The Vegas Golden Knights have extended qualifying offers to five players, maintaining their restricted free-agent rights. The five players include Lukas Cormier, Alexander Holtz, Raphael Lavoie, Jonas Rondbjerg and Cole Schwindt. Cormier, a 23-year-old left-handed defenseman, was drafted in the third round (68th overall) in the 2020 NHL draft. Since the selection, Cormier has seen almost all of his action in the AHL but has accumulated two games of NHL experience. In the AHL, Cormier has scored 14 goals and 64 points in 139 games, continuing to round out his game on both sides of the puck. The 2024-25 season was difficult…
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Your winners and losers from a (mostly) dud of a night on the opening of the NBA’s free-agency period …(Shoutout, Spotrac, for registering the contracts so quickly.)WINNER: Houston RocketsThe Rockets did most of their work early, including a trade for Kevin Durant on June 22, which was big business at a discount rate. They dealt Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and four second-round draft picks for a 15-time All-Star. In order to make that many All-Star rosters, you must be getting old by NBA standards, and Durant will turn 37 in September. He still averaged a 27-6-4 on 53/43/84 shooting splits…
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Wilyer Abreu made history Monday night with a ridiculous outing at the plate at Fenway Park.The Boston Red Sox outfielder hit both an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam in their 13-6 win over the Cincinnati Reds, making him just the sixth player in Major League Baseball history to do both things in the same game and the first since 1958.AdvertisementAbreu’s inside-the-park home run came in the fifth inning, when the Red Sox were already up by three runs. He hit a deep shot that went 423 feet and almost cleared the center-field wall in Boston, but instead awkwardly…
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Aldrich Potgieter rides momentum into Rocket Classic final roundAldrich Potgieter said momentum on the front nine and a few surprise putts kept him steady heading into Sunday.PGA TOURThe Rocket Classic is getting a new tee time in 2026.While the full PGA Tour schedule has yet to be released, the Rocket…
The New York Islanders announced they have re-signed forwards Liam Foudy and Julien Gauthier to one-year, two-way contracts for the 2025-26 season. Foudy recorded 20 goals and 45 points in 70 games with the Bridgeport Islanders last season and went pointless in two NHL games with the New York Islanders. The 25-year-old…
The Yankees closed their weekend set with a 12-5 win over the Athletics on Sunday afternoon.Here are some takeaways…- Jazz Chisholm Jr. got the scoring started with a solo shot in the bottom of the second off Luis Severino. Jazz was smooth again just one inning later, as he ripped…
Eleven-time NBA All-Star James Harden, who will turn 36 years old in August, has declined his $36.3 million player option and will return to the Los Angeles Clippers on a two-year, $81.5 million contract, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Sunday.Playing alongside fellow future Hall of Famer Kawhi Leonard in their native…
NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. — Entering Sunday’s NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event at White Mountain Motorsports Park, it had been nearly two years since Kyle Bonsignore last visited Victory Lane.It wasn’t a stat he was particularly proud of, so he set out to do something about it.Bonsignore dominated the Thunder in…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Padraig Harrington came out on top of a major championship that felt more like match play, closing his round Sunday with seven straight pars at the U.S. Senior Open to top Stewart Cink by one shot.Playing alongside Cink for the fourth straight day, Harrington shot 3-under…
Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn are set to try to do the impossible.The two rivals will attempt to better their first contest, which is the frontrunner for 2025’s Fight of the Year, when they rematch Sept. 20 at a venue to be determined in London, Turki Alalshikh confirmed Sunday…
BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff is expected to receive a seven-game suspension for violating the university’s Honor Code and considered likely to leave the program, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Retzlaff is accused of battery, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress in a civil lawsuit, filed in May, stemming from an…
After being drafted in the fifth round by the team he grew up cheering for on Saturday, Alexis Cournoyer spoke to the media from his childhood bedroom, lit by a Montreal Canadiens’ scoreboard and featuring a Canadiens’ goalie poster in the background. The 19-year-old netminder looked like a kid on…
Mets slugger Jesse Winker took a big step in his recovery on Sunday afternoon. After completing his ramp up from an oblique injury, the slugger was finally able to get back into game action with the High-A Brooklyn Cyclones, and he showed no signs of rust. Winker drew a six-pitch walk during…
The Charlotte Hornets have LaMelo Ball under contract and just drafted Kon Knueppel. Now they are adding another ball handler to the backcourt.The Utah Jazz are trading Collin Sexton and a 2030 second-round pick to the Charlotte Hornets for Jusuf Nurkic, a deal first reported by Shams Charania of ESPN…
