"Now you tell me." -- The proverbial famous last words said after finding out pertinent information when it's too late to use it to your advantage.

Unfortunately, when it comes to how the 2020 baseball will play in terms of power, we'll probably know 350 games into the season -- again, too late to incorporate into draft preparation.

However, it is possible to assemble a list of players who are most likely to be affected if the baseball reverts to 2018's traits.

Before delving into the methodology to unearth the players in danger of losing power, here's a brief explanation of how the aforementioned 350 games was determined. Below is a table showing monthly HR% (home run per plate appearance) from 2015 to '19.

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Kusal Perera will not be in contention for a place in the Sri Lanka squad for their first Test against England, starting March 19, after picking up an injury to the middle finger of his right hand during the second T20I against West Indies on Friday. Wanindu Hasaranga will also be out of action "for several weeks" after injuring his left hamstring while fielding in the same match.

An SLC statement said that Perera "is expected to be fit in two weeks", meaning that he should be in the fray for the second and final Test, starting March 27, while a more concrete update on Hasaranga should be available in a couple of days when the report of his MRI scan is available with the board.

Hasaranga has never played Test cricket, but is one of Sri Lanka's most exciting young talents, and played strong hands with ball and bat during the recent limited-overs series against West Indies at home.

Perera, meanwhile, would have hoped to return to the Test squad after being left out for the tour of Zimbabwe earlier this year. That completed a strange year for Perera in the format, after he had played one of the great Test innings of all time in Durban in February 2019, but totalled just 44 runs in three Tests after that, including bagging a pair in Colombo against New Zealand in August in what was his last Test appearance.

He was in the squad for the December Test tour of Pakistan, but didn't get a game, and chief selector Asantha de Mel confirmed while announcing the squad for Zimbabwe that Perera had been dropped after consultation with coach Mickey Arthur, who felt it was better for the wicketkeeper-batsman to remain in Sri Lanka and train for the white-ball series against West Indies, rather than tour Zimbabwe and not get a game.

Perera played at least three good innings in the games against West Indies, 42 and 44 in the first and third ODIs as Sri Lanka won 3-0, and then a 38-ball 66 in the first T20I - West Indies won that series 2-0.

Big picture

Not even the most passionate Bengal supporter could have seen this coming: a team almost always on the fringes, with a history of differences and infighting, getting together as a unit to pitch for their first Ranji Trophy title in three decades. They last made the final in 2006-07, and only one member of this squad - Manoj Tiwary - knows what it is like to play in one, even if that may not hold much significance.

Saurashtra have now made their fourth final since 2012-13. They are a growing force, a team that has emerged from the shadows of the now-retired Shitanshu Kotak, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravindra Jadeja. Players have carved out individual identities because they have been given a long rope.

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The core of the squad that made that first final in 2012-13, where they were blown away by Mumbai inside three days, is still the same. And youngsters who started to flourish around 2015-16, when they were beaten in their second final, again by Mumbai, are starting to step up and become senior players. Like Prerak Mankad, Chirag Jani.

An association run almost by a family - the Shahs - with Jaydev, the most capped captain in Ranji Trophy history as president, has carried forward Saurashtra's small-setup-big-thinking philosophy to the next level. They have a small talent pool, only one big centre in Rajkot, and players who come from outside the city are made to feel welcome, just like their inspirational captain Jaydev Unadkat was, straight out of a trial in Porbandar in 2009.

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This is a contest between Bengal: a side that blew away the tournament favourites thanks to their incredibly talented bowling attack, and one, Saurashtra, that overcame self-doubts at various stages and found an extra kick in the dying moments to eke out a dramatic win, one that left them emotionally drained. They first recovered from 15 for 5 in the second innings, then found a double-century stand hard to dislodge as defeat loomed, only for Unadkat to deliver the knockout blow.

One captain, Abhimanyu Easwaran, is desperate to turn around a horror season that started with a magnificent Duleep Trophy century that briefly attracted thoughts of a Test call-up. But a barren run since, and his nature of dismissals, have left him far behind in the pecking order. Unadkat, meanwhile, is on the cusp of a Ranji Trophy all-time record, having picked up 65 wickets. Another big performance here and an India recall can't be an impossible dream.

Form guide

(completed matches, most recent first)

Bengal WDWWD
Saurashtra WDDWD

In the spotlight

Cheteshwar Pujara has failed to hit a half-century in four innings in Ranji Trophy finals. In 2015-16 against Mumbai, he managed 27 and 4. Last year, he was out for 1 and 0 to left-arm spinner Aditya Sarwate. He's coming into the match on the back of a disappointing New Zealand tour from India's point of view. Can he channel all that into a match-winning effort for Saurashtra?

Manoj Tiwary

clicked photos with Utpal Chatterjee and Arun Lal, members of the 1989-90 Ranji Trophy-winning team and current members of the support staff, after winding up training. He will be playing his 100th Ranji Trophy game for Bengal. Having recovered from a finger injury that hampered his batting in the semi-final, he'll want to leave his mark in possibly the biggest game he's played in recent times. As for form, he has a triple century this season.

Team news

Pujara walks back in to Saurashtra's XI, which will mean at least one forced change. Kishan Parmar, who made 37 and 0 in the semi-finals, could make way.

Saurashtra (possible): 1 Harvik Desai, 2 Avi Barot (wk), 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Sheldon Jackson, 5 Arpit Vasavada, 6 Vishwaraj Jadeja, 7 Chirag Jani, 8 Prerak Mankad, 9 Dharmendra Jadeja, 10 Jaydev Unadkat (capt), 11 Chetan Sakariya

Bengal will welcome back Wriddhiman Saha, who joined the team on Saturday evening after taking an extra day off to be with his newborn. That means one of Sudip Chatterjee and Shreevats Goswami may have to miss out. Bengal may also consider playing an extra spinner here, which could mean another game for Arnab Nandi, who looked off colour in the semi-final.

Bengal (possible): 1 Abhishek Raman, 2 Abhimanyu Easwaran, 3 Sudip Chatterjee, 4 Manoj Tiwary, 5 Anustup Majumdar, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Arnab Nandi, 8 Shahbaz Ahmed, 9 Akash Deep, 10 Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Porel

Pitch and conditions

It's a typical Rajkot pitch with a biscuit brown flavour. Day-time temperatures have touched 33 degrees and the surface was covered by a rugsack-like carpet to prevent it from further baking. Both sides reckon a big first-innings batting effort will set the tone for the contest, with spinners coming into the game a little later.

Stats and trivia

• This will be Tiwary's 100th Ranji Trophy match. At Rajkot, he has struck two centuries and a half-century in the past. He is the only member from the current squad of 15 to have featured in a Ranji final earlier.

• Saurashtra captain Unadkat has 65 wickets so far this season. He needs four more to go past Ashutosh Aman's tally for most wickets ever in a season. He has seven five-wicket hauls. Only two others: Aman (eight) and Bishan Singh Bedi (nine) have more in a season.

• This is Saurashtra's fourth final in the last eight seasons. They lost in 2012-13 and 2015-16 against Mumbai and in 2018-19 against Vidarbha.

Quotes

"I've forgotten that we won in 1989-90. That was a long time ago. This bunch has the fitness, the fighting belief and spirit. We're clear of our roles, strengths and are confident. We don't focus on results. One bad game can't undo the gains of the season. The pride and passion with which we've played has been incredible."
Bengal coach Arun Lal isn't willing to let one game define their season

"I was restless on the flight back from Auckland. I kept texting my wife because Jaydev (Unadkat) was on the field. I wanted constant score updates on the final day (through in-flight WiFi). I felt relieved when we finally won. Winning a Ranji final will mean a lot for the region."
Cheteshwar Pujara on how he felt on his way back from New Zealand

DURHAM, N.C. -- The hard-working walk-on makes good in his final home game, electrifying the crowd and etching his name into the history books of a storied program.

Nope, it's not Rudy. It's Duke's Justin Robinson, who set or matched career highs in minutes, points, 3-pointers, assists, rebounds and blocks in Saturday's 89-76 win over North Carolina, leaving Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski ready to write a screenplay.

"It's better than 'Rudy,'" Krzyzewski said, comparing Robinson's performance to the legendary story of Notre Dame football walk-on Rudy Ruettiger. "It's almost like a movie. He's been outstanding, and hopefully he keeps it going."

That's the real difference between Robinson, a walk-on as a freshman in 2016-17 and the son of NBA great David Robinson, and stories such as "Rudy." The unheralded senior figures to be a big part of the Blue Devils' run through the postseason.

Saturday marked the third straight game in which Robinson played significant minutes -- 15 against Wake Forest, 14 against NC State and 25 against UNC -- after rarely leaving the bench throughout his four-year career in Durham. He had 10 points and six rebounds Monday against the Wolfpack but turned in an even bigger performance Saturday in his final rivalry game against the Tar Heels.

Robinson was 4-of-6 from 3, including hitting one as the shot clock expired that halted a Heels run, and his work on the defensive end, including four blocked shots, helped stifle UNC on several fast-break opportunities.

"He had his fingerprints on every aspect of the game," Krzyzewski said.

Robinson's 23 points the past two games coincide with a turnaround of Duke's fortunes. The Blue Devils had dropped three of four and tumbled in the rankings prior to Monday's win against NC State. Last month, Duke needed a miracle finish to escape woeful UNC in Chapel Hill, but there was no such luck involved with this one, thanks in large part to the fast open to the action, sparked by Robinson, who started on Senior Night.

"There's nothing like seeing a guy like J-Rob have a game like this in this moment," guard Tre Jones said. "With the way J-Rob is playing now, it's a boost, and it's definitely a piece we needed during the stretch where we dropped a couple. We weren't fighting like we used to. He gives us that boost."

Duke enters the ACC tournament as the No. 4 seed in the league, and Krzyzewski said Robinson will likely be a factor in the rotation moving forward, a notion that Robinson, now a graduate student, said he didn't quite believe was possible.

"But I took to heart the 'be ready' and the 'staying ready,'" Robinson said. "That's something I learned my freshman and sophomore years, and I really took it to heart."

LAS VEGAS -- Yoel Romero started Saturday night's fight against Israel Adesanya standing completely motionless, covering his face with his hands in a shell-like guard. Things didn't get any less weird as the fight wore on.

In one of the least active and most bizarre title fights in UFC history, Adesanya successfully defended his middleweight title against Romero via unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena.

The judges scored it 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46.

"I did what I had to do and picked him apart," Adesanya said. "The legs don't lie. I f---ed his leg up."

Adesanya and Romero combined for only 88 significant strikes. That total was the least in a UFC middleweight title fight since UFC 112 on April 10, 2010, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. That bout, between Anderson Silva and Demian Maia, had 71 combined significant strikes.

Romero landed his best shot in the first round, a huge left that Adesanya ate. Adesanya landed leg kicks throughout, and Romero was content to shell up and launch huge left haymakers as counters. There were long periods in which no one landed anything.

Before the fourth round, referee Dan Miragliotta warned both about their timidity and urged them to pick up the pace.

When the final bell rang, Adesanya and Romero, both clearly frustrated, went chest to chest and had to be separated by Miragliotta as the crowd showered them with jeers.

The fans booed the result after booing throughout. At one point in the third round, people in the crowd started shining the flashlights on their cellphones.

"It's not the fight I wanted to have," Adesanya said at his postfight news conference. "I had a different vision for how this fight was gonna end, but it takes two to tango. I can't force a guy to fight. I can force a guy to make mistakes, which I did by exposing his legs later on. But for me, if a guy stands there for the first two minutes and has his hands up, am I supposed to risk my belt and get clipped by him?

"That was really bizarre. I might as well have just used a training dummy at my gym as my sparring partner. It was just really bizarre because I was expecting a little bit more."

Afterward, Romero said it was "my victory." The fans, who cheered him following the decision, seemed to agree. Adesanya outlanded Romero in three of the five rounds: the second, third and fourth, according to UFC Stats.

Romero expressed disappointment that he couldn't give fans an exciting fight and was critical of Adesanya for turning it into "a running match." He said every time he tried to engage Adesanya in the fight, Adesanya would "disappear."

"It's impossible to fight against a ghost," Romero said through an interpreter at his postfight news conference. "I'm gonna start training for track or cross-country because obviously [Adesanya] is a cross-country and a track star, so I need to catch up to his sport."

Romero said he wasn't frustrated about his performance but felt ashamed for the fans.

"I feel that the fight game now is whoever runs the fastest is the winner," Romero said.

The story leading into the bout was that Adesanya could have waited for top contender Paulo Costa to return from biceps surgery. Yet Adesanya chose to face Romero -- despite Romero entering the fight on a two-fight losing streak -- because of Romero's reputation as one of the toughest men in the UFC.

UFC president Dana White acknowledged afterward that the company should not have booked Adesanya against Romero, who was coming off two straight losses. White said his matchmakers, Sean Shelby and Mick Maynard, told him the fight "didn't make sense," but he went ahead with it anyway.

"The matchmakers didn't love that fight and didn't want to make that fight," White said. "They did not want to make Romero vs. Adesanya. But the goofy fan in me said, 'Are you s---ting me? Come on. This will be a fun fight to do, the fact that he wants to fight a guy who nobody wants to fight.'

"Now, hindsight is 20/20. We probably shouldn't have done that fight. We probably should have waited for Costa."

Later, White was asked if he thought Romero might work his way back to another title shot.

"A path back to the title after that performance? I mean, you're crazy even asking that question right now," White said. "He looked terrible tonight. He looked terrible. He literally gave up an opportunity tonight. Maybe he comes back in his next fight, and he looks like Yoel Romero, but if he doesn't, I wouldn't expect him to fight another 10 years looking like that."

Romero landed just 40 significant strikes in the fight. Comparatively, Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk both landed 40 significant strikes in the fourth round in Saturday night's co-main event. Adesanya said Romero's bouts of no offense lulled one "into a false sense of security."

ESPN had Adesanya ranked as the No. 7 pound-for-pound MMA fighter in the world coming in. Romero was ESPN's No. 4 middleweight. This was Adesanya's first title defense since he beat Robert Whittaker to win the middleweight title at UFC 243 in October.

Adesanya (19-0) remained undefeated with the victory. The Nigerian-born New Zealand resident has won all eight of his UFC fights. Adesanya, 30, was thought to be on the verge of becoming one of the UFC's big stars leading into the bout.

Romero (13-5) has lost three straight. The 42-year-old Cuba native has not won a fight since 2018. Romero, 42, won the freestyle wrestling silver medal in the 2000 Olympics.

Adesanya is the fastest to 8-0 in modern UFC history (755 days), breaking Silva's record of 850 days. The eight-fight winning streak is the longest active streak at middleweight and is tied for the third longest in division history.

Adesanya made a disclosed guarantee of $500,000 for the fight, and Romero made at least $300,000, according to purses obtained from the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

LAS VEGAS -- A chaotic training camp and a superb effort from one of the most decorated champions in UFC history was still not enough to topple Zhang Weili.

Zhang (21-1) recorded the first defense of her 115-pound title on Saturday, as she defeated former five-time defending champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk (16-4) via split decision in a five-round fight that will go down as one of the greatest in the division's history. The bout co-headlined UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena.

Two judges scored the bout 48-47 in favor of Zhang, while the third saw it 48-47 Jedrzejczyk. ESPN scored it for Zhang 48-47.

"I was pretty sure I got it," Zhang said through a translator. "It was a great performance. We are all martial artists here. We don't want trash-talking. We want mutual respect."

Jedrzejczyk, 32, who suffered a massive hematoma across her entire forehead from the third round on did not contest the scorecards and applauded Zhang after the bout. It was Jedrzejczyk's first attempt at reclaiming the title since April 2018.

"She did a great job. I felt her punches," Jedrzejczyk said. "The swelling was bothering me. I felt it more and more, but we're good. Congrats champ. I'm very happy we gave a good fight."

Both women gave fantastic performances, particularly Zhang if you consider the Chinese champion's path to UFC 248. Zhang, of Hebei, China, was forced to flee the country in response to the coronavirus in early February and spent the majority of the month in transit. She initially relocated to Thailand before moving on to Abu Dhabi and, finally, the U.S.

"It was hard with the coronavirus in my country, everybody knows that," Zhang said. "The coronavirus is getting much better, and I hope everybody stays together and fights together. We can win this. Our country is suffering from the tragedy right now, but we're fighting together and winning it."

The displaced camp did not appear to have a negative effect on the champion, however. Zhang repeatedly walked Jedrzejczyk down and landed her left hook, although she paid on several occasions for the forward movement. She walked into multiple Jedrzejczyk right hands but seemed to be the more powerful puncher.

A hard right hand by Zhang seemed to hurt Jedrzejczyk in the second round. In the third, Jedrzejczyk switched to southpaw, which temporarily threw Zhang off. Jedrzejczyk started to land her right hand with more consistency and turned the tables by placing Zhang's back on the fence.

Zhang adjusted in the fourth and fifth rounds. According to UFC Stats, Jedrzejczyk actually out-landed Zhang in total strikes 191-170, but Zhang's strikes caused more damage. A left hook by Zhang in the fourth round wobbled Jedrzejczyk for the second time in the fight, and she continued to catch Jedrzejczyk with the left hook at the end of combinations.

Zhang is the first UFC champion to come out of China. She admitted during the buildup to the fight that she looked up to Jedrzejczyk for years. Jedrzejczyk, who is from Poland but trains out of South Florida, falls to 0-4 in her past four title fights, including two losses to Rose Namajunas and one to current flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko.

On a night when the UFC announced a fight was being inducted into the Hall of Fame Class of 2020, fans at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas were treated to an epic bout that probably will have its own HOF induction announcement some day.

Zhang Weili defended her strawweight crown with a violent split-decision win over Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the co-main event of UFC 248.

Their 351 combined significant strikes are third-most ever thrown in a UFC fight. Jedrzejczyk's 186 significant strikes are the most ever by a UFC fighter in a loss.

But as memorable as that fight was, the main event between middleweight champ Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero was the polar opposite. Adesanya won by unanimous deicision, but it left UFC president Dana White wishing he hadn't made the fight and instead waited for top contender Paulo Costa to heal from biceps surgery.

Meanwhile, Sean O'Malley made an impressive return after two years off and again looks like a star on the rise.

ESPN's panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim discusses the takeaways of UFC 248, including where does that co-main event rank among the greatest fights ever.

Where does Zhang-Jedrzejczyk rank among the greatest fights in UFC history?

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Helwani: Going into tonight my pick for the greatest female fight ever was Miesha Tate vs. Holly Holm at UFC 196. I try not to get caught up in the moment, but I think this may have surpassed it. What a fight. What shots landed. What heart shown by both women. Tremendous stuff. One thing it wasn't? A robbery. Close fight, yes. But definitely not a robbery. I had Zhang winning 3-2, but it was close.

Okamoto: Always gotta worry about recency bias. Take a deep breath. Don't get carried away. I am pretty sure though this is easily a Top 10 title fight in UFC history, and potentially Top 5. I have always, always loved the Frankie Edgar, Gray Maynard title bouts of 2011. And of course, Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson I, this year's addition to the UFC Hall of Fame, is easily in the Top 3, and probably No. 1. The Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald welterweight title fight of UFC 189 still gives me nightmares. Yeah, I'm going to lean Zhang Weili vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk does not quite crack the Top 5, but it doesn't miss the mark by much.

Raimondi: It's pretty high up there. The best women's fight in UFC history, no question. And one of the best title fights of all time, period. For me, it was the best fight since Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 236 last April. Considering the stakes, how close it was and the sheer violence, it was truly a special fight.

I can't put a number on it as far as how high I'd rank it. It's too soon to say. But it feels like this one will stand the test of time. On a night it was announced that Jones vs. Gustafsson 1 will enter the UFC Hall of Fame, Zhang vs. Jedrzejczyk will probably get there one day, too.

Wagenheim: Sitting here mere minutes after the fight, still waiting for my heartbeat to settle back to normal, it's too early for me to fairly suss out where exactly this one ranks, honestly. It was one of the most vicious I've ever seen, title fight or otherwise. It was certainly the greatest fight I've ever seen in women's MMA and among the greatest bouts ever with a title on the line. But with so little defense in the standup exchanges, and no sustained ground scrambles to speak of, I'm inclined to slot this fight beneath those from the past that put all martial arts disciplines on display and those in which one or both combatants were badly hurt, maybe even nearly finished, before staging a heroic comeback.

Those are high standards, though, and this fight was so crazy good that it does not deserve to be downgraded in any way. So I'll just put it on the short list of greatest fights in MMA history and leave it at that... except to note that it was a whole lot better than the fight that followed.

What is your biggest takeaway from the main event?

Helwani: Shades of UFC 112 Anderson Silva vs Demian Maia all over again. Unfortunately for as great as the co-main was, the main was equally not great. I'm not really sure who to blame, to be honest. But that certainly didn't live up to the hype, safe to say. One of the more bizarre title fights in recent memory.

Okamoto: My takeaway was that sometimes stylistic matchups are weird, and this is what it looks like. It happens in other sports, too. Sometimes, styles of play collide in something that is... not entertaining. At the end of the day, Romero didn't do enough to win that fight. He was ultra conservative, which is his right, but the risk you assume when you fight in that way is that you have to land big when you open up. And although Romero had his moments, he didn't have enough of them. Adesanya was slightly more consistent, it is what it is, and now we move on. The next fight, Adesanya vs. Paulo Costa, should look much, much different.

Raimondi: Romero was every bit the tough matchup that Adesanya thought he was. Maybe more than most others believed he would be. At 42 years old, Romero really befuddled Adesanya throughout. His long bouts of inactivity confused Adesanya. His power and wrestling gave Adesanya pause. It was a weird one. Matchups make fights. That goes for the reverse, too. Sometimes matchups make for poor fights. That was not a classic main event and the crowd, which booed it lustily, was clearly spoiled after watching an all-time classic co-main event.

Adesanya escaped with the middleweight title and that's what matters in the end. He barely held onto the belt, but he did. Live to defend another day, I suppose.

Wagenheim: Adesanya vs. Romero was a dud. There's no other way to put it. Romero was supposed to be a scary and exciting challenger, which was what made it OK, in some people's eyes (Dana White's, for instance), that he was getting an undeserved title shot, coming off two straight losses and three defeats in his last four fights. But the Cuban did little to show he belonged. And, surprisingly and disappointingly, the same held true for Adesanya.

This first title defense was all set up for him to send his star power into orbit. It was his night to shine ... until he didn't. Sure, one can blame the largely stationary and inactive Romero for the way the fight went down. He deserves criticism for wasting a big opportunity, one that a 42-year-old is unlikely to see again. But this night was Adesanya's failure. He got the judges' nod and retained his championship, and that's not insignificant. But his night was supposed to be about more than that. He's been lauded as the next big thing in the UFC, and he still might be. But he sure did not come up big tonight.

What did "Suga" Sean O'Malley prove with his first-round TKO of Jose Quinonez?

Helwani: That was just what the doctor ordered for O'Malley. Two years away, questions surrounding if he's still got it or still worthy of the hype ... and he does that against a really tough opponent. The night couldn't have gone any better for him, and I particularly liked the emotion he showed in his postfight interview. That was real and genuine. So what did he prove? He proved that he's still got it and is still worthy of all that buzz. He's 25 and is still very much a name to watch. Welcome back, Suga. We missed you.

Okamoto: He proved something we've already known about him, but it's always good to see it re-enforced, and that is this guy is a performer. There are certain guys who are great in the gym, and there are certain guys who elevate when the lights are on, and O'Malley is the latter. Coming in off a two-year layoff, in a clearly emotional moment for him, he looked nothing short of outstanding bell-to-bell. There was no adjustment period or feeling out process. O'Malley was on, and he was on immediately. Everybody I've spoken to who is close to him says he has the best eyes in the sport -- his vision in a fight is second to none -- and his confidence is through the roof. We saw both of that at UFC 248, despite that lengthy time off. Suga Show 2.0 is in full effect.

Raimondi: He's back. And he looked better than he ever has. "Suga Show 2.0" isn't just a catchphrase. O'Malley seems to have legitimately improved over the last two years during his absence while dealing with USADA issues. That's really great to see, because in 2018, before he tested positive for trace amounts of ostarine, he was considered one of the brightest prospects in all of the UFC. Not just the bantamweight division. It was no coincidence that the broadcast showed bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo right after O'Malley won. That's the kind of talent the UFC thinks O'Malley has. And his win over Quiñonez only did more to foster those thoughts. O'Malley is still only 25. With his charisma, athletic ability and fighting skill, we'll be hearing a lot more about him over the next few years.

Wagenheim: Dominick Cruz would be proud. O'Malley proved that ring rust is not real. Either that, or through sheer will the 25-year-old prevented it from rearing its sluggish head and ruining his comeback moment. You had to come away from that two-minute performance impressed by "Suga Sean" (and not so impressed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which moved like a snail on his drug-test failure and kept this young prospect sidelined for two years that would have been way fun to watch). Quinonez did not have it in him to put O'Malley through a tougher test, and that was all O'Malley's doing as his fluid footwork never allowed for the possibility of trouble. O'Malley still has a ways to go before joining the upper echelon of the bantamweight division, but it's going to be a treat following his upward trajectory.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Golden State Warriors guard Damion Lee has made a career out of proving people wrong. That determination has helped him earn the respect of his teammates and coaches over time. It is part of the reason why so many people within the Warriors organization were so happy to see him score 24 points while leading the team to a 118-114 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.

At 27, Lee has had to overcome many hurdles to carve out a niche for himself in the league, the latest of which came following Thursday's home loss to the Toronto Raptors in which Lee missed a pair of free throws and a wide-open 3 in the final minute of the game.

After the previous game was over, Lee, who scored 23 points against Toronto, was the subject of online harassment from Twitter users. The abuse was so overwhelming that Lee's teammates, including brother-in-law Stephen Curry and Eric Paschall, and Lee's wife, Sydel, all came to his defense, posting messages of support.

"I remember going home after that game, that last game, people were just slandering him," Paschall said. "[He was] trending on Twitter. I didn't like it. I feel like you always got to have your teammates back, and that's the reason I tweeted that out, because it was like people were disrespecting him like [he didn't] have a great game before that.

"Just because he had a little rough sequence doesn't mean you take that away from a dude like that. So that's why I was hyping him up, because I just wanted to let him know that, 'You're a killa. Kill me doing your thing.' That was that sequence."

Paschall tweeted his support of Lee again after Saturday's triumph.

I told y'all! This my dawg! This man is a killer! Don't disrespect @Dami0nLee https://t.co/XxJ7LP1bd2

— Eric Paschall (@epaschall) March 8, 2020

Lee acknowledged that getting all the support from his teammates over the previous day and a half was important to him in the wake of all the demeaning comments he and his family saw since Thursday night.

"It's huge," Lee said. "That goes to show what kind of people they are, what kind of organization we have. This is a brotherhood, and no matter what we're going through, ups and downs, we're always going to stick together and defend each other."

Playing without Curry (flu), Draymond Green (knee) and Kevon Looney (hip), it was Lee, Paschall and Marquese Chriss who led the way all night against Philly.

The Warriors were particularly good when Lee and his teammates went to the rim against a Sixers team playing without Joel Embiid (shoulder) and Ben Simmons (back). Golden State was 19-for-24 for 39 points when scoring on drives and 22-for-28 for 52 points when including any shots that came off drives, according to ESPN Stats and Information data.

"It's not surprising," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said of Lee's performance. "Damion has so much toughness [and] perseverance. You think about how he's gotten this far -- something like that the other night, a tough finish. If you play in the NBA long enough, stuff happens like that, so he bounced back quickly. He had a great game the other night too. He played really well the whole night through; just had a couple tough plays at the end.

"One of the things I love about this team is just seeing the stories of these guys."

To Kerr's point, aside from Lee's contributions, the Warriors also received a boost from guard Mychal Mulder, who scored 18 points and made several big plays down the stretch. Kerr is hoping that Mulder, who is still on his first 10-day contract, remains with the Warriors for a while longer.

"It's a championship organization," Chriss said when asked why so many young players seem to be improving within the Warriors' system this season. "I think they know what they want and they know what it takes. We all just came here open-minded, I think, and just willing to learn."

Lee was just happy to have the chance to redeem himself after such a tough stretch on Thursday night.

"Obviously, I was just upset," Lee said of the previous 48 hours. "Just trying to take the pressure off me. I hate things being about me. I just want to enjoy the game and be surrounded by love and be surrounded by my teammates. What happened on Thursday happened, but the beauty of the league is you're basically playing every other day.

"So just going out there, trying to have fun with it. Staying locked in and knowing not only then, but for the rest of my career, I've got to stay even more locked in. ... It was definitely a great game for us as a collective unit."

For Paschall and the rest of the Warriors, Lee's bounce-back performance wasn't shocking to anyone who knows him.

"Like I said in my tweet, a lot of people don't know his story, but he's been through a lot all through his career," Paschall said. "So it's no surprise what he did tonight just because he's been through so much in his career. Tore his ACLs, he was on a two-way [contract player], but it happens. Stuff like that happens.

"I feel like he's a great player; it showed tonight. I feel like that's why I put out that tweet. You guys just totally forgot how good that dude is."

TAMPA, Fla. -- King Guillermo won the $351,000 Tampa Bay Derby by 4 3/4 lengths on Saturday for owner Victor Martinez, a five-time All-Star in Major League Baseball.

The 3-year-old colt earned 50 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby. However, King Guillermo isn't nominated to the Triple Crown series, so Martinez would need to pay $6,000 by March 30 to get him in the Derby.

Martinez races as Victoria's Ranch, a 2,400-acre cattle operation he founded in Florida after retiring from a 16-year baseball career in 2018. He paid $150,000 for King Guillermo, who won his first stakes race on Saturday.

Sent off at 49-1 odds, King Guillermo paid $100.40, $38.20 and $17.80. He has two wins in four career starts and earnings of $240,350.

Ridden by Samy Camacho, King Guillermo ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.63.

Sole Volante was second, and Texas Swing took third.