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Villanova Opens As Biggest Favorite In Title Game Against Michigan Tonight
Villanova opens as biggest favorite in title game since Duke in 2010.
Patrick McCaw Regained Feeling In Leg, X-ray And CT Scan Came Back Clear
An unfortunate sight, but McCaw has improved since being carted off the court against Sacramento.
Patrick McCaw was stretchered off the court fol- lowing a horrifying fall in the Golden State Warriors’ game against the Sacramento Kings on Saturday, but there were some encouraging updates about his health overnight.
McCaw experienced numbness in his lower body immediately after the fall but later regained feeling in his leg. He also underwent an X- ray and CT scan, which both came back clear.
Anthony Davis Reveals Unibrow Shave Was April Fools Prank
ANTHONY DAVIS Anthony Davis’s uni-
brow is alive and well.
On Saturday, it appeared
that Davis had shaved off the unibrow after the results of a fan poll encouraged him to. On Sunday, though, Davis revealed it all to be a prank.
Many had speculated that this was the case after seeing the video of the alleged shave. It looks to have been part of a promotional thing with Red Bull, given the tag and the prominence of their logo on the towel he used in the orig- inal video.
The unibrow is here to stay. Oh, and don’t believe everything you see, either.
Irish's Arike Ogunbowale Hits Shot Of A Lifetime ...Again
Arike Ogwunbowale took the inbounds pass, spun toward the baseline, took two dribbles and launched the game-win- ning shot off essentially one leg.
No. 1 seed Villanova opened as a 6.5-point fa- vorite over No. 3 seed Michi- gan in Monday's national championship game.
The Wildcats are the largest favorites in the cham- pionship game since Duke was favored by seven over Butler in 2010. Villanova has been favored in every game this season.
By Sunday morning, the line had grown to as high as Villanova -7.5 at some books.
The Wildcats are in the championship game for the second time in three years.
They advanced with an im- pressive 95-79 win over Kansas on Saturday. They won their first five tourna- ment games by an average of 17.6 points per game.
Villanova (35-4) will take on a red-hot Michigan team (33-7) that came from be- hind in the second half to beat upstart Loyola-Chicago 69-57 on Saturday.
Michigan has won 14 in a row. The Wolverines have been underdogs in nine games this season and went 5-4 straight up in those games.
First she punched the padded support behind the basket in frustration.
A few minutes later she threw her hands in the air in exultation.
As her last shot dropped through the net, the most frustrating 39 minutes, 57 seconds of Arike Ogun- bowale's young basketball life vanished into the same air that would soon be filled by confetti.
Her 3-pointer in the final second -- and it will go down as the greatest last-second shot in championship game history even if there was still one-tenth of a second left on the clock -- lifted Notre Dame to a 61-58 win against Missis- sippi State and the biggest comeback in championship
game history.
It also bumped the game-
winning shot she hit Friday, which beat UConn in over- time in the semifinals, one spot down basketball's great- est-hits list.
Ogunbowale fell five points shy of becoming the fifth player to score 150 points in one NCAA tourna- ment, but never has naming the Final Four's Most Out- standing Player been more of a foregone conclusion. As Notre Dame associate coach Niele Ivey put it, Ogun- bowale hit the shot of a life- time -- then did it again less than 48 hours later.
"To do that twice in one weekend, the biggest stage in college basketball, it's crazy," Ogunbowale admitted.
Miami's Center Whiteside
Fined For 'Comments
Lamar Jackson’s Stock
Detrimental To The Team'
Reportedly Climbing,
The Miami Heat fined center Hassan Whiteside an undisclosed amount Sun- day for "comments detri- mental to the team" in response to his remarks Sat- urday night expressing frus- tration with his role.
He went on an expletive- laden tirade after Miami's 110-109 overtime loss Satur- day to the Brooklyn Nets, when the Heat missed a chance to clinch a playoff spot, saying he should play more and might be better elsewhere.
The team had no addi- tional comment Sunday.
Whiteside didn't play in the final 21 minutes on Sat- urday -- the last four of the third quarter, then all of the fourth quarter and overtime. The Nets went small, so the Heat went small.
The Heat's highest-paid player questioned why the team is matching up when
Expected To Go In First Round
HASSAN WHITESIDE
"we've got one of the best centers in the league."
"A lot of teams don't have a good center," Whiteside said. "They are going to use their strengths. It's bulls---. It's really bulls---, man. There are a lot of teams that can use a center."
Playing in his second game back after a nine-game absence because of what was described as left hip pain, Whiteside finished with 14 points, six rebounds and two blocks.
Lamar Jackson has been somewhat of a mystery as we inch closer to the NFL Draft, but apparently he has a good chance of being selected very early.
Jackson’s stock is rising and he could be picked as early as No. 15 overall, with the Arizona Cardinals in need of a quarterback of the future.
Jackson has chosen not to hire an agent during the pre-draft process, and there has been a lot of talk about him hurting his own value. He did not run the 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine or at his pro day, which was a somewhat surprising decision for a quarterback who is known to make plays with his legs.
Earlier this offseason, there were reports that teams were interested in Jackson
LAMAR JACKSON
potentially as a wide receiver. However, the former Louisville star has made it clear that he has no intention of switching positions. That could be the motive behind him refusing to run the 40, as he may want teams to focus on his arm and not his legs.
If Jackson is taken in the first 32 picks, that would likely mean there are least five QBs selected in Round 1.
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