Box Score 3/31: Bring the madness, bring the noise

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while we wait for tip-off tonight. 

A happy birthday today to David Diaz-Infante, Tom Barrasso, Steve Smith, Pavel Bure and Josh Kinney. On this date in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays played their first game, losing at Tropicana Field to the Detroit Tigers 11-6.

Daily brain workout

Name every NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player from the last 40 years.

YB ICYMI

• Everything you need to know for the Women's Final Four which gets underway tonight. 
• Five best moments from the season for each Men's Final Four team
• Promotions we're dying to see teams incorporate this baseball season. 
• NFL Roundup: Jay Cutler wasted a perfectly good sendoff photo.
• Kicking it: Major setbacks early this MLS season.
• Who won the Masters the year you were born?

Around the league

• UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said a few unwise things about female coaches in college basketball, and update, his own daughter sort of yelled at her pops on Twitter. [Deadspin]
• Is Jerry Jones not only the most powerful person in football, but the most powerful figure in all of American sports? [Bleacher Report]
• Gonzaga's own legend Adam Morrison weighs in on this year's team. [The Players' Tribune]

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