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Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY SportsWe’re back with a new edition of the THN Hot Seat, an ongoing off-season series of THN.com columns where we point out someone from every NHL franchise who will be dealing with a ton of pressure in the upcoming season. The person we pick for the Hot Seat could be an NHL player, GM, head coach, or team owner. In this edition, we’re breaking down the Nashville Predators. PREDATORS HOT SEAT: JUSSE SAROS, GOALTENDERWHY: The 27-year-old Saros is in the prime of his netminding career, and coming off a stellar 2021-22 campaign in which he posted a…

Top 100 Players of 2022, Nos. 30-21: Bosa, Diggs brothers near the top of list NFL.com This news is republished from another source. You can check the original article here

On Sunday night, Brooklyn Nets 12-time NBA All-Star Kevin Durant sent out a tweet.Bleacher Report had posted a video (via capturedbymatt_/IG) of Durant at a charity softball game in Portland. Bleacher Report wrote: “KD made a stop in Portland to play in a charity softball game Man of the people (via capturedbymatt_/IG)” Durant quote tweeted: “4-4 2 RBI’s for the first baseman” The former Texas star just finished up his 14th season playing in the NBA, and second for the Nets.  He signed with the Nets in the summer of 2019, but missed the first season due to injury. This past season, he averaged 29.9 points…

Christopher Bell (eighth) was the highest finishing Toyota in Sunday afternoon’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International. Toyota Post-Race RecapNASCAR Cup Series (NCS)Watkins Glen InternationalRace 25 of 36 – 220.5 miles, 90 laps TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS 1st, Kyle Larson*2nd, AJ Allmendinger*3rd, Joey Logano*4th, Chase Elliott*5th, Tyler Reddick*8th, CHRISTOPHER BELL20th, DENNY HAMLIN23rd, MARTIN TRUEX JR.26th, TY GIBBS32nd, KYLE BUSCH35th, BUBBA WALLACE36th, DANIIL KVYAT*non-Toyota driver    TOYOTA QUOTESCHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 DeWalt Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs RacingFinishing Position: 8thHow was your race today?“The DeWalt Camry TRD struggled some today, but I feel like an eighth-place finish was good for us today for…

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning and the New York Yankees got a win they desperately needed, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 Sunday to avoid a four-game sweep. The AL East-leading Yankees won for just the 10th time in 30 games since the All-Star break. They top the division by eight games over Toronto. Anthony Rizzo scored on a throwing error by Toronto left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr in the first. and DJ LeMahieu hit a go-ahead RBI single in the fourth. Whit Merrifield hit a bizarre home run in…

Yet another hurdle may be created in the path to reduce the number of holes at Hiawatha Golf Course (HGC) to improve flooding issues at the course.The Hiawatha Golf Course Area Master Plan goes further than just reducing the number of holes from 18, to nine, but for years it’s been met with contention.A main reason for that is because of its historical meaning for the African American community. The golf course was the first in the city to allow Black golfers to play – the club house is named after the man that convinced the course to end its…

Story Links Box Score (PDF) Highlights Next Game: at Middle Tennessee 8/25/2022 | 6 PM Aug. 25 (Thu) / 6 PM at Middle Tennessee OXFORD, Miss. – No. 18 Ole Miss (2-0-0) used a three-goal second half to pick up a massive non-conference win Sunday night, defeating No. 22 Memphis (1-1-0) in a top-25 edition of the annual Derby between the two sides.   Playing in just her second match in a Rebel kit, it was LSU transfer Molly Thompson who scored the winner, bagging a headed goal midway…

A few weeks back, this columnist had written about the injury suffered by the former Indian skipper Nari Contractor when a bouncer sent by Charlie Griffith struck him on the head in the match against Barbados during the tour of West Indies in 1962. One of the readers had pointed out that this game had also seen an innings of immense courage by an Indian batsman, which did not find mention in that article. After Contractor was injured, the batsman who took his place in the middle was Vijay Manjrekar, who ended up with a broken nose while attempting to…

By Sam Volz: Deontay Wilder says he plans on fighting three times a year until he’s 40 years old. The 36-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) will be returning to the ring from a one-year absence when he faces Robert Helenius (31-3, 20 KOs) on October 15th on FOX Sports pay-per-view at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It’s difficult to take what Wilder says about fighting three times a year seriously, as he hasn’t fought that often since 2015. Wilder generally fights once or sometimes twice a year under ideal circumstances. The big punching 6’7″…

Laslo Djere made a late start to his North American hard-court swing, but you could not tell by his performance on Sunday evening. In his first match of the swing, the Serbian battled past former Top 10 star David Goffin 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Winston-Salem Open. “It was difficult. Really humid. We had an interruption at the beginning [due to rain], so it was both physical and mental, I think. I managed to stay calm and I prepared well for this U.S. swing, so my body was feeling right and this definitely helped me…