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Lightning Morning News: 2026-27 Salary Cap set at $104 million

With league revenues continuing to operate at a healthy clip, the NHL let their franchises know what their cap for next season is going to look like. As has been speculated for some time, the 2026-27 upper limit will be at $104 million, an increase of $8.5 million over the current ceiling. That also means that the salary cap floor is going up from $70.6 million to $76.9 million. The @NHL and @NHLPA announced that the Team Payroll Range established for the 2026-27 League Year, pursuant t...

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Monday Morning Texas Rangers Update

Good morning. Shawn McFarland has a few observations regarding the Texas Rangers beating the Seattle Mariners in a spring training contest yesterday. McFarland also checks out what we learned from Surprise this week with new manager Skip Schumaker able to relate to the infielders in camp. Kennedi Landry writes about Jacob Latz attempting to graduate […]

Seahawks News 3/2: Josh Jobe’s future with the Seahawks

In Today’s Links: really at this point, it’s free agency speculation and draft talk. That’s pretty much it. Oh, and some cool photos from the 2025 season. That’s it. Except some news from our division rivals. Happy Monday! #np Best You Can Do by Coco Solid Seahawks News The cases for and against re-signing Seahawks’ […]

Weekly Game Day Thread – 3/2

Welcome to the Game Day Thread for the games in the week of 3/2. It’s a big week with four games to play and 8 points available. Note the afternoon time on Monday and early starts on Tuesday and Saturday. Also the trade deadline is Friday, March 6th. Hold on to your……hats! Games this week are: Monday 3/2 vs Detroit Red Wings 1pm Central on FanDuel and ESPN Tuesday 3/3 at Columbus Blue Jackets 6pm Central on FanDuel and ESPN Thursday 3/5 vs Boston Bruins 7pm Central on F...

Your take: Full ABS, challenge, or none at all?

I realized per a conversation over the weekend: I got ahead of myself with the question about the number of challenges. I didn’t even ask, plainly, about the vibes regarding the 2026 switch to an ABS challenge system in the first place. So, here, we go, and we’ll do it rajah community prospect list rec […]

Four numbers that actually matter in Spring Training: Week One

As fans, we thrive on finding meaning in our teams’ stats. Do the numbers coming out of spring training — which is basically one very long practice — actually have significance, however? I would argue that most spring numbers tell us little, except a few that can tell us a lot more. We may not […]

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NHL weekend rankings: 5 post-Olympic break overreactions (unless they're not)

Welcome back to the NHL weekend rankings, returning after a three-week Olympic break. Aw, I missed you too. Of course, those three weeks only contained a handful of NHL games for each team, so in theory our outlook on the league shouldn’t have changed too much. In theory, sure. But this is the real world, where half our job as fans is to overreact to anything and everything. So today, before we get to the Top Five and Bottom Five, let’s first take a moment to pick a few teams and go way overbo...

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Next Up – NC State

Date 3/2 || Time 7:00 || Venue Lenovo Center || Video ESPN Update – State may be without backup big man Musa Sagnia Hellooooo, March! Duke only has two regular season games left: Monday’s trip to Raleigh and Saturday’s home finale vs. UNC. There’s an interesting coincidence floating around now if you haven’t seen or […]

Mets Morning News: Sunny Days

Meet the Mets The Mets walked off the Astros and capped their weekend with a 4-3 win. it’s still a little early to make promises, but Carlos Mendoza is optimistic that Francisco Lindor and his hamate-less hand can be ready for Opening Day. Clay Holmes and Nolan McLean are excited to represent the United States […]

Fringe to Foundational? A short series

I really hate to keep beating the same drum, but I’m going to continue to be on the record as believing that the make-or-break aspect of the next would-be competitive era of White Sox baseball — the aspect that Rick Hahn and friends utterly failed at from 2017-19 — is going to be whether they […]

The Daily Bee: Well, That’s That Then.

Good morning, Fear the Wall. Welcome to the end of the season. Borussia Dortmund have been knocked out of the Champions League, and fallen 11 points behind Bayern Munich in first place. BVB are now playing for pride, with the goal of confirming second place and, well, that’s it. This is a demoralizing place to […]

Braves News: Austin Riley, J.R. Ritchie, More

While much of the attention through the first few weeks of Spring Training has been on the Braves pitching staff, the Braves offense has been the source of much success so far. Power has been on full display from just about everyone, from newcomers such as Mike Yastrzemski to emerging prospects like John Gil. Of […]

Dodgers notes: Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani

We know Freddie Freeman has a plan for things. He wants to play four more seasons (two beyond his current contract with the Dodgers) and get to 3,000 hits. He’d like to get 47 plate appearances this spring. But sometimes even Freeman gets caught off guard with thinking too far ahead. Bill Shaikin of the […]

Five takeaways from IU basketball’s loss to Michigan State

IU basketball dropped its fourth-straight game, falling 77-64 to Michigan State on Sunday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Here are five takeaways from the loss to the Spartans: Another poor defensive effort With the Big Ten schedule now 90 percent ... The post Five takeaways from IU basketball’s loss to Michigan State appeared first on Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis .

Bob buckles in Panthers 5-4 loss to Islanders

The Florida Panthers cloudy playoff picture grew even more muddled with a 5-4 loss to the New York Islanders at UBS Arena. Anders Lee scored the game-winning goal, skating around Aaron Ekblad and going backhand-to-forehead to beat Sergei Bobrovsky with 32 ticks left in regulation to hand the Cats a second consecutive one-goal loss. After struggling to score Friday against Buffalo, the Panthers got off to a great start, opening up a two-goal lead on the Islanders. Bobrovsky rippe...

5 wide receiver targets for the Patriots in NFL free agency

The New England Patriots find themselves in a much different position than they were at this time last season. After overhauling the roster in Year 1 under Mike Vrabel, the Patriots turned things around and advanced to Super Bowl LX. Entering free agency in 2026, the list of needs is significantly shorter for Vrabel and […]

2026 Free Agent Edge Defenders the Commanders Should Consider

This season the Commanders will be switching to a new defensive scheme under Daronte Jones, who previously worked as the passing game coordinator under Brian Flores with the Vikings.  The details of the new defense have not been announced yet.  And it’s hard to guess how much Washington’s new defensive coordinator will put his own […]