Football

• NFL…Wraps up owners meetings..Commissioner Roger Goodell says San Diego-Oakland-St. Louis ownership will meet in April with league to discuss where each city is in negotiations on new Stadiums…Goodell says in May, each franchise should issue a formal report to the league about the status of financing new stadiums…Goodell in a private conversation with Mayor Kevin Faulconer encouraged him to stay aggressive in finalizing the San Diego financing plan.

• NFL…San Diego-Task Force may run into problems with some of their “Trail Mix” ideas on creating revenue streams…Task Force says Naming rights money and PSL money should go into the City-County pot as a way to finance stadium…Chargers have indicated if they sell PSL’s they should get the money.

• NFL…Owners say they will spend March and April discussing moving the PAT conversion play to the 1-yard line so teams will consider going for 2-point play instead of kicks…say they will likely vote on PAT rule change in May.
• NFL…Report Patriots coach Bill Belicheck very upset NFL owners tabled proposal to add 12-cameras per Stadium to cover all sideline and endzone plays…saying why can NFL spend money to go to Brazil for Pro Bowl or games in London, but won’t invest in cameras for 32-stadiums.
• NFL…Says it will hand down discipline next week to Browns-Falcons on illegal texting and crowd noise violations..No update on Patriots Deflate-Gate story.

• Chargers…John Fox-Bears coach-ex Broncos head coach praises OG-Orlando Franklin for toughness-tenacity-said a good pickup by San Diego…Saints coach Sean Payton says CB-Patrick Robinson-can run-make plays-but needs stay healthy.

• Cowboys..Owner Jerry Jones remains defiant over signing of DE-Greg Hardy-“cost himself millions of dollars this year”-did not get off scot-free.
• Cowboys..Jerry Jones says he is not concerned about a camp holdout WR-Dez Bryant-upset at getting Franchise Tagged at 14M.
• Vikings..Coach Mike Zimmer-“Adrian Peterson owes us 3-years on his contract-there will be no trade.”
• Green Bay..WR-Jordy Nelson has undergone hip surgery.
• Browns..Coach Mike Pettine says he would consider trading up for QB-Marcus Mariota.
• Saints..Coach Sean Payton says team has no intention of putting QB-Drew Brees on trade market.
• 49ers..Coach Jim Tomsula says Reggie Bush will be an every down RB.

• Vikings..Visit-CB-Terrance Newman-Bengals.
• Jets..Sign FA-TE-Kellen Davis-ex-Bears.

• USC..NCAA releases 500-pages of sealed documents in Todd McNair lawsuit..Emails claim McNair was dirty-arrogant-corrupt…said Reggie Bush could have cooperated and cleared his name by cooperating-if he was innocent..but didn’t…Criticized USC for hiring Lane Kiffin as coach after wrongdoing while at Tennessee.
• Ohio State..QB-Braxton Miller under investigation for possibly endorsing Health Food sponsor on instagram ad.

Baseball

• Padres-L-Dodgers (9-5)..Yasiel Puig 2RHR-Joc Pederson-Justin Turner-Scott Van Slyke HRs…Derek Norris (3RHR) ending (3-42) slump…Padres (11-11)..Dodgers (12-6).
• Padres-Arizona–..Odri Despaigne starts for Friars.
• Dodgers-White Sox…Clayton Kershaw starts for LA.

• Angels-W-Cleveland (4-3)..Matt Joyce HR…P-Nick Tropeano (4inn-2H-0ER) allowed.
• Halos-Cubs…Today in Mesa.

• Giants..P-Matt Cain-elbow discomfort returns-missed last year with surgery.
• Dodgers…P-Brandon League-MRI on ailing shoulder again.
• Washington..3B-Anthony Rendon-MRI on knee that is not healing.
• Cubs..P-Jon Lester to be put on pitch count to start season-protect shoulder fatigue.

• Dodgers…Fox reports Yasmani Grandal had falling out with Padres pitchers Andrew Cashner-Tyson Ross-Ian Kennedy..did not catch any of them after mid-July.
• Marlins..MLB looking at reports P-Jarred Cosart may have been involved with known gamblers thru tweets he made.

Basketball

• Sweet 16-NCAA Tourney tonite
• Kentucky (36-0) faces West Virginia…Wildcats seek to become lst unbeaten team since Indiana perfect season (1976)
• Arizona (33-3) meets Xavier…Wildcats ripped off 13-wins in a row…Musketeers very young team.
• Wisconsin (33-3) squares off against North Carolina…Tar Heels have to contain C-Frank Kaminsky (18P-8R)
• Wichita State (30-4) goes against Notre Dame…Shockers suffocating defense allows just (55P) per game.

NBA

• Old Dominion-W-Murray State…Hands 29-win Racers an upset loss.
• Temple-W-Louisiana Tech.

• Nevada Reno-Hires-Eric Musselman…thought to be leading candidate at U-San Diego.
• North Carolina Charlotte..Hires longtime NBA star Mark Price as coach.
• Buffalo…Opens talks on extension for coach Bobby Hurley.

• Clippers-W-NYKnicks (111-80)…31-point beating 2nd worst home loss of season for Knicks (14-58)
• Lakers-W-Minnesota (101-99)..Jordan Clarkson-Jeremy Lin combine (39P)..Lakers (19-51) in danger of falling out of lottery.
• Atlanta-W-Orlando…Hawks go to (54-17) on season.
• Cleveland-W-Memphis…Cavs (47-26)…50-win Grizzlies lose at home.
• Spurs-W-Thunder…San Antonio scores 71P in lst half of game
• Rockets-W-Pelicans..Houston gets 48th win of year.

• Houston..G-Pat Beverly needs wrist surgery.
• Knicks..G-Alexi Shved-out fractured rib
• Miami..C-Hassan Whiteside-10-stitches-gashed hand-hitting basket rim.

• Donald Sterling…Lawsuit says mistress Viv Stiviano defrauded ex-Clippers owner out of 3.5M during relationship.

Hockey

• Ducks-at-Boston…Anaheim (46-22-7)
• Kings-at-NY Islanders..LA (38-23-14)…Isles John Taveras has 44-goals this season.

General

• JD Gibbs…son of NASCAR owner Joe Gibbs-undergoing tests for brain tumors-impacting brain waves-speech patterns.

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