Baseball – MLB: Season openers on March 28th! Let’s play ball!
Basketball – College: Sweet 16 bids are in. Not too much craziness so far. Fired coaches.
Basketball – NBA: Jumpman lawsuit. Warriors win 50 games.
Football – College: 2 players died this week.
Football – NFL: Gronk retires.
Golf: Paul Casey repeats. Former President Bush gets his first hole in one. WGC-Dell Match Play this weekend.
Olympic Sports: Chen wins Worlds. France wins ice dancing. Gymnastics post season begins.
Baseball – MLB:
- Season begins March 28th! The earliest opening day to date. See the TV schedule at the bottom under ‘What to Watch This Week.’ Full schedule link.
Basketball – College:
- We are officially onto the Sweet 16 and no #1 or #2 teams have lost yet.
- The last perfect bracket was broken when Purdue beat Villanova.
- Duke was close in the game against UCF 77-76 with a last minute buzzer beater attempt. Check out the highlights here
- Tennessee also had a scare going into OT with Iowa 83-77.
- Tune in Thursday for the Sweet 16!
- Alabama fired their head coach Avery Johnson after 4 seasons. He only made 1 NCAA tournament after the Crimson Tide was let out of this one.
- Cal fired their coach Wyking Jones after this season with a record of 8-23. He had been head coach since 2017.
Basketball – NBA:
- Supreme Court ruled that they will not referee the case between Nike and Michael Jordan’s photographer Jacobus Rentmeester. Rentmeester sued Nike for copyright infringement after he took the iconic photo that led to the ‘jumpman’ logo. The Supremes staying out of the issue means the lower court’s decision in favor of Nike will stand.
- The Warriors have 50+ games every season for the last 6 years.
Football – College:
- Georgia Tech lost one of their own on Saturday, DL Brandon Adams died at the age of 21 after he collapsed near campus.
- Not a good weekend for college football players, William & Mary’s RB Nate Evans was killed in a shooting on Thursday. He passed away at the scene and was 19 years old.
Football – NFL:
- Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski announced he is retiring from the NFL yesterday on Instagram, so naturally social media went into a frenzy. He is only 29 but has been playing in the NFL for 9 years. Gronk went to the University of Arizona and went on to play for the Patriots for his entire NFL career. He was a TE #87 and a 3x Super Bowl Champion. Way to end on a high note. Be ready for your bf to worry about who his TE pick for fantasy football will be next year.
Golf:
- Paul Casey successfully defended his title at the Valspar Championship this weekend winning by 1 stroke with a score of 8 under par.
- Former President George W. Bush scored a hole-on-one on the par-3 12th hole at Trinity Forest on Wednesday. His next goal: Live to 100 so he can shoot his age.
- The WGC – Dell Match Play is being played this weekend in Austin, TX. Look for a post on Wednesday on how this work because its not just another tournament…
Olympic Sports:
- Nathan Chen won gold at the Figure Skating World Championships, defending his title. Chen landed 4 quad jumps in the free skate to set a record score of 216.02. Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu finished second, 23 points behind Chen.
- In other figure skating news, the defending champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizerone of France won the ice dancing World Championship title. The USA couple of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue finished 3rd.
- NCAA Gymnastics was in Conference Championship weekend. #1 Oklahoma brought home the Big 12 championship and LSU won the SEC conference. More to come on this in next week’s post.
- Regionals: April 4-6 in 4 different locations
- NCAAs: April 19-20 in Ft. Worth
- Current ranking:
- The first woman to win an Olympic Gold medal in aerials skiing, Russian Lina Cheryazova, died at age 50. She won her gold medal in the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.
What to watch this week:
Baseball – MLB:
- Thurs 3/28
- Orioles at Yankees @ 12pm on ESPN
- Cashner vs Tanaka
- Diamondbacks at Dodgers @ 3pm on ESPN
- Greinke vs Ryu
- Red Rox at Mariners @ 6pm on ESPN
- Sale vs Gonzales
- Orioles at Yankees @ 12pm on ESPN
- Sun 3/31
- Cubs vs Rangers @ 3pm on ESPN
- Braves vs Phillies @ 6pm on ESPN
Basketball – College: (rankings shown below are now their tournament seed)
- Thurs 3/28
- 4. Florida St vs 1. Gonzaga @ 6:09pm on CBS
- 3. Purdue vs 2. Tennessee @ 6:29pm on TBS
- 3. Texas Tech vs 2. Michigan @ 8:39pm on CBS
- 12. Oregon vs 1. UVA @ 8:59pm on TBS
- Fri 3/29
- 3. LSU vs 2. Michigan St @ 6:09pm on CBS
- 5. Auburn vs 1. UNC @ 6:29pm on TBS
- 4. VTech vs 1. Duke @ 8:39pm on CBS
- 3. Houston vs 2. Kentucky @ 8:59pm on TBS
- Sat 3/30 – Elite 8 – 2 games
- Sun 3/31 – Elite 8 – 2 games
Basketball – NBA:
- Tues 3/26
- Rockets at Bucks @ 7pm on TNT
- Wizards at Lakers @ 9:30pm on TNT
- Warriors at Spurs @ 7pm on ESPN
- Pacers at Trail Blazers @ 9:30pm on ESPN
- Wed 3/27
- Pacers at Thunder @ 7pm on ESPN
- Lakers at Jazz @ 9:30pm on ESPN
Golf:
- Wed 3/27 – WGC: Dell Match Play Round Robin Rounds @ 1pm on Golf Channel
- Thurs 3/28 – WGC: Dell Match Play Round Robin Rounds @ 1pm on Golf Channel
- Fri 3/29 – WGC: Dell Match Play Round Robin Rounds @ 1pm on Golf Channel
- Sat 3/30 – WGC: Dell Match Play Elimination Rounds
- 9am – 1pm on Golf Channel
- 1pm – 5pm on NBC
- Sun 3/31 – WGC: Dell Match Play Elimination Rounds
- 9am – 1pm on Golf Channel
- 2pm – 6pm on NBC
Hockey:
- Mon 3/25 – Predators at Wild @ 8pm on NBCSN
- Tues 3/26 – Hurricanes at Capitals @ 7pm on NBCSN
- Wed 3/27
- Rangers at Bruins @ 7:30pm on NBCSN
- Golden Knights at Avalanche @ 10pm on NBCSN
- Sun 3/31 – Bruins at Redwings @ 7:30pm on NBCSN
Olympic Sports:
- Mon 3/25 – Biathlon – IBU World Championships: Women’s 12.5k Mass Start @ 11:30pm on NBCSN
- Tues 3/26
- FIS Ski Jumping World Cup: Men’s Individual Ski Flying @ 12:30am on NBCSN
- USA Climbing – Sport & Speed Open National Championship @ 9pm on ESPN2
- Wed 3/27 – Tennis: Miami Open @ 12pm on ESPN2
- Thurs 3/28 – Tennis: Miami Open Men’s Quarterfinal and Women’s Semifinals @ 12pm on ESPN2
- Fri 3/29
- Tennis: Miami Open Men’s Semifinal 1 @ 12pm on ESPN2
- Tennis: Miami Open Men’s Semifinal 2 @ 6pm on ESPN2
- Sat 3/30
- Tennis: Miami Open Women’s Final @ 12pm on ESPN2
- NCAA Softball: Texas vs OSU @ 7:30pm on ESPN2
- Sun 3/31
- Tennis: Miami Open Men’s Final @ 12pm on ESPN2
- NCAA Softball: Arizona at Arizona St @ 6pm on ESPN2
- IAAF World Cross-Country Championships @ 11pm on NBCSN
Soccer:
- Tues 3/26
- UEFA Euro Champ Qualifying
- Armenia vs Finland @ 12pm on ESPN3
- Bosnia and Herzegovina @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- Norway vs Spain @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- Ireland vs Georgia @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- Romania vs Faroe Islands @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- Switzerland vs Denmark @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- International Friendly
- Czech vs Brazil @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- Gibraltar vs Estonia @ 2:45pm on ESPN3
- USA vs Chile @ 6:55pm on ESPN2
- Sat 3/30
- Fulham vs Manchester City @ 8:25am on NBCSN
- Manchester United vs Watford @ 10:55am on NBCSN
- West Ham United vs Everton @ 1:25pm on NBCSN
- Mexican Ascenso – FC Juarez vs Correcaminos @ 7pm on ESPN3
- Sun 3/31
- Cardiff City vs Chelsea @ 9am on NBCSN
- Liverpool vs Tottenham Hotspur @ 11:20am on NBCSN
- MLS – LA Galaxy vs Portland Timbers @ 8pm on ESPN2
- UEFA Euro Champ Qualifying
