Johnny Gaudreau was at the Olympic gold medal hockey game on Sunday. In spirit. Gaudreau was on the ice when Jack Hughes scored the thrilling overtime goal to lift the Americans past favored Canada, 2-1. In the hearts of all of the Team USA players. Gaudreau, the speedy left wing from New Jersey who dreamed of playing in these Olympics, ...

There’s a change at the top once again in the USA TODAY Sports men’s basketball coaches poll following a busy week of high-profile matchups. Duke is now the No. 1 team. The Blue Devils received 27 of 31 first-place votes this week after upending previous No. 1 Michigan in one of those marquee clashes. The Blue Devils received 27 of ...

Another NHL player will miss some regular season time because of an injury that he suffered at the Olympics. The Dallas Stars placed forward Mikko Rantanen on the injured list with a lower body injury, retroactive to Feb. 20. That means the earliest he could return is Feb. 27 and he will miss at least one game and possibly more. ...

Kevin Durant, 37, is feeling the Olympics call to him yet again. After the United States won gold in both men and women’s hockey in Milano Cortina, the former NBA MVP and the United States’ all-time leading Olympic scorer debunked the theory that 2024 was the last Olympic ride for many of the games biggest stars. ‘You guys, the media, ...

Perhaps Father Time has not caught up to these two boxing legends yet. It was recently announced that Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring more than a decade after their first fight. Despite both boxers approaching 50 years old, it seems the two are still in good enough shape to throw haymakers. Manny Pacquiao’s last professional ...

Government documents reveal the fall of drug kingpin ‘El Mencho’ over the weekend was the culmination of an aggressive, more than yearlong strategy of ‘total elimination’ pursued by the Trump administration against the ruthless Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which is present in almost all 50 U.S. states. Ruben ‘Nemesio’ Oseguera Cervantes, known as ‘El Mencho,’ the leader of the ...

The UK government is set to unseal a first batch of key documents relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the U.S., MPs were told Monday. The disclosure, set for ‘early March,’ follows a Commons motion ordering the release of files related to Mandelson’s vetting for the post and comes in the wake of his arrest on suspicion of ...

A Republican lawmaker is teaming up with outspoken detransitioner Chloe Cole to push federal legislation that would block gender-related medical procedures for minors, saying that children are being rushed into receiving treatments with life-altering results. The Chloe Cole Act is being introduced on Monday as federal legislation aimed at protecting minors from gender-related medical procedures.  Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., who ...

Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., is using President Donald Trump’s State of the Union to send a message to critics of an X post he made about choosing ‘between dogs and Muslims.’ Fine’s guest to Trump’s primetime address will be his father, Alan Fine, along with his father’s seeing-eye service dog, Sadie.  ‘I think it’s also important, given the issues that ...

A deadly confrontation at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend is the latest in a string of high-profile security incidents involving President Donald Trump, as former Secret Service officials warn that low-tech, lone actors now pose one of the toughest challenges to presidential protection. ‘It should be quite clear to all of us by now that Trump is the most threatened president ...