Weathering The Storm
Barstool Sports is stepping up for women’s golf, arrests in a sports star’s death and how the Bills are setting the hiring standards.
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The Last Night’s Game Team
Golf
The PGA (Professional Golfers Association) Championship tournament is the talk of the weekend. It’s the second major tournament of the PGA season. While the tournament is a big deal, what’s an even bigger deal is what Barstool Sports Is doing for the college women golfers. After the NCAA cancelled their championship tournament seemingly without any valid reason, Barstool Sports stepped in to put together a championship tournament in a week. The “Let them play” tournament featuring 10 teams vying for the championship began yesterday in Phoenix, AZ. BOLD MOVES
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This is the craziest story that we couldn’t make up if we tried. In November, the world mourned when the international superstar and Argentinean soccer legend Diego Maradona, 60, died following brain surgery. This week his team of medical professionals was charged with homicide in his death. The medical board found that his medical team acted in an "inappropriate, deficient and reckless manner." OY VEY
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The Buffalo Bills (NFL - National Football League) are pushing through the glass ceiling. The team hired a new offensive assistant Sophia Lewin. They recently hired Andrea Gosper, Mechelle Geeter and Nikki Donoff, all in football operations positions. The team is co-led by co-owner Kim Pegula. BETTER TOGETHER
Coaches’ corner
Who doesn’t have travel envy after the last year and a half? Well, the F1 (Formula One) race in Monaco is going to make that worst. Forget the race; the scenery steals the show at this race with beautiful architecture and more yachts than you can count lining the race track. Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time World Champion, and Max Verstappen, the 23-year-old with a racing pedigree, are the two to watch In the race while you dream of a European vacation. WHY YACHT?
Making It Happen
This is no early April Fool’s prank; here’s what’s happening in sports so you can create conversation all weekend long.
This is no early April Fool’s prank; here’s what’s happening in sports so you can create conversation all weekend long.
Like a boss,
The Last Night’s Game Team
MLB (Major League Baseball)
If your Thursday was a home run. By all accounts, Opening Day in baseball was a success. It started with a home run on the first pitch of the season and ended with a visit from Jennifer Lopez in the broadcast booth, where her former baseball player boyfriend, Alex Rodriguez, was broadcasting the Los Angeles Dodgers – San Francisco Giants game.
College Basketball
If your mama taught you to respect your elders. The final four is Saturday night and it features Villanova (#1) vs. Kansas (#1) and Loyola Chicago (#11) vs. Michigan (#3). The teams may have met their match but so has Sister Jean. The 98-year-old nun and chaplain for Loyola has been challenged by Michigan’s “Fab Five” legend and former NBA (National Basketball Association) player Jalen Rose’s grandma. The 100-year-old Grandma Rose loves her some Michigan basketball and told Sister that “it’s been fun but Loyola’s time is up.” A little shade thrown from her elders.
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The Los Angeles Rams (NFL – National Football League) have made a lot of noise in the offseason with on-field acquisitions but this one made history. The Rams hosted cheerleading tryouts this week and their new squad will feature the first two male cheerleaders ever in the NFL. You’ll see Quinton and Napoleon, both professional dancers, on the sideline this the fall. (Other teams have stuntmen, but not actual male cheerleaders/dancers).
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The NCAA (governing body of college sports) allocates $3,000 - $4,000 for players’ families to attend the final four and the national championship game. The money is for travel costs, hotel rooms and meals. The funds allow Kansas player Udoka Azubuike’s mom to see her son play for the first time. Her visa was approved for travel from Nigeria. Also on Kansas, Svi Mykhailiuk, whose parents travelled from the Ukraine to see him play on Saturday. MORE
Coaches’ corner
Zeke Upshaw of the Detroit Pistons G League developmental league collapsed on the court on Saturday and later died. Last night, the Detroit Pistons honored Upshaw posthumously with an honorary call-up. Being called up means he’ll officially be memorialized in the record books as a player for the Detroit Pistons.
What to watch
March Madness continues tonight with the final four in the women’s bracket. Unlike the men’s bracket, all final four teams started off the tournament ranked #1 in their division – UConn, Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State.
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The Talk Of The Town
It’s undoubtedly the talk of the town and we’re not talking about the latest celebrity gossip.
It’s undoubtedly the talk of the town and we’re not talking about the latest celebrity gossip.
Let the bracket bonanza begin,
The Last Night’s Game Team
College Basketball
When nothing is as good as the original. The big Selection Sunday show that announced which men’s teams made it into the March Madness tournament took a different turn this year. The network announced all of the teams in the first 15 mins in alphabetical order instead of the previous format where the teams and their rankings were slowly announced throughout the show. Fans were not happy, including the Lawrence, Kansas Police Department that tweeted, “Please do not call 911 to complain about the format of the NCAA tournament selection show. We can’t do anything about it, no matter how bad it is.”
PS- The women’s bracket will be announced tonight.
When you have nothing to lose. Over 70 million people filled out brackets for last year’s tournament, so why not join in on the fun? Play in our bracket challenge for a chance to win prizes (there are even prizes for last place). Questions are encouraged and novices are welcome. No pressure - pick by team color, mascot or use the random button and let the computer pick for you. Expect lots of upsets, which means your guess is as good as anyone’s. Here’s the bracket link. (password: sportscurious)
Have more questions? Check out our March Madness 101 or send us a note.
Overtime
When you have a Bridesmaids moment in the middle of a soccer game. Captain of both Real Madrid and the Spanish national team, Sergio Ramos, ran off the field in haste during his team’s win yesterday. When asked about Ramos’ immediate departure in a postgame press conference, his manager so delicately answered “He sh-- himself.” Well that's a crappy excuse.
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Tiger Woods is back, finishing in second place in the Valspar Open this weekend. He may be looking a little older but he’s playing like a young Woods and the PGA (Professional Golfers Association) is loving it as their ratings and fan engagement soar.
Coaches’ corner
The March Madness tournament starts tomorrow with the two play-in games. What is a play-in game? They are two pre-tournament games where four teams that almost made it to the tournement play and the winners get into the actual tournament. The games for all other teams start on Thursday.
What to watch
Serena Williams continues her comeback, facing her sister Venus in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, CA today.