Fred Biondi was asked Sunday morning to recount the past few days since he led the Florida Gators to the NCAA Championship last Wednesday at Grayhawk.

“It’s been nuts, I’m not gonna lie,” said Biondi, who also captured the NCAA individual title last week.

Shutting down a fancy restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his team and Gator supporters. A long travel day that ended in a welcome party at the Gainesville, Florida, airport. Hours of media availability at the team’s home club, Mark Bostick Golf Course. A few drinks at a campus sports bar.

And that was just the first 24 hours.

“The whole day, people kept asking me what my [future] plans were,” Biondi said, “and I couldn’t answer them because I didn’t even know.”

By Friday afternoon, though, Biondi found his answer. After much discussion with his agent, family and coaches, Biondi decided to turn professional and make his pro debut at this week’s BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Courtesy of his second-place finish in PGA Tour University, Biondi has full status for the remainder of the KFT season, which has 14 events remaining, including three limited-field, elevated-points events that culminate with the KFT Championship in early October. Of course, Biondi also had the option, thanks to his individual win at Grayhawk, to remain amateur, bypassing his PGA Tour U opportunities, and compete in this month’s U.S. Open and next April’s Masters Tournament.

The decision was difficult – Biondi has a ton of respect for both the USGA and Augusta National Golf Club, and he’s already notified both – but as Biondi explained to GolfChannel.com prior to making his official announcement on Monday morning, he chose what he thought was the best way to get on the PGA Tour the quickest.

“I have this massive opportunity with PGA Tour U, playing a full schedule on the Korn Ferry Tour, so I’m going to take full advantage of that, hopefully play well and then put myself in a position where I’m able to get my Tour card next year,” Biondi said.

Coming off a grueling NCAA postseason run and with his first KFT start just days away, Biondi also chose to withdraw from U.S. Open final qualifying on Monday.

“It was just going to be a lot right after nationals,” said Biondi, who last summer final-qualified into the U.S. Open at The Country Club.

Biondi's only path into either of those two majors now is via special exemption – or also for the Masters, to win a PGA Tour event between now and next year's tournament. The USGA offered such an exemption to Rose Zhang, the NCAA women's individual champion, for this summer's U.S. Women's Open, while the Masters has offered special invites to professionals in the past.

"We do know the chairman at Augusta National really well; [Fred Ridley] played for the Florida Gators, so maybe it would be something where they’d obviously understand where someone is graduating, got his degree already, fulfilled a wonderful commitment to Florida, and they’d honor that as a pro," Florida head coach J.C. Deacon said. "But that’s way above my pay grade, so we'll see."

With neither exemption appearing imminent, Biondi will remain focused on what he can control, which is a summer on the KFT.

Rose Zhang was the No. 1-ranked amateur for a record 141 weeks. After just one week as a pro, she's already well inside the top 100.

Zhang won her pro debut at the Mizuho Americas Open on Sunday. The triumph boosted her to 62nd in the latest edition of the Rolex Rankings, a rise of 420 spots.

She also earned LPGA status, a nice paycheck, CME Group points and U.S. Solheim Cup eligibility. She did not, however, earn any Solheim Cup, LPGA Player of the Year or LPGA Rookie of the Year points, as those aren't accrued until after a player has tour membership.

Still, here's a look at some of Zhang's spoils of victory:

• LPGA status: Through the 2024 season.
• CME Group points: 500, placing her 21st in the standings.
• Official earnings: $412,500, placing her 14th on the money list.

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Thursday

7AM-Noon (GC): Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, Round 1 (DP World Tour)

Noon-2PM (GC): BMW Charity Pro-Am, Round 1 (Korn Ferry Tour)

3-6PM (GC/Peacock): RBC Canadian Open, Round 1 (PGA Tour)

Friday

7AM-Noon (GC): Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, Round 2 (DP World Tour)

Noon-3PM (GC/Peacock): ShopRite LPGA Classic, Round 1 (LPGA)

• 2:30-3 p.m., live stream and app only

3-6PM (GC/Peacock): RBC Canadian Open, Round 2 (PGA Tour)

3-5PM (NBC/Peacock): American Family Insurance Championship, Round 1 (PGA Tour Champions)

• Event tape-delayed; showcased 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Golf Channel

5-7PM (GC): BMW Charity Pro-Am, Round 2 (Korn Ferry Tour)

• Event tape-delayed; showcased 8:30-10:30 p.m. on Golf Channel

Saturday

7:30AM-Noon (GC): Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, Round 3 (DP World Tour)

2:30-5:30PM (GC/Peacock): RBC Canadian Open, Round 3 (PGA Tour)

3-5PM (NBC/Peacock): American Family Insurance Championship, Round 2 (PGA Tour Champions)

• Event tape-delayed; showcased 8:30-10:30 p.m. on Golf Channel

4-6PM (GC): BMW Charity Pro-Am, Round 3 (Korn Ferry Tour)

• Event tape-delayed; showcased 10:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. on Golf Channel

4:30-7:30PM (GC/Peacock): ShopRite LPGA Classic, Round 2 (LPGA)

• 4:30-5:30 p.m., live stream and app only

5:30-7:30PM (CBS): RBC Canadian Open, Round 3 (PGA Tour)

Sunday

7:30AM-Noon (GC): Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, Round 4 (DP World Tour)

1:30-2:30PM (GC/Peacock): RBC Canadian Open, Round 4 (PGA Tour)

2-5PM (GC/Peacock): ShopRite LPGA Classic, Round 3 (LPGA)

• 2-2:30 p.m., live stream and app only

2:30-6:30PM (CBS): RBC Canadian Open, Round 4 (PGA Tour)

3-5PM (NBC/Peacock): American Family Insurance Championship, Round 3 (PGA Tour Champions)

• Event tape-delayed; showcased 8-10 p.m. on Golf Channel

5-7PM (GC): BMW Charity Pro-Am, Round 4 (Korn Ferry Tour)

Erik ten Hag has created a problem for himself at Manchester United, but at least it's a good one. It's been a while since the club have been in a position to look forward with optimism. That is down to the man who ended a six-year trophy drought and secured Champions League football in his first season as manager at Old Trafford.

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But the problem for Ten Hag is that, by overperforming in Year 1, he must now find a way to build on his initial success and be even better next season. As Saturday's 2-1 defeat against Manchester City in the FA Cup final (stream the replay on ESPN+) showed, however, United have only reached base camp in their ultimate challenge of returning to the top of the game. The summit, occupied by City, still looks a long way off.

The next step for Ten Hag is to make United the best of the rest. His team are still too inconsistent and the squad depth too shallow for United to have any realistic hope of beating City to the Premier League title next season, but for progress to be made, they have to catch this season's runners-up Arsenal and fend off the likely challenges of Liverpool, Newcastle United and Chelsea.

All four of those teams will be better next season, either because their recent signings will have had time to bed in or the summer's new arrivals will bolster depth and quality. In Chelsea's case, it will be both, plus the arrival of new manager Mauricio Pochettino finally bringing some stability and focus to Stamford Bridge. But the big question hovering over United is: will they be better next season?

There are so many unresolved issues to be addressed in the days and weeks ahead. The biggest of them all is the situation surrounding the ownership of the club. Are the Glazer family staying? Are they selling? Are they attempting to sell some of their stake but keep a percentage? Those questions have been left unanswered for more than six months and there is nothing that Ten Hag can do to influence the outcome.

But he can make a firm decision on the future of goalkeeper David de Gea, whose contract expires at the end of June. A series of high-profile mistakes by De Gea have cost United in recent months -- and he was at fault for Ilkay Gundogan's winning goal in the FA Cup final -- but sources have told ESPN that a new contract is on the table and close to being signed. If Ten Hag wants to accelerate United's return to the top, he should offload the former Spain international and find a new No. 1. However, finances will be tight at Old Trafford this summer, due to last year's £220 million recruitment outlay and a drop in commercial revenue in recent years, so De Gea may survive because other priorities must be dealt with.

Top of that list is a new centre-forward. The future of Mason Greenwood -- who had charges of attempted rape, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and controlling and coercive behaviour dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service in February -- is another issue that is out of Ten Hag's hands. But, no matter what the United hierarchy decide to do with Greenwood, 21, the team need to recruit a new forward who can be relied upon to score in the biggest games.

Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane and Napoli's Victor Osimhen are leading targets, but signing either at over £100m would blow a huge hole in United's recruitment budget. Yet after so many years of patching up with short-term solutions including Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Radamel Falcao, Edinson Cavani, Odion Ighalo and Wout Weghorst, United need to sign a proven striker at the peak of his powers.

Their main striker, Marcus Rashford, is too inconsistent -- he scored 11 Premier League goals in the two months after the World Cup but only a further three in the final three months of the season. His future is also shrouded in uncertainty. Rashford, 25, is out of contract in June 2024 and is likely to become United's top earner if he commits to a new deal. Ten Hag won't want to lose him, but equally, he needs more from the England forward than sporadic bursts of form followed by disappearing acts when the team need him the most.

Also in Ten Hag's in-tray are the futures of Harry Maguire and Jadon Sancho, two expensive signings (Maguire £80m; Sancho £73m) who have consistently failed to perform and look ill-equipped to be United players. Neither appear to be good enough to be a part of the future under Ten Hag, with Maguire now fourth-choice centre-back and Sancho's place on the wing increasingly threatened by the emerging talent of Alejandro Garnacho. But offloading them will be difficult due to their lack of form and the financial cost to any club interested in signing them.

Forward Anthony Martial and midfielder Scott McTominay may also head for the exit, but if they do Ten Hag will need to replace them as United's substitutes' bench at Wembley highlighted an alarming lack of quality beyond the first XI. That reality was brought into sharp focus when compared to City's formidable array of substitutes.

That United are a team in transition is without question, which makes Ten Hag's achievement of winning the Carabao Cup, reaching the FA Cup final and finishing third in the Premier League even more impressive. It will take time to unpick the tangled mess that he inherited. He will need longer to move on the sub-standard players on long-term contracts, too many of whom have been allowed to survive at Old Trafford because it was easier to keep them than find the money to sign better players.

But even though Ten Hag has somehow dragged United to a successful season this time around, the reset button has now been pressed and he has to continue the upward trajectory next term. For that to happen, United must back Ten Hag's decisions and meet his requirements. But until the ownership issue is resolved, he may find that United stand still just when they need to be striding forward.

Michael Vick, Larry Fitzgerald and Terrell Suggs are among the former players on the 2024 College Football Hall of Fame ballot, which was released Monday.

The National Football Foundation (NFF) released the ballot in conjunction with the College Hall of Fame. The 2024 ballot comprises 78 players and nine coaches from the FBS, with 101 players and 32 coaches coming from divisional ranks.

Vick, Fitzgerald and Suggs are all on the ballot for induction in their first year of eligibility.

"It's an enormous honor to just be on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot considering more than 5.62 million people have played college football and only 1,074 players have been inducted," NFF president and CEO Steve Hatchell said in a statement. "The Hall's requirement of being a First-Team All-American creates a much smaller pool of about 1,500 individuals who are even eligible. Being in today's elite group means an individual is truly among the greatest to have ever played the game."

Before going No. 1 to the Atlanta Falcons in the 2001 NFL draft, Vick starred at Virginia Tech for two seasons (1999-2000), guiding Frank Beamer's program to the BCS National Championship game in the 1999 season.

Vick finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting that season as a redshirt freshman after helping the Hokies go undefeated in the regular season at 11-0 before losing to Florida State in the 2000 Sugar Bowl.

Fitzgerald played two years for Pittsburgh (2002-03) and won the Biletnikoff Award during his sophomore season in 2003 after catching 92 passes for 1,672 yards and 22 touchdowns. Pittsburgh retired his No. 1 jersey on July 1, 2013.

The Arizona Cardinals selected Fitzgerald, who finished second to Oklahoma quarterback Jason White in 2003 Heisman voting, with the third overall pick in the 2004 NFL draft.

Suggs, who was taken with the 10th overall selection in the 2003 NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens, played three seasons (2000-02) for Arizona State. He concluded his time there with 163 tackles and 44 sacks while leaving as the Sun Devils' career leader in tackles for loss (65½). His 24 sacks as a senior in 2002 established a new NCAA single-season record at the time.

Membership voting continues through June 30, and the announcement of the class will be made in early 2024.

Former Houston Rockets coach Stephen Silas has agreed to join the Detroit Pistons and new coach Monty Williams as the top assistant coach, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Silas, 49, was fired by the Rockets after this season when his team finished 22-60. He was 59-177 in three seasons as the Rockets' head coach. He had previously been a top assistant with the Dallas Mavericks, Charlotte Hornets and Golden State Warriors.

The Pistons agreed to hire Williams as their new head coach last week. Terms of the deal were not announced, but sources told Wojnarowski that Williams agreed to a six-year, $78.5 million contract, the largest coaching deal in NBA history.

The 51-year-old Williams was fired by the Phoenix Suns on May 13, two years after reaching the NBA Finals and a year after he won the league's coach of the year honors.

The Pistons finished 17-65 this season and will pick fifth overall in the 2023 NBA draft.

The Boston Celtics are hiring Sam Cassell as an assistant coach on Joe Mazzulla's staff, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Sunday.

Celtics president Brad Stevens announced last week, after the team lost to the Miami Heat in seven games in the Eastern Conference finals, that Mazzulla would return as coach but said he wanted to hire a veteran assistant to his staff.

Cassell, 53, will fill the spot vacated when Damon Stoudamire left to become Georgia Tech's coach in March. Three other Celtics assistant coaches -- Ben Sullivan, Aaron Miles and Mike Moser -- are reportedly leaving to rejoin former Celtics coach Ime Udoka, who was named head coach of the Houston Rockets in April.

Mazzulla, 34, led the Celtics to a 57-25 record and the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference in his first season on the bench. He took over when Udoka was suspended for the season in September for multiple violations of team rules. He reportedly had an intimate relationship with an unidentified female staff member.

Cassell was an assistant on Doc Rivers' Philadelphia 76ers' staff the past three seasons and was on Rivers' staff with the LA Clippers before that (2014-15 through 2019-20). Rivers was fired by the 76ers last month. Cassell began his coaching career with the Washington Wizards and spent five seasons with the franchise (2009-10 through 2013-14).

Before becoming an assistant, Cassell played 15 seasons in the NBA and was part of three championship teams, including the Celtics in 2008. He played for eight teams during his career, averaging 15.7 points and 6.0 assists in 993 regular-season games.

DENVER -- Victor Wembanyama's next couple of weeks are now set: He'll be playing in the French league finals starting this weekend, and then the San Antonio Spurs will almost certainly make him the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft June 22.

And if that means the French star's summer league debut comes in Sacramento instead of Las Vegas in early July, the NBA is fine with that.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league doesn't have a preference regarding the site of Wembanyama's first game with the Spurs. While the NBA summer league in Las Vegas is the biggest -- all 30 teams attend -- and commands the most attention, there are smaller summer leagues that precede the Vegas event by a few days. Sacramento plays host to one of those events, and the Spurs are one of six teams headed there this year.

"All summer leagues are NBA summer leagues," Silver told The Associated Press. "I'm very supportive of the Sacramento summer league. I remember when [Kings owner Vivek Ranadive] first came to the league and said this was something he wanted to do. I said, 'As long as you have enough other teams who support it and players who want to play in it, it's a good thing.'"

The Kings might be getting a lot more buzz than usual this summer. Not only are the Spurs headed there, but so is Charlotte, which holds the No. 2 pick. And it just so happens that the Spurs and Hornets will open Sacramento summer play against one another, potentially setting the stage for a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup a few days before Vegas even starts.

If Wembanyama plays in Sacramento, he'd be the first No. 1 pick not to debut in Las Vegas since Markelle Fultz for Philadelphia in 2017. The 76ers played in Utah's summer league that year before going to Vegas.

Other recent No. 1 picks have opened in Las Vegas with big-crowd, big-spectacle atmospheres. Paolo Banchero's debut in Vegas for Orlando last summer had John Wall and DeMar DeRozan sitting courtside, as well as Jerry West -- three guys who didn't need to see the scalpers who were working outside the arena for hours before the game. Zion Williamson played only nine minutes in his debut in 2019, in a game that was stopped by an earthquake, and his debut got LeBron James and Anthony Davis to grab courtside seats.

The Spurs have not said whether Wembanyama will play in the Sacramento event, which starts July 3, and almost certainly won't address the topic until they actually draft him in a little over two weeks. Wembanyama is expected to be with the Spurs in Las Vegas as well; the league has already announced him as one of the participants for its inaugural NBA Con, which runs July 7-9 and will celebrate many aspects of basketball culture.

"What's made the summer leagues so valuable are really the media rights more than the individuals who buy tickets there, because it's a very affordable experience," Silver said. "So, the answer is, I want Victor to get playing court experience, and I think the team -- assuming it's San Antonio -- should make decisions completely independent of any commercial implications from where he debuts."

Wembanyama's Boulogne-Levallois team beat his former team, ASVEL, 3-1 in a French league semifinal series that ended Sunday. Monaco, the top seed in the league, awaits Wembanyama's team in the best-of-five final that starts Saturday and could go until June 20 -- two days before the draft.

"So proud of my guys," Wembanyama tweeted Sunday after the semifinal win. "Job ain't done tho."

Wembanyama said in October that he's 7-foot-3; some still say he's 7-foot-4 or 7-foot-5, and given that he's only 19, it's certainly possible that he had a bit of growing left in recent months. Either way, he's a generational talent who'll come into the NBA with enormous hype, the likes of which probably hasn't been seen since James went No. 1 to Cleveland in 2003.

"What I try to advise players -- and I'm not making a prediction that he will or won't live up to the hype -- is to control what you can control, and I think what you can control is doing the work," Silver said. "If he is in San Antonio, it's an organization that led the way in terms of international scouting and signing of international players. Certainly, everyone would acknowledge they know how to develop players and particularly big men. And so, if I were in his shoes, or if I'm advising him, I'm saying, 'Quickly become part of that organization and be a sponge and listen to the advice.'"