How a gambling tech company caught Calvin Ridley | Why Brittney Griner's supporters have gone quiet | Roman Abramovich's private jets

Plus: The curious case of an $8,000 bet on the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl

Basketball

Tiny St. Peter's will make a surprise Sweet 16 appearance tomorrow. All of the excitement around the Cinderella run should help the university's bottom line, but not as much as you might expect, research suggests.

Athletes in crisis often find themselves at the center of a media firestorm. Brittney Griner, who remains detained in Russia after being accused of transporting hashish oil, has stayed under the radar—but that is partly by design.

Overtime Elite just finished a promising first season, landing multimillion-dollar partnerships and spurring Topps' return to basketball cards after a 20-year hiatus. It has big plans for Year 2.

Baseball

A class-action lawsuit and a bill in California could help increase pay for minor leaguers. They are also stoking fears that MLB could dissolve more affiliated teams.

Soccer

As Western countries clamp down on Russian oligarchs, Forbes has identified at least 13 jets and seven helicopters linked to sanctioned billionaires. Eight belong to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, and they are worth a staggering sum.

While manager turnover is quite common in soccer, one recent study shows the Premier League offers more job security than other European leagues.

Thanks to a growing season-ticket base, a booming website and a lucrative jersey deal, the NWSL's Gotham FC is on an upward trajectory.

Auto Racing

One Nascar superfan has gotten closer to the track by becoming a sponsor.

Golf

Swag Golf, which produces custom and limited-edition putters, is expanding its offering through an e-commerce partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue.

Featured Story

Falcons receiver Calvin Ridley broke the NFL's cardinal rule when he placed $1,500 worth of bets through a mobile gaming app in November, leading to his indefinite suspension. The director of integrity at the company that caught Ridley explains what his group looks for.

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Upon Further Review

As its season picks up speed, IndyCar is building momentum and closing the gap with rival series Nascar and Formula 1. It's a turnaround a decade in the making, led by a bold executive who rescued the sport from what had appeared to be an irreversible spinout. Learn how IndyCar got back to the sort of stability it hadn't experienced since the early 1990s.

The Last Word

“I think that, like, womanhood is what you make it. And I’m not a woman.”

Iszac Henig

Over the weekend, swimmers Lia Thomas of Penn and Iszac Henig of Yale became the first out transgender athletes to compete against each other for an NCAA Division I national championship. Henig, a transgender man who has postponed taking testosterone so he can continue to compete with Yale's women's team, had to respond to critics who said—without evidence—that his transition gave him an unfair advantage over other competitors. Here's what he said.