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🏈Supported salary cap: NFL salary caps for next season will range from $277.5 million to $281.5 million. This represents a much larger increase than expected, up from $255.4 million last year.
Champions League playoffs: Real Madrid (Spain), PSG (France), Dortmund (Germany), and PSV (Netherlands) have progressed to knockouts, with the 16-round draw tomorrow.
Robots is here. The automated ball strike system (RoboUMP) will be tested in this spring training game. Teams are given two ball strike challenges per game and will retain them if successful.
Ravings Rating: The NBA’s new look All-Star game has plunged 13% from last year, attracting just 4.7 million viewers to its audience, the second-lowest number in the last 25 years (4.6 million in 2023). Ta.
Champs Get new OC: The Eagles are replacing Kellen Moore inwards, promoting passing game coordinator Kevin Paturo to offensive coordinator.
Is nikola jokic having his best season yet?
It’s easy to tire of consistent excellence. So, before Nikola Djokic returns to the floor tonight, let’s marvel at how it is becoming the best stats season in NBA history.
By numbers: 7-foot Serb averages 29.8 points (3rd in the NBA), 12.6 rebounds (4th), 10.2 assists (2nd), 1.8 steel (4th), 0.7 blocks (64th), and 66.7% There is a true shooting rate of. (7th).
His 33.4 player efficiency rating (PER) has shattered his own record from three years ago (32.85), shattering a victory share of 0.334 per 48 minutes to an all-time high.
Adding it all, he’s on the front door of becoming the sixth player in history to win at least four MVPS, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain and Lebron James.
Best Season to date: Comparing times isn’t easy, but Yahoo Sports’ Ben Rohrbach’s campaign has competed against six of the best stats seasons to date. – Determine if you’ve seen something like this before. Spoiler Alert: Not so.
Embiid (2022-23): 33.1 Pts, 10.2 Reb, 4.2 AST, 1.0 STL, 1.7 BLK, 65.5% TS, 31.4 per 31.4… Embiid’s scores and assists generated 43.7 points per game. year.
Antetokounmpo (2021-22): 29.9 pts, 11.6 Reb, 5.8 AST, 1.1 STL, 1.4 BLK, 63.3% TS, 32.1 per 32.1…Jokić has almost as many wins from Giannisis’ All-Star break this season (12.2) I have a share. He participated in his best statistical campaign (12.9). It seems good.
Curry (2015-16): 30.1 Pts, 5.4 Reb, 6.7 AST, 2.1 STL, 0.2 BLK, 66.9%TS, 31.5 per 31.5 (NBA-Record 402 Threes) and Jokić are two of the most efficient large amounts of large amounts I’ve now got scoring. season. And Jokic already has more rebounds and assists than curry throughout the season.
James (2008-09): 28.4 Pts, 7.6 Reb, 7.2 AST, 1.7 STL, 1.1 BLK, 59.1%TS, per 31.7… This is LeBron’s statistical apex, the first of his four MVP seasons. But this year Jokic is more average points, rebounds, assists, steals.
Jordan (1987-88): 35.0 Pts, 5.5 Reb, 5.9 AST, 3.2 STL, 1.6 BLK, 60.3% TS, 31.7 per 31.7, was also the first instance of the NBA for players to win an MVP-DPOY double. But his defensive stats may have swelled, and Jokic is a more efficient scorer.
Chamberlain (1961-62): 50.4 Pts, 25.7 Reb, 2.4 AST, 53.6%TS, 32.1 per 32.1…Context is important. Wilt was the only 7-foot NBA regular at the time, with poor league-wide shooting and much more opportunities for rebound. Imagine if Jokic wasn’t surrounded by other giants.
The Scream to Shy: In almost every other season, Shy Gilgaus Alexander escapes with the MVP. His around 31.03 is the 20th best mark ever, and he has eight games of lightning than other teams in the West. Unfortunately, he bumped into Buzz Saw.
Pick up the space!
Anyone who has played a round of golf knows that you can’t ruin your day like a slow play, beyond a series of double bogeys. After all, the problem is not unique to weekend warriors.
Slow play on the tour: Last month’s American Express final group took 5 hours and 39 minutes to finish 18 holes on Sunday. It took the NFL less than an hour to complete two playoff games on the same day. A week later, the final group of Torrey Pines took nearly five and a half hours.
What they say: Slow play has been plaguing the PGA and LPGA Tour for many years. As a result, the dissonance of complaints has increased. And at Tory Pines, former LPGA star and longtime analyst Dotty Pepper couldn’t take it anymore.
“I think we need new words to talk about this issue of play. That’s respect,” she said on the broadcast. “For fellow competitors, fans, for the broadcast. It just needs to get better.”
“It was gnawing a lot of people with me for a while,” she added. “It’s burning after Covid, and if we don’t get better, it’s our horrible fault… Don’t ruin it.”
So, what can we do? Most people agree that this is a problem worth solving, but there is no consensus on how to do it (a smaller field size than it comes in 2026 should help). Would you like to add a shot clock like the one TGL did? Do you prohibit time-consuming practice for Aimpoint putting? Do you repeatedly punish criminals?
The LPGA will take the lead. The PGA Tour will soon begin testing various time-saving initiatives, but the LPGA Tour has already announced a new policy that will show immediate results. Starting next month, players will be punished for not being able to hit a shot within the 40 seconds they are assigned.
Please exceed 1-5 seconds: fine
Over 6-15 seconds: One-stroke penalty
Over 16 seconds: 2-stroke penalty
Conclusion: Next time you grab a hot dog on the turn and wonder if you’ve already been on the course for nearly three hours, remember: the pros are experiencing the same thing – and they can’t even enjoy Transfusions while they wait.
⚽§How the next 18 months will rebuild football in the US
Over the next 18 months, the convergence of Marquee events, ambitious reforms and the much-anticipated decision allowed us to change American football at all levels.
From Yahoo Sports ‘Henry Bushnell:
Magnificent statements about “unique opportunities” and “transformative change” have appeared everywhere in American football. The bold and buzzword-rich declarations are very ubiquitous and they are blurred together. They are parroted very often and often so ambiguous that they feel unsubstantiated and empty.
But here’s it: They are true too. The next 18 months will not just be an exciting time for sports. They were able to reconstruct it in a variety of ways across the nation, for all ages and levels, for all genders.
They end up here at home with the Men’s World Cup, but that’s not all. It is the Club World Cup and a bid for the 2031 Women’s World Cup. It is a declined day for Lionel Messi in Miami, and a pivotal time of the NWSL, yet two days.
Continuing talks on MLS and overhauls in college soccer. This is the opening of a national training center and the implementation of US Soccer’s new national player development strategy. This is USL’s ambitious plan to expand and launches a new top-tier men’s league.
It’s not just a possibility, it’s also a pressure. It’s a consequential decision, a moment that American football stakeholders don’t want to miss. And most of them are, of course, mainly in 2026.
Appearance: The 2025 MLS season kicks off this weekend with 13 games on Saturday and two games on Sunday.
📺Watchlist: 4 Nations Championship
The US and Canada will be taking place tonight at the 4 Nations Face Off Championship in Boston.
What they’re saying: “This is the biggest game I’ve played in quite a long time. Maybe never before,” said American Jack Eychel, who won the Vegas and Stanley Cup two years ago.
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Shebelieves Cup: USA vs. Colombia (8pm, TBS)…The 10th edition of Four-Team Women’s Tournament will be held in Houston.
mlb: Dodgers’ Cubs (3:05pm, MLB)… The first game of spring training.
🏀NBA: 76ers’ Celtics (7pm, TNT); Suns at Spurs (9:30pm, TNT)… Boston (39-16) has 5.5 games behind No. 1 Cavs (44-10) It remains as.
PWHL: Boston, Ottawa (7pm, YouTube)… The fifth price hosts the fourth-place fleet.
*Kings of the Ice: Since NHL players began participating, Canada has won nine of their 13 latest tournaments. This includes five and three of the past six in a row.
🏀 College Hoop Trivia
Currently, the 9-second school is in the top 25 of AP Men’s Basketball. Can you name everything?
I’ll answer at the bottom.
✍️Good reading
⚾️Russell Dorsey: 6 players seen in spring training
Some of the most interesting characters this spring are new in the scene, and are expected to return from injuries or break out in 2025.
🏈Frank Schwab: NFL Top 10 Free Agency Storyline
The offseason moves have little impact on the Eagles signing Saquon Berklee. However, when the free agency officially opens on March 12th, many teams will try to replicate the acquisition that won the Philadelphia Championship.
Morten Morten Stig Jensen: NBA Rookie Report
Let’s take a look at some of the most notable players in this year’s rookie class and how they’ve played so far.
Trivia Answer: No. 1Auburn, No. 2 Florida, No. 4 Alabama, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 7Texas A&M, No. 15 Missouri, No. 17 Kentucky, No. 21 Mississippi State, No. 24OleMiss
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