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🏈 Chase, Higgins get paid: The Bengals have agreed to big-money extensions with their top two wideouts, making Ja’Marr Chase the highest-paid non-QB in the NFL (four years, $161M) and Tee Higgins the league’s highest-paid WR2 (four years, $115M).
🎾 Get to know the name: Mirra Andreeva, 17, won her second straight WTA 1000 event on Sunday at Indian Wells, where she beat the top two players in the world in back-to-back matches to become the tournament’s youngest female champion since Serena Williams in 1999.
⚽️ The wait is over: Newcastle defeated reigning champion Liverpool, 2-1, in Sunday’s League Cup final to win the club’s first major domestic trophy since 1969 and end one of English soccer’s most famous droughts.
🏒 Attendance record: The PWHL’s Minnesota Frost and New York Sirens played in front of 14,288 fans on Sunday night in Detroit, setting an attendance record for a professional women’s hockey game in the U.S.
🇺🇸 American wins LA: Matt Richtman won the 40th annual Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, becoming the first American man to take the title in 31 years. It was just the second marathon for Richtman, a former All-American cross-country runner at Montana State.
🏀 Men’s bracket: 14 of 16 SEC teams get bids
The SEC will send a record 14 teams to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. That’s by far the most ever by a single league, obliterating the previous mark of 11 set by the Big East in 2011.
South Region: Auburn’s reward for earning the No. 1 overall seed? A potential matchup with an under-seeded Louisville team… in Kentucky. Michigan vs. Michigan State in the Elite Eight? Not if the Wolverines look past a very dangerous UCSD squad (30-4 record, 36th in KenPom).
West Region: Florida is the new title favorite, St. John’s is on fire, Drake has all the makings of a Cinderella and the two-time defending champions can’t be ignored. Bill Self vs. John Calipari is quite the coaching matchup, and Calipari vs. Rick Pitino would be even better.