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A new era has arrived for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. — and it begins with the Rangers. MSG executive chairman and CEO James Dolan is handing over the day-to-day ownership responsibilities for the Blueshirts to his son Quentin, The Post has learned. This begins the process of passing the torch to his children, which Dolan has said he’s always hoped to execute. Indeed, for the first time since assuming control of both the Knicks and the Rangers 27 years ago, Jim Dolan is scaling back his involvement with one of his teams.

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A source said Quentin Dolan’s promotion with the Rangers does not change anything for the Knicks. All is status quo for MSG’s NBA championship team, with Jim Dolan remaining in his executive chairman role.

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Bill Foley is looking to add another sports franchise to his portfolio. The founder and majority owner of the Vegas Golden Knights announced that he is pursuing the award of an NBA franchise for Las Vegas. Earlier this year, the NBA voted to formally explore expansion, with one of those potential markets including Las Vegas.

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"Las Vegas has earned its place among the great sports cities in America, and an NBA team belongs here," Foley said. "We built the Golden Knights into a championship organization from the ground up, and we are prepared to do it again – with the same standard, the same commitment to this community, and the same insistence on winning. We have the market, a proven world-class arena, and a best-in-class organization in place. Our intention is to be ready the day the NBA is ready."

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In the last five completed seasons, head coach departures in Europe’s top five leagues are at least 10 per cent more frequent on average than in the NHL and MLB, and between 15 and 25 per cent more frequent than in the NFL and the NBA. To understand the reasons, it helps to dig into why European football coaches get sacked in the first place. An unceremonious in-season exit can be influenced by tensions with owners, a loss of faith in the dressing room, a toxic atmosphere in the stands, or all of the above. Fundamentally, though, it tends to follow a bad run of results that leave the season either doomed or in danger of falling short of expectations.

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Bam Adebayo: .@FlaPanthers don’t ever disrespect my loyalty.

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Madison Square Garden Sports has moved to split the New York Knicks and New York Rangers into two separate, publicly traded companies — a move analysts say could finally unlock billions in trapped franchise value tied up under James Dolan’s sprawling sports empire. MSG Sports said it confidentially filed an initial Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday as it advances a proposed tax-free spin-off that would separate the Knicks business from the Rangers business. The Knicks entity would include the NBA franchise and the Westchester Knicks G League affiliate, while the Rangers company would house the NHL club and the Hartford Wolf Pack.

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Forbes valued the Knicks at $9.75 billion last year, while CNBC recently pegged the franchise above the $10 billion mark amid soaring NBA media-rights expectations. The Rangers, meanwhile, were valued by Forbes at $4 billion — making them the NHL’s second-most valuable franchise behind only the Toronto Maple Leafs. MSG Sports, however, currently carries a public market valuation of roughly $8.5 billion — far below the combined estimated private-market value of the Knicks and Rangers. Investors have long argued that Dolan’s complicated corporate structure obscured the true value of the teams.

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Adam Aaronson: Kyle Lowry is wearing a custom Flyers jersey with his name and number on the back.

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Rod Boone: Due to Philadelphia winning and leapfrogging Orlando in the standings, there is a conflict in Philadelphia on Tuesday because there is a Flyers game. So #Hornets host Miami Heat on Tuesday instead of Wednesday.

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Sportsnet: Warriors' Brandin Podziemski joins @GenePrincipe to discuss the similarities between Steph Curry and Connor McDavid, and how electric playoff hockey is in Edmonton 🔥

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With reports the NBA may be exploring expansion for the 2028-29 season, everyone has a take on the top cities as rumors were rampant. Some basketball pundits have suggested Nashville as a franchise location. However, Nashville Predators majority owner Bill Haslam has no immediate plans to make that happen. "We're not actively bidding on anything," Predators CEO Sean Henry, speaking on behalf of Haslam, told The Tennesseean on March 19. "Those are just rumors."

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Henry said there hasn't been talks between Haslam and the Grizzlies. "As far as any conversations with Memphis or the Grizzlies, that's not happened," Henry said. "I think Memphis is the right place for the Grizzlies to play and I hope they stay there forever."

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As the Golden State Warriors prepared to start Friday morning’s film session, many players and coaches had a more pressing issue on their mind than preparation for Sunday’s game against the Denver Nuggets. The reason? A member of their extended Warriors family, Team Canada men’s hockey star Macklin Celebrini, was in a tight Olympic game in Italy, so the group couldn’t take its eyes away from what was going on about 6,000 miles away from Chase Center. “We had half the team watching the final two minutes of the game,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after Saturday’s practice. “Because it was 2-2, and it was 10 o’clock, and we’re supposed to be starting film. Nope, we’re gonna watch to see what happens.”

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