Author: Michael

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The goal horn went off at Bugsy’s Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar as it does every time the Washington Capitals score a goal. Bar manager Armenia Marconi was working downstairs and scurried up to see who it was.
Sure enough, Alex Ovechkin. Goal 891 to move four back of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record. Marconi grabbed the remote control for the goal counter hanging above the bar, and fans inside the popular neighborhood hockey bar who were waiting in anticipation erupted again.
“It was like he scored again,” she said.

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There’s going to be some attention on which Philadelphia Eagles players do and don’t attend the team’s White House celebration with President Donald Trump later this month. But it seems Saquon Barkley has no political issue with attending.
The topic was kind of a thing during the recently completed NFL annual meeting when OutKick (me) asked Eagles coach Nick Sirianni his feelings on the visit scheduled for April 28.
And then Eagles Chairman and Executive Officer Jeffrey Lurie addressed the topic later on with reporters – which included a biased question from one reporter.

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The fantasy baseball season is still in its infancy, but to keep from crying like a baby over your team’s poor start, there are plenty of players available on the waiver wire to pacify your fears of failure.
While the available player pool may not seem overloaded with talent, there are always a handful of breakout performers who emerge early in the season and end up contributing all year long. That’s why it makes sense to try and find one of them now, based on little more than some playing time and a decent stat line or two over the past week.

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While the biggest moves of Seattle’s offseason revolved around quarterbacks, they also made a splash on defense by signing lineman DeMarcus Lawrence.
Lawrence, 32, signed with the club in March after 11 years with the Cowboys.
At the annual league meeting in Palm Beach this week, head coach Mike Macdonald said he’s “really excited” about adding Lawrence, who is “just a disruptor.”
“I think he complements our room really well,” Macdonald said.

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Dallas Wings guard DiJonai Carrington has signed a multi-year deal as a Reebok ambassador, becoming the latest WNBA player to add a major brand deal.
Dallas Wings star DiJonai Carrington has officially signed a multi-year deal with Reebok as an ambassador and will continue to wear the Engine A, Reebok’s first new basketball sneaker since 2015’s ZPump Rise.
In an Instagram post announcing the partnership, Reebok wrote: “We would like to welcome DiJonai Carrington to the Reebok Basketball family.

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Hurricane Helene inflicted extreme damage across the Southeastern United States in September 2024. The deadly storm did not spare Augusta National as it made its way into East Georgia and into the Carolinas. In the days after the hurricane, Augusta National acknowledged that the golf course had suffered damage, but kept the extent of it under wraps, and it sounds like that will be the mission of the CBS broadcast throughout the 2025 Masters as well.

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All of the picks from our 19th annual SB Nation team community mock draft are right here in one place.
It’s finally here: NFL Draft month. And with it comes our 19th annual NFL mock draft from the experts at our team communities here at SB Nation.
If you scroll down, you’ll find analysis of all of the picks below, as well as a running list here of which players have come off the board to which teams, and the top 5 players remaining.
So far, the first few picks haven’t been too surprising.

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A lot of people have the experience of moving into enemy territory when it comes to sports allegiances. There have been many a Red Sox fan who had to move to New York for work and vice versa.
The difference is that they don’t always run for mayor, and one Philly area mayor got an earful for being the worst possible thing in that part of the country: a Dallas Cowboys fan.
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