Statistically, he has picked up where he left off after he emerged as a star closer last year and has been even more valuable than Max Fried through Baseball Reference’s WAR in 2025.
The addition of Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges this year, along with Anunoby being healthy, should only result in Hart, who shot 33.3 percent from deep in the regular season, being left open even more.
Tyler Herro scored 38 points as the Heat dominated the Bulls 109-90 on Wednesday night to advance in the play-in tournament, where they next face Atlanta for a chance to meet top-seeded Cleveland in the first round.
And it sounds like Ward is confirming that speculation.
While playing Fortnite on a livestream, he mentioned Titans running backs Tony Pollard and Tyjae Spears as the best in the league.
He also mentoned his top four receivers: Justin Jefferson, Ja'Marr Chase, Calvin Ridley and Treylon Burks. Burks calls Nashville home.
Earlier in the offseason, it seemed like Tennessee was more than willing to deal the first selection considering the talent atop the board. Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter, the projected No. 2 and 3 picks in our latest mock draft, could easily be No. 1 selections other years.
With Will Levis struggling in his two years with Tennessee and a new front office, it's starting to look like the Titans will go with a player who could become a franchise quarterback.
Ward broke the record for the most touchdown passes in a career in Division I history, surpassing Case Keenum's record in the Pop-Tart Bowl.
Ward led all of Division I with 39 touchdowns, and he finished as an All-American while finishing in fourth place in the Heisman Trophy voting.
Princeton transfer Xaivian Lee, one of the top point guards in the transfer portal, has picked newly crowned champion Florida over St. John's and Kansas, he announced.
During the first Sunday of the month, Bueckers helped lift UConn women's basketball back to the mountaintop. The Huskies knocked off the defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks to secure Bueckers first career NCAA title.
On Sunday, sources confirmed to ESPN that Bueckers was set to ink a three-year deal with the upstart Unrivaled, a professional women's 3-on-3 league. On Monday, Bueckers was the first player selected in the 2025 WNBA Draft.
Unrivaled is expected to pay Bueckers more over its 10-week season, than her WNBA rookie salary will yield over the league's record-high 44 games during the 2025 season. But, on Wednesday, Bueckers' April whirlwind took another spin when she announced she was an investor in Unrivaled.
The Dallas Wings rookie confirmed her investment stake during an appearance on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.
"I mean, investments in women’s sports — I feel like the return on investment has been amazing," Bueckers said. "Even the first year (of Unrivaled), the numbers were shocking. They just blew it out of the water. And just to invest so much in women’s sports, it’s growing at an all-time high, and it’s just a great time to be in women's sports."
The average Unrivaled salary was more than $220,000. Bueckers' four-year WNBA deal’s base salary would be just under $350,000.
Bueckers is just the latest high-profile investor in Unrivaled.
In December, the league announced $28 million in funding from a group that included Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley and USC star JuJu Watkins. Other investors include tennis star Coco Cauff, retired soccer star Alex Morgan and retired NBA star Carmelo Anthony.
Before she steps on the floor for Unrivaled, though, Bueckers has her rookie WNBA season awaiting her.
After making the talk-show rounds, Bueckers will be headed to Texas to make appearances and prepare for training camp, which begins April 27.
The Wings open the season on May 16 against the Minnesota Lynx, and they face Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever on June 27, which could represent a summit showdown of the two players expected to be the face of the league for the foreseeable future.
"Just to join a city and organization that embraces you, I’ve felt so much love already and I haven’t even set foot in Dallas yet," Bueckers said. "Everyone has been loving me and embracing me with open arms."
Caitlin Clark was not included on Time Magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People of 2025, which released Wednesday.
Clark was left off the list despite the fact that the publication named her its Athlete of the Year for 2024.
Time also included other athletes on its "Most Influential" list on Wednesday, including fellow WNBA players Breanna Stewart and Naphisa Collier. The main premise of Stewart and Collier's place on the list is their recent launching of the "Unrivaled" women's basketball league as co-founders.
Other athletes included on the list were U.S. gymnast Simone Biles, form Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and Super Bowl LIX MVP Jalen Hurts and France's Olympic gold medalist swimmer Leon Marchand.
Clark's absence from the list prompted questions and criticisms by fans and pundits.
Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd brought awareness to the snub when with a rant during his show on Wednesday.
"That's idiotic! That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen!" Cowherd said. "That's a dumb list… she's the most influential athlete, I would argue, man or woman in America over the last year."
Other social media users agreed with Cowherd's take.
"Clark is the main reason the league is so popular and she’s not on the list?" one X user wrote.
Another user asked, "How...HOW is she left off this list[?] CRAZY!"
Clark's influence on the popularity of women's basketball over the last year has been evident in various statistics.
Clark made the Fever the most-watched team in the WNBA by a landslide in her rookie year, as the 14 most-watched WNBA games of the season all included the Fever. On top of that, she broke the record for most All-Star votes for any player in WNBA history.
In early September, Clark’s Indiana Fever played in front of a TV audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against the Minnesota Lynx that was played at the same time as a Week-1 Friday night NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
In Clark's first regular-season finale against the Washington Mystics on Sept. 19, the 20,711 fans that showed up at Capital One Arena set a new record for the highest-attended WNBA regular-season contest.
Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers to her first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun on Sept. 22, while competing with an NFL Sunday. She followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for Game 2.
But after Clark's Fever season ended, the WNBA playoffs also saw a steep drop-off in viewers.
The first game between the Aces and Liberty, a rematch of last year's WNBA finals between two of the league's most popular and successful teams, drew an audience of just 929,000, which was 50% less than the Fever's Game 1 against the Sun.
Meanwhile, in women's college basketball, after Clark played in the first women's NCAA title game to get more viewers than the men's in 2024, the sport saw a steep decline in ratings this year.
Without Clark in the tournament, the broadcasts of UConn vs. UCLA and South Carolina vs. Texas averaged just 3.9 million viewers for ESPN. It marked a 64% decrease from the record-setting 10.8 million viewers in 2024, according to Front Office Sports.
The NBA on Wednesday said officials made two incorrect calls and two incorrect non-calls in the final two minutes of Golden State's 121-116 play-in win vs. Memphis.
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