Author: Mikesportz
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Detroit Red Wings freed up $3.6 million in salary cap space by trading goalie Ville Husso to the Anaheim Ducks. The Red Wings received future considerations in dealing the 30-year-old player who has spent a majority of this season in the minors. Husso had a 1-5-2 record with Detroit and went 8-4 with two shutouts with AHL Grand Rapids this season. Husso is completing the final year of a three-year contract, and was assigned by Anaheim to the Ducks’ AHL affiliate in San Diego. Over five NHL seasons, he has a 70-45-18 record with seven shutouts.…
The Detroit Red Wings will be without one of their key depth forwards for the remainder of the 2024-25 campaign. Today it was announced Andrew Copphad surgery to repair an injury to his left pectoral tendon. The timetable for his absence will be four to six months. With the Wings having been hot recently, it will be interesting to see what moves general manager Steve Yzerman has up his sleeves to potentially replace Copp in the lineup. Detroit Red Wings Forward Andrew Copp Undergoes Surgery Copp has established himself as a very dependable player in the league. Over the past…
Throughout his time in coaching, Leonard Hamilton became one of the legendary figures in college basketball, having his impact felt by numerous people around the sport. That includes Louisville Cardinals head coach Pat Kelsey. Now, as the Florida State Seminoles head coach plans to retire, there are more and more coaches discussing how he’s impacted them. Following Louisville’s win over Florida State on Saturday, Kelsey took some time to address how Hamilton has impacted him and the ACC as a whole I think the first thing,” Pat Kelsey said. “And there’s probably a good chance we’ll play them again…
UNC head football coach Bill Belichick shares shout out to Washington, Louisville, Oregon, LSU, Arizona and WKU We’re roughly six months away from Bill Belichick taking the sideline to coach his first game in college football. Regardless of how he ended up in Chapel Hill, the legendary mind is trying to lead the revival of a middling Tar Heel program. Although the level of play is a step down in quality, the landscape of the sport is vastly different. On top of recruiting, NIL and the transfer portal have made the collegiate game an unpredictable machine, with even the brightest…
Penn State Football Hires New Jersey High School Coach Naz Oliver as Recruiting Coordinator Penn State added a key staff member to its recruiting department. Naz Oliver, who served as the head coach of New Jersey’s Malcolm X Shabazz High School over each of the past two seasons, has been hired as a recruiting coordinator with the Nittany Lions, he announced on Tuesday. “We ARE! Jersey/Tri-State Area let’s work!!!!” Oliver posted on X . “Thank you Coach Franklin for this opportunity. I will not let you down!” Oliver will replace Khalil Ahmad, who was officially named Temple’s associate general manager…
Trace McSorley Hired As Offensive Analyst By Penn State Football Lauren Gruca | Onward State By CJ Doebler 2/25/25 3:59 pm Former Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley has been hired as an offensive analyst by Penn State football, according to the Penn State directory. The announcement comes after Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Pat Kraft teased the hiring during THON 2025’s Pep Rally on Saturday night. McSorley came to Penn State in 2014 and redshirted his first year in the blue and white. The Ashburn, Virginia, native appeared in seven games in 2015 and was one of 17 redshirt freshmen…
Round one of the 2025 NFL Draft is sure to be quite the ride. For the New Orleans Saints, they currently hold the ninth overall selection. They can go a lot of different directions with that pick, including adding another option to their backfield. Saints will meet with Ashton Jeanty According to Ryan Fowler, New Orleans will have a formal meeting with the widely-regarded top running back prospect in the class. Kellen Moore had a gleaming review of current Saints running back Alvin Kamara during his introductory press conference with the team. It did not feel like he wanted to…
Saints Named ‘Perfect’ Fit For $8.5 Million Four-Time Pro Bowler From NFC South Rival Will this star pass-rusher wind up in New Orleans? Free agency is difficult for every NFL team to navigate, but the New Orleans Saints have an even tougher task than most. For years on end, the Saints’ reckless salary cap mismanagement has pushed their yearly salary cap debt farther and farther away from the breakeven point. Though New Orleans can convert salaries into signing bonuses and technically get under the cap, it’s been a long time since they had real money to spend on free agents.…
Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari coaches his players in a huddle before the University of Kentucky vs. University of Richmond men’s basketball game on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. Richmond won 76-64. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — As first reported by Peter Ariz of CanesInSight, the Miami Hurricanes are set to hire former Kentucky men’s basketball assistant Jai Lucas as the program’s next head coach. Lucas most recently worked as an assistant coach at Duke under Head Coach Jon Scheyer, being the lead recruiter for elite recruits such as projected…
Now that we have a fairly decent understanding of the style of play this Mark Pope squad will have, and the players executing that style, I thought it would absolutely be time to peek into the Kentucky Basketball record book and see which records might be sweating this season. I found five in particular that I think will be worth watching and, no surprise, several of them involve the three-point line: 1. SEASON SINGLE THREE-POINTERS INDIVIDUAL JODIE MEEKS, 117, 2008-09 This is just a simple math equation here. Jodie Meeks hit 117 threes in 36 games that year, or an…