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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had another brilliant game Sunday as the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder rolled over the Denver Nuggets by a 127-103 margin. Gilgeous-Alexander dominated the game with 40 points and 8 assists but he did not try to use the occasion to demand respect for his potential MVP candidacy. In fact, Gilgeous-Alexander took  the […]

The Boston Bruins are looking to the future after completing multiple moves prior to NHL’s Trade Deadline. The Bruins have struggled throughout the 2024-25 season and they are a long shot to make the playoffs. As a result, general manager Don Sweeney was in a sell mode at the deadline. The biggest move was trading […]

Georgetown head coach Ed Cooley has high hopes that the Hoyas are going to be prepared and ready for an impressive performance in the upcoming Big East tournament. However, he was not happy with anything he saw from his team in the team’s regular-season finale against the DePaul Blue Demons in Chicago. The Hoyas came […]

NFL free agency will get underway March 12 as the new league year gets underway. Teams can start talking to prospective free agents two days earlier during the legal tampering period. Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold figures to be one of the most sought after free agents, and he could be headed towards a conversation […]

The NHL trade deadline came with a flurry of deals and there were a number of winners and losers. The Dallas Stars were able to acquire Mikko Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes, and that move may make Dallas the favorite to land the Stanley Cup. On the other hand, the Hurricanes sent a brilliant player […]

The Boston Bruins have cleaned house at the NHL’s trade deadline. They have moved out several notable players, including center Charlie Coyle and solid defenseman Brandon Carlo. However, their decision to trade their 36-year-old captain Brad Marchand to the Florida Panthers was a shocking move for the oldest U.S franchise in the NHL. The Bruins […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have been pursuing playoff success for the last eight years and they have attempted to put together a stronger team for this year’s postseason. They have acquired forward Scott Laughton from the Philadelphia Flyers and Brandon Carlo from the Boston Bruins. In addition to those moves, the Maple Leafs have placed […]

The Green Bay Packers are ready to start making moves to prepare for the 2025 season. The Packers were not always the most explosive offensive team last season, and they may be the team that has the best chance of signing veteran wide receiver Davante Adams at the start of free agency. The Packers are […]

The Ottawa Senators have made an effort to strengthen their team by adding Fabian Zetterlund from the San Jose Sharks at the trade deadline. Zetterlund led the Sharks in scoring last year when he netted 24 goals and he has followed up by scoring 17 goals this season. The Senators also received minor league center […]

This has been a season in which the Ottawa Senators have made a major move up the Eastern Conference ladder in the NHL. Instead of planning for the 2025-26 season, the Senators are hanging on to a spot inside the playoff structure. They are in the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference and head coach […]

The captain of the Boston Bruins may have played his last game for the Original 6 team. Brad Marchand, who suffered a possible concussion in a game in late February against the Pittsburgh Penguins, may be headed out of town before the March 7 trade deadline. The Bruins have struggled throughout the season and they […]

The New York Rangers are in a desperate fight to earn a spot in the Eastern Conference playoff structure, and they acquired defenseman Carson Soucy in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks in an effort to enhance their status. The trade, executed less than 24 hours before the NHL’s March 7 trade deadline, saw New […]

There is no such thing as holding your ground in the NFL. The Minnesota Vikings finished the 2024 season with a 14-3 record and were one of the most impressive teams in the league, but they simply can’t “run it back” in the 2025 season. If a team is not moving forward and figuring out […]

The Minnesota Vikings have multiple areas of need in the 2025 offseason. The offensive line has holes on the interior. The defensive line struggled to get decent penetration from the defensive tackle positions. The secondary has had holes for several years, and while there has been some improvement in 2023 and ’24, the Vikings could […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs are hoping that their years of suffering painful defeats in the early rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs are over. General manager Brad Treliving and head coach Craig Berube have built a team that is in first place in the Atlantic Division, and they are on a path to be no […]

The Dallas Cowboys suffered through a disappointing season in 2024, finishing with a 7-10 record that left them well out of playoff contention. The Cowboys suffered through many problems last year, and one of their biggest issues was a defense that crumbled on a regular basis. Owner Jerry Jones made big changes on the coaching […]

There is a feeling of optimism around the Red Sox this spring, as the team appears to be quite a bit stronger than the unit that finished with an 81-81 record a year. Last year’s team was not bad, and the Red Sox were inside the American League playoff structure through the All-Star break. Mistakes […]

The Los Angeles Angels have suffered through several difficult years and many of their issues have been linked to injury problems suffered by superstar outfielder Mike Trout. The three-time American League Most Valuable Player has been limited in each of the last four years. He played 36 games in 2021, 119 in ’22, 82 in […]

The Washington Capitals have been the most surprising team in the NHL this season. A year ago, the Capitals were an up-and-down team that didn’t make the playoffs until the final week of the season. Once they got in as the No. 8 seed, they were quickly drummed out of the playoffs in four games […]

The Dallas Cowboys are coming off a brutal season in which they finished with a 7-10 record  and that led owner Jerry Jones to part company with head coach Mike McCarthy. Instead of bringing in a high-profile head coach with NFL experience at running a team to take over, he hired Brian Schottenheimer to become […]

The New York Yankees are the defending American League champions and the team certainly has confidence that it will return to the playoffs and have an excellent chance of returning to the World Series at the conclusion of the 2025 Major League Baseball season. One of the most confident players on the team is relative […]

The Chicago Cubs have high hopes of becoming a dominant National League team this season and unseating the Milwaukee Brewers as the Central Division champions. The Cubs believe that the addition of players like Kyle Tucker and Justin Turner may be just enough to put them over the top and allow them to play consistent […]

The Boston Red Sox made a huge move in the offseason when they acquired left-handed starter Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox in a trade for four minor league prospects. Crochet dominated last year for the woeful Chicago South Side team and the Red Sox recognized that he had the kind of stuff to […]

UCLA has been one of the legendary programs in college basketball and the team was at its best in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Hall of Fame centers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton led the Bruins to multiple national championships under head coach John Wooden. Walton passed away last year after a lengthy […]

The Boston Celtics have been on a roll and the defending NBA champions have been playing some of their best basketball of the season. They defeated the Knicks by a 118-105 margin at TD Garden Sunday, and it gave the Celtics 9 wins in their last 10 games and a 5-game winning streak. The Celtics […]

The Minnesota Vikings made great strides last year, doubling their win total from the 7 games the team won in the 2023 season to the 14 that they recorded in 2024. The Vikings could have been the No. 1 team in the NFC playoff structure if they had beaten the Detroit Lions in the regular-season […]

The Utah Hockey Club has proven to be quite feisty and competitive in the team’s first season in Salt Lake City. Utah is in fifth place in the Central Divison with a 24-23-9 record, giving the team 57 points. While Utah can see the Vancouver Canucks in the final spot in the Western Conference playoff […]

After winning their first game following the All-Star break decisively against the Philadelphia 76ers, the Boston Celtics are expected to have a battle on their hands when they host the third-place New York Knicks Sunday afternoon at TD Garden. However, the Celtics are expected to be somewhat shorthanded because reserve center Neemias Queta and forward […]

Brady Tkachuk was the best player for Team USA in the recently completed 4 Nations Face-Off. He scored three goals in two games against the eventual champions from Canada, and he also delivered a physical presence that few in the tournament could come close to matching. The excitement of the high-profile games have come to […]

Tensions at TD Garden in Boston were at a fever pitch as Team USA and Canada faced off at the start of the first period at the 4 Nations title game. The Canadians got the early jump with a goal by speedster Nathan MacKinnon at the 4:48 mark of the first period. The visitors seemed […]

There is no doubt that the Minnesota Vikings had a brilliant regular-season performance in 2024. The overall record of 14-3 tied for the third-best record in the league with the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles behind the Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions. Little was expected from the Vikings this season because they had given […]

It’s easy to criticize the New York Yankees for their decision to extend the contract of manager Aaron Boone for two more years. He has not been able to add to the franchise’s total of 27 World Series titles even though he has been managing the team since the 2018 season. These are the Yankees […]

The New York Yankees’ decision to extend the contract of manager Aaron Boone is not a move that will go over well in all corners of Yankeeland. Boone has been managing the Yankees since the 2018 season, and while the team is a perennial contender for Major League Baseball superiority and has been in the […]

NHL players have been hankering for a best-on-best tournament for nearly a decade. Their desires were finally met this year with the 4 Nations Face-Off featuring the United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland. The hope was that this mini-tournament would capture the interest of the hockey-watching public in greater numbers than the league had seen […]

There was electricity in the air Saturday night when Team USA met Team Canada in the 4 Nations Face-Off at the Bell Center in Montreal. That electricity exploded into a full 5-alarm conflagration at the start of the game as there were three fights between the two star-studded teams in the first nine seconds of […]

Team Canada will be facing significant pressure when it takes the ice at TD Garden for its Monday afternoon game against Team Finland. Connor McDavid and his teammates are trying to earn a spot in the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game against Team USA, and the Canadians will have to beat Finland in regulation time […]

Through their first two game of the 4 Nations Face-Off, Team USA is in a sensational position. After defeating Team Finland and Team Canada — both in regulation time — head coach Mike Sullivan’s team has already clinched a spot in the tournament’s Thursday night championship game. Matthew Tkachuk clearly battling an injury didn’t play […]

After dropping a classic game to the United States Saturday night in Montreal, Team Canada will be desperate to get a win against Team Finland if it is going to advance to the championship game in the 4 Nations Face-Off. Defenseman Cale Makar was unable to play against the United States, but he is pledging […]

The Minnesota Vikings were one of the surprise stories of the 2024 NFL season since they were expected to battle the Chicago Bears for third place in the NFC North. Instead of fighting to stay out of the division’s cellar, the Vikings battled the Detroit Lions for the division title and the No. 1 seed […]