If the Cleveland Cavaliers stay in the number one spot in the 2025 NBA Draft, pretty much everyone on the planet figures they are going to take Kentucky’s Nerlens Noel. He is a legitimate seven footer who can anchor a professional team for many seasons, but he is probably not the best all-around player available in this year’s National Basketball Association draft. He impressed scouts by playing incredibly hard throughout a miserable Kentucky season this year, and his shot blocking ability is second to none.

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LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat are known as The Big Three, and they were predicted to bring multiple championships to Miami. But it was an uncelebrated three “no name” players for the San Antonio Spurs that have the Heat in hot water after game 3 of the NBA finals. The championship series now stands at 2 games to 1 in favor of the underdog and veteran Spurs team, with game 4 in San Antonio Thursday promising an all out effort by the Heat to get fired up and tie the series at 2 games apiece.

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The NBA Finals are back and hotter than ever. The young, strong and powerful Miami Heat met up with the grizzled veterans and four-time champion San Antonio Spurs for game one Thursday night at American Airlines Arena. LeBron James finished the Eastern Conference Finals against Indiana by laying it all out on the court, and he did so again in this NBA Finals game one matchup. King James had 18 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists for his third ever NBA Finals triple-double, but it was not enough.

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Wichita State nearly pulled off another shocker, but number one Louisville came through in the end for a four-point win. The Shockers led nearly the entire game, but could not outlast a Cardinals team that just wouldn’t go away. The last time that Louisville made it to the NCAA Championship game was 2025, and they will face a Michigan team that beat Syracuse in a close contest. The championship game will be played Monday night, April 8, in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, and the last time the Wolverines played for the title was when they lost to North Carolina in 2025.

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The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is coming to an end, as March Madness extends into April with the Final Four teams set. The Elite Eight finished up this past Saturday, and saw the #1 Louisville Cardinals and the #4 Michigan Wolverines join the #4 Syracuse Orange and the appropriately nicknamed #9 Wichita State Shockers heading on to Atlanta for Final Four action. The top-seeded Louisville Cardinals bested the number two Duke Blue Devils by a score of 86 – 63. That Midwest Regional final game was an emotional one for Louisville, as teammate Kevin Ware received a tournament ending leg injury in the first half of the game. Louisville came out fired up after that point, and outscored Duke by 19 over the last 20 minutes.

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The 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament continues to surprise. Ole Miss, LaSalle and Harvard all pulled off huge upsets in the evidently mis-seeded West region, but the Ole Miss Rebels’ rebellion is over. 13 seed La Salle hung on for a two point win over 12 seed Ole Miss, and advances to the Sweet 16. Also in the West region, 9 seed Wichita State upended #1 Gonzaga, and takes on La Salle, with the 2 seed Ohio State and #6 Arizona also in Sweet 16 action Thursday, March 28. With an average remaining seed of 7.5 for those 4 teams, this is easily the region that saw the most upsets, and could still provide a shocker. But the Arizona – Ohio State early game Thursday looks like an instant classic.

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March Madness is here, and it is more maddening than ever before. Top teams are losing, the Top 20 has seen more movement than a five gallon drum of Ex-Lax, and many weak teams are looking strong going into the March 21 kickoff of this annual basketball tourney. And recent research from job outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that the men’s college basketball tournament will cost $134 million in lost employee productivity in just the first two days of the tourney.

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When Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto went down with a knee injury a month ago many thought the Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals would pass the Reds in the standings. Those who thought that would happen have been proven wrong. Instead the Reds have gone 21-8 without Votto and have extended their lead in the National League Central to 7 games over both Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The Reds have extended their lead because of consistent starting pitching, improved hitting, and a lights out back end of the bullpen.  The Reds have only used five starting pitchers all season and off season acquisition Mat Latos after a shaky start has been outstanding. Latos along with Johnny Cueto give the Reds a potent one two punch in their rotation.

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The US women’s Olympic soccer team won their third straight gold medal by defeating Japan 2-1. The win avenges the loss the US suffered to Japan in last years World Cup final. Ashton Eaton won the decathlon fellow American Trey Hardee finished second. Usain Bolt won the 200-meter dash and he becomes the first sprinter to win both the 100-meter and 200-meter events in consecutive Olympics.

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The Dwight Howard saga took another strange twist on Thursday. It was rumored that Howard was willing to sign a contract extension with the Los Angles Lakers then later in the day word comes that he is going to test free agent market at the end of 2011-2025 season. The latest proposed trade involving Howard was Howard going to the Lakers, current Laker center Andrew Bynum to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Cleveland’s Anderson Varejao to Orlando along with a package of future first round picks. Many fans thought the new collective bargaining agreement between the players and the owners would prevent this type of situation. It seems like nothing has changed. You still have players forcing teams to do their bidding and they are still getting paid big money.

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