Injured Toronto Maple Leafs star William Nylander flashed his middle finger during Sunday’s game when he noticed a TV camera was filming him and other non-playing teammates in the press box. The gesture cost him $5,000 on Monday, Jan. 26. The NHL said he was fined the maximum amount because he violated a policy that ‘prohibits inappropriate and offensive remarks, ...
Dabo Swinney went scorched earth late last week, decrying the ills of college football and the absurdity of those in charge ignoring the obvious. He laid out the most damning of all tampering allegations against Ole Miss. He called out a head coach and player by name. “This is about protecting our program,” Swinney said Jan. 23. “This is about ...
The NBA announced its pool of participants for the 2026 Castrol Rising Stars game on Peacock on Monday, Jan. 26. Twenty-one players – 10 rookies and 11 sophomores – along with seven G Leaguers were chosen to represent the future of the NBA to tip-off All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. The rookies are headlined by 2025 No. ...
The 2026 MLB season begins on March 25. That’s little more than two months away, and while everyone assumes the Los Angeles Dodgers are destined to three-peat, the bright side is that everyone is already looking to 2027 and beyond. Looking so far ahead is difficult though. We don’t know how players will age. We don’t know what trades or ...
The wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Katie Meyer against Stanford University has been resolved, the school announced Monday, Jan. 26, in a joint statement from the school and Katie’s family. Meyer, who led the Stanford women’s soccer team to a national championship in 2019, died by suicide on March 1, 2022. Meyer, 22 at the time of ...
Russia criticized the U.S.’ proposed Golden Dome missile defense system Monday, warning it could destabilize global nuclear deterrence, according to reports. According to TASS, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Kommersant newspaper that the ambitious project is extremely ‘provocative.’ ‘Problems in the strategic sphere resulting from destabilizing U.S. actions only continue to grow. It is enough ...
The Pentagon’s newly released National Defense Strategy warns that future wars may no longer be fought solely overseas, arguing the U.S. military must be prepared to conduct combat operations directly from the American homeland as adversaries gain the ability to strike the United States itself. The strategy, released Friday evening, elevates homeland defense above all other missions, calling for expanded ...
President Donald Trump said Iran appears to be looking to negotiate with the U.S. amid a growing military buildup in the Middle East. In a Monday interview with Axios, Trump suggested that Tehran had reached out on ‘numerous occasions’ and ‘want[s] to make a deal.’ ‘They want to make a deal. I know so. They called on numerous occasions. They ...
A top Senate Republican is demanding that the heads of several immigration-focused units at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) testify publicly before the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called on the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services (USCIS) to come before his panel, the Senate Homeland ...
The White House appears to be rejecting Democrats’ demands in the burgeoning government funding fight, as the chances of a partial shutdown grow larger by the day. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is threatening that Democrats will vote against the massive federal spending bill set to get a vote this week unless funding for the Department of Homeland Security ...