Christmas brings playoff gifts for multiple teams as Week 17 gets ready to kick off. The Philadelphia Eagles became the first NFC East team to win the division in back-to-back seasons in 21 years. The Seattle Seahawks’ thrilling win over the Los Angeles Rams clinched their playoff spot as they control their own destiny in the conference. The playoff-bound ...
AI-assisted summary The NHL once held games on Christmas Day, but the practice ended after the 1971-72 season. The league’s first Christmas game was in 1920 between the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Canadiens. From 1926 to 1971, the NHL scheduled games on Christmas Day for 45 consecutive years. Today, the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement includes a holiday break ...
It seems all is well between Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green and head coach Steve Kerr following a Monday argument during a third quarter timeout in their eventual 120-97 win against the Orlando Magic. Kerr, during a press conference Wednesday, took accountability for the dust up that led to Green briefly walking away from the bench to gain his ...
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh defended quarterback Lamar Jackson and said the two have an ‘A-plus’ relationship after the Baltimore Sun published a story insinuating otherwise Dec. 24. Harbaugh denied the claims made by the story while expressing he doesn’t ‘take too much credence in anonymous-type sources.’ ‘I don’t know where its coming from,’ Harbaugh told reporters when asked about ...
The knockout will go down as the highlight of the fight. But another lingering image from Anthony Joshua’s victory over Jake Paul by knockout is Paul repeatedly falling to the canvas, eliciting boos from the crowd at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Dec. 19. In what appeared to be a deliberate tactic, an exhausted-looking Paul fell to the mat no ...
Christmas came early for Atlanta-based real estate developer and avid golfer Michael Barnouin, who was recently gifted back his stolen cowhide wallet that he bought in Montana. The culprit – a gull scavenger with white feathered arms, webbed feet and thin beak – often roamed in bunches near Pebble Beach Golf Links, a public golf course at Pebble Beach Resort ...
The 2025-26 college basketball season has started off with a bang for some, with some teams like Michigan, Arizona, Iowa State and plenty more asserting themselves as national championship candidates. But not every team has had such a hot start, and there’s some real concern hovering around as conference play begins. Whether it was stumbling in a Feast Week tournament, ...
In a sign of the times, the Bears received a commitment from James Nnaji, a 7-foot center from Nigeria who was selected in the 2023 NBA Draft. The 21-year-old will be eligible to play immediately for Scott Drew and will have four years of eligibility remaining, a Baylor spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. The Bears is 9-2 this season. ...
Happy Holidays – the penultimate week of the 2025 NFL regular season is upon us. However you might not exactly enjoy what’s underneath the tree on Christmas – the Yuletide’s three streaming contests (Cowboys-Commanders, Lions-Vikings and Broncos-Chiefs) not exactly crackling with compelling subplots or playoff implications despite their intra-divisional pairings. Saturday’s couplet is a bit more compelling, Texans-Chargers a rematch ...
It was February 2025 when the cracks in the facade of Sherrone Moore’s reign began to appear, or at least were put on display for his entire coaching staff to see. In a meeting called by the then-Michigan football coach on a cold afternoon in Ann Arbor, Moore delivered a vitriolic outburst featuring tears and tossed papers in a virtual ...