Alex Ovechkin scored another goal to pull closer to Wayne Gretzky’s record and helped the Washington Capitals end a three-game losing streak on Tuesday. Ovechkin scored a power-play goal in the first period of the 4-3 victory against the Boston Bruins. It was the 891st goal of his career and he needs four in the Capitals’ final eight games to pass Gretzky’s ...
Meta’s head of artificial intelligence research announced Tuesday that she will be leaving the company. Joelle Pineau, the company’s vice president of AI research, announced her departure in a LinkedIn post, saying her last day at the social media company will be May 30. Her departure comes at a challenging time for Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made AI a top priority, ...
Alex Ovechkin scored another goal to pull closer to Wayne Gretzky’s record and helped the Washington Capitals end a three-game losing streak on Tuesday. Ovechkin scored a power-play goal in the first period of the 4-3 victory against the Boston Bruins. It was the 891st goal of his career and he needs four in the Capitals’ final eight games to pass Gretzky’s ...
Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scored his 891st career goal Tuesday to pull closer to Wayne Gretzky’s goal record. He needs four goals in the team’s final eight regular-season games to top Gretzky’s all-time mark of 894, starting Wednesday night in Carolina. That’s a pace of 0.50 goals a game, and he has been clicking at a 0.58 rate since he returned on Dec. 28 from ...
As the Final Four of the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments take place later this week, it’s officially postseason award time. On Tuesday, the Wooden Award announced the top five finalists for this year’s awards, which goes to the most outstanding player in men’s and women’s college basketball. Headlining the men’s Wooden Award finalist list are Duke’s Cooper Flagg and ...
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke out against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the Senate floor throughout the night after beginning his marathon speech at 7 p.m. Monday. More than 24 hours later, at 7:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Booker had broken the record for the longest Senate floor speech, before finally calling it quits at 8:05 p.m. In the ...
One of Maryland basketball’s biggest supporters isn’t holding back anymore, sharing his thoughts about the way Kevin Willard left the program for Villanova. ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt ripped Willard on his ‘SVPod’ podcast on Tuesday for how the former Terrapins coach conducted himself with the Maryland athletic department and prominent boosters in recent weeks and suggested Willard knew he was ...
What are the Atlanta Falcons going to do with quarterback Kirk Cousins? It’s the conundrum the Falcons find themselves in this offseason after the team named Michael Penix Jr. their starting quarterback last December, just 14 games into Cousins’s four-year, $180 million contract. The Falcons are moving forward with Penix as their starter. Meanwhile, Cousins has expressed his desire for ...
PALM BEACH, Florida — The NFL has pushed the ‘tush push’ for another day. The NFL decided Tuesday to delay a potential ban on the controversial play, made famous by the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, during its annual league meetings. The NFL needs 24 of 32 team owners to support or deny a rule change, but it’s unclear how ...
The NBA on Tuesday suspended five players for their roles in an altercation in a game between the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday. Detroit’s Isaiah Stewart received a two-game suspension without pay, and Detroit’s Ron Holland II and Marcus Sasser and Minnesota’s Donte DiVincenzo and Naz Reid were each suspended one game without pay. The incident happened with ...