The Calgary Roughnecks selected eight players in the 2024 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft held virtually on Sunday. With the fifth overall pick, Calgary selected forward Brayden Mayea from High Point University in North Carolina. The Windsor, Ont., native broke numerous records during his final season at High Point, finishing with 46 goals to lead … Read more
Candice Bergen got her claws out at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards. The actress, 78, took the Emmys stage to present the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, a honor she won five times for her portrayal of hard-nosed “FYI” news broadcaster Murphy Brown on the TV series of the same name. … Read more
Hollywood celebrated the end of summer at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night. You could tell it was the end of summer because everybody looked very tan and very tired. Yes, Red Bull was the big winner at the shindig honoring the best of TV in Los Angeles. They all needed wings in the Peacock … Read more
TV’s biggest night was a mix of predictable wins and some surprises. The official 2024 Emmys were the second ceremony held this year, since the 2023 ceremony got kicked from its intended September date to January once last summer’s actors and writers strikes ended. Father-son duo and “Schitt’s Creek” stars Dan and Eugene Levy emceed … Read more
Yes, it’s good to have Aaron Rodgers on the team, and if you’d forgotten that, then Robert Saleh would soon remind you, no fewer than a half-dozen times, that “we feel we can score anytime we touch the ball.” And even if that’s still more a theory than a reality: Sure, it’s good to have … Read more
Heroes, zeros and the full blitz from the Jets’ 24-17 win over the Titans on Sunday: Hero Aaron Rodgers didn’t post prolific numbers (18 of 30, 176 yards, 2 TDs, no turnovers), but he calmly led the team through a series of tough patches on offense and ultimately engineered the game-winning drive in the fourth quarter, going … Read more
Heroes, zeros and the full blitz from the Giants’ 21-18 loss to the Commanders on Sunday: Hero Kicker Austin Seibert, who was signed earlier in the week, went 7-for-7 on field goals and kicked the game-winning 30-yard field goal as time expired. Zeroes General manager Joe Schoen, head coach Brian Daboll, kicker Graham Gano and punter Jamie … Read more
It was a scary day for chain gangs all over the NFL. The third quarter of the Bears-Texans “Sunday Night Football” game in Houston was paused after a member of the chain gang tripped and hit his head violently on the ground. Tough day for NFL Chain Gang. Another Chaingang member had a cardiac attack … Read more
A collection of Bears players weren’t thrilled by the way Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair hit quarterback Caleb Williams as he was going out of bounds, and it led to a small scuffle that even included Al-Shaair throwing a punch. Neither Al-Shaair nor anyone else was flagged for unnecessary roughness — or anything else — during … Read more
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder at the Stadium once Gerrit Cole had his No Mas moment with Rafael Devers in Saturday’s fourth inning, there was Boston manager Alex Cora blithely admitting prior to Sunday’s game that the Red Sox had tried to hit Aaron Judge with a pitch in the sixth … Read more
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