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Sideline Chatter: In the 1970s, he'd check into hotels as Patrick Mahomes
"Cat" remains in question, but Terry Bradshaw can certainly spell "Tom" without being spotted the T and the O. The Steelers Hall of Famer presciently used the alias "Tom Brady" in 1983 when he was admitted to a Shreveport, La., hospital for elbow surgery, which we learned in a recently rediscovered newspaper article. Brady, who's long since supplanted Bradshaw and Joe Montana as the winningest Super Bowl QB of all time, was 5 at the time. ——— Headlines — At TheOnion.com: "Bugs Bunny explains how LeBron helped him get sober for role in 'Space Jam' sequel." — At Fark.com: "J.J. Watt has gone fro...
The Seattle Times
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Mike Sielski: Jason Kelce's return next season is nothing but a good thing for the Eagles
PHILADELPHIA — Jason Kelce has never hidden how much the decision to continue playing for the Eagles, to continue administering to himself the punishment of playing pro football, has weighed on him. The question has come up at the end of each of his last three seasons; Super Bowl LII, in February 2018, was the last time that Kelce didn't offer that he was contemplating retirement and that no one thought to ask him about it. He has spent 10 years in the NFL, has been a first-team All-Pro three times, has been selected to four Pro Bowls, is among the greatest of all Eagles, and might yet earn in...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Bill Madden: From Aaron Judge to Jarred Kelenic, 10 players to watch during 2021 MLB season
NEW YORK — With fingers crossed, baseball is slowly and carefully proceeding toward its goal of 162 games with full attendance normalcy for 2021, and for evaluation and prediction purposes you really have to throw out the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. This is a spring in which everyone is truly starting anew, but we are going to take a bit of a forward leap here and single out the 10 players that bear close watching because of their potential impact on their teams’ chances. ——— 1. Aaron Judge, Yankees: While Yankees manager Aaron Boone is cautiously optimistic that pitchers Corey Kluber, Jam...
New York Daily News
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Sharks’ offense goes silent again as Golden Knights sweep series
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Marc-Andre Fleury and the Vegas Golden Knights weren’t going to allow the shorthanded San Jose Sharks to come back from another big deficit Saturday night. The Sharks fell behind by three goals after two periods and couldn’t come up with the same kind of response as they had the night before, losing 4-0 to the Golden Knights at SAP Center. The Sharks allowed two goals by Alex Tuch and one to Mark Stone and Reilly Smith and were stymied by Fleury at the other end as they lost their season-worst third straight game. Fleury finished with 24 saves to improve to 12-3-0, as the Sh...
The Mercury News
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Blues squander 3-0 lead in 4-3 OT loss to Kings
LOS ANGELES — The streak ended Saturday at Staples Center, and not even the return of Vladimir Tarasenko could help. Riding a four-game winning streak entering the contest, all coming on the road, the St. Louis Blues couldn’t make it five, falling 4-3 in overtime to the Los Angeles Kings. It’s still a highly successful road trip, with just a return engagement Monday in San Jose remaining before the Blues head back home. But the Kings (10-8-5) have been a tough out all season for St. Louis, now 14-8-3 for the season. Adrian Kempe’s goal with 3 minutes left in overtime was the difference, as the...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Blues star Ryan O’Reilly’s mom donates kidney to arena manager who let young sons skate extra hours
The ice was cold, but her heart was warm. Bonnie O’Reilly, mother of NHL champion Ryan O’Reilly, donated a kidney to the rink manager who let Ryan and his brother, Cal, skate late hours when they were kids. Graham Nesbitt ran the local arena in Seaforth, Ontario, a 2,600-person town about halfway between Detroit and Toronto where the O’Reillys grew up, the CBC reported. “They’d call and say, ‘Is there any way we can get onto the ice before school?’ ” Graham’s son, Joe Nesbitt, told the CBC. “He’d have the arena open at 6:30 a.m. so people could skate.” Ryan went from late night skating to winn...
New York Daily News
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Arnold Palmer Invitational: Veteran Lee Westwood carries 1-shot lead into Sunday
ORLANDO, Fla. — Jordan Spieth was 16 years old the last time Lee Westwood won on the PGA Tour, in 2010. Keegan Bradley’s 2011 PGA Championship victory and his stellar play during the 2012 Ryder Cup remain the highlights of the 34-year-old’s career. All three golfers are hungry to create another moment Sunday at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. The third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational ended with a packed leaderboard featuring major champions and household names. A victory on Tour would be a long time coming for many of them, so long in the case of the 47-year-old Westwood the details are fuzzy...
Orlando Sentinel
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone back to work just days after having pacemaker implanted
TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Boone was bouncing back and forth between the field, the tower and bullpen Saturday morning. The first day he was back after having surgery to implant a pacemaker, the Yankees manager was at full-speed watching workouts at the minor league complex. That was before jumping in a car and heading to Bradenton, Fla., to manage his first game since the procedure. “Felt good just to be at the ball field again competing with the guys. I felt really good,” Boone said after the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Pirates at LECOM Park. “A wet day, just glad we’re able to get it in and get guys ...
New York Daily News
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Flyers fall to Penguins, 4-3
Even though we haven’t hit the halfway point of this kooky season, they were calling this a playoff series in the Flyers’ locker room. Three games in five nights, all in Pittsburgh, was going to be a nice measuring stick. Verdict: There’s still work to do. The Flyers lost two of these games in regulation after Saturday’s 4-3 decision. Not a lot of time for analysis, though, as the Capitals await for a game Sunday night. It was a see-saw game that was tied three times until Jared McCann scored on a rebound midway through a third period largely controlled by Pittsburgh. Travis Konecny, Kevin Hay...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Meet Kraken head video analyst Tim Ohashi — the unheralded man who could help alter games and inform strategy
SEATTLE — Kraken head video analyst Tim Ohashi won’t soon forget the first time his replay-perusing acumen helped directly swing an NHL game. Before joining the Kraken last October, he’d been a Washington Capitals video coach for five seasons with, among other things, a nerve-wracking responsibility to tell the head coach whether to challenge on-ice calls. The Caps went 2 for 10 when such coach’s challenges — for offsides and goaltender interference — were first allowed in 2015-16, ranking 21st of 30 teams. So, Ohashi and fellow Caps video coach Brett Leonhardt weren’t exactly brimming with co...
The Seattle Times
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