The Minnesota Vikings fired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after former quarterback Sam Darnold led the Seahawks to a Super Bowl win. The team is currently without a permanent general manager and is more than $40 million over the estimated 2026 salary cap. Second-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy struggled in 2025, prompting the team to seek competition for the starting role. All ...
‘The players just had the President on, I don’t know what it was, what do you call it, FaceTime, whatever, in the locker room,’ coach Mike Sullivan said on Sunday. ‘He just spoke to the group, expressing how proud he was of the group and congratulating everybody on the win.’ During the locker room call with the team, President Trump ...
PHOENIX — Kyle Tucker slipped into the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse early Monday morning, quietly dressed in front of his locker and was virtually unnoticed. This is the highest-paid player in baseball this season. This was the most sought-after free agent all winter. And this is the player who’ll be blamed for Major League Baseball’s lockout on Dec. 1. Tucker, ...
PHOENIX – It may have been a meaningless spring training game, but for Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia, it meant everything. He slowly walked to the mound Monday, listening to the crowd at Camelback Ranch give him a rousing ovation, took a deep breath, and with his heart pounding, proceeded to do what he does best. Vesia pitched a ...
We’ve already seen an upset in NCAA women’s college hockey, and some programs were still finishing the final week of the 2025-26 season. The opening round of conference playoffs began for some teams, including Union College, which upset nationally ranked Clarkson. Rounding out the opening round of ECAC playoffs, Colgate ousted RPI, Brown eliminated Dartmouth, and Harvard edged St. Lawrence ...
LAS VEGAS – Rapper Flavor Flav invited the women’s U.S. hockey team to celebrate their gold-medal win in Las Vegas on social media Feb. 23. The Public Enemy founding member wrote on social media that if the team, ‘wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.’ ...
Free agency is weeks away but two major players might not be at the negotiating table. Tight end Kyle Pitts and wide receiver George Pickens are the major prizes of free agency on offense. Teams besides the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys, respectively, could be out of luck for negotiating with them. Atlanta is reportedly using the franchise tag on ...
Lindsey Vonn revealed she could have lost her leg as the result of her crash in the downhill at the Milano Cortina Olympics. In an Instagram post Monday, Feb. 23, Vonn detailed injuries that were far more extensive than initially known. In addition to the complex tibial fracture in her left leg, Vonn said she had a tibial plateau fracture and fractured ...
The WNBA and WNBPA met Monday in a virtually, as the start to the 2026 season quickly approaches, two people with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about ongoing negotiations. The virtual meeting was the first meeting between the league and the players’ union since ...
It’s looking like NBC won gold with their coverage of this year’s Winter Olympics. The network averaged 23.5 million viewers throughout the two-plus week competition across all platforms, it announced in a press release on Feb. 23. The final numbers are still coming in but if they hold, that would make Milano Cortina the most-viewed Winter Games since 2014 in ...