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Rangers fans still showed up Thursday at Madison Square Garden, as they always do, to witness the end of a season which offered them very little to be proud of.  

They’ve endured a disastrous 2024-25 campaign all the way through.

The Rangers became the fourth team in NHL history to miss the postseason one year after winning the Presidents’ Trophy, dropping from a franchise-record 55 wins all the way down to 39.

They managed a 4-0 win over the Lightning in Thursday’s regular-season finale, but neither team had anything to play for.

Rory McIlroy, the pre-tournament second “choice,” behind Scottie Scheffler, survived a bad last round and won a playoff vs Justin Rose, to win the prestigious Masters golf crown for the first time.

Oh he nearly blew it, but now has won 5 major golf tournaments.

McIlroy is now the sixth golfer ever to win all four majors and achieve the career Grand Slam, joining Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.

Quite good company!

The New York Knicks lost 108-102 at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers. New York was in firm control of the game, but everything fell apart in the second half. They coughed up a 23-point lead and were outscored by 18 points in the final 24 minutes. 

Friday night was an age-old story for the New York Knicks. They have been unable to beat the NBA’s top 3 teams this year. They finished the regular season 0-4 against the Cleveland Cavaliers, 0-4 against the Boston Celtics, and 0-2 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. With the NBA Playoffs around the corner, how will the New York Knicks fare?

Even with a loss last night, an Indiana Pacers loss locked the Knicks into the No. 3 seed. They will face the Detroit Pistons in the 1st Round of the NBA Playoffs. The Knicks are limping into the postseason losers of three straight games. New York lost to Detroit 115-106 on the road on Thursday. The Knicks blew a 13-point lead to finish the season 1-3 against the Pistons.

The Florida Gators are the 2025 NCAA men’s basketball national champions for the third time in program history.

The Gators defeated the Houston Cougars, 65-63, during the March Madness Tournament Final at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. 

The Gators rallied back from a 31-28 deficit at halftime, moving ahead, 64-63, with 46.5 seconds remaining.  

Guard Will Richard recorded a team-best 18 points and eight rebounds. Forward Alex Condon recorded 12 points, seven rebounds and three steals, while guard Walter Clayton Jr. finished with 11 points, seven assists, five rebounds, one steal and one block.

Florida’s men’s basketball national championship is its first since winning back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007. The Gators won the SEC Tournament before being rewarded with a No. 1 overall seed, having defeated Norfolk State, UConn, Maryland, Texas Tech and Auburn in the 2025 March Madness Tournament prior to Monday’s win.

The New York Yankees got off to a hot start Saturday, opening a home game against the Milwaukee Brewers by hitting three straight home runs off the first three pitches. That was just the start of the onslaught: New York finished with a team-record nine homers — including three from Aaron Judge — in a 20-9 victory over the Brewers.

The Toronto Blue Jays hold the MLB record for home runs in a game with 10, set in 1987. The Yankees, who were using some interesting hardware, joined the Cincinnati Reds (Sept. 4, 1999) as the only other teams with nine.

New York’s first four homers came against former Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes, who was traded to Milwaukee soon after dropping the ball in New York’s World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

For the first time in 70 years, two Yankees aged 25 or younger went deep in the first game of the season. The last time that happened, Mickey Mantle was involved, and the Yankees reached the World Series.

Austin Wells, a 25-year-old catcher, and Anthony Volpe, a 24-year-old shortstop, delivered homers Thursday on the way to a relatively breezy, 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. 

Southpaw Carlos Rodón cruised through 5 innings in place of injured ace Gerrit Cole. Captain Aaron Judge laced a timely double that doinked off third base in the seventh. Things got hairy for new closer Devin Williams against his former club in the ninth, but the All-Star held on for his first save in pinstripes.

And the home fans — all 46,208 of them went home happy.

Both Volpe and Wells are crucial not just to this season but also to the next half-decade of Yankees baseball. Aaron Judge will turn 33 in April. Cole will be 35 when he returns next season. Goldschmidt, Williams and Bellinger can be free agents this winter. Jazz Chisholm Jr. could depart the next winter.

And so, the blossoming of Volpe, Wells and Domínguez is not a pipe dream or a nice bonus. It is, as Boone said, something the Yankees are “relying upon.”

The New York Jets and free agent quarterback Justin Fields reached a contract agreement with Fields getting a two-year, $40 million deal that includes $30 million guaranteed.

Fields, 26, now becomes the favorite to be the Jets starting quarterback in 2025.

The Bears drafted Fields out of Ohio State with the 11th overall pick in 2021, the same draft that the Jets took Zach Wilson with the No. 2 pick. Fields showed flashes of potential but it never clicked for him in Chicago as he played for two different head coaches and two different offensive coordinators in his three years there. He went 10-28 as the starting quarterback and the Bears moved on last year, trading him to the Steelers.

Fields started the first six games of last season in Pittsburgh and did some good things. He threw five passing touchdowns and rushed for five more and had only one interception. The team was 4-2 when Steelers coach Mike Tomlin decided to switch to Russell Wilson as his starter.

Fields played sparingly for the rest of the season and is now moving on from Pittsburgh, which reportedly was interested in re-signing him.

In his career, Fields has thrown 45 touchdowns, run for another 19  and thrown 31 interceptions. He has a career QB rating of 83.9 and a 61.1 completion percentage.

New York Yankee Gerrit Cole had Tommy John surgery.

Cole was experiencing elbow discomfort during a spring training outing and underwent an MRI that ultimately revealed the need for Tommy John surgery.

The news is a devastating blow to the Yankees and Cole, who’s approaching what would be his 13th MLB season at 34 years old. 

Pitchers who undergo the procedure to reconstruct the ulnar collateral ligament generally face a 12-to-18-month timetable to return. The procedure rules Cole out for the entire 2025 season and places his long-term future as an MLB ace in doubt.

Fast food chains and casual restaurants have to constantly innovate to stay competitive these days. And by innovate, we mean, add new menu items. No longer can a popular restaurant like McDonald’s just sell burgers.

Domino’s is adding a first-of-its-kind menu item that’s not pizza. The pizza chain is launching creamy mac and cheese, and the two varieties sound pretty tasty. 

Classic macaroni and cheese is made with elbow macaroni noodles and usually some variation on Cheddar cheese. Domino’s two new mac and cheese offerings both use five kinds of cheese, and Cheddar is definitely in there, but the pizza chain ups the cheesiness significantly and switches up the pasta.

• 5-Cheese Mac & Cheese: Penne pasta combined with a blend of Cheddar, American, Parmesan-Asiago, mozzarella blend, and Alfredo sauce—all oven-baked to creamy, bubbly perfection. 
• Spicy Buffalo 5-Cheese Mac & Cheese: Hot Buffalo sauce is drizzled on the new 5-Cheese Mac & Cheese

The Raiders have their new quarterback.

Las Vegas has acquired quarterback Geno Smith for a 2025 third-round draft pick to reunite him with former Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll.

Smith is entering the final season of his three-year, $75 million contract, and the quarterback sought a new deal in the $45-million-a-year range. 

The Raiders sought to improve upon their quarterback play after a 4-13 season that saw Gardner Minshew II and Aidan O’Connell share the bulk of snaps. 

As a group, the team’s quarterbacks threw for a combined 3,797 yards and 19 touchdowns with an 82.4 rating, while the team had the  fourth-worst scoring offense in the NFL (18.2 points per game).

They had flirted with Matthew Stafford as a potential option to take over as signal-caller before he decided to remain with the Rams on a  restructured deal.

Now, the Raiders get Smith, who revived his career in Seattle, where  the quarterback played for five seasons, four of which came with Carroll — who was hired as Raiders head coach this offseason — at the helm.