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Packers’ Micah Parsons posts update after ACL surgery originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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It’s a long road ahead but Micah Parsons has taken the first step in returning to the gridiron.
The All-Pro edge rusher announced on Monday night that he had a successful surgery to his ACL after tearing it during Week 15 of the regular season.
“Today went amazing!!! LFG!!” Parsons wrote on social media. 
It was earlier Monday when the defensive end posted a photo from his hospital bed.

The Ohio Bobcats wrapped up their 2025 campaign in triumphant fashion, defeating Mountain West runner-up UNLV 17-10 in the 2025 Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl. Here are key numbers to note from Ohio’s season-ending victory, which cemented its 2025 campaign at 9-4:

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Ohio’s bowl win streak

When it comes to the postseason, you can always bank on Ohio.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Macklin Celebrini became the third player with 60 points this season with a goal and two assists in the San Jose Sharks’ 5-4 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.
Mario Ferraro, Igor Chernyshov, William Eklund and Zach Ostapchuk also scored for the Sharks, who earned their second win since the holiday break despite getting outshot 43-13. Yaroslav Askarov made 38 saves.

The Denver Nuggets were in Miami to take on the Heat for an otherwise meaningless late-December NBA matchup, but as the first half of the game wound down, a nightmare scenario was unfolding.
Star Nuggets center Nikola Jokić was sent crumpling to the floor under the basket in the dying seconds of the second quarter with an apparent knee injury, and just by the looks of it, the prognosis could be devastating for both Jokic and Denver.

Atlanta escapes a late push by Los Angeles to improve to 7-9. Here’s what to know about the game.

Through the 2024-25 season, the Los Angeles Lakers have had a total of 506 players suit up for them, going back to their days in Minneapolis. Some were forgettable, some were serviceable, some were good and a select few were flat-out legendary.
During the Lakers’ 80th season of existence (they were founded back in 1946 as the Detroit Gems in the National Basketball League), LeBron Wire is taking a look at each player who has worn their jersey, whether it has been a purple and gold one or the ones they donned back in the Midwest during their early years.

ATLANTA — Weird stuff.
One team is headed to the NFC playoffs, led by a quarterback who might bag the first NFL MVP award of his career.
The other team was eliminated from the playoff race a couple of weeks ago, amid swirling speculation about the job security of key powerbrokers.
So, what good was that equation?
Well, when you add Falcons wonder back Bijan Robinson to the mix, anything can happen.
And it did.

Penn State football coach Matt Campbell is hiring USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn as the new leader of the Nittany Lions’ defense, CBS Sports first reported Monday.
The 36-year-old Lynn, who played cornerback at Penn State from 2008-11, is ending his second season as defensive coordinator with the Trojans, who rank 47th in total and scoring defense this season, 62nd in rushing defense and 80th in pass defense efficiency.
He’s staying with USC until after the Trojans meet TCU on Tuesday night in the Alamo Bowl.

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New Japan Pro Wrestling star Drilla Moloney has become the latest member of the company’s roster to have his future brought into question thanks to a new report from Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select.
The report claims that much like his stablemates in the Bullet Club War Dogs, David Finlayand Clark Connors, Moloney is nearing the end of his current NJPW and is weighing up his options for the future, with a run in the United States being a possible option for him.

A report about the seriousness of Vanderbilt basketball guard Frankie Collins’ injury was inaccurate, according to coach Mark Byington.
Collins missed the past two games with what Byington called a “minor thing” and added that Collins could return in a few weeks.
Citing an anonymous source, On3 Sports reported on Dec. 27 that Collins suffered a torn meniscus and would be out indefinitely.
“I didn’t go to med school, I dropped out, I didn’t make it all the way through,” Byington said after No.