The A Team
The Oakland A’s honored their 50th Anniversary Team, chosen by fans in the offseason, on Opening Night at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Twenty-five members of the team, and family members of four alumni who are deceased, attended the ceremony. MICHAEL ZAGARIS
Elite company
NCAA President Mark Emmert and TD Garden President Amy Latimer take in the Villanova vs. Texas Tech Elite Eight game on March 25 at TD Garden in Boston.Brian Babineau / TD Garden
BEST class ever
Spectrum SportsNet and the Los Angeles Lakers, in partnership with LA’s BEST After School Enrichment Program, hosted students from El Segundo, Inglewood and neighboring areas for an instructional basketball clinic led by Lakers studio analysts and hosts Caron Butler, James Worthy, Mike Bresnahan and Chris McGee on March 18 at the UCLA Health Training Center. SEAN JACKSON / SPECTRUM NETWORKS
Taking the plunge
Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis gives a high-five to family friend and five-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer Katie Ledecky after she announced that she will become a professional swimmer during the Newsmakers luncheon at the National Press Club on March 26 in Washington, D.C. Getty Images
'Giant' debut
Celebrating the HBO Hollywood red carpet premiere of “Andre the Giant” are HBO Sports Executive VP Peter Nelson; executive producer Bill Simmons; Robin Christensen, Andre’s daughter; and the documentary’s director, Jason Hehir. The documentary airs Tuesday on HBO.Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic for HBO
Hall of Fame moment
Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame inductees Ray Allen, Maurice Cheeks, Lefty Driesell, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, Charlie Scott, Tina Thompson, Rod Thorn and Rick Welts during the 2018 NCAA Men’s Final Four at the Alamodome on March 31 in San Antonio.Getty Images
Funding the cause
At the Boomer Esiason Foundation’s annual fundraising gala, Gunnar Esiason (left), the organization’s director of program outreach, and his father Boomer Esiason (right) accept a $50,000 grant from Investors Bank COO Domenick Cama (second from left) and President and CEO Kevin Cummings on behalf of the bank and the Investors Foundation on March 10 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The grant recognizes BEF’s 25-year effort to fund research to cure cystic fibrosis.BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION
Inspiring scenes
Prior to the ANA Inspiring Women in Sports Conference on March 27 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., conference panelists U.S. women’s hockey player and gold medalist Monique Lamoureux-Morando, two-time Olympic soccer gold medalist Carli Lloyd, Ellevest co-founder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck, actress and humanitarian Ashley Judd, U.S. fencer and Olympic bronze medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, LPGA player Mariah Stackhouse and U.S. women’s hockey player and gold medalist Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson pose for a photo.Getty Images
Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden makes the leap into Poppie’s Pond with her fiance Daniel Taylor and her parents Jan and Gunilla Lindberg after winning the ANA Inspiration on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course on April 2 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.Getty Images
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