After a 9-8 campaign in 2025, the Minnesota Vikings are making changes. The franchise confirmed on Friday, Jan. 30 in a statement that they have fired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after four years at the position. Adofo-Mensah came to Minnesota after seven years with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Cleveland Browns. He had been the vice president ...
PHILADELPHIA — The next meeting between the WNBA and players’ union will be Monday, WNBPA first vice president Kelsey Plum said during Unrivaled’s media availability Friday morning. It has been over a month since the WNBA received the union’s latest proposal as the two sides work on a new collective bargaining agreement, and the league has not responded. A person ...
The goalie trade market is pretty scarce, so some NHL teams have reached into the recent past. And while retired Marc-Andre Fleury is flattered by the attention, he says he plans to stay retired. ‘I had some calls and I took the time to think about it,’ he recently told USA TODAY’s Sports Seriously. ‘It’s very nice of them to ...
The Clemson women’s basketball team had a big surprise for one teammate. Tigers guard Rusne Augustinaite is thousands of miles away from her family in Lithuania. However, seeing one family member in person helped her feel a bit less homesick. Augustinaite was recently surprised by her Clemson teammates with a visit from her mom for her birthday. The moment left ...
A new year will apparently not bring any less chaos to the Minnesota Twins. Derek Falvey, chief baseball officer since 2016, and the Twins are mutually parting ways, the team announced Jan. 30, the latest twist in a saga that’s seen the club put up for sale, take on additional investors, strip-mine the active roster for parts at the 2025 ...
Lindsey Vonn injured her left knee in a crash just before the Milano Cortina Olympics. Vonn stated on social media that she is consulting with doctors but has not ruled out competing. The skier has a long history of significant injuries and subsequent comebacks throughout her career. Lindsey Vonn is better equipped to come back from an injury than pretty ...
Spotting Matthew McConaughey at a Texas game is like playing ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Georgia football serves up feast in press box before a November home game. Lee Corso enjoys a memorable hotdog after final ‘College GameDay’ appearance at Ohio State. There comes a time in every sportswriter’s life when you realize life on the road is not all it’s cracked up ...
PHILADELPHIA — Minnesota natives Paige Bueckers and Rachel Banham spoke about ICE’s presence in their home state during Unrivaled’s shootaround on Thursday, Jan 29, at The Alan Horowitz Sixth Man Center. Bueckers, a Hopkins, Minnesota, native, got emotional when she began to talk about what is happening in her home state. Protests continue in Minneapolis over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan ...
Less than five months before the 2026 World Cup, U.S. men’s national soccer coach Mauricio Pochettino indicated that he has better things to do than answer questions about ticket prices, which on some sites are approaching $9,000 per ticket. “It’s not about us to provide our opinion,” Pochettino said. “Our responsibility is to play and perform on the pitch.” Pochettino ...
Above Travis Steele’s desk in his office on the Miami University campus in Oxford, Ohio is a three-by-five index card tacked to the wall, right above a picture of his five-year-old whoodle Ryder. On it is a message written in red ink: Be obsessed with your trajectory, not your current results. It’s a mantra Steele is trying to embody in ...