Author: Michael

A referee left the Game 7 matchup between the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday after a high stick to the face.
Chris Rooney, a veteran official with two decades of NHL experience, was hit in the face with the stick of Panthers defenseman Niko Mikkola, leaving him bloodied and forcing him to exit the game. The incident took place a few seconds into the second period.
Rooney was escorted off the ice while holding a bloody towel to his face. He was replaced by alternate referee Garrett Rank.

Referee Chris Rooney caught a stick up high and has been escorted off the ice.

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The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the “New Jersey Americans”.
Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s something anticlimactic about rolling a tap-in to win a tournament, especially when you’ve just missed a makeable putt that would have brought the grandstands down. The gallery at Quail Hollow — perfectly congratulatory when Scottie Scheffler tapped in to win the PGA Championship — was still antsy for a reason to explode. So Scheffler gave it to them in an unexpected way.
“F—- yeah!” he bellowed, spiking his white Nike hat onto the pristine 18th green and slapping palms with caddie Ted Scott.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jon Rahm appeared on the verge of doing what few thought possible — overcoming a five-shot deficit on the final day of a major championship to beat Scottie Scheffler.
And then came the collapse.
After battling back to tie the top-ranked Scheffler with a birdie on the 11th hole, Rahm turned what seemed like a foregone conclusion of a Scheffler victory into an entertaining back nine at the PGA Championship — at least for a while. But the two-time major champion missed birdie putts on the 14th and 15th holes and hooked drives on Nos.

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Explosive No. 2 option. Complement. Running-mate. Whatever you wanted to call the Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver target to pair with CeeDee Lamb this offseason, they found it … and then some.
Pickens has all the makings of a star. At just 24 years old, he gets a fresh start with the best quarterback he’s ever had and already a proven track record as one of the NFL’s best deep threats. He’ll also join Lamb who has a bucket full of Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors to prove that he too has made a name for himself.

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