Baseball – MLB: Orieole’s manager ejected. Mike Trout against Texas
Basketball – College: UVA wins NCAAM!
Basketball – NBA: Playoffs are here! KD ejection.
Football – NFL: Antonio Brown settles lawsuit. Wilson contract deadline likely to be missed.
Golf: Tiger wins the Masters. Nothing more to add.
Olympic Sports: Boston marathon winners. USA women’s hockey wins. International Swimming League.
Baseball – MLB:
- Orioles’ manager Brandon Hyde was ejected for the first time since he joined this team during today’s game against the Red Sox. Hyde was arguing there should have been an interference call on a double play in the 5th
- Angel OF Mike Trout will be back and playing for the Angels for the games against the Rangers. Trout has been out due to a groin injury since last week.
Basketball – College:
- UVA won the National Championship one week ago against Texas Tech. And oh what a game it was. It went into OT and even had a dunk in the last minute.
- Gonzaga Hachimura entering the draft
- UVA Hunter and Jerome entering the draft
Basketball – NBA:
- Playoffs are here!
- Best of 7 games advance. 8 teams from the East and 8 teams from the West. Conference quarterfinals à Conference semifinals à Conference Finals à Championship
- Kings name Luke Walton as new head coach, who previously worked for the Lakers.
- Warriors Kevin Durant and Clippers Patrick Beverley were both ejected in the 4th quarter after a verbal back and forth.
Football – NFL:
- We could see another franchise tag but this time on QB Russell Wilson for the Seahawks. Wilson’s contract is up at the end of this season but he’s in no rush to sign an extension. The deadline Wilson has set is Monday at midnight. His last contract was signed on the deadline for 4 years for $88MM. Wilson is not one of the players who is going to sit out until he gets a contract.
- Raiders WR Antonio Brown reached a settlement in the 2 cases where he threw items from an apartment balcony.
Golf:
- In case you live under a rock: This guy names Tiger Woods won the Masters early on Sunday afternoon by one stroke over Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Xander Schauffele. It was a tight competition and a lot of fun to watch. This is Tiger Woods’ 5th Masters win (green jacket), 15th major win and 81st PGA Tour win. Tiger is only 1 PGA tour win behind the leader Sam Snead with 82 and is 3 majors behind the leader Jack Nicklaus with 18. This is an amazing comeback story and Tiger’s first major win since his personal life hit the fan (DUI, sex scandal, etc.).
- If someone you know did miss it, it was probably because the Masters final round was moved up due to inclement weather. But it was so worth getting up early for.
- Francesco Molinari was leading by 2 going into the final round but had a rough day scoring 2 over par.
Olympic Sports:
- The Boston marathon was moved to today due to weather. It was competed this morning.
- The Men’s event was a sprint at the finish between Lawrence Cherono and Lelisa Desisa. Cherono won with a time of 2:07.57 and just .02 seconds behind was Desisa.
- Worknesh Degefa ran 20 miles by herself to take the victory in the Women’s race with a time of 2:23.30. She was 3 minutes ahead of all the other women at the halfway point.
- The USA won the women’s hockey world championship after an OT goal was stripped from Finland for goaltender interference. Officials spent 10 minutes reviewing the goal before deciding to take the win away and make the ladies keep playing. The USA won in a shootout.
- There is a new swimming league in town that’s got some big names behind it: The International Swimming League. It will feature 4 US teams and 4 foreign teams of mixed genders competing and the athletes getting paid. The US teams will be NY Breakers, LA Current, DC Trident and the Cali Condors (in SF) while the foreign teams will be in London, Rome Budapest and (likely) France. Right now Katie Ledecky, Nathan Adrian, Simone Manuel and Ryan Murphy are ambassadors with Jason Lezak as one of the team managers. The teams will compete in 12 events for points. More info to come on this.
- The USA won the World Team Trophy thanks to 1-2 performances in both the short program and free skate by Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou.
- 10 year old Sky Brown won the UK National Skateboarding Championships with her sights set on Tokyo 2020 when the event debuts.
- Russian parliament passed a vote to fine athletes found doping and intentionally cheating up to $775 (~50k rubles).
What to Watch This Week:
Baseball – MLB:
- Mon 4/15
- Mets at Phili @ 6pm on ESPN
- Snydergaard vs Nola
- Reds at Dodgers @ 9pm on ESPN
- Castillo vs Kershaw
- Mets at Phili @ 6pm on ESPN
- Wed 4/17
- Red Sox at Yankees @ 5:30pm on ESPN
- Eovaldi vs Happ
- Red Sox at Yankees @ 5:30pm on ESPN
- Sat 4/20
- Giants at Pirates @ 3:05pm on FS1
- Holland vs Taillon
- Dodgers at Brewers @ 6:10pm on FS1
- Kershaw vs Peralta
- Giants at Pirates @ 3:05pm on FS1
- Sun 4/21
- Braves at Indians @ 6pm on ESPN
- Fried vs Bieber
- Braves at Indians @ 6pm on ESPN
Baseball – College / Softball:
- Mon 4/15 – Softball – 3. Florida St vs UNC @ 6pm on ESPNU
- Wed 4/17 – Softball – Florida vs Florida St @ 6pm on ESPN2
- Thurs 4/18
- Baseball – Missouri vs 6. Georgia @ 5pm on ESPNU
- Baseball – Mississippi St vs 10. Arkansas @ 8pm on ESPNU
- Fri 4/19 – Softball – Alabama vs Florida @ 4:30pm on ESPN2
- Sat 4/20
- Softball – LSU vs Arkansas @ 1pm on ESPNU
- Baseball – Florida vs 14. LSU @ 2pm on ESPN2
- Baseball – 25. Texas vs Oklahoma St @ 3pm on ESPNU
- Baseball – Arizona vs 4. Oregon St @ 9pm on ESPNU
- Sun 4/21
- Softball – Tennessee vs Georgia @ 1pm on ESPN2
- Softball – Auburn vs Kentucky @ 3pm on ESPN2
Basketball – NBA:
- Mon 4/15
- East Game 2: Nets at 76ers @ 7pm on TNT
- Nets lead 1-0
- West Game 2: Clippers at Warriors @ 9:30pm on TNT
- Warriors lead 1-0
- East Game 2: Nets at 76ers @ 7pm on TNT
- Tues 4/16
- East Game 2: Magic at Raptors @ 7pm on TNT
- Magic lead 1-0
- West Game 2: Thunder at Trail Blazers @ 9:30pm on TNT
- Trail Blazers lead 1-0
- East Game 2: Magic at Raptors @ 7pm on TNT
- Wed 4/17
- East Game 2: Pacers at Celtics @ 6pm on TNT
- Pacers lead 1-0
- West Game 2: Jazz at Rockets @ 8:30pm on TNT
- Rockets lead 1-0
- East Game 2: Pacers at Celtics @ 6pm on TNT
- Thurs 4/18
- East Game 3: 76ers at Nets @ 7pm on TNT
- West Game 3: Warriors at Clippers @ 9:30pm on TNT
- Fri 4/19
- East Game 3: Raptors at Magic @ 6pm on ESPN
- East Game 3: Celtics at Pacers @ 7:30pm on ABC
- West Game 3: Trail Blazers at Thunder @ 8:30pm on ESPN
- Sat 4/20
- East Game 4: 76ers at Nets @ 2pm on TNT
- West Game 4: Nuggets at Spurs @ 4:30pm on TNT
- East Game 3: Bucks at Pistons @ 7pm on ESPN
- Bucks lead 1-0
- West Game 3: Rockets at Jazz @ 9:30pm on ESPN
- Sun 4/21
- East Game 4: Celtics at Pacers @ 12pm on ABC
- West Game 4: Warriors at Clippers @ 2:30pm on ABC
- East Game 4: Raptors at Magic @ 6pm on TNT
- West Game 4: Trail Blazers at Thunder @ 8:30pm on TNT
Golf:
- Thurs 4/18 – RBC Heritage – Round 1
- 2pm – 5pm on Golf Channel
- Fri 4/19 – RBC Heritage – Round 2
- 2pm – 5PM on Golf Channel
- Sat 4/20 – RBC Heritage – Round 3
- 12pm – 1:45pm on Golf Channel
- 2pm – 5pm on CBS
- Sun 4/21 – RBC Heritage – Round 4
- 12pm – 1:45pm on Golf Channel
- 2pm – 5pm on CBS
Hockey:
- Mon 4/15
- Islanders at Penguins @ 7:30pm on NBCSN
- Sharks at Golden Knights @ 10:30pm on NBCSN
- Tues 4/16
- Bruins at Maple Leafs @ 7pm on NBCSN
- Flames at Avalanche @ 10pm on NBCSN
- Wed 4/17
- Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 7pm on NBCSN
- Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 9:30pm on NBCSN
- Thurs 4/18
- Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 7pm on NBCSN
- Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 9:30pm on NBCSN
- Fri 4/19 – Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 11pm on NBCSN
- Sat 4/20 – Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 7pm on NBCSN
- Sun 4/21 – Conference Quarterfinals Teams TBA @ 7pm on NBCSN
Olympic Sports:
- Tues 4/16 – NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships @ 2pm on ESPNU
- Fri 4/19
- NCAA Women’s Gymnastics @ 11am on ESPNU
- Equestrian FEI World Cup Show Jumping @ 5pm on NBCSN
- NCAA Women’s Gymnastics @ 6:30pm on ESPN2
- Sat 4/20 – World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship: USA vs Latvia @ 10:30pm on NBCSN
- Sun 4/21
- USA Climbing: Sport & Speed Open National Championships @ 5am on ESPN2
- NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship @ 12am on ESPNU
Soccer:
- Mon 4/15 – Brighton & Hove Albion vs Cardiff City @ 2:40pm on NBCSN
- Wed 4/17 – USL: Austin Bold vs Phoenix Rising @ 7:30pm on ESPN3
- Fri 4/20
- Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur @ 7:25am on NBCSN
- Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Brighton & Hove Albion @ 9:55am on NBCSN
- Sat 4/21
- Italie Serie A: Parma vs AC Milan @ 5:30pm on ESPN2
- Everton vs Manchester United @ 8:25am on NBCSN
- Cardiff City vs Liverpool @ 10:55am on NBCSN
- MLS: Atlanta United vs FC Dallas @ 3pm on ESPN
- Sun 4/22
- Chelsea vs Burnley @ 2:55pm on NBCSN
- MLS: DC United vs NYC FC @ 3pm on ESPN
