We’ve reached one of the best week-and-a-half-or-sos on the hockey calendar _ the World Junior Championship — and it didn’t take long for a bit of controversy to strike.
After Sweden dispatched Slovakia by a score of 5-2, Team USA was next to hit the ice in Ottawa for a game against Germany.
Now, over the last few years, Germany has been one of the most up-and-coming nations on the international hockey stage, whether that’s at the World Juniors or the Olympics or the World Championships.
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We now have another former NFL Pro-Bowl player joining the ranks as a college football head coach. Just a week after Michael Vick was named the Norfolk State coach, Desean Jackson is finalizing a deal to become the Delaware State football coach.
We have seen a growing trend in recent years of former NFL players getting into the college coaching ranks, with some starting at the assistant level, but now we have two former superstars in the league following in the steps of Colorado’s Deion Sanders.
Former Philadelphia Eagles star wide receiver DeSean Jackson and Delaware State are finalizing an agreement for him to become the program’s next head coach, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Thursday.
Safety Gunner Maldonado may be leaving the University of Arizona, but he’ll always be a Wildcat.
No, seriously.
After four seasons with the Arizona Wildcats, Maldonado entered the transfer portal and has committed to Kansas State — a team also known as the Wildcats. But that’s not all! Before he left for Tucson, Maldonado took a redshirt season at Northwestern in 2020. Any idea what their mascot is?
You got it… the Wildcats.
Either this guy is partial to giant felines or collegiate sports programs really need to get more creative.
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The Seahawks face the Bears in Chicago on Thursday. We break down what the game means for the NFL playoff picture.
Week 17 of the 2024 NFL season got off to an early start, with a pair of games featuring some of the top teams in the AFC. In the early game the Kansas City Chiefs knocked off the Pittsburgh Steelers by a final score of 29-10, while the Baltimore Ravens kept their AFC North dreams alive in the later game with a win over the Houston Texans.
I don’t know how it happened, but the New Jersey Devils became the NHL’s best trolls.
They are to the NHL what Wendy’s social accounts are to the world of fast food. They love mixing it up whenever they can whether that’s by reminding Rangers fans that some of them were pumped about the Devils drafting Jack Hughes so they could draft Kaapo Kakko (who was traded about a week and a half ago) or printing up some “Instagram Hockey” T-shirts.
In today’s sports world where most executives tiptoe around any sort of drama and speculation, Miami Heat president Pat Riley addressing the trade rumors involving superstar Jimmy Butler head-on is not only refreshing but appreciated.
The trade speculation involving Butler reached a tipping point on Christmas when NBA insider Shams Charania joined ESPN’s ‘NBA Countdown’ to report that the six-time All-Star “prefers a trade out of Miami.
Teddy Bridgewater wants to be a bigtime football coach someday, maybe in college or perhaps even the NFL, and he started that walk by leading his high school alma mater in Miami to a state championship. But he’s not ready to give up on playing yet.
So he’s signing with the Detroit Lions.
The Lions are adding Bridgewater to serve as a backup to Jared Goff going into the playoffs. That move comes mere days after Bridgerwater coached Miami Northwestern to an undefeated season and the Florida 3A championship.
Lions coach Dan Campbell confirmed the move on Thursday.
The Heat have no plans to trade Jimmy Butler, team president Pat Riley said Thursday.
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Pat Riley is trying to quiet the distractions around Jimmy Butler’s status, and put out a statement saying the Heat will not trade their disgruntled star before the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline.
In an NBA Christmas tradition unlike any other, Wednesday saw ESPN’s Shams Charania kick off the league’s annual holiday showcase by reporting that Jimmy Butler wants out of Miami — but, importantly, did not go so far as to say Butler is “demanding” a trade, which may save the Heat star from getting fined by Adam Silver.