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Friday's FTB: 4,528.7 candidates for Maple Leafs head coach

We left no possible names off our list.

MM 2.20: Maryland softball loses two games against Virginia

Maryland softball has been in Charlottesville over the last two days, with the results slowly improving. The Terps were expected to play a doubleheader Thursday, but after losing the first game 14-1, the second was postponed due to inclement weather. The Terps’ first game of Friday went far better, with the Terps holding a lead […]

Wild Praying For No Injuries At Olympics

That's Wild Everyone around the Minnesota Wild organization held their breath when Joel Eriksson Ek went down hard during Sweden's semifinal matchup against the United States. The Wild will need every single player they have to be as healthy as possible if they want to make some noise in the...

YouTube Gold: The 1960 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team

In our times, the 1984 US Olympic team is widely considered to be the best prior to the 1992 Dream Team, which was the first year that NBA players were eligible. You could make a good argument for the 1960 team though. That group included names most of us won’t recognize, like Jay Arnette, Burdette […]

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Steelers DL Cam Heyward named to ‘PFF 101’

Cam Heyward might’ve played his 2025 season at 36 years old, but he’s still recognized as one of the top defensive linemen in the NFL. Analytics website Pro Football Focus has been unveiling its top 101 players list following the 2025 season, with rankings solely based off of play in the last year and without […]

Who is your least favorite MLB team?

For me, there’s a clear answer here but it’s not the one you’re thinking. There’s division rivals and the historic, heated division races the Twins have had with the Tigers through the 2000s and White Sox in the late 2010s.  There’s the Yankees, the source of Minnesota’s postseason misery for nearly two decades. The Dodgers […]

Commute: the NCAA has to abolish the Quads

It’s a dumb system, let me explain why I think so. Let’s talk about UConn, one of the teams with a track to possibly land an overall one seed in the NCAA Tournament. They’re 24-3, and fell to 10th in the NET after a recent home loss to Creighton. The Blue Jays are 73rd in […]

Who will hit the Yankees’ first spring training homer?

Pitchers and catchers reported to Yankees spring training a little over a week ago, and now today, we check off another milestone on the way to Opening Day. It’s the Grapefruit League opener! Yes, it’s that special time of year when MLB players appear in games they don’t particularly care about, all with the explicit […]

Will Stein aims to own the Commonwealth when it comes to recruiting

The University of Kentucky’s rivalry with the Louisville Cardinals always delivers the goods when it comes to producing dramatic storylines. Generations of fans on both sides of the aisle have their own unique examples of how they were passionately raised to handle the divide between the Commonwealth’s heated foes. The bad blood has never been […]

Friday Morning Fly By: Here’s to the golden girls

*Congrats to the Team USA women on their big come-from-behind win over Canada for gold yesterday! Very exciting! [ Yahoo ] *Pardon the “and how does this affect the Leafs” energy, but here’s a few lessons the Flyers could learn from Team USA’s big win. [ BSH ] *Anyhoo, like we mentioned yesterday the Flyers are back on the ice for practice, and Emil Andrae is doing everything he possibly can to get Rick Tocchet to put him back in the lineup. [ Inquirer ] *He’s not seen any game ...

Pens Points: Crosby injury sparks debate

Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning… Team Canada head coach Jon Cooper says captain Sidney Crosby has not been ruled out for the rest of the 2026 Winter Olympics due to his injury and will be evaluated daily with the hope he can play in the upcoming games. [PensBurgh] With Crosby’s injury […]

The Bear’s Den, February 20, 2025

THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL OUR MAN JACK! How Jack Silverstein became Chicago’s sports historian Hear all about our very own Jack Silverstein who’s now getting the recognition he deserves. BEARSSSSSS Bears cut LB Amen Ogbongbemiga $2M cap savings. Hammond Bears? Team says Indiana site near Wolf Lake is now their main stadium focus That’s what, […]

Olympics: USA wins Gold, Men’s semifinals today

Hilary Knight scored the tying marker with 2:04 remaining in regulation and Megan Keller notched the golden goal 4:07 into overtime, finishing a sweet inside-out move on the backhand to lift the United States to a 2-1 win over Canada in the final of the Womens tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Aerin Frankel stopped 30 of 31 shots as the Americans won the gold medal for the third time. Switzerland took bronze with a 2-1 overtime win over Sweden, who made the medal round out of Group ...

Golden Nuggets: Should the 49ers be Passrushmaxxing this offseason?

49ers draft buzz: Daniel Jeremiah identifies pass rushers, WR targets for San Francisco“If you’re looking for that big, physical rusher that kind of fits those specs, to me [Missouri DE] Zion Young, he’s 6-5 and a quarter, 262 pounds,” Jeremiah said. “He would fit those specs. I know T.J. Parker’s not quite as big, but he’s almost […]