As a general rule, do not buy sports betting picks from touts. Even if you find one of the rare honest voices, the fees alone make an already difficult market even harder to beat, and the vast majority of the business is built on marketing, image, and selling false confidence to naive bettors.

Arizona and Michigan have felt like the two best teams in college basketball for months, and this Final Four matchup looks every bit like the heavyweight battle people expected. The Wildcats have a couple of real edges, but in a game this even, Michigan’s biggest advantage may be the man on the sideline — Dusty May.

UConn has all the March mystique, and Dan Hurley has earned every bit of that respect, but Illinois looks like the better overall team in this matchup. The Illini have the top offense in the country, the coaching to handle the moment, and enough firepower to get out in front and hold off the Huskies late.

Baseball should use its massive schedule as a strength, not a burden, by putting at least two day games on every day and turning the sport into an all-day summer presence. It would create better viewing habits, more family-friendly opportunities at the ballpark, and from a betting and ratings standpoint, it could be a huge win.

Republicans are once again dragging out the old China story around Eric Swalwell because they know it still muddies the waters, even though no evidence ever showed he knowingly cooperated with Chinese intelligence or committed a crime. That alone should tell California Democrats something: if the right is working this hard to weaken him early, rallying around Swalwell may be the smartest way to avoid a disastrous split in the jungle primary.

The NFL is right to push back on prediction markets built around easily manipulated outcomes, because once a market can be moved by insiders, leaks, or one small decision behind the scenes, it stops looking innovative and starts looking reckless. This is not about resisting change — it is about protecting the integrity of the sport before the entire product turns into a circus.

Sports betting is harder than ever, and the trading side of the industry has lost much of the creativity that once made it compelling. As trading teams focus more on cautious risk management than precise trading, the entire market has grown more robotic, less imaginative, and more vulnerable to the few disciplined bettors still capable of thinking for themselves.

Andy Beshear still sitting around 1% for 2028 looks less like a dismissal and more like a market not yet pricing in how cautious Democrats may become. If the party decides it wants the safest, most conventional, least controversial nominee possible, Beshear’s number has a real chance to rise.

The Masters is sold as timeless beauty and noble tradition, but like so many American institutions, its history is deeply shaped by racism, sexism, and classism. Beneath the azaleas and green jackets is a story about exclusion, hierarchy, and the way America so often mistakes closed gates for greatness.

Tilman Fertitta buying the Connecticut Sun for $300 million and planning a move to Houston is another clear sign that the WNBA is thriving, not struggling. Part of me hoped the team would land in Boston, but no matter what, getting the franchise out of Uncasville and into a bigger market is good for the league’s future.