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2 days agoYankees take on Marlins in home opener. Here's what to know.
The New York Yankees aim to maintain their strong start against the Miami Marlins in their home opener at Yankee Stadium.
Putting U.S. on your chest and going out there and competing obviously means the world. As Venezuelan players, we are playing for our country, and, of course, putting Latin America in a high position, showing that we have great baseball, we have great talent.
The Arizona Cardinals will take on the Carolina Panthers in the annual Hall of Fame exhibition game on Aug. 6 as part of enshrinement week. The Hall announced the matchup on Wednesday between two of the teams that have former stars set to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next summer.
Florida blew a two-goal third period lead, but still managed to end its four-game losing streak with a nail-biting 5-4 shootout win over the Boston Bruins last night. Anton Lundell (1G/2A), Matthew Tkachuk (1G/1A) and Uvis Balinskis (1G/1A) had multi-point games and Eetu Luostarinen opened the scoring with an unassisted goal. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 shots, including 12 of the high-danger variety, to collect his 450th NHL win. The Cats have recalled defenseman Mikulas Hovorka from Charlotte.
So you couldn't score a wildly expensive ticket to Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship game between the Miami Hurricanes and Indiana Hoosiers. Well, you're not alone, and so what? There are still plenty of ways to cheer on the home team, which last won a national title in 2002, at official CFP events and watch parties popping up at bars, clubs and restaurants throughout South Florida.
But even if you were locked in on the Hoosiers' rise the past two seasons in football, you may find yourself reading that sentence back to yourself a few times to make sure it's not a chatbot hallucination. Indeed, this is just the world now. The Hoosiers just became the first 16-0 major college football team since Yale in 1894.
Former South Florida QB Byrum Brown has committed to Auburn, his agents Drew Rosenhaus and Shawn O'Dare of Rosenhaus Sports told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Tuesday. Brown has a deal that projects as one of the most lucrative in the NIL era. The move comes a little more than a month after Auburn hired Alex Golesh away from South Florida as their new head coach.
Miami defensive back Xavier Lucas must sit out the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game against Indiana on Monday night because he was called for targeting in the fourth quarter of the semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Any player called for targeting is ejected from the game. If the targeting call happens in the second half, a player is ejected and suspended for the first half of his team's next game.