Author: Michael

The rumors turned out to be true and the NHL made it official on Wednesday: outdoor hockey is coming to the Sunshine State not once, but twice next season.
But while we all had the sense that this was coming, the announcement did bring some interesting tidbits of info.
Let’s start with the game that will happen first, and that is the NHL Winter Classic, which will take place at LoanDepot Park, home of the Miami Marlins. Obviously, the Florida Panthers will be the hosts, and they’ll be taking on the New York Rangers.

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Ah, the age-old debate: Should Notre Dame join a college football conference? If you thought we were past that, you’d be wrong. Penn State head coach James Franklin, whose Nittany Lions face the Fighting Irish in the Orange Bowl on Thursday night, says Notre Dame should join a conference, along with all other FBS schools.
“This is no knock on Coach [Marcus Freeman] or Notre Dame, but I think everybody should be in a conference,” Franklin said during a joint press conference with Freeman ahead of the Orange Bowl showdown.

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Xander Schauffele reacts during TGL’s debut match. | Photo by Brennan Asplen/Getty Images
TGL’s opening night was a success relative to context, but now that we are interested there needs to be more.
Hello! My name is RJ Ochoa, and you may not know me around here at Playing Through, but I run our Dallas Cowboys website here at SB Nation (shout out Blogging The Boys) and am an avid golfer, golf fan, and golf enthusiast.

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Bill Belichick, the same guy who couldn’t land an NFL head coaching job last year and was so uncertain he could this year that he took the proverbial bird in the hand with the University of North Carolina job, is on the radar for NFL teams again.
And, no, he’s not baaack.
But his name is being floated as a possibility for an interview by at least one team, an OutKick source said Wednesday. 
“Due diligence,” the source said.
The source asked that his team’s identity not be revealed.
NFL Media went further.

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