Los Angeles Lakers big man Jaxson Hayes was handed a one-game suspension by the NBA ‘for pushing a Washington Wizards mascot during pregame introductions,’ the league said in a statement on Wednesday, Feb. 4. Hayes shoved the Wizards’ mascot, G-Wiz, during pregame introductions before the Jan. 30 game in Washington. The mascot had been running with a giant flag when ...
New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns went to the locker room after he suffered a significant cut in a collision with the Denver Nuggets’ Spencer Jones during the teams’ game on Wednesday night. The incident at Madison Square Garden occurred late in the first quarter. Towns knocked heads with the defending Jones on a drive, and it opened up a ...
Forward Artemi Panarin is off the trade market and the free agent market. The New York Rangers traded Panarin on Wednesday. Feb. 4 to the Los Angeles Kings, who signed the high-scoring winger to a two-year contract extension averaging $11 million a year. The Rangers received prospect forward Liam Greentree and conditional third- (2026) and fourth-round (2028) picks. Panarin, 34, ...
USC, LSU, Oregon, and Texas Tech are highlighted as winners of the recent college football recruiting cycle. Penn State, Baylor, and Auburn are listed as losers, facing challenges from coaching changes and decommitments. The transfer portal and NIL era have significantly changed roster management, making it difficult to retain recruiting classes. Signing a great college football recruiting class is one ...
Ryan Preece has won the first race of 2026, winning the Cook Out Clash exhibition race on Wednesday night. He becomes the third driver all-time to win the Clash before earning his first career Cup win, joining Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin. The race served as the unofficial start of the 2026 NASCAR season as Cup Series drivers took the ...
On Wednesday, Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) announced it signed Pickens to the league’s first NIL deal. As part of the partnership, the ace will help raise awareness about the AUSL through marketing and social media posts. The pro softball league says the signing is a ‘strategic move’ to connect college softball to the pro level.“When I was growing up, ...
LIVIGNO, Italy – Mary Carillo will host NBC’s 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony coverage after original host Savannah Guthrie stepped down, as her mother Nancy remains missing. Carillo and Terry Gannon, who was originally Guthrie’s co-host for the ceremony, will anchor the show, which starts at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, Feb. 6. Nancy Guthrie has been missing ...
Further acknowledging a mistake made, the Dallas Mavericks took another step to undo the infamous Luka Dončić trade. The Mavericks have reportedly shipped the headliner of that deal, forward-center Anthony Davis, to the Washington Wizards. The deal generates interesting implications, so how do we make sense of what this means? Here are grades for the Mavericks-Wizards Anthony Davis trade: Anthony ...
Penn State men’s hockey star and projected top NHL draft pick Gavin McKenna has been charged with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor simple assault and two summary offenses for disorderly conduct and harassment, according to court documents. The charges — which were filed on Wednesday, Feb. 4 in Centre County, Pennsylvania — stem from what was reported to be an alleged ...
It’s finally time to start your engines, NASCAR fans. The 2026 season begins Monday night when Cup Series drivers take the green flag for the Cook Out Clash exhibition race at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The race was originally scheduled for Sunday, but winter weather caused it to be postponed. The 200-lap race will take place on ...