The smallest hit to the wrong part of your head can change your life.

The smallest hit to the wrong part of your head can change your life. But I don’t really understand that. … Just his presence at the rim, his ability to guard on the perimeter and rebound and screen for us, I think those things he’s been really good at throughout the year, and that’s what we’re looking for from him tonight. Auburn coach Mickey Dean called it an ugly game. It was also bizarre at times. But in the end, Auburn’s softball game beat Ole Miss 8-7 Thursday in a game it was on the verge of losing and moved on to the semifinals in the SEC Tournament at Bogle Park in Arkansas. It was Phoenix’s second straight embarrassing loss in a playoff elimination game after getting routed by the Dallas Mavericks in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals last season. The Florida State softball program has their sights set on a key matchup with the Virginia Tech Hokies. Europe: Second-placed Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid have all but wrapped up places in next season’s Champions League. Real Sociedad appear poised to join them, holding a seven-point lead over fifth-placed Villarreal with only five games remaining. There are just three points between seventh-placed Girona and 11th-placed Sevilla in the fight to reach the Europa Conference League. Safety Chris Smith II, a fifth-rounder, had 132 career tackles at Georgia, with five tackles for loss, six interceptions and 10 pass breakups. “(I have) some pain in the back, some big bruises. I’ve got a big black spot on my back which is some blood. It’s life, it’s racing.

We have to deal with it and just handle the pain as well as possible and try to relax as much as possible because I think I will need a lot of energy now to heel from the wounds.” Auburn scored three unearned runs on two Ole Miss errors in the bottom of the third. In the fifth, with Aspyn Godwin on third, it seemed Nelia Peralta had hit a sacrifice fly to give Auburn a two-run lead. But Makayla Packer, on second, tried to tag and go to third. She was thrown out before Godwin crossed the plate. Ole Miss scored a run in the fourth with the help of two Auburn errors. Most Division I football programs employ several analysts who under current rules can not be involved in on-field coaching. There are no limits to the number of analysts a football program can have. Blow back is Blow back. Comes with the territory, peeps. I was in no way minimizing the seriousness of a concussion. I was questioning whether Anthony Davis really had one, considering the play I saw & other hits I’ve seen him absorb. But, bottom line, it was wrong for me to do.… The goal, said Mid-American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher, is to have fewer classifications of coaches. Steinbrecher is a member of the D-I Council. I spoke to a source close to Davis this morning who told me that he believes there’s not any scenario that he can envision where Anthony Davis does not play in Game 6, McMenamin reported on ESPN’s “NBA Today” on Thursday afternoon. “The source adding: ‘It’s the playoffs.'” Statistically, Auburn ace Maddie Penta had her worst game of the SEC season and did not get out of the third inning. After Auburn took lead in the first on Lindsey Garcia’s two-run single, Ole Miss scored six times in the third to take a 6-2 lead. Little could anyone have known how wild it was going to get.

Relegation: Bottom club Southampton are eight points from safety with three games left, but the next four clubs are separated by only three points. Two of Leeds, Leicester, Everton and Nottingham Forest will likely join the Saints in going down. Landry Shamet has long been ridiculed, criticized and slammed by many Phoenix Suns fans on social media. Denver has stayed the course instead. Certain characters have come and gone. From players like Gary Harris and Jerami Grant and Malik Beasley to personnel staffers like Connelly and Arturas Karnisovas, now the executive vice president spearheading the Chicago Bulls. But so many pieces, so many people, have endured, grown and grown together. Linebacker Amari Burney was a sixth-round selection out of Florida, where he totaled 223 career tackles, 15 tackles for loss, seven sacks and 12 pass breakups. He then made no effort to hide his amusement at Davis being unable to walk on his own after sustaining the injury. With Mac Etienne and Abramo Canka entering the transfer portal this week, the Bruins are assured of having more newcomers than holdovers next season, leaving their roster in the biggest flux of the Cronin era. Europe: RB Leipzig sit third, one point ahead of fourth-placed Union Berlin and fifth-placed Freiburg.