Author: Michael

The NHL is switching things up this year (because they finally realized that college football pretty much owns New Year’s Day) and this year’s Winter Classic between the Chicago Blackhawks and the St. Louis Blues will take place on New Year’s Eve.
So, Wrigley Field — which will become the first venue to play host to two Winter Classic after it hosted the second-ever edition of the game back in 2009 between the Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings — looks more than ready to host some hockey.

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The first round of the expanded College Football Playoff should have been a time of celebration for fans of the sport. Instead, it turned into a lecture from ESPN on how the playoff committee didn’t value The Chosen Conference highly enough.
The figurehead for this unfortunate turn of events was Kirk Herbstreit, a generally well-liked and well-respected analyst who has become one of the key voices in college football. But Herbstreit and several other ESPN-associated commentators, like Paul Finebaum, spent the first round engaging in hypocrisy, revisionist history, and SEC-worship.

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Lindsey Vonn is in the midst of a comeback for the ages, hitting the slopes again at age 40 with a surgically repaired knee.
And so far, it’s looking pretty good, as she finished 14th in a Super-G competition in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and that has Vonn — who has her eyes on making a 2026 Olympic appearance — feeling pretty good.
“The last few years of my career were so much different than they are right now. I’m skiing without thinking about my knee, which I really haven’t done since I first tore my ACL in 2013.

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