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. ā€œI think my jaw is broke, by the way,ā€ Paul said during his in-ring interview. ā€˜It’s definitely broke.ā€ 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.Ā  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. ā€œThe 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 ...

The family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs and the Los Angeles Angels reached a settlement Dec. 19 in the civil lawsuit the left-hander’s loved ones filed against the ballclub, ending a three-month trial and more than six years of legal matters following the pitcher’s 2019 death. Financial terms were not available. The Skaggs family released a statement noting that the ...

For a certain caliber of NBA superstar, the trade rumors often don’t stop once they start. Not in previous generations of the league and certainly not in the current climate, in which what comes out of an NBA trade machine often resonates more than what comes out of an NBA game. Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is feeling the effect ...

From a distance, Margarita Island looks like a Caribbean escape. Palm-lined beaches, duty-free shops, and resort towns sell the image of a tropical playground just off Venezuela’s northeastern coast. But U.S. officials say the Venezuelan outpost has become something else entirely: Hezbollah’s most important base of operations in the Western Hemisphere, strengthened by Iran’s growing footprint and the Maduro regime’s ...

The push to bring the WNBA back to the city of Houston, where one of the league’s original franchises won four championships, is becoming more intense. According to a new ESPN report, the Houston Rockets ownership group is in ‘substantive’ talks with the Connecticut Sun to purchase and relocate the franchise. Talks have been described as ‘positive,’ while Rockets ownership ...