“I’m actually happy that all these games matter and all these games have a lot of meaning,” Rinne said after the Predators stayed in the mix with a 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night. “We have a lot on the table, and that’s the best part of it: It’s going to prepare us for the playoffs.” Rinne made 26 saves and Ryan Johansen scored 6:32 into the third period to help the Predators improve to 6-2-1 in their past nine....
Boehner, an Ohio Republican who served as House Speaker from 2011 through 2015, is set to attend a Monday fundraiser for Anthony Gonzalez, one of 10 House Republicans who voted in support of impeaching Trump in January, Politico reported Saturday. Trump criticized Gonzalez by name in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the former president vowed to lead and unite the Republican Party despite his election loss to President Joe Biden....
As the Russian-Ukraine war continues into its seventh month, concerns about a possible nuclear strike have increased. Putin recently ramped up his rhetoric about a nuclear response, notably as his military has seen significant losses in Ukraine since the launch of Russia’s “special military operation” in late February. Bolton, who was former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, spoke about the possibility of a nuclear war during an appearance on the British radio show LBC on Tuesday....
All three of Force’s Funny Cars will be Chevrolet Camaros, while the familiar Chevy bowtie also will grace JFR’s Top Fuel dragster. MORE: John Force making up for lost time with family | Busch-Driscoll saga overshadows preseason | Who is Patricia Driscoll? “John Force is a champion and a legend both on and off the track, as a driver and as a team owner,” Jim Campbell, Chevrolet Vice President for Performance Vehicles and Motorsports, said in a news release....
With the Ducks leading the Penguins 3-0 in the second period in Pittsburgh, Gibson preserved his shutout with a highlight-reel, sprawling blocker-save to deny a sure goal. The save came against none other than Sidney Crosby, who elevated the puck and did everything to score besides beating the goaltender. Anaheim went on to defeat the Penguins, 4-0, with Gibson stopping all 29 Penguins shots to earn his first shutout of the season....
Havlicek, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, played on Ohio State’s 1960 national championship team before embarking on a 16-year NBA career with the Celtics that included eight NBA championships. MORE: ACC icons | Big Ten icons | DeCourcy: Dean Smith’s legacy will never pass Scott became the first African-American scholarship athlete at North Carolina when Dean Smith recruited him to Chapel Hill in the mid-1960s. Scott went to the Final Four twice with the Tar Heels, in 1968 and 1969....
The president again claimed Thursday night that the election was being stolen from him by officials engaged in fraud, though presented no evidence to support the assertion. His campaign has filed multiple lawsuits to try and stop vote counting in the uncalled states, though so far these appeals appear to have little evidence behind them. Trump held an impressive early leads in Georgia—which hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1992—and the campaign was bullish about its chances in Arizona despite an early Fox News projection that the state would go to Biden....
“They’re way better,” he told the New York Daily News. “They’ve got more talent than we could ever have.” MORE: A look back at John Smoltz’s career | MLB second-half predictions Mets starters Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz are a relatively young group, but Smoltz cites the rise of injuries due to improper pitching as an obstacle he didn’t have to deal with. “The opportunities that exist today won’t allow a lot of staffs to find out what kind of staff they can be....
Making his Maple Leafs regular-season debut in Toronto’s season-opener Wednesday night at Scotiabank Arena, Tavares scored at 18:07 of the second period against the Montreal Canadiens. The goal — his first as a Leaf after scoring 272 times over nine seasons with the Islanders — gave Toronto a brief 2-1 lead before Montreal’s Andrew Shaw tied things up with 14 seconds remaining in the period. There are many skills Tavares possesses, and on his goal he displayed shifty moves and a screaming wrist shot to beat Habs netminder Carey Price....
Durant said back in February player votes should count toward postseason awards like MVP, but Wizards guard John Wall does not agree. MORE: Harden: ‘I am the MVP’ | Curry’s best games | Thunder fans re-create Durant’s speech An NBPA representative was at the Barclays Center on Friday to gather award ballots from the Wizards. When asked if he had voted, Wall responded “No and I probably won’t,” per the New York Post....
“I’m ready,” Biden proclaimed before a nurse practitioner gave a masked Biden the shot in his left arm. After getting the shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital in Newark, Delaware, Biden urged people to get the vaccine when it’s available to them. “I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it’s available to take the vaccine,” Biden said. Biden did not respond to reporters’ shouted questions after publicly receiving the vaccine....
With only a few more weeks before election day, the Biden/Harris Campaign launched its own custom island in Fortnite called “Build Back Better with Biden.” The custom map aims to educate young voters on everything the Democratic Party stands for and players visiting the island will be taken on a short 30-minute adventure through the fictional “Reboot City.” Players will be given various tasks throughout their stay on Joe Biden’s Fortnite island and can complete six mini-quests that includes things like cranking 90s, collecting Kamala’s sneakers, and checking out Joe’s ice cream shop....
Biden’s approval rating has been buoyant in the initial days of his presidency, boosted by near-consensus approval from Democrats. In Gallup polling from January 21 to February 2 of 906 U.S. adults, 57 percent of those asked approve of the job Biden is doing so far. Split by party affiliation though, there is an almost polar divide in approval of Biden. Among Democrats, he has 98 percent approval, whereas among Republicans he has just 11 percent....
Biden’s willful ignorance toward China’s acts of economic aggression goes back decades. While serving in the Senate, he voted to grant the Communist regime “most favored nation” trading status, and later supported China’s admission into the World Trade Organization. Advocates claimed this would force China to play by the rules of international trade, but Beijing’s cheating remained as brazen as ever, and millions of American jobs were shipped across the Pacific....
Biden’s visit to the region began with a trip to Israel on Wednesday where he was expected to observe a policy of not shaking hands with the people he met due to concerns regarding COVID-19. White House aides had reported that he would avoid handshakes during the Middle East trip and initially he appeared to do so. Upon arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, he offered a fist bump to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog....
“In America, the vote is sacred. It’s how people of this nation express their will,” the Democratic nominee said during a brief presser at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. “And it is the will of the voters—no one, not anything else—that chooses the president of the United States of America. So each ballot must be counted.” As of Thursday afternoon, Biden held a lead in the Electoral College. According to the tally from the Associated Press, the Democratic nominee had 264 electoral votes compared with President Donald Trump’s 214 electoral votes....
Darren Rovell of The Action Network reported that a pornography website dangled $1 million to get Buck to do play-by-play commentary of live webcam sessions. Because who doesn’t think, “Hey, I wish I could hear Joe Buck right now” while they’re watching porn during a quarantine? Buck could have tried to avoid any controversy that would arise from such an offer, but instead he opted to steer into the skid and crack a joke....
The Aussie forward — one of the best sharpshooters in this year’s free agency class — agreed to a one-year deal with the Bucks. The news came from an unlikely newsbreaker: Ingles’s wife, Renae. After suffering a torn ACL this past season with the Jazz, the market wasn’t ripe for a long-term deal for Ingles who turns 35 in October and is entering his ninth NBA season. In Milwaukee, Ingles will have the luxury of taking his time in recovering from the knee injury which ended his 2021-22 campaign after just 45 games....
The victim, who testified in 2014 according to the documents, said Sandusky, a former assistant under Paterno, touched him in the shower and penetrated his rectum with his finger during a 1976 football camp when the victim was 14 years old. MORE: Why would anyone object to loss of Paterno’s wins now? The victim said he told Paterno of the incident to which, according to the testimony, Paterno replied: “I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about,” and walked away....
The podcast host was forced to edit an Instagram post after he condemned what he thought was a health ad about the COVID-19 vaccine turned out to be a comedy skit. Rogan lashed out at Australia and called the country and its pandemic response “dystopian” when he confused the skit for government “propaganda” against vaccine skeptics. The Joe Rogan Experience host shared a clip of a sketch from ABC show Gruen on his Instagram page on Monday with the caption: “Not only has Australia had the worst reaction to the pandemic with dystopian, police-state measures that are truly inconceivable to the rest of the civilized world, but they also have the absolute dumbest propaganda....
