We’re less than a week until this whole deal becomes official. Before hitting Selection Sunday, conference tournaments will determine which teams burst the NCAA bubble, which Cinderella teams serve as bid stealers and which four teams land on the No. 1 line. There are changes at the top of the updated USA TODAY Sports bracketology as Florida rises and replaces ...
MILAN — The 2026 Winter Paralympics are underway, and Team USA is looking for a medal haul. Get to know the top American athletes competing at the Milano Cortina Games. Declan Farmer, Sled hockey The most decorated Paralympic hockey player of all time, Declan Farmer enters his fourth Paralympic Games holding the U.S. sled hockey record for goals, assists, and ...
Jerry Jones promised his Dallas Cowboys would come out blazing in free agency, given the embarrassment of the defense and that decades-long championship drought. Yet their aggressive moves on Day 1 of the NFL’s offseason feeding frenzy – calling it a “negotiating window” or “legal tampering” would be just semantics as the market has clearly opened for business – reminded ...
Former NFL linebacker Darron Lee is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Gabriella Perpetuo. Prosecutors presented evidence during a March 9 hearing that Lee used ChatGPT to ask what to do for an unresponsive person hours before calling police. Lee, who was on probation for a prior domestic violence charge, is being held without bond in ...
The New York Jets have agreed to terms with the Las Vegas Raiders to acquire the veteran quarterback in a trade. ESPN’s Adam Schefter was first with the news of the trade. Smith, 35, joins his third team in three years after a one-year stint with the Raiders. The veteran quarterback initially landed in Las Vegas from the Seattle Seahawks ...
MILAN — Would you ever call a WNBA player an NBA player? For Chuck Aoki, that’s the comparison he uses when he is called an Olympian. It’s not a flattering title for Paralympians, who already face a coverage deficit. What media coverage Paralympians receive often revolves around disability rather than achievement. Dani Aravich saw the gap firsthand in the lead-up ...
With fewer and fewer top players reaching the open market thanks to extensions and franchise tags, all-out spending sprees by teams are increasingly rare. When agreements began materializing Monday, March 9, as the league’s negotiating window opened, only a handful of pacts entailed truly surprising sums. But the stakes are still high in March, and several teams took bold action ...
Golfer Gary Woodland said he is battling post-traumatic stress disorder after having brain surgery in 2023, adding he is not going to ‘waste energy’ trying to hide it. Woodland, who won the U.S. Open in 2019 and has four PGA Tour victories, had tests that revealed a lesion pressing on his brain and had surgery in September 2023. Woodland returned to the ...
Top-seeded Duke basketball will be without one of its key starters for a ‘foreseeable time,’ ahead of the ACC Tournament and 2026 men’s NCAA Tournament. In a media availability on Tuesday, March 10, Duke coach Jon Scheyer said that junior guard Caleb Foster suffered a fracture in his right foot during the Blue Devils’ 76-61 win over rival North Carolina ...
The initial wave of NFL free agency is upon us. Teams were permitted to begin contract negotiations with players at noon Monday, and a flurry of moves followed, although they can’t be made official until Wednesday when the league allows signings to begin. The Kansas City Chiefs found a Super Bowl champion running back in Kenneth Walker III, wide receiver Mike Evans decided to head west to San Francisco, the Las Vegas Raiders ...