Sarah Jean Maher

A Little League player was suspended for a bat flip. His family took legal action — and won The winner of the state title game advances to regionals, where they could move on to the Little League World Series.

UPDATE: A judge ruled in favor of the 12-year-old Little League player who was suspended from the New Jersey state final after a bat-flip celebration, clearing him to play.

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OMG I’m sat

Watching the Balloon Boy documentary. Being a month-old journalism student when that whole thing happened in 2009 was wild lol

Grant Hill joining NBC’s NBA coverage as analyst for 2025-26 season Hill will keep his role at TNT Sports as a college basketball analyst for the NCAA Tournament.

Grant Hill will join NBC Sports’ NBA coverage as a game analyst for the 2025-26 season.

Hill will still continue his role at TNT Sports as a college basketball analyst for the men’s NCAA Tournament as well as TNT’s Big East and Big 12 basketball coverage.

Jonathan Toews, Jets agree to 1-year deal: Why Winnipeg, and what’s the risk? The longtime Chicago Blackhawk hasn't played since April 2023.

Jonathan Toews is coming back www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...

Orioles minor-league infielder dies in jet ski accident involving other players Luis Guevara, 19, was involved in a head-on collision between two jet skis on Sunday near Lido Key in Sarasota, Fla.

Luis Guevara, an infielder in the Baltimore Orioles’ minor league system, has died after being involved in a jet ski accident Sunday near Lido Key in Sarasota, FL, the team said Wednesday morning. He was 19.

Rays shortstop Wander Franco charged with gun possession amid sexual abuse trial: Reports Franco is currently on trial on charges including sexual abuse of a minor.

Rays SS Wander Franco, currently on trial in the Dominican Republic on charges including sexual abuse of a minor, was charged Sunday with illegal possession of a gun, according to multiple reports.

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We’ve all been there

3K for SGA 🔥

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the 12th player in history to reach 3,000 points in an NBA season, regular-season and playoffs.

🤍🤍

How the Winnipeg Jets built the best regular-season team in the NHL The Jets have clinched the 2025 Presidents' Trophy, cementing their status as the top regular-season team in the league. What comes next?

Offseason soul searching. Three years of trading for skilled energy players. Dedication of the unheralded.

Here's how the #NHLJets built the best regular season team in hockey — and what to expect when the Stanley Cup playoffs begin:

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Canadiens’ Josh Anderson was saved by cut-resistant pants. Why do players still resist safety? Anderson's use of cut-resistant pants likely prevented a severe injury, but comfort still appears to be a bigger priority among players.

Josh Anderson’s clutch third period last night nearly didn’t happen. His season could have ended. But it didn’t, because he was wearing cut resistant pants for the first time. They saved him. And yet, players continue to value comfort over safety. This must change. www.nytimes.com/athletic/621...

he slept EIGHT MINUTES the night before the trade deadline

it’s too much!!!!!

Trade deadline + daylight savings in the same weekend for the second straight year is so unfair

Before the NHL, an all-Black hockey league helped to innovate the modern game A commemorative game will be played Monday in Ottawa honoring the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes' inaugural year of 1895.

Before the NHL, an all-Black hockey league helped to innovate the modern game.

The slap shot and goalies getting down on their knees to make saves all have origins in the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, formed 130 years ago.

✍🏾 @theathletic.bsky.social

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I cooked in the staff predictions this week

Binnington tho

Crosby 🤝🏻🔥🤝🏻 McDavid

(There’s no torch emoji!)

Still excited like a little kid watching Sid do his thing

Still excited like a little kid watching Sid do his thing

There are worse nights to be stuck inside waiting on 40 cm of snow

If Mario takes his suit jacket off and there’s a Team Canada jersey underneath, this tournament is over.

Nervous about 4 Nations

Canada’s ‘mind-boggling’ goalie crisis has been a decades-long descent A return to the dominance Canada once enjoyed seems unlikely, but the search is on for the right path to train Canada's future goalies.

The structure and culture of Canadian hockey hurts development in many ways — but especially when it comes to goalies.

Here’s @mirtle.bsky.social and I on Canada’s stark decline in a position it once dominated — and the reasons behind it.

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That time I saw Chappell Roan in Montreal and she wasn’t even a headliner ✨

You ate this up 👏🏻

what did I miss while I was watching Wicked for the millionth time on Friday

In the NHL, boozing is out. Edible cannabis and video games are in Some veterans lament less team bonding as alcohol use wanes and gaming and edibles become more commonplace.

A new story from me and @joshuakloke.bsky.social on the decline of the NHL’s partying and drinking culture — in favour of unwinding with video games and, for many, cannabis.

What is lost and what is gained in this culture shift?

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