Author: Tim Runn

NHL

This is your daily thread to talk about the latest hockey news. BLACKHAWKS Prospect Report: Commesso named to Team USA for 2022 Olympics; defensemen still the highlights (SCH) Seth Jones return boosts Blackhawks with games against Wild, Avalanche looming (Sun-Times) Dylan Strome and Seth Jones are close to returning from COVID-19 protocols, but is it too late? (Tribune) NHL announces updated Blackhawks game schedule (SCH) (Tribune) (Sun-Times) Musings on Madison, Episode 77 — Exploring the Blackhawks road(s) ahead (SCH) What I’m hearing about the Blackhawks, Marc-Andre Fleury, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews as trade season approaches (The Athletic) Blackhawks will…

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Donna Kelce’s double-feature wild-card Sunday wasn’t just for the likes. The mother of Jason and Travis Kelce hopped on a plane from Tampa to Kansas City to catch both of her sons’ playoff games because, well, it doesn’t exactly happen every year. And there’s a real chance it was her last opportunity to do so, because retirement is a possibility for 34-year-old Jason. Kelce’s 11th professional season came to a close with Philadelphia’s 31-15 loss to Tampa Bay on Super Wild Card Weekend, ending the Eagles’ unlikely run to the playoffs that might not have happened without the veteran center.…

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With just one month left before it commences, the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season is already being billed as one of monumental change. With the debut of NASCAR’s Next Gen car serving as the tip of the iceberg, the expectation is that this coming season will be one that brings stock car racing into the future and sets the standard for a new era of innovative cars and the stars that drive them.It should come as no surprise, then, that there has been considerable movement on the driver and team market. With the shift into NASCAR’s next generation now including…

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MINNEAPOLIS — Toward the start of the greatest closing career in the history of the Minnesota Twins, there was a ninth-inning at-bat by longtime Royals infielder Joe Randa on April 25, 2004. It’s an otherwise utterly meaningless at-bat in the grand scheme of the season that still lives on in Joe Nathan’s memory. It was the newly minted Twins closer’s sixth save opportunity of the young season, and he was in a spot of trouble — bases loaded, tying run on second, Randa fouling off pitch after pitch after pitch. Nathan, a converted starter, would continue to rely on his…

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In 1990, after the United States’ first appearance in the FIFA World Cup in 40 years, forward John Harkes signed with Sheffield Wednesday, a second-division English club. That was a big deal. While the U.S. player pool had growing promise, Europe wasn’t really taking notice. Tab Ramos would play for Real Betis for a couple of years in the mid-1990s, Eric Wynalda for FC Saarbrucken and Bochum, and Claudio Reyna for Bayer Leverkusen and Manchester City (among others). But the signings were few and far between. It was pretty easy to keep track of all of them.A generation later, in…

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IND vs SA updates: India’s handling of allrounder Venkatesh Iyer raises eyebrows India’s Venkatesh Iyer. (AP Photo)What’s the role of Venkatesh Iyer in the team? That’s one of the many puzzles floating around the Indian ODI team that plays a brand of outdated cricket. There are quite a few issues from the run-getting pace of the top order to lack of wicket-taking bowlers in the middle overs to lack of finishers but Iyer’s case is a good example as any to capture the confusion in the camp. The stand-in captain KL Rahul, and more so head coach Rahul Dravid, cannot…

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Francis Ngannou punches harder than Deontay Wilder and would knock out Tyson Fury if he made a boxing crossover, his manager has warned.Ngannou will unify the UFC heavyweight championship against Ciryl Gane on Saturday night in California – it is the final fight on his contract with the mixed martial arts organisation. “My dream since I was a kid was to become a boxer,” Ngannou has said while revealing a desire to fight Fury, the WBC champion. Image: Could Fury fight Ngannou next? His manager Marquel Martin told Sky Sports: “Francis is dangerous for Fury because the best fighter to…

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