Jena Sims Getting Ready For The Masters, Tiffany Stratton NXT Superstar Winner & Calipari Leaving Kentucky
Billion dollar Powerball ticket sold
The winning Powerball for the $1.33 billion jackpot was sold over the weekend. I wasn't the lucky one who purchased the winning ticket, obviously.
Had I been, there would be signs. The first sign is that I wouldn't have put in a full day of work yesterday and there's a more than zero percent chance that I wouldn't have been scouring X for Instagram models who just so happen to post over there and allow embeds early this morning.
The winning ticket was sold to someone in Oregon. I still have a $4 winning ticket I haven't cashed from a couple of drawings ago. I'm sure I'll eventually get around to cashing the ticket in, probably for some more tickets.
I'm not sure when that will be, as a potential payout of more than $600 million wasn't enough to get me off my ass and do it. The drawing didn't just have the drama of more than a billion dollars on the line.
It was delayed for several hours. The official word on the delay, which pushed back the drawing to around 2:30 am Sunday morning, was that one state lottery needed more time to complete its pre-draw procedures.
That sounds sketchy to me. But what's done is done.
Today's drawing is back down to a measly $20 million, which boils down to not being worth the hassle of cashing in my $4 winner once the government gets through taxing it.
John Calipari is leaving Kentucky
The delayed Powerball drawing wasn't the only unexpected thing to go down over the weekend.
Dawn Staley, after South Carolina won another title, grabbed the microphone and declared that Caitlin Clark was one of women's basketball's GOATs.
That happened too, but I was talking about the news that started trickling out on Sunday night about John Calipari leaving Kentucky to become the next head coach at Arkansas. At first, it sounded a lot like one of the parody accounts on X trying to stir some things up.
That wasn't the case. Soon, reporter after reporter, including OutKick's own Trey Wallace, were confirming the reports.
Calipari was indeed in talks with the Arkansas Razorbacks on a five-year deal to leave Kentucky and their recent disappointments in March behind.
After 15 years at Kentucky, Calipari was working on finalizing a five-year deal (reportedly worth $40 million) to become the next coach at Arkansas. He is longtime friends with John Tyson, the billionaire heir to Tyson Foods, who is also a Razorbacks booster.
Trey said of Calipari's unexpected move from Kentucky to Arkansas:
Coming off a season that once again had the Wildcats sitting at home for the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, there was thought that AD Mitch Barnhart might decide to move on from Calipari.
But, as we all watched that play out in the days following the loss to Oakland, the Kentucky administration decided it was best that Calipari returns for another season.
The situation in Lexington has obviously been tense over the past few years, as the mantra ‘Built For March’ continued to fall on its face, with Kentucky fans voicing their displeasure with the current coaching staff.
For Arkansas, this could be one of the biggest coaching hires we've seen in the past decade. After Eric Musselman loudly left Fayetteville for USC, athletic director Hunter Yurachek had conversations with Ole Miss head coach Chris Beard, which did not end with the Rebels coach leaving Oxford.
Why not throw in some coaching drama right before UConn and Purdue tip-off to determine the national champion?
Now Kentucky will be conducting a coaching search and there will be plenty to discuss around who replaces Calipari. The timing is perfect.
Plumber's crack is hot in the streets
From one thing I didn't see coming to another. It turns out that plumber's crack is hot in the streets right now. Why plumber's crack? Because why not?
But also because celebrities are searching for a new way to show some skin. That's the claim in a new article by The Cut anyway.
"Celebs have gone in search of a fresh take on provocative attire: intentionally flashing some intergluteal cleft," reporter Emily Kirkpatrick says.
No longer is (inadvertently) exposing one’s so-called "butt-cleavage" an honor reserved for plumbers. For the A-list, Kirkpatrick says, "butt crack has never been hotter."
You read that right, butt crack has never been hotter. If this isn't the best time to be alive, I don't know what time it is. We're on the verge of technology completely taking over, and we're focused on getting that butt-cleavage looking just right.
This supposed fashion trend hasn't made its way to North Carolina yet. Not among anyone who doesn't have an enormous belly that makes properly wearing pants, or even pulling off the Chris Christie move, impossible.
To be fair to Chris Christie, these dudes might be unwilling to do the work necessary to find pants and a belt large enough to pull off the move.
There's no way this catches on, is there? We're not about to see intentional butt crack causally walking around minding our own business. I just don't see that happening.
Let me know what you think. Are you down with butt-cleavage or are you an old timer set in your ways, who sees no need for us to turn our backs on old-fashioned cleavage?
That's all I've got on this Monday morning of Masters Week. We've got the NCAA Tournament Championship tonight and, before that, an eclipse.
Here's a simulation claiming to show what it's going to look like for each state.
Have a great day and over the next couple of days feel free to reach out to me @sjoseph_sports on X and sean.joseph@outkick.com.