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I'm Jared Max. Baseball season starts in just over a week. March Madness is here. The NCAA basketball tournaments start next week. The NBA playoffs are near, as are the Stanley Cup playoffs. We're following Alex Ovechkin's journey to breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goal-scoring record. He needs only nine more goals to do it. While the next NFL regular season won't begin for six months, the 2025 NFL calendar begins Wednesday as new contracts can get signed.
Today, free agent negotiations begin. There's also golf and tennis and NASCAR. Incidentally, Christopher Bell won the Shriners Children's 500 Sunday in Phoenix. Ring that bell. Christopher Bell is the first Cup Series driver in four years to win three consecutive races. He beat Denny Hamlin Sunday by 1 20th of a second.
Golf PGA Tour signature event, $4 million to the winner, Russell Henley at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, one stroke better than Colin Morikawa, who got $2.2 million for second place. In his third pro start, Carl Phillips from Australia won his first PGA Tour event, the Puerto Rico Open. Sergio Garcia won a live golf tournament in Hong Kong.
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One year since New York Yankees ace starting pitcher Garrett Cole missed the first three months of the season because of inflammation in his elbow, the 2023 AL Cy Young winner has reportedly been told he needs Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery. Cole was seeking a second opinion. If he does have the surgery, he would miss the entire upcoming season.
and some of next year, too. Next Tuesday, the first game of the regular season, Dodgers and Cubs in Tokyo for a two-game series. Two more teams will get their tickets punched to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament tonight. Sunbelt Conference Final, Arkansas State versus Troy. SoCon Championship game, Furman against Wofford. Sunday, Lipscomb University got into the big dance for the second time.
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