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As a judge weighs NCAA deal, thousands of college athletes remain in legal limbo

Thousands of college athletes are in limbo as the NCAA and lawyers scramble to reach a new deal after a judge put a major settlement on hold. At issue are reduced roster sizes that would have seen players cut from their teams.
- Becky Sullivan
Saturday Sports: NBA playoffs, a coaching great retires

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA playoffs and the retirement of one of the league's greatest coaches.
- Scott Simon
The most exciting two minutes in sports is a show of 'Latino excellence'

Latinos, many from outside the U.S. mainland, have risen in prominence in horseracing, from the grooms to some of the winningest jockeys.
- Ximena Bustillo
Seattle scores a professional women's hockey expansion team

The Professional Women's Hockey League announced this week it will expand to Seattle next season. Seattle will soon be home to all three of America's professional women's sports leagues — hockey, soccer and basketball. The yet-to-be-named Seattle team will play at Climate Pledge Arena and share the Kraken’s training facility. Seattle Times sports reporter Kate Shefte talked to KUOW’s Paige Browning about what to expect from the new team.
- Paige Browning
These race car drivers turn lemons (and $500) into an endurance contest like no other

The Tour of Lemons is an endurance car race with a major tweak: The cars can't cost more than $500. But teams can decorate them any way they like – a recent race included a Toyota topped with googly eyes.
- Bill Chappell
How a group of older harmonica-playing Korean women has captivated LA hockey fans

A group of women harmonica players from the Koreatown Senior and Community Center have been performing the national anthem before Los Angeles Kings playoff games and winning over hockey fans.
- Steve Futterman
What the puck? The Seattle Kraken have 2 staff librarians

To say Gina Rome and Ashley Hufford have their dream job would be a little misleading — it wasn't a job they knew they could dream of before they had it.
- Katie Campbell
Seattle to get professional women's hockey team this year

In Seattle's biggest sports announcement in years, Seattle will get a professional women's hockey team in 2025.
- Paige Browning
Why Shedeur Sanders is the biggest headline out of the NFL draft

NPR's Juana Summers talks with USA Today reporter Tyler Dragon about quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was projected to be drafted by the NFL in the 2nd or 3rd round — and wasn't picked until the 5th.
- Juana Summers
Saturday Sports: NFL draft, Stanley Cup playoffs, Pope Francis' love for soccer

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the soccer fandom of Pope Francis, the NFL draft and hockey's Stanley Cup playoffs.
- Scott Simon

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