USA Hockey has invited 15 players to join the U.S. men’s ice hockey team participating at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, according to reports by Daily Faceoff’s Chris Peters and Frank Seravalli. So far, no player has confirmed that they are going to Beijing and USA Hockey is still in the process of adding to the list. The United States can select up to 22 skaters and three goaltenders for their Olympic team, which begins competition Wednesday, Feb. 9. Among the 15 invites are eight current college hockey players, six Americans playing overseas and one minor leaguer. Of the…
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Both of the NFL franchises in the Big Apple, The New York Giants, and the New York Jets both moved out of New York City–and out of the state–in 1976 and 1983 respectively. They both stayed there when in 2010, when they built their most recent place to play, Metlife Stadium, in New Jersey. Now, almost 50 years later, a fan is taking the move–and the names of the teams–into his power to force the Giants’ and Jets’ hands. Abdiell Suero of Greenwich Village had this to say in a class-action lawsuit: “The class action complaint for an order returning…
KEY POINTSThe Suns announced that they would be signing Bismack Biyombo for the rest of the seasonBiyombo stepped in well for Deandre Ayton and JaVale McGee who are sidelinedHe will prove to be a sneakily smart signing by the Suns front office in the playoffsThe Phoenix Suns decided to sign center Bismack Biyombo for the rest of the season, and it has the potential to be a massive game-changer for their title odds.Biyombo originally signed with the Suns on a 10-day contract to fill the whole that starting center Deandre Ayton and backup big man JaVale McGee left after they…
PBR (Professional Bull Riders) today announced that the Carolina Chaos will represent Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the PBR Team Series, an elite new league featuring the world’s top bull riders competing in games beginning in June 2022. North Carolina’s first bull riding team will call Wake Forest’s Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum home, joining the Demon Deacons men’s and women’s basketball teams in the 14,600 capacity multi-purpose arena in Winston-Salem. The team will be run by Richard Childress Racing with 2018 Daytona 500 Champion Austin Dillon serving as General Manager. Dillon, who drives the iconic No. 3 Chevrolet, embarks on his ninth…
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Spring Hill Intermediate School students received a lesson Thursday from a champion in a sport that “everyone can do.”A classroom of about 43 fifth-graders took part in a lesson by 2018 Professional Disc Golf world champion Gregg Barsby.The students then put their skills to the test at Panther Stadium, where the played in groups of five led by Barsby.Chris Peurifoy, a coach at Spring Hill Intermediate, is an active disc golfer. He said he enjoys it so much that he wanted to bring it to his students.“My family and I play a lot of disc golf, and last year I wrote…
By The Associated PressJanuary 6, 2022 GMTA look at what’s happening in European soccer on Friday:ENGLANDPep Guardiola will miss Manchester City’s FA Cup game at fourth-tier club Swindon after testing positive for the coronavirus, with seven players also in isolation. City is the latest English team to have an outbreak of COVID-19 and assistant coach Rodolfo Borrell is set to be on the sideline. However, City has not asked for the game to be postponed and Borrell said the available players “are prepared to play the game and mentally we are ready for it.” It is the first of the…
Rain has delayed the fourth Ashes Test once again with the start of day three on hold due to persistent showers at the SCG.England will eventually resume at 0-13 in their first innings in reply to Australia’s 8-416d, with Haseeb Hameed (2*) and Zak Crawley (2*) at the crease. The big covers were eventually pulled back shortly after 11.15 to cheers from ther SCG crowd prompting hope of play this morning.Sydney’s weather forecast for Friday is a gloomy one, with a 90 per cent chance of rain with a chance of a thunderstorm. Catch every moment of The Ashes live…
By Charles Brun: IBF featherweight champion Kiko Martinez and former IBF 126-lb champion Josh Warrington have agreed to a deal for March 26th in a match that will be staged in the UK and shown on DAZN. This will be Kiko Martinez’s first defense of his IBF featherweight title that he captured last November with a sixth round knockout win over Kid Galahad in Sheffield, England. Galahad is moving up in weight to super featherweight. Kiko giving Warrington home country advantage Despite being the champion, Martin (43-10-2, 30 KOs) will be defending his IBF 126-lb title in the home country…
By Jessica Wedemeyer 2:10pm PST, Jan 6, 2022 _ Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at the celebrities who found love, suffered heartbreak or experienced some other major event in their love lives in late December 2021 and early January 2022, starting with this exciting news… It appears there’s a new man in Rebel Wilson’s life: The actress is spending time with Australian professional tennis player Matt Reid, and according to a source for the Australian tabloid the Herald Sun, the buzz in the tennis world is that they “could be more than just friends.” The pair were snapped getting breakfast…