Month: December 2025

I am brave. Linda Martindale wasn’t brave, at least she didn’t think she was after she had been hired as a varsity boys basketball coach. “Once the game started, I was fine,” says Martindale, now in her sixth season leading Lincoln-Sudbury (MA), “but walking into the gym and people thinking I’m the scorekeeper or whatever, I had to sort of ...

Three downhill races this season, three medals for Lindsey Vonn. Vonn edged Ilka Stuhec for the bronze medal in the downhill Saturday in Val d’Isere, France, finishing 0.04 seconds ahead of the Slovenian. Vonn’s time of 1:41.89 was 0.35 seconds behind winner Cornelia Huetter of Austria. In only the second weekend of downhill races this season, Vonn already has a ...

Jake Paul stepped into the ring with a quality boxer and it showed. The main event fight officially came to an end when former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua knocked Paul out with 1:31 left in the sixth round. Paul was seen with a bloodied mouth after taking a right-handed shot to the face in the corner. Paul quickly fell out ...

Trump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said Thursday is valued at more than $6 billion. Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman who resigned in 2021 to become the CEO of Trump Media, will be co-CEO of the new company with TAE Technologies CEO Michl Binderbauer. Shares of Trump Media ...

After a big flurry, the holiday roster freeze is here, which means no trades until after Christmas. There were two big trades on Dec. 11, with the Minnesota Wild acquiring defenseman Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks, plus the Edmonton Oilers acquiring goalie Tristan Jarry from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Stuart Skinner. Then two trades beat the 11:59 ...

Jake Paul stepped into the ring with Anthony Joshua and didn’t get the result he wanted in the Netflix main event on Friday night. “I think my jaw is broke, by the way,” Paul said during his in-ring interview. ‘It’s definitely broke.” Paul did not take part in a post-fight press conference as he went to the hospital to address ...

No. 9 Alabama climbed out of a 17-0 hole and beat No. 8 Oklahoma 34-24 to advance to the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. It was the first road win for a team in the playoff in the second year of the 12-team format. The Crimson Tide will next face No. 1 seed Indiana in the Rose Bowl. The ...

A bipartisan Obamacare fix remains out of reach in the Senate, for now, and lawmakers can’t agree on who is at fault.  While many agree that the forthcoming healthcare cliff will cause financial pain, the partisan divide quickly devolved into pointing the finger across the aisle at who owns the looming healthcare premium spikes that Americans who use the healthcare ...

Anthony Joshua delivered what legions of Jake Paul haters have been waiting for. A crushing knockout of the former YouTuber. Joshua knocked down Paul four times and finished him off in the sixth round of their heavyweight fight Friday at the Kaseya Center in Miami. “The end goal was to get Jake Paul, pin him down and hurt him,’’ Joshua ...

Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season kicked off with a massive NFC West battle between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks, and the stakes are high again today with three of four teams in action currently inside the NFC playoff picture. On the final weekend before Christmas, the NFL takes over with its first Saturday games of the ...