous the Pacers, 120-119, to snap L.A.’s three-game shedding streak. He additionally saved a streak of his personal, scoring 10 of his 13 factors within the fourth quarter for his 1,283rd consecutive sport with no less than 10 factors.

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🎾 Stunner in Miami: Alexandra Eala, ranked one hundred and fortieth on the planet and simply 19 years outdated, on the Miami Open to turn out to be the primary Filipino participant ever to succeed in a WTA 1000 semifinal.

⚽️ Boston Legacy: Boston’s 2026 NWSL growth workforce, which first introduced its identify final fall because the widely-criticized BOS Nation FC, has .

🏀 From legend to teach: Ali Farokhmanesh, the previous Northern Iowa guard whose late three helped beat top-seeded Kansas within the 2010 NCAA event, at Colorado State.

⛳️ Howdy, pals: Don’t fret, golf followers: Jim Nantz is not going anyplace anytime quickly. The longtime CBS broadcaster , which might be his 51st version and the one centesimal total. Thanks for the heads up, Jim!

⚾️ MLB 2025: Meet the principle characters

(Stefan Milic/Yahoo Sports activities)

It is Opening Day! To get you prepared for the motion, listed below are the , in response to Yahoo Sports activities’ Jake Mintz.

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Prime 10:

Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers DH/SP: There are limitless avenues to clarify the scope and scale of Ohtani’s affect, however let’s maintain it easy. Here’s a human being whose athletic greatness has energized nations, reshaped native economies and rewritten the principles of the game itself.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr, Blue Jays 1B: The have formally reached opening day of Vlad’s stroll 12 months. Even when he reaches free company, he will not get Soto cash ($765M); however $500 million is actually in play.

Juan Soto, Mets RF: The $765 million man is the important thing to Steve Cohen’s dream of biting into the Yankees’ Huge Apple stranglehold. Soto reached the World Sequence after spending only one 12 months within the Bronx; think about what he can accomplish with 15 years in Queens.

Aaron Decide, Yankees RF: For all the house runs and particular person accolades, Decide’s profession will in the end really feel incomplete if he fails to win a championship in pinstripes. He can nonetheless rectify that, however a month shy of his thirty third birthday, he may need much less time than you suppose.

Bryce Harper, Phillies 1B: Like Decide, Harper’s a two-time MVP turning 33 this 12 months whose solely lacking piece is a hoop. It is unimaginable to suppose that by season’s finish he’ll have spent as a lot time in Philly as in Washington, and that he is firmly within the veteran stage of his profession.

Paul Skenes, Pirates SP: The reigning ROY appears loads just like the clear-cut finest pitcher in baseball. That alone will not make the Pirates aggressive; however as final 12 months confirmed us, even when the Buccos stink, each Skenes begin is related.

Spencer Strider, Braves SP: The 2023 strikeout king, who missed practically all of final season after present process elbow surgical procedure, ought to return someday in April to kind among the finest 1-2 punches within the majors alongside reigning Cy Younger Chris Sale.

Ronald Acuña Jr, Braves RF: Like his teammate, the 2023 MVP additionally missed most of final season after tearing his ACL for the second time in 4 years. How he and Strider play upon their returns (he is anticipated again in Might) may have an infinite impression on the Braves.

Rōki Sasaki, Dodgers SP: Few prospects have Sasaki’s expertise, however at this level he is considerably much less polished than teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto was upon becoming a member of L.A. final winter. He’ll be nice finally, however what occurs in 12 months One is a complete thriller.

Bobby Witt Jr, Royals SS: For the reason that starting of the Integration Period, here is the listing of gamers Witt’s age (24) or youthful to publish an greater than the ten.4 he delivered final 12 months: Mickey Mantle. That is it. That is the listing.

11-50:

11-20: Elly de la Cruz (Reds SS), Gunnar Henderson (Orioles SS), Rafael Devers (Purple Sox 3B), Alex Cora (Purple Sox supervisor), Alex Bregman (Purple Sox 3B), Tarik Skubal (Tigers SP), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Dodgers SP), Jacob deGrom (Rangers SP), Jimmy Pitaro (ESPN president), Rob Manfred (MLB commissioner)

21-30: Kyle Tucker (Cubs RF), Jose Altuve (Astros LF), Cam Smith (Astros RF), Freddie Freeman (Dodgers 1B), Mookie Betts (Dodgers SS), Fernando Tatis Jr. (Padres RF), Jackson Merrill (Padres CF), Jackson Chourio (Brewers RF), Jackson Jobe (Tigers SP), Jackson Holliday (Orioles 2B)

31-40: Jasson Domínguez (Yankees LF), Sandy Alcántara (Marlins SP), Luis Robert Jr. (White Sox CF), Nolan Arenado (Cardinals 3B), Jed Hoyer (Cubs president), Pete Alonso (Mets 1B), Francisco Lindor (Mets SS), Mike Trout (Angels RF), Buster Posey (Giants president), Justin Verlander (Giants SP)

41-50: Max Scherzer (Blue Jays SP), Munetaka Murakami (NPB slugger), Stu Sternberg (Rays proprietor), Corbin Burnes (D-Backs SP), Corbin Carroll (D-Backs OF), Lawrence Butler (A’s OF), Clay Holmes (Mets SP), Junior Caminero (Rays IF), James Wooden (Nats OF), Chandler Simpson (Future Rays OF)

Opening Day snapshot:

Roster continuity rankings: For the second 12 months in a row, , returning a whopping 93% of final 12 months’s plate appearances and 80% of innings pitched. The Tigers, Royals, Mariners and Twins spherical out the highest 5.

Rays sport postponed: 28 of 30 groups are taking part in at present, however the Rays and Rockies have to attend till tomorrow to begin their season to provide Tampa Bay an additional day to organize Steinbrenner Discipline — — for main league motion.

Title favorites (through BetMGM): The Dodgers (+240) have by far one of the best odds to win the World Sequence, adopted by the Braves (+900), Yankees (+900), Phillies (+1100), Mets (+1200), Orioles (+1600), Purple Sox (+1800), Astros (+1800) and Rangers (+2200).

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🏀 The highway to San Antonio(Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports)

(Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports activities)

The boys’s Candy 16 begins at present, and by the tip of the weekend simply 4 groups will likely be heading to San Antonio. However the 256 potential Last 4 combos are usually not all created equal.

Listed here are 10 of our favorites, :

All chalk: Auburn, Florida, Duke, Houston … Solely as soon as has the Last 4 comprised fully No. 1 seeds (2008) for the reason that event expanded in 1985.

All chaos: Ole Miss, Arkansas, BYU, Purdue … Each Last 4 since 2012 has featured no less than one workforce seeded 5 or decrease. In a event outlined by the favorites to this point, how humorous would it not be to see every area’s lowest seed emerge victorious?

New blood: Ole Miss, Texas Tech, BYU, Tennessee … The Rebels have by no means been previous the Candy 16, the Cougars (31) and Vols (26) have essentially the most event appearances with no Last 4 and the Purple Raiders are the one West Area workforce left with no title.

First-year coaches: Michigan, Arkansas, Kentucky, BYU … Dusty Might (Wolverines), John Calipari (Razorbacks), Mark Pope (Wildcats) and Kevin Younger (Cougars) are all of their first 12 months on the helm of their present applications.

All-SEC: Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee … Simply as soon as have three groups from the identical convention made the Last 4 (Huge East, 1985). The mighty SEC, with seven groups* nonetheless alive, could possibly be the primary to ship 4.

Protection wins championships: Michigan State, Maryland, Duke, Houston … 5 of the nation’s high six defenses are nonetheless alive (these 4 plus Tennessee). Solely St. John’s was eradicated.

NBA prospects abound: Michigan State, Maryland, Duke, Houston … Three of those groups have no less than one potential lottery decide (Michigan State’s Jase Richardson, Maryland’s Derik Queen and the Duke trio of Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and Khaman Maluach).

The gridiron gang: Michigan, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee … This could make for fairly the CFP semifinals.

The brainiacs: Michigan, Florida, Duke, Purdue … In keeping with , Duke (6), Michigan (21), Florida (30) and Purdue (46) are the highest-rated educational establishments of their areas.

The mascot melee: Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Houston … What if each mascot got here to life and had an epic brawl? Far an excessive amount of time was wasted attempting to determine how an Elephant would fare towards a Blue Satan.

Rating the contenders:

*Different all-SEC permutations: Auburn could possibly be changed by Ole Miss (South), Florida could possibly be changed by Arkansas (West) and Tennessee could possibly be changed by Kentucky (Midwest).

🏀 NBA mock draft 1.0(Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports)

(Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports activities)

With the Candy 16 tipping off at present, it is an ideal time to interrupt out our , courtesy of Yahoo Sports activities’ Kevin O’Connor.

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Prime 10:

Wizards: Cooper Flagg (F, Duke)

Jazz: Dylan Harper (G, Rutgers)

Hornets: Ace Bailey (F, Rutgers)

Pelicans: VJ Edgecombe (G, Baylor)

76ers: Derik Queen (C, Maryland)

Nets: Kasparas Jakučionis (G, Illinois)

Raptors: Jeremiah Fears (G, Oklahoma)

Warmth: Tre Johnson (G, Texas)

Spurs: Collin Murray-Boyles (F, South Carolina)

Path Blazers: Kon Knueppel (G/F, Duke)

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📚 Good reads(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)

(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports activities)

🏀 Ben Rohrbach:

Some argue that the Thunder celebrity is a “free-throw service provider” — somebody who video games the sport, baiting defenders into contact and, extra importantly, officers into blowing a whistle when the contact was his personal doing. Is there any benefit to that argument?

(Amber Matsumoto/Yahoo Sports)

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🏈 Charles McDonald:

The time period “generational” will get overused on the subject of draft prospects, but when Travis Hunter would not match the invoice, then nobody does.

(Amy Monks/Yahoo Sports)

(Amy Monks/Yahoo Sports activities)

🏀 Jeff Eisenberg:

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Tales like Lanier’s are a reminder that this 12 months’s heavyweight Candy 16 is not as devoid of charming underdogs as it has been made out to be. The groups nonetheless competing for a title might every hail from energy conferences, however Cinderella tales nonetheless exist, if the place to search for them.

📺 Watchlist: Baseketball(Giphy)

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It is no Sports activities Equinox, however Opening Day and the Candy 16 falling on the identical day is a deal with nonetheless.

⚾️ Opening Day: The consists of two on nationwide tv: Brewers at Yankees (3pm ET, ESPN) and Tigers at Dodgers (7pm, ESPN), which options final 12 months’s AL Cy Younger (Tarik Skubal) squaring off towards a two-time winner (Blake Snell).

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🏀 Candy 16: No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 6 BYU (7:09pm, CBS); No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Maryland (7:39pm, TBS); No. 1 Duke vs. No. 4 Arizona (9:39pm, CBS); No. 3 Texas Tech vs. No. 10 Arkansas (10:09pm, TBS)

Extra to observe:

🏀 NBA: Mavericks at Magic (7pm, NBA)

🏒 NHL: Kings at Avalanche (10pm, ESPN)

🏒 NCAA Males’s Hockey: Regionals (2pm-8:30pm, ESPNU/ESPN2) … The 16-team* NCAA event begins at present with the .

⛳️ LPGA: Ford Championship (7pm, Golf) … 19 of the world’s high 20 golfers tee it up in Arizona, together with No. 1 and defending champion Nelly Korda.

⛳️ PGA: Houston Open (8:15am, ESPN+; 4pm, Golf) … The primary of two straight tournaments in Texas earlier than the Masters tees off on April 10.

⛸️ World Determine Skating Championships: Day 2 (11am, Peacock; 3pm, USA)

⚽️ Girls’s Champions League: Barcelona (4-1) vs. Wolfsburg (1:45pm, YouTube); Chelsea (0-2) vs. Man Metropolis (4pm, YouTube) … Quarterfinals, second leg.

🎾 Tennis: Miami Open (1pm, Tennis) … No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka vs. No. 6 Jasmine Paolini and No. 4 Jessica Pegula vs. Alexandra Eala within the ladies’s semifinals.

*Prime seeds: The 4 seeded groups are No. 1 Boston School, No. 2 Michigan State, No. 3 Maine and No. 4 Western Michigan.

⚾️ MLB trivia(Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

(Dylan Buell/Getty Photographs)

Luis Arráez, who’s gained three straight batting titles, leads all MLB hitters with a .321 batting common within the 2020s (min. 1,500 at-bats).

Query: Who’re the one different two gamers with a .300+ BA this decade?

Trace: They have been teammates for one season.

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Reply on the backside.

⚾️ Want an Opening Day homer? Simply name TylerO'Neill takes BP during Spring Training. (Todd Olszewski/Baltimore Orioles/Getty Images)

O’Neill takes BP throughout Spring Coaching. (Todd Olszewski/Baltimore Orioles/Getty Photographs)

When Tyler O’Neill takes the sphere for the Orioles this afternoon, it will be his third straight Opening Day with a brand new membership. However regardless of the workforce, you’ll be able to all the time rely on him to go yard when the season begins.

5 in a row: The previous Cardinal and Purple Sox has hit a house run on an MLB document . He’ll go for six in a row at present on the highway towards the Blue Jays.

What are his probabilities? Streak apart, Toronto’s Rogers Centre has been the ninth-most homer-friendly ballpark for righties over the previous three seasons, . And it is not as if O’Neill saves all his energy for the primary day of the 12 months, hitting 31 lengthy balls in simply 113 video games final season.

Trivia reply: Freddie Freeman (.313) and Trea Turner (.300)

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Premier League

Sky Sports activities journo offers replace on Gyokeres’ transfer to Premier League membership after ‘verbal settlement’ reached

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Viktor Gyokeres’ future is more likely to be one of many hottest sagas of the summer time switch window.

In equity, what staff would flip him down?

The prolific frontman is placing up numbers which can be merely unfathomable to viewers; 40 objectives and 10 assists in 41 appearances for Sporting Lisbon is nothing in need of world-class.

Whereas there’ll be questions over his capacity to duplicate such type within the Premier League, he’s already confirmed he’s able to doing so in England. From 2020/2021 to 2022/2023, Gyokeres recorded 41 objectives and 15 assists for Swansea Metropolis and, subsequently, Coventry Metropolis. He additionally discovered the again of the web six instances in eight Champions League fixtures this time period.

Alas, Manchester United followers have been determined for Ruben Amorim to make use of his Sporting ties to signal his ex-protegee ever since he was first linked with the Previous Trafford emptiness, although they may face competitors from a bunch of different suitors adamant about sealing his signature.

Gyokeres’ transfer to flying Premier League outfit dismissedViktor Gyokeres in action for Sporting CP

One staff believed to be within the race is Nottingham Forest, who at the moment are making ready for a marketing campaign by which they’re more likely to be competing on all fronts – together with in Europe. To take action, depth is totally important, and proprietor Evangelos Marinakis is aware of that.

A report final week claimed the Midlands outfit had initiated talks with Gyokeres’ representatives in hopes of sealing an early settlement. Marinakis isn’t shy in the case of splashing the money to strengthen the squad, and The Guardian beforehand steered Sporting would settle for a cut-price payment of £63 million to sanction their talisman’s exit – regardless of his contract containing an £83m launch clause.

Nonetheless, Sky Sports activities’ Florian Plettenberg has at the moment offered an replace on Gyokeres’ state of affairs amid rumoured Forest curiosity, writing: “As completely revealed in October, Viktor Gyökeres can depart Sporting for €60-70m in summer time, as there’s a verbal settlement between Gyökeres and the membership.

“The present and clear development: Gyökeres won’t be part of Forest.”

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National Womens Soccer League

Massive Washington Spirit, CVS deal is proof ladies’s sports activities is not simply ‘having a second’

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Ladies’s sports activities could also be “having a second,” however a brand new three-year sponsorship deal between the NWSL’s Washington Spirit and CVS Well being is another signal it is a sea change relatively than a fleeting development.

The goes past the customary soccer jersey sponsorship, although that side of what each events name a “multimillion-dollar funding within the membership and ladies’s sports activities” is unquestionably essential. The partnership — one the Spirit say is among the many most respected sponsorships within the NWSL — extends to group programming centered on ladies’s well being, participant panels and extra.

EXCLUSIVE:

The target is to hold on the speedy progress seen in ladies’s sports activities, and inside the NWSL particularly. That emphasis is particularly noticeable at a quickly evolving group in Washington. What was primarily a small enterprise in 2019, fielding a staff with a 5,000-capacity suburban stadium, has develop into a standard-bearer within the house.

Spirit majority proprietor Michele Kang — who initially purchased a stake within the membership in 2020 earlier than taking on in 2022 — is aware of instances have modified. This sponsorship contrasts with what she encountered simply over 4 years in the past when she joined the membership, she informed USA TODAY throughout an unique, wide-ranging interview Thursday.

“I believe initially at the moment, you strategy some manufacturers, they’re like, ‘What? Ladies’s sports activities? Ladies’s soccer? I did not even know there was an expert league,'” Kang mentioned, chuckling on the considered how far Washington has come. “So, the general consciousness was not that prime.

“From that time to now, I imply, the numbers show themselves: the viewership, the attendance … After I first took over, common attendance was, what, a pair thousand? Now we’re speaking about approaching 15,000 (folks), sellout crowds final yr.”

Spirit communications employees mentioned the membership’s 2025 season ticket membership gross sales are “near 7,000,” with Washington’s first dwelling recreation of the season developing on Saturday. The Spirit play the Kansas Metropolis Present at 7:30 p.m. ET.

“It isn’t simply us both, proper? In case you take a look at NWSL throughout on the league stage, the viewership principally doubled, and attendance is (up) greater than 50% on common,” Kang mentioned. “So, it is confirmed. I haven’t got to persuade folks anymore, as a result of the proof is within the numbers and the joy.”

NWSL amongst main indicators of progress in ladies’s sports activities

These numbers observe with earlier this week. Ladies’s sports activities generated $1.88 billion in income in 2024, in accordance with the research, exceeding the accounting agency’s 2023 expectations by roughly $600 million. Their forecasts for 2025 say that quantity will develop to $2.35 billion.

That progress is mirrored in NWSL membership valuations. In July, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and his spouse, Willow Bay, the dean of the USC Annenberg Faculty for Communication and Journalism, at a ladies’s sports activities report valuation of $250 million.

On the rising buzz across the Spirit, Kang particularly cited the final two video games on the membership’s 20,000-seat dwelling, Audi Discipline, when the staff survived playoff epics in opposition to Bay FC and NJ/NY Gotham FC. CVS Well being’s Senior Vice President of Authorities and Public Affairs, Melissa Schulman, was in attendance as a fan, and introduced up these exact same video games in a separate interview with USA TODAY as a proof of idea.

” was not like something I’ve seen earlier than with the Spirit,” Schulman mentioned. “To me, in some methods it was form of like an arrival second: That is what that is going to be. That is what this ought to be, and that is a tremendous factor to be part of.”

CVS Well being’s partnership with the Spirit , a uncommon little bit of continuity in a league that has undergone huge change on and off the sector. There was a time limit the place that might have modified, as Kang finally received out in a battle over Washington’s future with former homeowners Steve Baldwin and Invoice Lynch.

Per Kang, it was a second the place some manufacturers adopted a wait-and-see strategy, whereas others got here ahead with proposals that may have set a decrease bar for future offers.

“We did not have any front-of-jersey sponsor,” Kang mentioned. “We have been in a rush. There have been some legacy companions who have been prepared to step up and provides us the funding, however it was not practically what I believed was the true worth of the Spirit. However extra importantly, I actually needed to search for a very basic, conventional American model. I needed any individual to assist legitimize what we’re attempting to do right here.”

Kang added that her objective then, and now, was for the Spirit to forge “a long-term relationship, not only one yr or two, as a result of — particularly provided that we’re searching for kind of respected, basic, high American model — we needed to essentially nurture that relationship and construct it to be a mutually profitable effort.”

“Our dedication was, mutually, a long-term relationship, not simply, ‘Oh, ladies’s sports activities proper now are sizzling. Let’s simply see what it takes, what it is like,’ kind of factor,” Kang mentioned.

However Kang wasn’t the rationale CVS Well being was drawn to the Spirit, Schulman mentioned.

“To be completely trustworthy, it was the gamers who first offered me on this, as a result of there have been these shiny, gifted younger ladies who have been so pushed and so dedicated,” Schulman mentioned.

Then, it was gamers like U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff midfielder Andi Sullivan and goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury. Immediately, the gamers are nonetheless an enormous issue with USWNT star Trinity Rodman and reigning NWSL Rookie of the 12 months Croix Bethune, amongst different massive names.

Kang funding a pivotal second in ladies’s sports activities

The connection between membership and sponsor has grown past the on-field product as Washington has emerged as a pacesetter within the NWSL and ladies’s sports activities as an entire. Having the No. 6 firm on the Fortune 500 record — a rating of the most important U.S. firms by income — is not any small feat and lends credibility to the Spirit’s motion, Schulman mentioned. CVS Well being sits on the high with giants like Walmart, Amazon and Apple.

“I believe it is the gamers, it is the staff, however it’s Michele’s magic and her imaginative and prescient and her dedication,” Schulman mentioned. “This can be a businesswoman who got here in, checked out this and mentioned ‘These gamers aren’t being handled proper. This is not the suitable method to run a membership. I’ve acquired a greater thought.’ She went by means of hell to get that possession …”

That could be an understatement. Kang’s acquisition of a majority stake got here months after back-to-back scandals that emerged in a watershed 2021 NWSL season. With head coach Richie Burke and CEO Larry Finest — each hand-picked by Baldwin — fired following studies, Kang moved to accumulate their stakes, resulting in a months-long battle for management. , who finally at a reported valuation of $35 million.

Since then, a lot has been product of Kang being a singular determine within the sporting world, particularly after and , a world, multi-club possession mannequin that features the Spirit, French powerhouse Olympique Lyonnais, and English aspect London Metropolis Lionesses. Kang, who made her cash as a well being know-how magnate, demurred on that entrance, insisting the remainder of the NWSL’s homeowners share her ambitions for his or her golf equipment and the league.

That mentioned, Kang was candid that relative to different sports activities, the NWSL nonetheless has an extended method to go and offers like this one are nonetheless simply foundational constructing blocks for future sustainability.

“Our eyes and requirements are excessive, and I believe we’re all getting there,” Kang mentioned. “That is why I believe the league is transferring ahead, as a result of it is not only one proprietor, it is a number of groups, nearly all groups happening the identical path.

“It is an ongoing effort, and I believe that we nonetheless have an extended method to go. We’re form of getting there, however the measurement and the amount of the connection, … will hopefully result in the much more constructive media offers coming down the pike.”

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National Womens Soccer League

Ladies’s elite sports activities revenues to surpass $2.35 billion globally, Deloitte stories, but imbalances persist

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Ladies’s are projected to achieve a document $2.35 billion this 12 months, in line with , greater than triple the market measurement in 2022.

The consulting agency launched its up to date figures and projections for ladies’s elite sports activities revenues throughout matchdays, broadcasts, and business offers this week, 2024 “a landmark 12 months for ladies’s sports activities, shattering expectations and exceeding Deloitte’s preliminary projections.”

Up to now 12 months, main headlines included: girls on the Paris Video games regardless of their competitions being featured lower than males, the securing a brand new broadcast deal amid document curiosity and viewership, NWSL gamers , and AC Milan turning into the primary European soccer membership to ensure automated contract renewals for of their contract.

The underlying context of the report, although, was how disparities between sports activities, markets, and even inside leagues persist.

Basketball and soccer are anticipated to stay the at 44% and 35%, respectively. Whereas North America (59%) and Europe (18%) proceed to high the listing of world markets.

Even in a kind of high incomes sports activities, discrepancies stay. was additionally launched this week and revealed the typical girls’s soccer participant makes $10,900 a 12 months, however the quantity is skewed upwards by the 16 world golf equipment that paid a mean wage of over $50,000. Because of this, lots of the world’s girls soccer gamers really make far lower than the $10,900 determine.

The implications go far past wage, too. Golf equipment that pay greater than $5,000 had been extra doubtless to offer non-financial – like medical insurance, housing advantages, and so forth. – than those that don’t.

Chelsea was listed as one of the top revenue generating clubs in women's football by <a href="https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/services/financial-advisory/analysis/deloitte-football-money-league-women.html">Deloitte's Football Money League 2025</a>. - Harriet Lander/Chelsea FC/Getty Images

Moreover, golf equipment from FIFA-defined Tier 2 and three leagues – categorized as “aspiring” and “rising” leagues, respectively – had been much less prone to supply contracts a 12 months or longer.

FIFA additionally discovered on the pitch.

Deloitte Sports activities enterprise group data and insights lead Jennifer Haskel stated whereas there have been constructive indicators in girls’s sport, there may be nonetheless a lot extra room for enchancment.

“Ladies’s sport is rewriting the playbook and difficult conventional norms to redefine the way forward for the trade. In 2025 and past, the problem will probably be for the sports activities’ trade, model companions and traders to do issues in a different way,” Haskel .

“Rising strategic funding is extra vital than ever to drive an expert world panorama and create an attractive trade for generations to come back.

“It’s essential for ladies’s sport organisations to implement the best buildings, develop a transparent plan for funding, and outline a long-term imaginative and prescient for his or her place inside a quickly evolving world trade.”

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Champions League

Liverpool’s plans to maintain star participant on the membership now at risk as Sky Sports activities reporter shares contemporary replace

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Liverpool’s season, as soon as brimming with promise, has taken an sudden downturn following their exits from the Champions League, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup.

Whereas the Reds stay on target to clinch the Premier League title, their hopes of attaining a treble has crumbled in every week.

Sky Sports activities: Virgil van Dijk desires to depart Liverpool on the finish of the season

Amid this turbulence, membership captain Virgil van Dijk is reportedly contemplating his future at Anfield. In keeping with , the Dutch defender is considering a departure on the finish of the season, along with his contract set to run out in the summertime. The 33-year-old is reportedly contemplating a brand new problem overseas earlier than calling time on his illustrious profession.

Whereas Al Hilal from the Saudi Professional League has already put ahead a profitable provide, studies recommend that the Liverpool captain is leaning extra towards a possible transfer to Main League Soccer in america slightly than heading to Saudi Arabia.

Virgil van Dijk in action for Liverpool in their win over Southampton

PSG going all in for van Dijk

In the meantime, Paris Saint-Germain have emerged as critical contenders, with membership proprietor Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and sporting director Luis Campos reportedly seen partaking with van Dijk at Anfield following PSG’s Champions League conflict with Liverpool.

In keeping with , the French giants are ready to go all in to safe his companies and have initiated talks along with his representatives. The report claims PSG are keen to supply a staggering €100 million bundle over two years to lure the Dutch centre-back to the Parc des Princes.

This improvement will come as a blow for the Reds, who, as per Fabrizio Romano.

Van Dijk himself had beforehand hinted at his want to remain on the membership, fueling optimism among the many Anfield devoted that he might but commit his future to the Reds.

Premier League win could be a becoming finish to van Dijk’s Liverpool profession

Since his arrival in 2018 for a then-record £75 million price for a defender, van Dijk has been instrumental in remodeling Liverpool right into a dominant power in world soccer. His management on the again has been pivotal within the membership’s Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup triumphs.

If that is to be van Dijk’s farewell season at Anfield, lifting the Premier League trophy would function a becoming swansong for considered one of Liverpool’s greatest-ever defenders.

Nonetheless, with Liverpool keen to maintain their captain and PSG able to make an irresistible provide, the approaching months will probably be decisive in shaping the following chapter of van Dijk’s storied profession.

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Soccer News

Yahoo Sports activities AM: Brackets revealed

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is our day by day e-newsletter that retains you updated on all issues sports activities. to get it each weekday morning.

🚨 Headlines

🏈 Chase, Higgins receives a commission: The Bengals have agreed to big-money extensions , making Ja’Marr Chase the highest-paid non-QB within the NFL (4 years, $161M) and Tee Higgins the league’s highest-paid WR2 (4 years, $115M).

🎾 Get to know the identify: Mirra Andreeva, 17, on Sunday at Indian Wells, the place she beat the highest two gamers on this planet in back-to-back matches to change into the event’s youngest feminine champion since Serena Williams in 1999.

⚽️ The wait is over: Newcastle defeated reigning champion Liverpool, 2-1, in Sunday’s League Cup remaining to and finish certainly one of English soccer’s most well-known droughts.

🏒 Attendance report: The PWHL’s Minnesota Frost and New York Sirens on Sunday night time in Detroit, setting an attendance report for an expert ladies’s hockey sport within the U.S.

🇺🇸 American wins LA: Matt Richtman received the fortieth annual Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, turning into the . It was simply the second marathon for Richtman, a former All-American cross-country runner at Montana State.

🏀 Males’s bracket: 14 of 16 SEC groups get bids

The SEC will to the NCAA males’s basketball event. That is by far essentially the most ever by a single league, obliterating the earlier mark of 11 set by the Huge East in 2011.

South Area: Auburn’s reward for incomes the No. 1 total seed? A possible matchup with an under-seeded Louisville staff… in Kentucky. Michigan vs. Michigan State within the Elite Eight? Not if the Wolverines look previous a (30-4 report, ).

West Area: Florida is the brand new title favourite, St. John’s is on fireplace, Drake and the two-time defending champions cannot be ignored. Invoice Self vs. John Calipari is kind of the teaching matchup, and Calipari vs. Rick Pitino can be even higher.

The right side of the bracket. (Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports)

East Area: The destiny of this area could come right down to the state of Cooper Flagg’s ankle (the most recent: ). Elsewhere: Alabama has the nation’s highest-scoring offense, Arizona not often goes quietly in March and BYU is a classy decide to make a deep run.

Midwest Area: If the seeds maintain, No. 1 Houston vs. No. 2 Tennessee might be a defensive battle for the ages. However do not be stunned if March regulars like Kentucky (NCAA-record 62 appearances), Purdue (2024 runner-up) and Gonzaga (9 straight Candy 16s) muck issues up.

Notes:

Title favorites: Florida (+350 at BetMGM) after profitable Sunday’s SEC championship sport. Duke (+360) is true behind them, adopted by Auburn (+400), Houston (+600), Alabama (+1200) and Tennessee (+1400).

The bubble: North Carolina (36 NET rating), Texas (39), Xavier (45) and San Diego State (52) had been the “Final 4 In,” whereas Ohio State (41), Boise State (44), West Virginia (51) and Indiana (54) had been the “First 4 Out.” .

Multi-bid leagues: SEC (14), Huge Ten (8), Huge 12 (7), Huge East (5), ACC (4), Mountain West (4), West Coast (2).

First 4: The with No. 16 St. Francis PA vs. No. 16 Alabama State (South) and No. 11 North Carolina vs. No. 11 San Diego State (South). Then on Wednesday, it is No. 16 Mount St. Mary’s vs. No. 16 American (East) and No. 11 Texas vs. No. 11 Xavier (Midwest).

Good learn:

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🏀 Ladies’s bracket: Bruins on primeThe left side of the bracket. (Davis Long/Yahoo Sports)

Whereas the SEC made historical past on the boys’s aspect, the Huge Ten made historical past on the ladies’s aspect, touchdown a report 12 bids and incomes two No. 1 seeds courtesy of its California newcomers.

Area 1: UCLA earned the No. 1 total seed for the primary time in program historical past. Becoming a member of them on this nook of the bracket: the nation’s main scorer (FSU’s Ta’Niya Latson), the nation’s main rebounder (LSU’s Aneesah Morrow) and Harvard, certainly one of three Ivies (!) within the subject.

Area 4: USC beat UCLA twice earlier than shedding to them within the Huge Ten title sport. Now, they may face them once more within the Remaining 4 — however provided that they beat a little bit program known as UConn. . A well-liked upset decide right here? Murray State, the nation’s prime scoring staff, over Iowa.

The right side of the bracket. (Davis Long/Yahoo Sports)

Area 2: The defending champion Gamecocks acquired some additional motivation after they . The largest threats to South Carolina? No. 2 Duke and No. 3 North Carolina, who might be on a collision course (however beware !).

Area 3: For the primary time since 2013, the highest two groups in a area (No. 1 Texas, No. 2 TCU) are from the identical state. And for the forty third time within the final 43 tournaments, Tennessee made the sector. Crew to look at: Notre Dame, by far essentially the most proficient No. 3 seed.

Notes:

Title favorites: South Carolina (+270 at BetMGM), adopted by UConn (+275), UCLA (+500), USC (+550), Texas (+600) and Notre Dame (+600).

First-timers: Arkansas State, Fairleigh Dickinson, Grand Canyon, George Mason, UC San Diego and William & Mary are within the ladies’s event for the primary time. And in W&M’s case, that is the varsity’s first journey to both event (extra on that this week).

Multi-bid leagues: Huge Ten (12), SEC (10), ACC (8), Huge 12 (7), Ivy (3), Huge East (2), A-10 (2).

First 4: The motion begins Wednesday with No. 16 Southern vs. No. 16 UCSD (Area 1) and No. 11 Princeton vs. No. 11 Iowa State (Area 3). Then on Thursday, it is No. 16 William & Mary vs. No. 16 Excessive Level (Area 3) and No. 11 Washington vs. No. 11 Columbia (Area 2).

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⚾️ The Tigers steal the presentHiroto Saiki and Teruaki Satō pose for a photo following the Tigers' 3-0 win over the Dodgers. (Gene Wang/Getty Images)

One of the best staff within the Nationwide League? This weekend in Japan, , who swept the Cubs and Dodgers in back-to-back exhibitions and did not enable a single run.

The opposite video games: Los Angeles and Chicago fared higher towards the Yomiuri Giants, with the Dodgers profitable 5-1 on Saturday and the Cubs profitable 4-2 on Sunday.

What they’re saying: “These two days had been priceless,” mentioned Tigers supervisor Kyuji Fujikawa, whose staff received the 2023 Nippon Skilled Baseball championship. “Actually good ballclub,” added Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts. “They clearly confirmed they will play on the prime stage.”

Stars of the weekend: LHP Keito Mombetsu, 20, threw 5 good innings towards the Cubs; RHP Hiroto Saiki, 26, struck out seven Dodgers over 5 innings; 3B Teruaki Satō, 26, off two-time Cy Younger winner Blake Snell.

What’s subsequent: The Cubs and Dodgers open the MLB common season towards one another tomorrow on the Tokyo Dome, the place 5 Japanese gamers shall be within the dugouts: Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Rōki Sasaki for Los Angeles; Seiya Suzuki and Shōta Imanaga for Chicago.

📸 By the lens(Julio Aguilar/NWSL via Getty Images)

Orlando — The Orlando Satisfaction dominated the NWSL in 2024 en path to their first title. They picked up proper the place they left off on Friday, with a , tied for the biggest scoring margin in league historical past. .

(Savannah Bananas)

Tampa — The Savannah Bananas for Saturday’s sport at Raymond James Stadium (residence of the Buccaneers), marking the primary time the favored barnstorming baseball staff has performed in an NFL stadium.

Lando Norris (left) leads Max Verstappen during Sunday's race. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)

Melbourne, Australia — Lando Norris (McLaren) navigated moist circumstances and a number of crashes to win , beating out four-time defending champion Max Verstappen (Crimson Bull) and George Russell (Mercedes).

(Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images)

Paris, France — France in historic style, scoring a tournament-record 30 tries over 5 matches to say their seventh title (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2022, 2025), tied with England for essentially the most ever.

📺 Watchlist: Playoff at The GamersJ.J. Spaun had a chance to win on 18, but his birdie putt came up just short. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun will return to TPC Sawgrass this morning (9am ET, Golf/Peacock) for a after ending Sunday’s weather-delayed remaining spherical tied at 12-under.

Prize cash: The winner will get $4.5 million and the runner-up will get $2.73 million, ($25 million whole).

The way it works: McIlroy and Spaun will begin on the par-5 sixteenth, then play their method into the clubhouse. If there’s nonetheless a tie, they’re going to play sudden-death on the island inexperienced seventeenth. If it is nonetheless tied after that, they’re going to play the 18th. From there, play will proceed beginning on the sixteenth till a winner is decided.

Extra to look at:

⛳️ TGL: Los Angeles vs. New York (7pm, ESPN2) … Semifinals.*

🏀 Unmatched: Vinyl vs. Rose (7:30pm, TNT) … Championship.**

🏀 NBA: Warmth at Knicks (7:30pm, ESPN); Nuggets at Warriors (10pm, ESPN)

*Double responsibility: All six golfers teeing it up tonight at SoFi Heart made the minimize over the weekend at The Gamers Championship: Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and Sahith Theegala (LA) vs. Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler and Cameron Younger (NY).

**Semifinals recap: Rhyne Howard and Vinyl BC (6-9) pulled off a surprising 73-70 upset over league MVP Napheesa Collier and Lunar Owls BC (13-2), whereas Chelsea Grey led Rose BC (9-6) to a 63-57 win towards Alyssa Thomas and Laces BC (7-8).

🇯🇵 Geography trivia(Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images)

Tokyo, website of this week’s Dodgers-Cubs sequence, is the biggest metropolis on this planet by inhabitants, with an .

Query: What is the second largest metropolis on this planet by inhabitants?

Trace: South Asia.

Reply on the backside.

🏀 Fill out your bracket!(Yahoo Sports)

Yahoo Fantasy Bracket Mayhem is again! Begin a bracket and enter for an opportunity to win $25K in each the boys’s and girls’s tournaments. .

Trivia reply: Delhi, India (34.7 million folks)

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Yahoo Sports activities AM: Is Cosm the way forward for watching sports activities?

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🚨 Headlines

🏀 Flagg injures ankle: Duke throughout their win over Georgia Tech. Fortuitously for the Blue Devils, X-rays had been damaging, however the presumptive No. 1 choose . “It isn’t value it,” mentioned head coach Jon Scheyer.

🎾 Keys cannot lose: Madison Keys at Indian Wells for her sixteenth straight win, the second-longest streak this century by any girl over 30 (Serena Williams). Subsequent up: a semifinal assembly with No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, whom she beat within the Australian Open remaining.

🏀 Curry hits No. 4,000: Stephen Curry reached one other milestone within the Warriors’ blowout win over the Kings, turning into . In reality, just one different participant has hit even 3,000 threes (James Harden, 3,127).

🏀 Automated bid: Stephen F. Austin with a victory in Thursday’s lone convention title recreation (Southland).

👟 Grand Slam Observe: The for April’s inaugural Grand Slam Observe occasion in Jamaica embrace Paris 2024 gold medalists Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Quincy Corridor and Cole Hocker.

🍿 Cosm defined: A brand new strategy to watch sports activities

There’s nothing fairly like attending a sporting occasion in particular person, however watching on TV does usually present a greater view. What in case you may mix the most effective of each worlds? That is the promise of Cosm, an immersive leisure firm that hopes to convey “Shared Actuality” to the plenty.

The corporate: Cosm was based in 2020 and constructed by means of the acquisition of Evans & Sutherland, one of many world’s greatest planetarium firms, and LiveLike VR, which delivers immersive experiences to followers. In 2024, the corporate opened two venues in Los Angeles and Dallas and immediately went viral ().

The Cosm Los Angeles location is adjacent to SoFi Stadium. (Cosm)

The easiest way to explain Cosm? A smaller model of the Vegas Sphere — coming quickly to a metropolis close to you. Atlanta and Detroit areas have already been introduced, and the corporate (at a $1 billion valuation) with the objective of going world. “I totally anticipate to be abroad within the subsequent 2-3 years,” says President and CEO Jeb Terry, a former NFL participant.

“The planetarium was the primary immersive venue ever created, in our opinion. It takes you to house. So we had been capable of leverage loads of that spine and say, ‘Let’s take you to the sidelines. Let’s take you courtside.'”

“We are going to by no means substitute the in-stadium expertise. There’s nothing prefer it. However how will we ship one thing near that and provides followers an alternative choice when their groups are on the highway, or after they’re in L.A. they usually need the expertise of watching Liverpool at Anfield? That is the chance, and that is what we push to ship.”

— Jeb Terry, Cosm President and CEO

Earlier this month, Cosm and Fox Sports partnered to broadcast the Daytona 500 like never before. (Cosm)

What’s inside: Cosm’s important attraction is “The Dome,” an 87-foot, 12K decision dome show with three ranges of seating. The Cosm-produced broadcasts are designed particularly for the monstrous display screen, creating an expertise akin to sitting courtside. Every venue additionally has a sports activities bar-like space with wall-to-wall LED shows (“The Corridor”) and a rooftop terrace (“The Deck”).

“We name it ‘Shared Actuality’ — the convergence of all this immersive expertise with the vitality within the room, the collective of the followers, the high-fiving and cheering. Folks rise up for the nationwide anthem in Cosm. They do the wave. And that is actually what we’re providing.”

Manufacturing: One necessary factor to know is that Cosm is not merely taking the TV feed and displaying it on a large display screen. The corporate installs their very own immersive cameras on-site to seize the motion and produces the broadcasts themselves.

“It is sometimes a 4-6 digital camera arrange, and our objective is to remain out of the best way of the linear manufacturing. These are unmanned, loaf of bread-sized cameras, in order that’s how we’re capable of get them underneath the goalposts, underneath the basket and in these distinctive positions. You understand the pylon cameras you see throughout soccer video games on Saturdays and Sundays? That is us. We do loads of that work.”

UFC 303 at Cosm Los Angeles. (Cosm)

Programming: Sports activities is a giant a part of Cosm’s technique, and the corporate has partnerships with all the foremost leagues and broadcasters (together with CBS Sports activities and TNT Sports activities, ). However the Los Angeles and Dallas venues provide different kinds of content material, too.

“We take into consideration programming like a TV channel may, the place stay sports activities is that anchor, however you then fill in the remaining. Meaning leisure. Meaning music. We have now an unbelievable Cirque de Soleil program that places you on stage, underwater, on trapeze. We have now studios programming immersive, experiential artwork.”

Wanting forward: “The objective inside the subsequent 5 years is wherever we journey on the earth, followers have heard of Cosm,” says Terry. “I do not know the upward restrict of what number of venues we will have, however I do know there are specific markets the place we may have three or 4. So I do really feel like there is a lengthy runway right here, and that is our race proper now: get that scale. And we’re transferring as quick as we will.”

⛳️ Cosm in motion: Golf in “Shared Actuality”Cosm installed a camera rig in the water at TPC Sawgrass to deliver a never-before-seen view of one of golf's most famous holes. (Cosm)

Cosm partnered with the PGA Tour to current this week’s Gamers Championship in “Shared Actuality” at its two venues, the place attendees will get the complete TPC Sawgrass expertise from hundreds of miles away.

Golf on the large display screen: “The Dome” options distinctive digital camera positions on the sixteenth, seventeenth and 18th holes, together with a never-before-seen perspective of the long-lasting Island Inexperienced (due to the digital camera rig above). For these wanting hole-by-hole protection, stay feeds of each group are broadcast on the wall-to-wall LED shows in “The Corridor.”

To boost the expertise, Cosm has concession choices that mirror the refreshments at TPC Sawgrass, together with the occasion’s flagship cocktail, the “Sawgrass Splash.” The PGA Tour Superstore can also be on-site promoting The Gamers merchandise and attire.

Cosm has cell gaming stations at each venues the place attendees can play PGA Tour 2K25, and TGL’s Los Angeles Golf Membership on the L.A. location to provide followers the prospect to play the Island Inexperienced on No. 17 themselves.

What they’re saying: “A part of the thesis of what we do is transporting individuals to locations they in any other case could not get to and democratizing entry to occasions,” says Peter Murphy, Cosm’s SVP of Content material & Media. “Not everybody can recover from to Sawgrass, so we need to export that have to Dallas and L.A. and make attendees really feel like they’re in Florida watching golf.”

The Island Green on

Sunday ought to be epic: The final three holes at Sawgrass are among the many most well-known in golf, and Cosm can be delivering the ultimate spherical drama in a means that is by no means been seen earlier than. “I am unable to anticipate Sunday in The Dome,” says Tom Jeffs, the PGA Tour’s VP of Media Enterprise Growth.

“The excitement of electrical energy on these final three holes is de facto compelling, and the immersive broadcast and distinctive digital camera positions will solely add to the joy and worry as you watch gamers tackle the seventeenth gap with birdie on the road — but in addition triple-bogey in play,” says Jeffs.

“Whenever you’re in The Dome, it should really feel such as you’re on the inexperienced with Scottie Scheffler as he stands over a putt to take the lead. The size makes him appear like he is 6-foot-3, which is what he’s in actual life. And the mic system we’ve got plugged into the Cosm cameras will present a way of presence as you hear the nervous murmur of the group as guys debate what shot to hit.”

Pricing: In the event you wished to look at The Gamers immediately at Cosm Los Angeles, at the moment begin at $25 for Dome Reserved and $11 for Basic Admission, which will get you entry to standing room areas and first-come, first-served seating in The Corridor and on The Deck.

First of many? We’ll see how this weekend goes, but it surely definitely seems like this partnership may broaden far past The Gamers. “There’s loads of enthusiasm on either side to increase this to further occasions,” says Jeffs. “We’re exploring future golf tournaments,” added Murphy.

🏀 Which previous hoop stars would have earned essentially the most NIL cash?(Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports)

From Yahoo Sports activities’ Jeff Eisenberg:

With the NCAA event tipping off in lower than every week and the panorama of faculty athletics evolving so quickly, Yahoo Sports activities sought to deal with an intriguing query: Which previous males’s school basketball legends would have earned essentially the most cash within the fashionable NIL period?

To reply that, we requested eight consultants within the NIL house to rank their high candidates. The one guidelines had been to maintain it strictly to males’s basketball gamers from after the NCAA event expanded to 64 groups in 1985.

The highest 8:

Zion Williamson, Duke (2018-19)

The Fab 5, Michigan (1991-93)

Shaquille O’Neal, LSU (1989-92)

Christian Laettner, Duke (1988-92)

Anthony Davis, Kentucky (2011-12)

Joakim Noah, Florida (2004-07)

Stephen Curry, Davidson (2006-09)

Jimmer Fredette, BYU (2007-11)

📺 Watchlist: Choice Sunday(Giphy)

Get your brackets prepared. The ultimate and automated bids can be decided this weekend forward of Choice Sunday. The lads’s bracket can be revealed first (6pm ET, CBS), adopted by the ladies’s bracket (8pm, ESPN).

Extra to look at:

🏀 NBA: Lakers at Nuggets (Fri. 9:30pm, NBA); Knicks at Warriors (Sat. 8:30pm, ABC); Magic at Cavaliers (Solar. 1pm, ABC); Suns at Lakers (Solar. 3:30pm, ABC); Thunder at Bucks (Solar. 9pm, ESPN)

🏒 NHL: Stars at Jets (Fri. 8pm, NHL); Devils at Penguins (Sat. 3pm, ABC); Golden Knights at Pink Wings (Solar. 1pm, TNT); Stars at Avalanche (Solar. 3pm, TNT)

⛳️ PGA: The Gamers Championship (Fri-Solar, Golf/NBC) … Lucas Glover, Camilo Villegas and J.J. Spaun (-6) are after Spherical 1.

⚽️ NWSL: Orlando vs. Chicago (Fri. 8pm, Prime); Kansas Metropolis vs. Portland (Sat. 12:45pm, ABC); Angel Metropolis vs. San Diego (Solar. 6:50pm, ESPN2) … .

🏁 F1: Australian Grand Prix (Sat. 11:55pm, ESPN) … in Melbourne.

🎾 Tennis: Indian Wells (Fri-Solar, Tennis) … Girls’s semifinals immediately, males’s on Saturday and each finals on Sunday.

⚽️ EFL Cup: Liverpool vs. Newcastle (Solar. 12:30pm, Paramount+) … Remaining at Wembley.

🏉 Six Nations: Remaining Matchday (Sat. 10:15am-4pm, Peacock) … France, England and Eire .

🏀 Unequalled: Laces vs. Rose (Solar. 7:30pm, TNT); Vinyl vs. Lunar Owls (Solar. 8:30pm, TNT) … The winners will meet in Monday’s championship.

Plus… (Sat-Solar, Apple); (Solar. 3:30pm, FS1); (Fri-Solar, MLB/MLB.TV); (Sat-Solar, YouTube); (Fri-Solar, YouTube).

🏎️ Formulation 1 triviaThe 2025 F1 drivers pose for a photo. (Lydia Harper/Formula 1 via Getty Images)

Query: Who was the final driver not named Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton to win the Formulation 1 championship?

Trace: 2016, Mercedes.

Reply on the backside.

🏒 “It is simply enterprise, son”(Giphy)

Will MacKinnon was traded from the Utica Comets (Devils AHL affiliate) to the Cleveland Monsters (Blue Jackets AHL affiliate) on Thursday.

Why am I telling you a few minor league hockey commerce? As a result of , Dan, who’s the Comets common supervisor. And he was traded for future issues, which may finally imply that he was traded for nothing in return. Brutal!

Trivia reply: Nico Rosberg

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Yahoo Sports activities AM: Is Cosm the way forward for watching sports activities?

by Soccer-News
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is our day by day e-newsletter that retains you updated on all issues sports activities. to get it each weekday morning.

🚨 Headlines

🏀 Flagg injures ankle: Duke throughout their win over Georgia Tech. Luckily for the Blue Devils, X-rays had been unfavourable, however the presumptive No. 1 decide . “It isn’t price it,” mentioned head coach Jon Scheyer.

🎾 Keys cannot lose: Madison Keys at Indian Wells for her sixteenth straight win, the second-longest streak this century by any lady over 30 (Serena Williams). Subsequent up: a semifinal assembly with No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, whom she beat within the Australian Open last.

🏀 Curry hits No. 4,000: Stephen Curry reached one other milestone within the Warriors’ blowout win over the Kings, turning into . Actually, just one different participant has hit even 3,000 threes (James Harden, 3,127).

🏀 Automated bid: Stephen F. Austin with a victory in Thursday’s lone convention title recreation (Southland).

👟 Grand Slam Observe: The for April’s inaugural Grand Slam Observe occasion in Jamaica embody Paris 2024 gold medalists Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Quincy Corridor and Cole Hocker.

🍿 Cosm defined: A brand new technique to watch sports activities

There’s nothing fairly like attending a sporting occasion in individual, however watching on TV does usually present a greater view. What when you might mix the perfect of each worlds? That is the promise of Cosm, an immersive leisure firm that hopes to convey “Shared Actuality” to the plenty.

The corporate: Cosm was based in 2020 and constructed via the acquisition of Evans & Sutherland, one of many world’s largest planetarium corporations, and LiveLike VR, which delivers immersive experiences to followers. In 2024, the corporate opened two venues in Los Angeles and Dallas and immediately went viral ().

The Cosm Los Angeles location is adjacent to SoFi Stadium. (Cosm)

One of the simplest ways to explain Cosm? A smaller model of the Vegas Sphere — coming quickly to a metropolis close to you. Atlanta and Detroit places have already been introduced, and the corporate (at a $1 billion valuation) with the aim of going world. “I absolutely count on to be abroad within the subsequent 2-3 years,” says President and CEO Jeb Terry, a former NFL participant.

“The planetarium was the primary immersive venue ever created, in our opinion. It takes you to area. So we had been in a position to leverage lots of that spine and say, ‘Let’s take you to the sidelines. Let’s take you courtside.'”

“We are going to by no means substitute the in-stadium expertise. There’s nothing prefer it. However how will we ship one thing near that and provides followers an alternative choice when their groups are on the street, or once they’re in L.A. they usually need the expertise of watching Liverpool at Anfield? That is the chance, and that is what we push to ship.”

— Jeb Terry, Cosm President and CEO

Earlier this month, Cosm and Fox Sports partnered to broadcast the Daytona 500 like never before. (Cosm)

What’s inside: Cosm’s principal attraction is “The Dome,” an 87-foot, 12K decision dome show with three ranges of seating. The Cosm-produced broadcasts are designed particularly for the monstrous display, creating an expertise akin to sitting courtside. Every venue additionally has a sports activities bar-like space with wall-to-wall LED shows (“The Corridor”) and a rooftop terrace (“The Deck”).

“We name it ‘Shared Actuality’ — the convergence of all this immersive know-how with the vitality within the room, the collective of the followers, the high-fiving and cheering. Folks get up for the nationwide anthem in Cosm. They do the wave. And that is actually what we’re providing.”

Manufacturing: One essential factor to know is that Cosm is not merely taking the TV feed and displaying it on an enormous display. The corporate installs their very own immersive cameras on-site to seize the motion and produces the broadcasts themselves.

“It is usually a 4-6 digicam arrange, and our aim is to remain out of the way in which of the linear manufacturing. These are unmanned, loaf of bread-sized cameras, in order that’s how we’re in a position to get them underneath the goalposts, underneath the basket and in these distinctive positions. the pylon cameras you see throughout soccer video games on Saturdays and Sundays? That is us. We do lots of that work.”

UFC 303 at Cosm Los Angeles. (Cosm)

Programming: Sports activities is a giant a part of Cosm’s technique, and the corporate has partnerships with all the main leagues and broadcasters (together with CBS Sports activities and TNT Sports activities, ). However the Los Angeles and Dallas venues provide different kinds of content material, too.

“We take into consideration programming like a TV channel would possibly, the place dwell sports activities is that anchor, however then you definately fill in the remaining. Meaning leisure. Meaning music. We now have an unbelievable Cirque de Soleil program that places you on stage, underwater, on trapeze. We now have studios programming immersive, experiential artwork.”

Trying forward: “The aim inside the subsequent 5 years is wherever we journey on the earth, followers have heard of Cosm,” says Terry. “I do not know the upward restrict of what number of venues we will have, however I do know there are specific markets the place we might have three or 4. So I do really feel like there is a lengthy runway right here, and that is our race proper now: get that scale. And we’re transferring as quick as we will.”

⛳️ Cosm in motion: Golf in “Shared Actuality”Cosm installed a camera rig in the water at TPC Sawgrass to deliver a never-before-seen view of one of golf's most famous holes. (Cosm)

Cosm partnered with the PGA Tour to current this week’s Gamers Championship in “Shared Actuality” at its two venues, the place attendees will get the complete TPC Sawgrass expertise from hundreds of miles away.

Golf on the large display: “The Dome” options distinctive digicam positions on the sixteenth, seventeenth and 18th holes, together with a never-before-seen perspective of the long-lasting Island Inexperienced (because of the digicam rig above). For these wanting hole-by-hole protection, dwell feeds of each group are broadcast on the wall-to-wall LED shows in “The Corridor.”

To reinforce the expertise, Cosm has concession choices that mirror the refreshments at TPC Sawgrass, together with the occasion’s flagship cocktail, the “Sawgrass Splash.” The PGA Tour Superstore can be on-site promoting The Gamers merchandise and attire.

Cosm has cellular gaming stations at each venues the place attendees can play PGA Tour 2K25, and TGL’s Los Angeles Golf Membership on the L.A. location to offer followers the possibility to play the Island Inexperienced on No. 17 themselves.

What they’re saying: “A part of the thesis of what we do is transporting folks to locations they in any other case could not get to and democratizing entry to occasions,” says Peter Murphy, Cosm’s SVP of Content material & Media. “Not everybody can recover from to Sawgrass, so we wish to export that have to Dallas and L.A. and make attendees really feel like they’re in Florida watching golf.”

The Island Green on

Sunday ought to be epic: The final three holes at Sawgrass are among the many most well-known in golf, and Cosm shall be delivering the ultimate spherical drama in a means that is by no means been seen earlier than. “I can not look ahead to Sunday in The Dome,” says Tom Jeffs, the PGA Tour’s VP of Media Enterprise Growth.

“The thrill of electrical energy on these final three holes is absolutely compelling, and the immersive broadcast and distinctive digicam positions will solely add to the thrill and concern as you watch gamers tackle the seventeenth gap with birdie on the road — but additionally triple-bogey in play,” says Jeffs.

“Whenever you’re in The Dome, it should really feel such as you’re on the inexperienced with Scottie Scheffler as he stands over a putt to take the lead. The dimensions makes him seem like he is 6-foot-3, which is what he’s in actual life. And the mic system we have now plugged into the Cosm cameras will present a way of presence as you hear the nervous murmur of the group as guys debate what shot to hit.”

Pricing: In case you wished to look at The Gamers right now at Cosm Los Angeles, at present begin at $25 for Dome Reserved and $11 for Basic Admission, which will get you entry to standing room areas and first-come, first-served seating in The Corridor and on The Deck.

First of many? We’ll see how this weekend goes, but it surely definitely feels like this partnership might increase far past The Gamers. “There’s lots of enthusiasm on either side to increase this to further occasions,” says Jeffs. “We’re exploring future golf tournaments,” added Murphy.

🏀 Which previous hoop stars would have earned essentially the most NIL cash?(Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports)

From Yahoo Sports activities’ Jeff Eisenberg:

With the NCAA match tipping off in lower than per week and the panorama of faculty athletics evolving so quickly, Yahoo Sports activities sought to deal with an intriguing query: Which previous males’s school basketball legends would have earned essentially the most cash within the fashionable NIL period?

To reply that, we requested eight specialists within the NIL area to rank their prime candidates. The one guidelines had been to maintain it strictly to males’s basketball gamers from after the NCAA match expanded to 64 groups in 1985.

The highest 8:

Zion Williamson, Duke (2018-19)

The Fab 5, Michigan (1991-93)

Shaquille O’Neal, LSU (1989-92)

Christian Laettner, Duke (1988-92)

Anthony Davis, Kentucky (2011-12)

Joakim Noah, Florida (2004-07)

Stephen Curry, Davidson (2006-09)

Jimmer Fredette, BYU (2007-11)

📺 Watchlist: Choice Sunday(Giphy)

Get your brackets prepared. The ultimate and automated bids shall be decided this weekend forward of Choice Sunday. The lads’s bracket shall be revealed first (6pm ET, CBS), adopted by the ladies’s bracket (8pm, ESPN).

Extra to look at:

🏀 NBA: Lakers at Nuggets (Fri. 9:30pm, NBA); Knicks at Warriors (Sat. 8:30pm, ABC); Magic at Cavaliers (Solar. 1pm, ABC); Suns at Lakers (Solar. 3:30pm, ABC); Thunder at Bucks (Solar. 9pm, ESPN)

🏒 NHL: Stars at Jets (Fri. 8pm, NHL); Devils at Penguins (Sat. 3pm, ABC); Golden Knights at Purple Wings (Solar. 1pm, TNT); Stars at Avalanche (Solar. 3pm, TNT)

⛳️ PGA: The Gamers Championship (Fri-Solar, Golf/NBC) … Lucas Glover, Camilo Villegas and J.J. Spaun (-6) are after Spherical 1.

⚽️ NWSL: Orlando vs. Chicago (Fri. 8pm, Prime); Kansas Metropolis vs. Portland (Sat. 12:45pm, ABC); Angel Metropolis vs. San Diego (Solar. 6:50pm, ESPN2) … .

🏁 F1: Australian Grand Prix (Sat. 11:55pm, ESPN) … in Melbourne.

🎾 Tennis: Indian Wells (Fri-Solar, Tennis) … Ladies’s semifinals right now, males’s on Saturday and each finals on Sunday.

⚽️ EFL Cup: Liverpool vs. Newcastle (Solar. 12:30pm, Paramount+) … Closing at Wembley.

🏉 Six Nations: Closing Matchday (Sat. 10:15am-4pm, Peacock) … France, England and Eire .

🏀 Unmatched: Laces vs. Rose (Solar. 7:30pm, TNT); Vinyl vs. Lunar Owls (Solar. 8:30pm, TNT) … The winners will meet in Monday’s championship.

Plus… (Sat-Solar, Apple); (Solar. 3:30pm, FS1); (Fri-Solar, MLB/MLB.TV); (Sat-Solar, YouTube); (Fri-Solar, YouTube).

🏎️ Method 1 triviaThe 2025 F1 drivers pose for a photo. (Lydia Harper/Formula 1 via Getty Images)

Query: Who was the final driver not named Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton to win the Method 1 championship?

Trace: 2016, Mercedes.

Reply on the backside.

🏒 “It is simply enterprise, son”(Giphy)

Will MacKinnon was traded from the Utica Comets (Devils AHL affiliate) to the Cleveland Monsters (Blue Jackets AHL affiliate) on Thursday.

Why am I telling you a few minor league hockey commerce? As a result of , Dan, who’s the Comets basic supervisor. And he was traded for future concerns, which might finally imply that he was traded for nothing in return. Brutal!

Trivia reply: Nico Rosberg

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Yahoo Sports activities AM: Is Pitino the GOAT?

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🏀 Automated bids: McNeese, American and Montana , whereas Montana State, USF and San Diego State .

⚽️ The ultimate eight: The Champions League quarterfinals are set, with Actual Madrid (), Dortmund, Arsenal and Aston Villa advancing to affix Barcelona, PSG, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.

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⚾️ Historic energy surge: Kansas hit an NCAA record-tying within the third inning en path to a 29-1 shellacking over the identical Minnesota workforce that beat them in the future earlier. Go determine.

🏀 Thunder 118, Celtics 112: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (34-5-7) and Chet Holmgren (23-15) led OKC previous Jayson Tatum (33-8-8) and Boston .

🏈 NFL offseason: DeMarcus Lawrence , Evan Engram , the Rams , the Falcons and the Steelers . See all the most recent strikes .

🏀 Is Rick Pitino the perfect school hoops coach ever?

The man can coach. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Photos)

Simply asking:

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From Yahoo Sports activities’ Dan Wetzel:

Pitino isn’t talked about in such a debate partly as a result of his 758 profession victories, his .712 profitable proportion and even his two NCAA titles (one among which the NCAA “vacated” because of sanctions) fall far in need of different contenders.

Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski gained 1,202 video games with a .766 profitable proportion at Duke and Military, whereas taking house 5 nationwide titles. John Picket gained 10 nationwide championships at UCLA. Bob Knight gained 902 video games and three titles at Indiana regardless of teaching just one participant who would ever turn into a NBA All-Star (Isiah Thomas).

In the meantime, Adolph Rupp gained 82.2% of his video games at Kentucky, and in a extra trendy period, Roy Williams was victorious 77.4% of the time at North Carolina and Kansas. There are others.

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As such, Pitino hardly ever finds his identify among the many best of the greats. He wasn’t a school lifer although, entrenched for many years at a single program.

A part of this was his NBA dalliances (eight seasons with the Celtics and Knicks). And a part of it was because of the varied scandals that appeared to crop up throughout the a long time, leaving him to be seen with warning by some colleges.

That meant both re-climbing the teaching ladder and even bouncing him out of the faculty recreation (from 2018-2020, for instance, he coached within the Greek Skilled League and gained two titles).

But the place constant longevity is costing him in sheer numbers, the job-hopping and rebuilds he continually produces affords a special résumé level. The man can coach anybody, anyplace, at any time.

Pitino has restored St. John's to local and national prominence. (Porter Binks/Getty Images).

Pitino has restored St. John’s to native and nationwide prominence. (Porter Binks/Getty Photos).

The 72-year-old is in his second season with St. John’s. He took over a storied however middling program and is about to cause them to the NCAA event for the primary time since 2019. The Johnnie’s are 27-4 and gained the Massive East common season title … by three video games.

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This would be the sixth totally different faculty Pitino has led to the NCAA event — essentially the most of any coach — becoming a member of Boston College (1983), Windfall (1987), Kentucky (1991), Louisville (2003) and Iona (2021).

It took 5 seasons as a younger coach at BU, however aside from that every program he has led made it inside two years of being eligible for March Insanity.

And whereas among the colleges have had historic success and nice sources, none had been in fine condition when he arrived. Within the season prior, the packages went a mixed 76-105 (.419). Kentucky was even saddled with crippling sanctions, together with a two-year postseason ban.

He is been modern — his embrace of the 3-point shot with Windfall, the place guard Billy Donovan would drive and kick out, was a long time forward of its time. He is been relentless — his groups all the time play full-throttle protection, typically with a full-court press.

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He’s been resilient — he coached in an period the place the NCAA as soon as charged him as an assistant at Hawaii with giving gamers coupons without cost meals at McDonalds to at present’s open market switch portal the place gamers might purchase their very own restaurant. None of it mattered. Has whistle; will win. All the time.

Now he heads to the Massive East Event once more, seeking to win the league once more, in the identical Madison Sq. Backyard the place after a highschool recreation in 1970 he signed on the scorer’s desk his scholarship papers with the College of Massachusetts.

Backside line: Pitino’s numbers and accomplishments might by no means register up there with the opposite greats of the faculty recreation. However when you wanted somebody to take over a listless program, who else are you calling?

🇺🇸 Pictures throughout America(Cameron Browne/NBAE via Getty Images)

(Cameron Browne/NBAE through Getty Photos)

Portland — Mikal Bridges’ lifted the Knicks to a 114-113 victory over the Path Blazers — and earned the tenth “” ever from Mike Breen.

(Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

(Steph Chambers/Getty Photos)

Seattle — Brandon Mountour scored , discovering the again of the web simply 4 seconds into the additional interval to finish the Kraken’s 5-4 comeback win over the Canadiens.

(Robert Prange/Getty Images)

(Robert Prange/Getty Photos)

Indian Wells, California — Wild card Belinda Bencic, who returned from maternity go away simply 5 months in the past after the beginning of her first baby, to succeed in the quarterfinals on the “Fifth Grand Slam.”

(Kenneth Richmond/Getty Images)

(Kenneth Richmond/Getty Photos)

Houston — Mason Plumlee and Steven Adams had been each ejected from the Rockets’ 111-104 win over the Suns after the 2 giants throughout a scuffle.

📸 Behind the lens(Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

(Hannah Peters/Getty Photos)

Caption: Tim Bringer of France competes within the Slopestyle closing throughout the first cease on the — the Tremendous Bowl of mountain biking.

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Location: Rotorua, New Zealand

Behind the lens: This is photographer Hannah Peters on how she lined up this shot…

I checked the climate report the evening earlier than and the dawn was proper across the time of this occasion. I knew I wanted to get there early if I had been to benefit from it.

There have been only some athletes that had been getting excessive sufficient on the leap to line up completely with the solar. I used to be perched on the facet of a hill, adjusting myself in between every rider to attempt to get the proper angle.

I used to be continually trying on the place of the sunshine, altering my publicity to create the silhouette and adapting my aperture to emphasise the rays from the solar.

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Then it got here all the way down to a little bit of luck and timing — I wanted the appropriate athlete doing the appropriate trick on the proper time, all whereas flying by the form of the solar.

Digicam/approach: Nikon Z9 digicam physique. Nikon Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S lens. Publicity 1/3200 sec; f22; ISO 640.

⚽️ NWSL season preview(Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports)

(Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports activities)

The thirteenth NWSL season kicks off on Friday, and it ought to start very like the final one ended: with 12 groups chasing Orlando and Washington.

The favorites: The Delight and Spirit each set the league report with 18 wins final season earlier than assembly within the championship recreation, the place Orlando gained its maiden title. There is not any good motive why they cannot run it again once more.

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Orlando misplaced simply twice final yr, a after 5 straight sub-.500 seasons, and the Delight’s core — led by Brazilian legend Marta and Zambian star Barbra Banda — stays intact.

Others to look at: Final yr’s third, fourth and fifth-place finishers headline our subsequent three most fascinating groups to look at.

The Kansas Metropolis Present had been each bit as harmful because the frontrunners final yr, led by newcomer Temwa Chaŵinga, who scored a league-record 21 targets en path to profitable MVP. Now in Yr 5, the 2022 runners-up search their first title.

Gotham FC are laborious to pin down. The 2023 champs completed simply 4 factors behind Orlando final yr, however then noticed half a dozen key contributors go away within the offseason. Nonetheless, they’ve retooled with plenty of shrewd signings and would possibly shock some individuals.

Talking of laborious to pin down, the North Carolina Braveness have not made it out of the primary spherical since profitable two straight titles in 2018-19. However they took a transparent step ahead final yr and traded for rising USWNT star Jaedyn Shaw this offseason to assist lead their assault.

Go deeper: (Yahoo Sports activities)

📺 Watchlist: The Gamers tees offThe island green awaits. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

The island inexperienced awaits. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Photos)

Golf’s most prestigious non-major begins at present at TPC Sawgrass (7:30am ET, ESPN+; 1pm, Golf), the place 144 golfers will compete for the most important purse on the PGA Tour ($25 million).

The tremendous group: World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (two-time defending champion), No. 2 Rory McIlroy (2019 champion) and No. 3 Xander Schauffele tee off at 1:29pm. .

Extra to look at:

⚾️ Spring Breakout: Purple Sox at Rays (7pm, MLB); Cubs at Dodgers (9pm, MLB.TV) … Yr 2 of MLB’s showcase will get underway.*

🏀 NBA: Lakers at Bucks (7:30pm, TNT); Kings at Warriors (10pm, TNT) … Stephen Curry is 2 3-pointers shy of 4,000. Second place has 3,127 (James Harden).

🏀 NCAAW: Stephen F. Austin at Southeastern Louisiana (5pm, ESPNU) … Southland title recreation.

🏒 NHL: Panthers at Maple Leafs (7pm, ESPN+); Golden Knights at Blue Jackets (7pm, ESPN+); Oilers at Devils (7:30pm, Disney+); Capitals at Kings (10:30pm, ESPN) … All of those groups can be within the playoffs if the season ended at present.

🎾 Tennis: Indian Wells quarterfinals (2pm, Tennis) … No. 11 Ben Shelton vs. No. 13 Jack Draper (8pm) and No. 2 Iga Świątek vs. No. 8 Qinwen Zheng (2pm) headline at present’s slate.

⚽️ Champions Cup: Cavalier (0-2) vs. Inter Miami (8pm, FS2) … Lionel Messi takes the sector with a spot within the quarterfinals on the road.

⛳️ LIV: Singapore (9pm, Fox Sports activities app) … At Sentosa Golf Membership.

🏀 Time beyond regulation Elite: YNG Dreamerz (1-1) vs. Metropolis Reapers (7pm, YouTube) … Recreation 3 within the best-of-five finals.

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*The way it works: Every group has compiled an “All-Star workforce” that includes their minor league prospects, who will play . 18 of 30 groups are sending their No. 1 prospect, and are taking part.

⚽️ Champions League trivia(Burak Akbulut/Anadolu via Getty Images)

(Burak Akbulut/Anadolu through Getty Photos)

Actual Madrid, again within the quarterfinals as soon as once more, has gained 5 of the final 9 Champions League titles.

Query: Which golf equipment gained the opposite 4?

Trace: Three from England, one from Germany.

Reply on the backside.

⚾️ It is time to draft your workforce(Yahoo Sports)

(Yahoo Sports activities)

The 2025 MLB season is simply across the nook, which implies two issues:

Ballpark scorching canine are again

And so is Fantasy Baseball!

Yahoo Fantasy: . Wish to draft straight away? Skip the scheduling by .

Trivia reply: Liverpool (2019), Bayern Munich (2020), Chelsea (2021), Manchester Metropolis (2023)

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Yahoo Sports activities AM: The Nice Barrier Thief

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🏀 50 for 50: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander notched his (51 factors) to get the Thunder to 50 wins (50-11). SGA is averaging 32.6 factors per sport, almost two greater than some other participant.

🏁 Historic debut: Katherine Legge will drive in Sunday’s Shriners Youngsters’s 500 in Phoenix, making her the since Danica Patrick in 2018.

🏒 Florida loses Tkachuk: Panthers ahead Matthew Tkachuk will with a groin harm that he sustained whereas enjoying for Crew USA within the 4 Nations Face-Off. The reigning champs hope to get him again for the playoffs.

🏀 39 years later: No. 2 USC has its , which is the final time the Trojans made it to the NCAA title sport. Coincidentally, they misplaced that sport to Texas, who’s at the moment ranked No. 1.

🏈 Johnson calls it quits: Corridor of Fame coach and longtime NFL analyst Jimmy Johnson is . “Essentially the most enjoyable I’ve ever had in my profession was at Fox Sports activities,” stated the 81-year-old, who has been with Fox since its debut NFL season in 1994.

🏀 “The Nice Barrier Thief” strikes once more

Amid the NBA’s offensive explosion, a 21-year-old from Australia is placing on a defensive clinic because the league’s premier pickpocket.

His newest show: Hawks guard Dyson Daniels supplied the signature second of his DPOY-worthy marketing campaign on Monday night time in Memphis, then passing it up the court docket to elevate Atlanta to a wild 132-130 win on the buzzer.

(Giphy)

By the numbers: Daniels (aka. “The Nice Barrier Thief”) is averaging 3.0 steals per sport this season, which is 1.2 greater than second place and places him on tempo to turn out to be simply the eighth participant to common three thefts since steals have been first recorded in 1973 — and the primary in 31 years.

Take into account this: Daniels is averaging 67% extra steals than anybody else. If a participant was averaging 67% extra factors than anybody else, they’d be scoring 54.4 factors per sport.

And it isn’t simply steals: Daniels ranks third amongst guards in blocks per sport (0.8) and he is logged an obscene 333 deflections in 56 video games, which is 105 extra (!!!) than some other participant. The dude is an absolute menace.

The artwork of the steal: Daniels, whom the Pelicans traded to the Hawks this offseason after taking him with the No. 8 decide within the 2022 draft, makes the theme from “Jaws” run by means of ball-handlers’ heads as he prowls the perimeter, .

It not often appears like Daniels is freelancing his manner out of place, and but, every time the ball’s in play, he simply apparates. Inbounds passes aren’t protected. Entry passes to the put up and elbow aren’t protected. Skips to the nook aren’t protected.

Crossovers aren’t protected, irrespective of how tight your deal with is. Energy dribbles within the paint aren’t protected, irrespective of how robust your fingers are. Turning your again to him as you attempt to mouse-in-the-house his teammate on the block? Undoubtedly not protected.

Even dribble handoffs aren’t protected. Daniels will blow these up, staying related to the ball-handler as he curls across the display and forcing his strategy to the ball like a blitzing linebacker. He even talks about it like a soccer participant: “For me, , it is ‘See ball, get ball.'”

And should you suppose you have blocked it up, been in a position to bump him off the play, flip the nook and get downhill to the basket? Assume once more: Daniels, nonetheless in pursuit like a heat-seeking horror film villain, will shut the sport along with his 6-foot-10.5-inch wingspan and poke the ball out from behind.

Backside line: Stephen Curry is the best shooter to ever reside. LeBron James is arguably the very best all-around participant. Might we even be watching the very best thief? It is nonetheless manner too early to anoint Daniels, however his breakout marketing campaign has the hoops world buzzing.

⚽️ 16 contenders: Who shall be topped Kings of Europe?(Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports)

The Champions League knockout stage kicks off right now with matches throughout Europe.

The contenders: The league part started with 36 golf equipment from 16 completely different nations. That is been whittled all the way down to 16 golf equipment from eight completely different nations, spanning from England within the north to Spain within the south and from Portugal within the west to Germany within the east.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England (3): Arsenal, Aston Villa, Liverpool

🇪🇸 Spain (3): Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Actual Madrid

🇩🇪 Germany (3): Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund

🇫🇷 France (2): Lille, Paris Saint-Germain

🇳🇱 Netherlands (2): Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven

🇮🇹 Italy: Inter Milan

🇵🇹 Portugal: Benfica

🇧🇪 Belgium: Membership Brugge

The favorites: Barcelona (+170 at BetMGM) has the very best odds to succeed in the ultimate, adopted by Actual Madrid (+200), Liverpool (+250), Bayern (+275), Arsenal (+275), Inter (+450), PSG (+600), Atlético (+900) and Leverkusen (+1000). Unsurprisingly, eight of these golf equipment are , with Leverkusen being the one exception.

🇺🇸 America in photographs(Ben McKeown/AP Photo)

Durham, N.C. — Cooper Flagg (28 factors, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks, 2 steals) in what was nearly definitely his last sport at Cameroon Indoor. Duke blew out Wake Forest to clinch a minimum of a share of the ACC regular-season title.

(Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Washington, D.C. — Preventing is not a nightly prevalence within the NHL, however we bought a heavyweight bout on Monday when Senators winger Brady Tkachuk (6’4″, 225 lbs) and Capitals defenseman Tom Wilson (6’4″, 220 lbs) .

(Sam Hodde/Getty Images)

Dallas — Kyrie Irving within the Mavericks’ loss to the Kings. He stayed within the sport to shoot free throws earlier than leaving the ground in apparent ache. “We’re working out of our bodies,” stated head coach Jason Kidd, whose injury-riddled crew can unwell afford to lose their star level guard.

(Megan Briggs/TGL via Getty Images)

Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida — Los Angeles Golf Membership (Colin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, Sahith Theegala) stormed again to beat The Bay Golf Membership (Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee) to .

🏀 NBA payrolls: Suns flailing, Pistons thriving(Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports)

Payroll is not at all times indicative of success, and no NBA groups illustrate that higher than the Suns and Pistons.

The place it stands: Phoenix has the NBA’s highest payroll () and finds itself 4 video games out of a play-in spot after shedding 11 of its final 14 video games. Detroit has the bottom payroll ($141.8 million) and sits a half-game out of fourth place after profitable 10 of its final 11.

Wild stat: Detroit’s total roster will make much less cash this season ($141.8 million) than the Suns’ huge three of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal ($149.3 million).

📺 Watchlist: NBA doubleheader(Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)

Tonight’s NBA doubleheader begins in New York with Warriors at Knicks (7:30pm ET, TNT) earlier than heading to Phoenix for Clippers at Suns (10pm, TNT).

New York renaissance: The Knicks have gained 40 video games in three straight seasons for the primary time since doing so in seven straight seasons from 1992-98.

Extra to look at:

🏀 NCAAM: No. 1 Auburn at No. 22 Texas A&M (9pm, ESPN); No. 23 BYU at No. 10 Iowa State (9pm, ESPN2) … Closing week of the common season.

⚽️ Champions League: Spherical of 16 (12:45-3pm, Paramount+) … Actual Madrid vs. Atlético Madrid (3pm) is the headliner.

⚽️ Champions Cup: LAFC vs. Columbus Crew (10:30pm, FS2) … Two of the seven MLS golf equipment that made it to the Spherical of 16.

⛳️ TGL: Atlanta vs. Jupiter Hyperlinks (7pm, ESPN) … Common-season finale.

⚾️ Spring coaching: Mets at Cardinals (1pm, ESPN) … 23 days till Opening Day!*

*MLB countdown: Technically, the common season begins in simply 14 days, with the Dodgers and Cubs enjoying a two-game set in Tokyo on March 18-19. However conventional Opening Day is ready for Thursday, March 27, .

🏈 Coach triviaJohnson takes a bath after winning Super Bowl XXVIII. (Jim Gund/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

Jimmy Johnson, who’s retiring from Fox after 31 years, is one among three head coaches to win each a Tremendous Bowl (two with Dallas) and a university soccer nationwide title (one with Miami).

Query: Are you able to title the opposite two?

Trace: One continues to be lively.

Reply on the backside.

📸 Photograph end(Al Bello/Getty Images)

Gary Antuanne Russell might have misplaced the battle on this punch, however the Maryland native gained the struggle, defeating Jose Valenzuela by unanimous choice on Saturday night time in Brooklyn to turn out to be the .

Trivia reply: Barry Switzer (Cowboys and Oklahoma) and Pete Carroll (Seahawks and USC)

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