STORRS, CT — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma was famously unhappy with the Huskies postgame pizza on Jan. 15. “The Pizza Capital of the world, my ass,” Auriemma said, adding the meal was basically ‘some red stuff they poured on the box and called it pizza, that must have been delivered hours before at shootaround.’ Not one to settle, Auriemma ...
Goalie fights are rare in the NHL nowadays because linesmen try to keep combative netminders apart. But there was one Monday night because Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky charged down the ice and went after the San Jose Sharks’ Alex Nedeljkovic before anyone could react. The scrap happened during the third period after Florida’s Evan Rodrigues hit Vincent Desharnais, who ...
Kansas Jayhawks head coach Bill Self was reportedly hospitalized on Monday and did not travel with the team to Colorado ‘out of an abundance of caution,’ according to ESPN. Per ESPN, the school said Self was feeling ‘under the weather’ and was later taken to LMH Health, where he was reportedly given IV fluids. According to a statement released by ...
All eyes were on Fernando Mendoza on Monday as he warmed up on the field and prepared to lead the Indiana Hoosiers into the College Football Playoff national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. But there was one group in the building whose stakes in watching Mendoza were a bit higher than most. Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark ...
Dallas Wings and Breeze BC guard Paige Bueckers is $50,000 richer. On Monday, following Breeze’s 83-64 win over Mist — a 37-point performance from Bueckers — the league announced the rookie won its inaugural $50,000 free throw challenge. Bueckers, who said she was ‘pretty aware’ she was leading the competition the whole time, made a perfect 13-of-13 free throws. “I ...
The Trump administration extended invitations to Russia and Belarus to join a proposed Gaza ‘Board of Peace,’ officials in both countries said Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that Russian President Vladimir Putin is reviewing the invitation. ‘President Putin has indeed received an offer through diplomatic channels to join this Board of Peace. We are currently studying ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, and other Democratic senators have spearheaded an investigation into the role major U.S. banks will play in assisting the Trump administration sell Venezuelan oil. The inquiry comes after President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim government would hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S. and that the oil would be sold ...
Denmark on Monday ramped up its military presence in Greenland, deploying extra troops to the strategic Arctic territory amid escalating tensions with President Donald Trump. Local Danish broadcaster TV 2 said the Danish Armed Forces confirmed a new contingent of troops, described as ‘a substantial contribution,’ were arriving at Greenland’s main international airport Monday night. Maj. Gen. Søren Andersen, head ...
President Donald Trump has spent the bulk of his second White House term testing the limits of his Article II authorities, both at home and abroad – a defining constitutional fight that legal experts expect to continue to play out in the federal courts for the foreseeable future. These actions have included the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, ...
Iran’s internet blackout has hardened into a permanent system of digital repression, with the regime treating citizens’ access to the outside world as an ‘existential threat,’ according to digital rights monitors. Internet monitoring group NetBlocks reported Monday that Iran’s connectivity landscape had shifted dramatically as the country entered its 22nd day of unrest, following several days of almost total nationwide ...