In last week’s NHL power rankings, the question posed was when the next domino would fall – and we got our answer with Rasmus Andersson going to the Golden Knights and Kiefer Sherwood going to the Sharks. The Olympic trade freeze is in just two weeks, and serving as the NHL’s unofficial trade deadline, perhaps more deals will come. The ...

Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball will have to endure the remainder of their season without their senior second-leading scorer Chisom Okpara. The school announced that Okpara suffered a lower extremity injury during the 70-55 loss to Virginia on Jan. 10 and will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season. The senior forward averaged 13.9 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 ...

Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore is scheduled to appear in court Thursday, more than a month after he was charged with felony home invasion and stalking. Moore has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Moore was fired as the Wolverines’ head coach on Dec. 10 after it was revealed that he had an inappropriate relationship with a program staff ...

And then there were three … games left − two of them coming Sunday. The 2025 NFL season is building to its summit, set to stop at base camp this weekend with its conference championship games. The AFC title game will be Sunday’s first, the damaged Denver Broncos hosting the new edition New England Patriots. Historically? It’s a rematch from ...

When it’s all said and done, only one team will get to hoist the FIFA World Cup trophy and be crowned champion. And President Donald Trump will be close by when it happens. FIFA president Gianni Infantino was a speaker at a Davos Kick-off for FIFA World Cup 2026, which coincides with the World Economic Forum. Infantino confirmed that U.S. ...

Who will be the Fernando Mendoza of the 2026 college football season? It’ll be tough for a player to replicate what the Indiana quarterback achieved in 2025, winning a Heisman Trophy before leading his program to a national championship win and a perfect 16-0 record (becoming just the first player to achieve that feat since DeVonta Smith in 2020 and ...

Tensions were running high at the Australian Open on Thursday, Jan. 22, after Naomi Osaka beat Sorana Cirstea 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, to advance to the third round. Osaka met Cirstea at the net for the customary handshake and exchanged words after Cirstea appeared visibly upset by the four-time Grand Slam champion shouting ‘Come on’ between serves during the match. Osaka ...

No changes are expected at the traditional Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest following the sale of the parent company. Smithfield Foods of Virginia, a subsidiary of the WH Group of China, is finalizing a deal to purchase Nathan’s Famous in a $450 million transaction. A spokesperson for Smithfield told Front Office Sports that the famed contest, which ...

The White House is experiencing a baby boom.  At least three women with close ties to the White House are pregnant, including second lady Usha Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, who is married to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.  The Vances announced Tuesday that they are expecting their fourth child in July. ...

FBI Director Kash Patel shared a picture of what he said was a ‘self-awarded’ trophy made by former FBI officials to celebrate Operation Arctic Frost, an investigation launched after the 2020 election targeting President Donald Trump and his allies. The bizarre metallic-colored, 3D-printed award featured ‘AF’ with a lightening bolt and dollar sign printed along its body and a raised ...