The Masters at Augusta National has arrived for another year with four Australians in the hunt to clinch the nations first green jacket since Adam Scott in 2013.

JAKE FENNER IN INDIANAPOLIS: 34 years after Michigan became the first program to start five freshmen in a national title game, they became the first program to start five transfers in the showpiece.

Michigan's Roddy Gayle Jr. snagged a final rebound, then flung the ball to the other end of the court, effectively ending UConn's frantic bid for a miracle.The horn sounded, and Morez Johnson Jr. came over to share a celebratory scream and hearty hug from one transfer to another as the Wolverines began running toward midcourt to celebrate a national championship.Maybe a school really can build an ideal college basketball roster amid the topsy-turvy chaos of the transfer portal, paying players and top-to-bottom overhauls.Michigan proved it Monday night, rolling out an all-transfer starting lineup that was too big, too strong and too capable of countering anything that UConn could muster even on a night when the 3-point shot wasn't falling and All-American Yaxel Lendeborg was hobbled by ankle and knee injuries.The Wolverines still had enough to hold off the Huskies 69-63 and claim the program's first title in 37 years.And they showed how second-year Dusty May assembled a resilient roster by diving all the way into the portal.Man, this whole year, we were a team that played together, Lendeborg said as he stood amid the confetti on the court at Lucas Oil Stadium. We didn't have a best player, like I said before. We have a guy that steps up big-time in these games.We have players that make plays when they need to make them. And we just played a full all-around team basketball game today. We did it.It didn't matter that the Wolverines shot just 38% while making 2 of 15 3-pointers stunning numbers for a team that entered the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 8 nationally in KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency (126.6 points per 100 possessions).It didn't matter that they were outrebounded and gave up an incredible 22 offensive boards.Nor that Lendeborg carried an awkward gait as he grinded his way through a 4-for-13 shooting effort in 36 minutes after twisting his left ankle and spraining a knee ligament in Saturday's win over Arizona in the Final Four.Not the way these guys complemented each other on the sport's biggest stage.Point guard Elliot Cadeau, in his first season after two up-and-down years at North Carolina, had 19 points and was named the Final Four's most outstanding player. Johnson, in his first year from Illinois, had 12 points and 10 rebounds. The 7-foot-3 Aday Mara, in his first year from UCLA, helped hold UConn big man Tarris Reed Jr. who had been a March Madness force to just 4-of-12 shooting.Nobody cared about stats the whole season. Nobody cared about nothing but winning, Cadeau said.Four of Michigan's five starters were in their first year after transferring: Cadeau, Johnson, Mara and Lendeborg (UAB).The fifth starter, Nimari Burnett, was practically a Michigan lifer by comparison; he was in his third season with the Wolverines, after starting his career at Texas Tech then spending two years at Alabama. A similar story followed Gayle, a reserve who had spent two years at rival Ohio State before these last two years in Ann Arbor.That left only two players in Michigan's eight-man rotation who would qualify as homegrown talent: freshman Trey McKinney and fifth-year graduate Will Tschetter.It's an approach that tailored to the current era of the sport, with players transferring freely between campuses and cleared to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), along with schools able to pay athletes directly with the arrival of revenue sharing. Purists have complained that the revolving door of players makes it harder for fans to get behind their schools than it was when most players spent multiple seasons in the same uniform. Transfers even featured prominently in an executive order signed last week by President Donald Trump seeking to reform college sports.May shrugged off the critics on Sunday, noting, I think we are all better in certain situations than others.Athletic director Warde Manuel offered a similar defense on the court Monday night after the program claimed its first national title since the Glen Rice-led Wolverines cut down the nets in Seattle in 1989.A lot of teams around the country benefited from transfers, Manuel said. You can't just say, Well, Michigan had the most transfers. Dusty put this team together the way he did.And it worked to perfection.By the end, Mara was jumping around with a few teammates after they had watched the One Shining Moment music montage of tournament highlights, with someone picking up a handful of confetti and tossing it into the air to flutter around them.It's important to get the right people on the bus, assistant coach Justin Joyner said. It's important to get unselfish guys that are about winning, that are about the group. We had that with the best of our players. Yaxel Lendeborg's one of the most unselfish superstars you'll ever be around. So when you have that from the top, it permeates through your locker room, it permeates through your group. And eventually you can become a unit that's about winning.___AP March Madness bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues with 60 home runs last year, hit his first of the 2026 season Monday night following a 10-game drought.Raleighs homer was pulled deep to right field against two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom of the Texas Rangers to end a 12-pitch at-bat in the first inning. Raleigh fell behind 0-2, fouled off six pitches with two strikes and connected on a 99 mph fastball low in the zone.His homer was Seattle's lone run in a 2-1 loss.Just trying to put the bat on the ball there and fight, dont punch out, Raleigh said. I was able to have a pretty long at-bat, saw some good pitches and put a good swing on that last one.It was the second-most pitches in an at-bat that ended with a Mariners homer. Ral Ibaez homered on the 13th pitch he saw in June 2013.According to Major League Baseball, it was both the most pitches ever delivered to Raleigh in a plate appearance ending in a hit and the most pitches ever thrown by deGrom during an at-bat ending in a hit.That was just an incredible at-bat, Mariners manager Dan Wilson said, to battle all the way through like that and foul off as many pitches as he did and then finally put that perfect pitch into the right-field seats.Raleigh's longest home run drought last season was eight games. He had two homers last season through 11 games, hitting No. 3 in his 14th game.Raleigh entered batting .132 this year with only one run scored. He nearly homered on Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels in the first inning, but the ball was caught above the wall by Jo Adell, the first of three potential homers the right fielder prevented in that game.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/mlb

Sevilla footballers have been subjected to death threats and violent confrontations with supporters following their damaging 1-0 defeat to Real Oviedo on Sunday.The loss to the bottom-placed side has intensified the crisis engulfing the Spanish club, who now find themselves perilously positioned in 17th place in LaLiga.Angry fans accosted players at San Pablo airport immediately after the match, with the situation escalating further when masked ultras descended on the club's training facilities.Police were forced to intervene to shield the squad from the hostile supporters.TRENDINGStoriesVideosYour SayCentre-back Kike Sillas issued an apology to travelling fans in the aftermath of the defeat.According to Spanish publication Marca, supporters waiting at the airport hurled abuse at the returning squad, screaming for them to leave the club.The vitriol extended beyond the playing staff, with threats directed specifically at club president Jose Mara del Nido Carrasco. Recibimiento de algunos aficionados a la plantilla del Sevilla a su llegada al aeropuerto Gritos de "hijos de p***" y de "Junior murete" @IsaacEscalera #PartidazoCOPE pic.twitter.com/kKWCPoAv7j El Partidazo de COPE (@partidazocope) April 5, 2026 Fans were heard shouting: "Junior, die. Show your face, coward" at the president, while players faced chants of "Out, go away. Sons of b****es, out."The ugly scenes marked a dramatic low point for a club accustomed to challenging at the summit of Spanish football and competing in European competition.The confrontation intensified when hooded ultras subsequently arrived at the training ground, forcing Sevilla to call for police assistance.LATEST SPORTS NEWS:Man City confirm departure of club legend Bernardo Silva after nine glittering years at Etihad StadiumLuke Littler's celebrity friend defends darts star after furious Premier League bust-up with Gian van VeenMegan Rapinoe 'sickened' and says 'it's not based on science' after Olympic ban on transgender athletesOfficers reportedly established a protective barrier around the squad to prevent any physical altercation with the masked supporters.The club's predicament in the standings makes the situation all the more desperate, with Sevilla sitting just two points clear of Elche, who occupy the final relegation berth.With only eight fixtures remaining in the campaign, the six-time Europa League winners face a genuine battle to preserve their top-flight status.Real Oviedo, despite being rooted to the foot of the table with merely five victories from 30 matches, proved too strong.Sillas addressed supporters following the defeat, stating: "It's a really bad feeling. "We want to apologise to the fans and thank everyone who travelled to support us."We couldn't achieve anything here, and it's a pretty tough defeat."The defender urged unity, adding: "We have to get through this together. "The new coaching staff will help us. We all have to stick together, also for the fans, because they don't deserve this."We want to tell them that we're not going to give up until the next home game."Luis Garcia took charge in March following Matias Almeyda's dismissal, though whether Sevilla can avoid the drop to the second tier remains uncertain.Please write at least 4 paragraphsOur Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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The White House's annual Easter Egg Roll event was held Monday with a special "patriotic spirit" theme as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcomed scores of Americans to the Peoples House.Held on the South Lawn, this years event included such activities as the beloved egg roll, a Be Best Military Card Writing Station, the Lunar Exploration Experience, egg coloring fun for kids and mini golf.The occasion brought families together "to celebrate both the joy of Easter and the enduring blessings of liberty that define the American story," according to a release from the Office of the First Lady.TOP BOMBSHELLS IN MELANIA TRUMP DOCUMENTARY AS VIEWERS CALL AMAZON PRIME HIT A 'MASTERPIECE'There were also an array of activities, such as an AI-Creation Station, flower bouquet building, a flight lab, a sensory-friendlyegghunt and live chickens.America250 hosted an immersive experience celebrating Americas historic monuments through a "George the Stars Journey" activity.Spotted at the Egg Roll were some of the presidents children, including son Eric Trump and his wife Laura Trump, as well as daughter Tiffany and her husband Michael Boulos.President Trump and first ladyMelania Trumpopened the occasion by speaking from the South Portico, with an Easter bunny beside them.In his speech, the president shared that this Easter is for America's egg farmers noting that he was asked about egg prices last year and was asked to use plastic eggs for the roll.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER"Its hard to believe they didn't want me to order eggs for the Easter egg roll, the Easter egg hunt that we have here every year. They wanted me to use plastic. I said, 'I'm not using plastic. We'll get it solved,'" said the president."Within a short period of time, eggs came down. We had so many eggs, we didn't know what to do with them," Trump added. "Today we have more than 40,000 eggs supplied by all of the great egg farmers that are with us.'He said the White House Egg Roll was anticipating between 30,000 and 50,000 Americans today to take part in all of the festivities."I want to thank all of the associations and the egg farmers, and all of the people that are here," said Trump.The first lady spoke as well, wishing all Americans a happy Easter.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES"I hope you enjoy this beautiful day," Melania Trump said."We are celebrating a very special Easter egg roll this year because it's the 250th birthday of this beautiful nation. Enjoy it, and I hope you have a wonderful day."Music was playedat the festive event by The United States Marine Band, the Army Band, the Army Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps, the Navy Band and the Air Force Band.Further down on the South Lawn, a stage featured popular child performer Go with YoYo.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZThe tradition of the Reading Nook continued, with the first lady reading a book to children.Guest readers this year included second lady Usha Vance, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Michael Kratsios, Office of Science and Technology policy director.There were 500 Americans who volunteered for this years Egg Roll event at the White House.

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