Month: December 2024

ORLANDO, Fla. — Well, the glass-one-quarter-full perspective on the Bronny James Show this weekend is to say it could have been worse. But it certainly could have been better. The NBA G League Winter Showcase came to Orlando, Fla., this weekend, and with the Los Angeles Lakers’ decision to assign James for this event, he […]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Matt Murray looked up to the scoreboard above him, counted down the seconds as they disappeared and finally pumped his fist. It had been 638 days since Murray last felt the feeling washing over him. Bilateral hip surgery forced the Toronto Maple Leafs goalie out of the entire 2023-24 season, the final […]

Lindsey Vonn crossed the finish line after a strong run, waved to the crowd, and then radioed tips back to her six U.S. teammates still to ski. After almost six years away from the sport’s top level, the 40-year-old American alpine skiing star was back in a familiar scene Saturday, returning to World Cup racing […]

Joe Burrow circa 2019 is not walking through the door of this College Football Playoff. There is no Deshaun Watson nor Trevor Lawrence to be found. It’s not that there aren’t a bunch of really good quarterbacks in the first 12-team College Football Playoff field. The teams wouldn’t have gotten this far if that were […]

Beyond the dust of Liverpool’s dock road and the huge lorries rolling in and out of the city’s port, the glass panels of Everton’s new home at the Bramley-Moore Dock sparkle impressively, radiating ambition. The site, expected to open next year, is a feat of engineering considering the narrow dimensions of the fresh land below […]

By Pete Sampson, Joe Rexrode and Seth Emerson SOUTH BEND, Ind. — No. 7 Notre Dame cruised past No. 10 Indiana 27-17 in the first game of the 12-team College Football Playoff on Friday night. The Fighting Irish advance to play No. 2 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. Two interceptions in the […]

College Football Playoff home games have finally arrived, with Notre Dame Stadium, Beaver Stadium, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and Ohio Stadium set to host the first on-campus Playoff games ever. The atmospheres are sure to be memorable. It got us thinking: What’s the loudest you’ve ever heard a college football team’s home stadium? It […]

If you want an interesting take on Netflix and its grand ambitions. you won’t find many places better on the subject than the research firm MoffettNathanson, which provides trends in media, communications and technology to institutional investors. Michael Nathanson, the co-founder and senior managing director of the research firm that carries his name, evaluated Netflix […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As the final seconds of Ohio State’s loss to Michigan ticked away in its regular-season finale, the fans in the Buckeyes student section voiced their displeasure. “F— Ryan Day! F— Ryan Day!” they chanted. Minutes later, Josh Heupel walked off a field almost 400 miles away in Nashville as “Rocky Top” blared […]

Former Toronto Sceptres goalie Erica Howe was at work in early July when she first noticed the lump in her breast. She was at the Mississauga fire station where she’d been a full-time firefighter since her retirement from professional hockey, wiping her shirt when she noticed it. “I was honestly brushing some jelly doughnut dust […]