Baseball: Last week of Spring Training. World Classic final.
Basketball-NBA: Ja back this week. Ball 3rd knee surgery. MJ selling CLT?
Basketball-NCAA: No perfect brackets left. Only 800 after just Day 1. Only 2 top 2 seeds left.
Football- NFL: Magic Johnson interested in Washington. Blockbuster changes with some big names.
Golf: LIV Tucson event and Valspar.
Olympic Sports: World Cup finale. Shiffrin wins over $1MM. NCAA W Gym FL Trinity so close to Perfect 10 record. Saunders banned. Iditarod legends.
Baseball:
- Spring training is wrapping up and opening day is next week (Thurs March 30th)!
- Team USA is in the final of the World Baseball Classic. USA put on a clinic against Cuba on Sunday winning 14-2 to go into the final to play the winner of tonight’s game (JPN and MEX). JPN and USA are no stranger to the final in this classic but Mexico is a first time final 4 team.
Basketball – NBA:
- Grizzlies Ja Morant suspended 8 games for detrimental behavior to the team. The team is hopeful he can rejoin the team on Wednesday vs Rockets.
- Bulls Lonzo Ball in for a 3rd knee surgery on Monday. He has undergone cartilage transplant surgery on his left knee. This should give him the best chance to play in the NBA moving forward.
- Michael Jordan is looking to sell his majority stake in the CLT Hornets. He paid $275MM for the stake in 2010. This sale would end his 13 year run as owner.
Basketball-NCAA:
- Well March Madness certainly lived up to its name. I know I personally went 0-3 to start. The first huge upset was #4 UVA losing to #13 Furman on a last minute steal. Furman hasn’t been to the tournament in 43 years and they upset UVA in round 1. That was not the biggest upset of day 1 though. #15 Princeton beat #2 Arizona for only the 11th time in history (2v15 matchup) but the 3rd year straight. Princeton hadn’t won a game since 1998. Late night day 1, 10 Penn St upset 7 Texas A&M. Fewer than 800 perfect brackets were left.
- After Day 2 there would be 0, mainly thanks to #16 Fairleigh Davidson beating #1 Purdue. That was only the second time ever a 16 seed took down a 1. 3rd ever to make Sweet 16. #8 Memphis lost to #9 FAU. So after round 1, we had no perfect brackets left (those were done in by Purdue’s loss) and a crazy 16v1 and 15v2 upset.
- Let round 2 commence! And it did. Game 1 was another upset by #13 Furman this time over #5 San Diego St. #8 Arkansas then upset defending champ #1 Kansas. Only 2 #1 seeds left! #15 Princeton continued to wreck shop this time beating #7 Mizzou. We then had a couple of games reprieve until #7 Michigan St took out #2 Marquette by 9. After that the upsets came rolling in. #3 Baylor lost to #6 Creighton by 9. FDU’s Cinderella story got cut short by FAU. #5 Miami took down basketball blue blood #4 Indiana. That leaves 4 top 2 seeds. Two 2s and two 1s.
- NBD I’m 3/4 out of my final four already gone.
Football – NFL:
- Magic Johnson is bidding on the Commanders. The group he is apart of (Harris group) failed to buy the Broncos last year. The Harris group also owns the NBA 76ers and NHL Devils.
- Siri queue up ‘Changes’ by David Bowie:
- Raiders signed QB Jimmy Garoppolo after letting Carr go to the saints.
- The Panthers get QB Anthony Dalton
- The Cowboys released RB Zeke Elliott
- Baker Mayfield is now in Tampa Bay. He has emphasized he is not Tom Brady but let’s ne honest we all knew that.
- The Jets are looking at Packers QB Aaron Rodgers but it is not official yet.
Golf:
- The LIV Tour event in Tucson had a 4 man playoff between AUS Danny Lee, RSA Louis Ooisthuizen, USA Brendan Steele and MEX Carlos Ortiz. Ortiz went out on the first hole with the a bogey and then there wasn’t a result til the 3rd time they went back to the 18th. Danny Lee birdied the 3rd time after hitting the flagstick and rolling in to took home the title and $4MM.
- Taylor Moore won the last tournament in the Florida swing the Valspar Championship by one over Adam Schenk who bogeyed the final hole. This was Moore’s first win. The Oklahoman went to Arkansas and tuned pro in 2016. Pretty good considering he’s only had 5 Top 10s in his career.
Olympic Sports:
- SLO Petra Vlhova won the last women’s slalom event of the World Cup season. Shiffrin placed 3rd. She’s not too sad though since she made the most on tour, making over $1MM in prize money this season. Marco Odermatt won this season’s World Cup overall title and did it in record fashion. He won with the most points ever, 2,042 point – a 23 year old record.
- We have just begun post season gymnastics and Florida’s Trinity Thomas is just 1 Perfect 10 away from the overall record in NCAA history of 28. She would tie UCLA’s Jaime Dantzscher and Kentucky’s Jenny Hansen. Trinity had two this past weekend at SEC Championships. The 26th was on bars, her first of the season. She is the reigning All-Around champion from last year.
- USA Silver medalist Raven Saunders has been banned for 18m from competition for falling to show up for a doping test. This is her 3rd failure to show in 1 year, thus the ban. You might remember this as Christian Coleman had the same issue and missed the Olympics for it. Saunders is lucky we are still 500 days out from Paris so she would be eligible to compete but not at Worlds.
- Ryan Redington won Iditarod. It was a family tradition as his grandpa and dad are in mushing HoF
What to watch this week
Baseball – MLB:
- Mon 3/20
- World Baseball Classic: Semifinal JPN vs MEX @ 6pm on FS1
- Tues 3/21
- World Baseball Classic: Final USA vs TBD @ 6pm on FS1
Baseball/Softball – NCAA:
- Mon 3/20
- Softball: 12. Arkansas vs 13. Alabama @ 11pm on ESPNU
- Tues 3/21
- Softball: 12. Arkansas vs 13. Alabama @ 12pm on SEC
- Baseball: 3. Florida vs Florida St @ 6pm on ACC
- Softball: McNesse vs 10. LSU @ 6pm on SEC
- Wed 3/22
- Softball: McNesse vs 10. LSU @ 2pm on ESPNU
- Softball: 12. Arkansas vs 13. Alabama @ 4pm on ESPNU
- Softball: Kennesaw St vs 17. Georgia @ 6pm on SEC
- Thurs 3/23
- Softball: 13. Alabama vs 9. Texas @ 1pm on LGHN
- Softball: 13. Alabama vs 9. Texas @ 4pm on LGHN
- Baseball: Duke vs 15. UNC @ 6pm on ACC
- Fri 3/24
- Softball: Texas Tech vs 9. Texas @ 4:30pm on LGHN
- Softball: 6. Florida St vs 16. Duke @ 5pm on ACC
- Baseball: 6. Louisville vs Notre Dame @ 7pm on ACC
- Baseball: 5. Arkansas vs 1. LSU @ 7pm on ESPN2
- Sat 3/25
- Baseball: 21. Texas A&M vs 12. Tennessee @ 11am on ESPN2
- Softball: Mississippi ST vs 17. Georgia @ 11am on SEC
- Baseball: 5. Arkansas vs 1. LSU @ 1pm on SEC
- Softball: 13. Alabama vs 14. Tennessee @ 4pm on SEC
- Softball: 4. Clemson vs GT @ 5pm on ACC
- Softball:10. LSU vs Ole Miss @ 6pm on SEC
- Baseball: 5. Arkansas vs 1. LSU @ 8pm on ESPNU
- Softball: 11. Florida vs 12. Arkansas @ 8pm on ESPN2
- Sun 3/26
- Baseball: 22. Mizzou vs 11. South Carolina @ 11am on SEC
- Baseball: 5. Arkansas vs 1. LSU @ 12pm on ESPN
- Softball: Mississippi St vs 17. Georgia @ 3pm on ESPNU
- Softball: Mizzou vs 22. Auburn @ 5pm on SEC
- Softball: 11. Florida vs 12. Arkansas @ 5pm on ESPNU
- Softball:10. LSU vs Ole Miss @ 7pm on ESPNU
- Baseball: 23. Kentucky vs Alabama @ 2pm on SEC
Basketball – NBA:
- Wed 3/22
- Warriors at Mavericks @ 6:30pm on ESPN
- Suns at Lakers @ 9pm on ESPN
Basketball – NCAA:
- Thurs 3/23
- Sweet 16: Michigan St vs Kansas St @ 5:30pm on TBS
- Sweet 16: 8. Arkansas vs 4. UConn @ 6:15pm on CBS
- Sweet 16: 9. FAU vs 4. Tennessee @ 8pm on TBS
- Sweet 16: 3. Gonzaga at 2. UCLA @ 8:45pm on CBS
- Fri 3/24
- Sweet 16: 5. San Diego St vs 1. Alabama @ 5:30pm on TBS
- Sweet 16: 5. Miami at 1. Houston @ 6:15pm on CBS
- Sweet 16: 15. Princeton vs 6. Creighton @ 8pm on TBS
- Sweet 16: 3. Xavier at 2. Texas @ 8:45pm on CBS
- Sat 3/25
- Elite 8: Teams TBD @ TBD on TBD
- Elite 8: Teams TBD @ TBD on TBD
- Sun 3/26
- Elite 8: Teams TBD @ TBD on TBD
- Elite 8: Teams TBD @ TBD on TBD
Football – XFL:
- Sat 3/25
- Seattle Sea Dragons vs Orlando Guardians @ 12pm on ABC
- Louis Battlehawks at Vegas Vipers @ 6pm on FX
- Sun 3/26
- San Antonio Brahamas vs Arlington Renegades @ 2pm on ABC
- Houston Roughnecks at DC Defenders @ 6pm on ESPN2
Golf:
- Wed 3/22
- Dell Match Play – Day 1 @ 2pm on Golf Channel
- Thurs 3/23
- Corales Puntacana Championship – Round 1 @ 10:30am on Golf Channel
- Dell Match Play – Day 2 @ 2pm on Golf Channel
- Fri 3/24
- Corales Puntacana Championship – Round 2 @ 10:30am on Golf Channel
- Dell Match Play – Round 2 @ 2pm on Golf Channel
- Sat 3/25
- Dell Match Play – Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
- @ 10am on Golf Channel
- @ 11am on NBC
- Corales Puntacana Championship – Round 3 @ 2pm on Golf Channel
- Dell Match Play – Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
- Sun 3/26
- Dell Match Play – Semifinals and Finals
- @ 10am on Golf Channel
- @ 2pm on NBC
- Corales Puntacana Championship – Final Round @ 2pm on Golf Channel
- Dell Match Play – Semifinals and Finals
Hockey:
- Tues 3/21
- Maple Leafs at Islanders @ 6:30pm on hulu
- Wed 3/22
- Penguins at Avalanche @ 7pm on TNT
- Coyotes at Oilers @ 9:30pm on TNT
- Thurs 3/23
- Wild at Flyers @ 5:30pm on ESPN
- Penguins at Star @ 8pm on ESPN
- Sat 3/25
- Sabres at Islanders @ 4pm on hulu
- Capitals at Penguins @ 7pm on ABC
Olympic Sports:
- Tues 3/21
- World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Short Program @ 5am on USA
- World Figure Skating Championships: Pairs Free Skate @ 7am on USA
- Wed 3/22
- World Figure Skating Championships: Women’s Free Skate @ 6:30am on USA
- Thurs 3/23
- World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Free Skate @ 5:30am on USA
- Sat 3/25
- World Figure Skating Championships @ 7pm on NBC
- Sun 3/26
- Alpine Skiing: FIS Mikaela Shiffrin @ 11am on NBC
Soccer:
- Thurs 3/23
- UEFA Euro 2024: ITA vs ENG @ 2:30pm on FS1
- Fri 3/24
- UEFA Euro 2024: DEN vs FIN @ 1:30am on FS1
- International Friendly: IRE vs LAT @ 3:30am on FS1
- UEFA Euro 2024: SWE vs BEL @ 2:30pm on FS1
- CONCACAF: GRN vs USA @ 7pm on TNT
- Sat 3/25
- UEFA Euro 2024: ESP vs NOR @ 8:30pm on FS1
- Sun 3/26
- UEFA Euro 2024: KAZ vs DEN @ 8am on FS1
- UEFA Euro 2024: LUX vs POR @ 9:30pm on FS1
