The New York Knicks won the NBA Cup, but you won’t find any evidence of that in their home arena. According to ESPN, the Knicks will not raise a commemorative NBA Cup championship banner in Madison Square Garden, the iconic Midtown Manhattan arena where they play their home games. This bucks the trend of previous winners hanging banners in their ...
NHL goaltenders take longer to blossom and reach peak levels than other positions. With most teams running with two goalies, there’s simply not as much room to break out into the NHL right away, compared to forwards and defensemen like Connor Bedard, Macklin Celebrini and Matthew Schaefer, who made ‘The Show’ at 18. Of course, that’s a trend, not a ...
Senate Republicans inched closer to history Wednesday after blowing past yet another procedural obstacle on their way to confirming nearly 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees. As part of their mad dash from Washington ahead of the upcoming holiday recess, Senate Republicans advanced a tranche of 97 of Trump’s picks. The 53-47 party-line vote puts the GOP one step away ...
More than 200 House Democrats voted against a bill aimed at criminalizing transgender medical treatment for minors Wednesday evening. The bill passed in a 216-211 vote that had some bipartisan crossover. Three Democrats — Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; Don Davis, D-N.C.; and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas — voted with Republicans for the bill. Four Republicans — Mike Kennedy, R-Utah; Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.; ...
The Senate confirmed billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman Wednesday in a 67-30 vote to serve as NASA administrator, months after President Donald Trump withdrew the same nomination during his public feud with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The confirmation places Isaacman, an investor in SpaceX and leader of two private spaceflight missions, at the helm of the nation’s space ...
Only two days before the start of the College Football Playoff, another head-coaching job in the sport has come open. Ohio terminated the contract of first-year head coach Brian Smith for cause, the university announced on Wednesday, Dec. 17. The move came after an administrative review of allegations that Smith had “violated the terms of his employment agreement by engaging ...
The WNBA’s 2026 season gets underway in May next year, and the biggest storyline is the addition of two new franchises — the Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo — making them the 14th and 15th teams in the league. Given how well the Golden State Valkyries performed in their inaugural season, setting the standard for expansion franchises by becoming the ...
The New York Mets have determined that the best way to move on from Edwin Diaz is to Yankee up their bullpen. Luke Weaver and the Mets agreed to terms on a two-year, $22 million deal Wednesday, Dec. 17, as the right-hander joins Devin Williams and Clay Holmes as former Yankee closers who commuted from the Bronx to Queens the ...
New York Liberty All-Star forward Breanna Stewart said she would welcome NBA commissioner Adam Silver joining the collective bargaining negotiations with the WNBA because ‘what we’re doing right now isn’t really working.’ Silver said Tuesday night he’s been monitoring the protracted negotiations, and would be willing to join the talks in hopes of getting a deal done that would avoid ...
Jake Paul says he’s prepared to pull off ‘the biggest upset in the sport of boxing’ when he meets Anthony Joshua, the former two-time unified heavyweight boxing champion, on Friday night in Miami. But how he’s going to do it may be the most surprising part. The former YouTube influencer and actor says he plans to use superior boxing skills ...