For over 30 years, the Haudenosaunee—formerly known as the Iroquois Nationals—have sent a team to the World Lacrosse Championship and other tournaments under their own flag.
Competing independently of the United States and Canada, the Great Lakes-based Native American and First Nations tribe has won bronze medals at each of the three most recent world championships. They’re currently ranked third in the world, behind only the American and Canadian teams.
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Rutgers University made a major splash on the recruitment trail on Wednesday. Dylan Harper, the No. 2 prospect in the class of 2024 per 247Sports, is reportedly set to commit to play for the Scarlet Knights, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Wednesday.
Harper, a 6’5” point guard from Ramsey, New Jersey, attends Don Bosco High School, less than an hour drive from Rutgers’ campus.
Among the schools he was considering, it was an impressive list featuring Auburn, Duke, Indiana, and Kansas, but he opted to join the up-and-coming Scarlet Knights program.
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Rutgers (!) has now landed two top-3 overall men’s basketball recruits in the class of 2024.
Dylan Harper is spurning the Duke Blue Devils to stay home and try to build a college basketball winner at the most unlikely of schools. Harper has committed to Rutgers, where his father Ron Harper and brother Ron Harper Jr. also starred during their college days. It’s the biggest recruiting win in program history for the Scarlett Knights. Harper is rated as the No. 2 player in the class of 2024 behind Duke-bound forward Cooper Flagg.
Bryce Harper has become a Philadelphia legend in his first five seasons with the Phillies, leading the way as the team became a powerhouse in the National League. The slugger is still under contract through 2031, but he is already thinking about how to end his career in Philadelphia.
At the Winter Meetings on Wednesday, Harper’s agent, Scott Boras, explained that Harper already wants to approach the team about a contract extension.
“Bryce has certainly expressed to them that he wants to end his career in Philadelphia,” Boras said, via ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez.
This has been the year of the quarterback carousel in the NFL because injuries and ineffective play have forced multiple teams and players to get on and off the ride, so it’s no surprise that on Wednesday we had to ask a handful of questions about who is on board now.
And, unfortunately, we got only a couple of answers.
The answers:
• The New York Jets are going back to Zach Wilson, coach Robert Saleh told reporters.
• In Minnesota, the Vikings are sticking with Josh Dobbs.
WWE wrestling fans are going to have to gear up for some long road trips should they want to see some of their favorite wrestlers perform.
According to TKO COO Mark Shapiro, the wrestling promotion is expected to stop Saturday and Sunday live wrestling house shows and scale back events within smaller markets that the WWE has traditionally visited.
There is no sports fanbase like Philadelphia.
When entering Lincoln Financial Field, opposing teams are met with middle fingers while opposing fans are pelted with snowballs. And coaches are met with tips at the team’s practice facility, apparently.
When talking to reporters Wednesday, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was asked if he saw fans outside of the team’s facility with signs that read, “Run the ball,” ahead of the team’s crucial matchup against the Cowboys on Sunday. Sirianni couldn’t help but laugh and said the team gave them coffee.
Colorado coach Deion Sanders is well known for being one of the most media-friendly athletes of all time. From his do-it-all Florida State days to life in the NFL and MLB to his second act on television, “Prime Time” and the camera have had a symbiotic relationship spanning decades, cities, sports and media.
When Sanders took over the Buffaloes this season, the spotlight shone on the Hall of Fame defensive back like never before. What did he think of this phenomenon? The answer, to deploy an old blogging cliché, may surprise you.
At this point in the Shohei Ohtani Free Agency Sweepstakes™, the baseball world has little substantive left to say about which team is the likeliest winner and which team would benefit the most and which team has potentially hurt its chances by daring to mention contact with the player.
It’s time for a new list: Which team would be the funniest landing spot for Ohtani? Not the best or most reasonable. The funniest.
For the purposes of this ranking, we care not about logic or finances or practicality. This is not about who will sign Ohtani.
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence addressed a viral moment that was a heavy topic of debate from Jacksonville’s 34-31 overtime loss to the Bengals on Monday at TIAA Bank Field.
Shortly after sustaining an ankle sprain, cameras captured Lawrence slowly limping to the locker room with help from two team employees. Fans on social media curiously wondered why Lawrence didn’t take a cart to transport back to the locker room.
The quarterback answered Wednesday that, yes, the Jaguars did have a cart available.