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Trocheck celebrated his go-ahead goal by encouraging fellow players to sign his stick. He plans on donating it to the students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

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Andre Burakovsky had a goal and an assist, and Lars Eller also scored for the Capitals. Holtby stopped 30 shots but lost his fifth straight.

Before the game, the arena video screen showed the names and faces of each of the 17 students who were killed on Valentine’s Day in nearby Parkland. The darkened ice was then illuminated with 17 circles of light, with a student’s name inside each one.

The Islanders’ rookie then doubled New York’s lead, backhanding the rebound of Anthony Beauvillier’s shot past Andersen for his 13th goal at 11:48.

Marner got the Maple Leafs on the board at 17:39. After picking up a feed from Kadri, he showed patience while waiting for Halak to make the first move and then beat the goaltender between the pads for his 15th of the season. The goal gave Marner 10 in his last 16 games.

Moments after the Islanders hit the post Authentic Jiri Hudler Jersey twice, Rielly tied it at 2 after taking Connor Brown’s pass and beating Halak high on the glove side for his sixth of the season at 1:28 of the third.

Byfuglien’s fourth goal of the season tied it 2-all with 65 seconds left in the second.

Los Angeles took a 3-2 lead when Mitchell scored his second goal in two games by picking up a bouncing puck in front of Winnipeg’s crease and finding some open net at 6:17.

Byfuglien took a high-sticking penalty with 6:14 left in the third, and Brown scored eight seconds after it expired. Kopitar’s assist gave him 19 points in his last 16 games (seven goals, 12 assists).

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Tom Brady’s hand has a scar on it from his cut before Super Bowl 52

Tom Brady’s hand has been a huge topic of discussion leading up to the Super Bowl. He wore gloves all week so people couldn’t see the cut on his hand, leaving us all to speculate what it would look like for the big game.

We now have that visual thanks to NBC, which showed the hand during the middle of the first quarter of the game:
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Mens Louis Lipps Jersey The Patriots lost to the Eagles, but they’ve still won five Super Bowl rings with the duo of Brady and Belichick. The Patriots own just about every major Super Bowl record 锟斤拷 including most wins for a player and most wins for a coach.

Some might ask the question what the two have left to accomplish, but they’re both competitors who thrive on winning. And neither one seems inclined to leave that behind based on recent comments this season.

Last year, the Patriots and Atlanta Falcons played a 0-0 first quarter. The Falcons exploded with 21 points in the second quarter on the way to a 28-3 lead, but the Patriots came back to force overtime and win, 34-28.

The Philadelphia Eagles struck first with a field goal on their opening drive, but for the first time, the Patriots are on the board early too. They began the second quarter on the doorstep of adding more, but Gostkowski missed a 26-yard field goal off the left goal post.

We knew it was going to be about matchups, and I knew the way Womens Ryan Kelly Jersey the center was pointing, Graham explained. I had the one-on-one all game. I’ve been bulling him, and I switched it up. I acted like I was going to bull him and snatched him.

Here’s where I pause and tell you why should be reading Stephen White’s Hoss of the Week series during the season. It’s a correspondence course in pass-rushing moves.

The Eagles had been using a lot of bull rushes. They weren’t working. On the strip sack, Graham got around outside of Shaq Mason, and it took him exactly where he needed to be to make the play.

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You might not remember Jeremy Bloom from his inauspicious NFL career.

No big medals will be handed out on Sunday evening at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but there will be one big event: the figure skating ice dancing short program. That means Maia and Alex Shibutani will be representing the United Authentic John Ross Jersey States once again, with a strong chance at earning a podium spot and even the gold medal.

Below is all you need to know how to watch on Sunday, including a full event schedule for the day.

He was drafted in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL draft by the Eagles and spent his rookie season on injured reserve, then spent two years on the Steelers’ practice squad. But he represented Team USA at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and the 2006 games in Turin, Italy, in freestyle skiing.

All of this raises a very important question: Which current NFL players and coaches could branch out and best represent Team USA in the Winter Olympics?

This sport requires athletes to ski down a hill at speeds over 80 miles per hour and then weave their way through obstacles 锟斤拷 either gates or poles 锟斤拷 at a dizzying pace. The closest NFL comparison? The three-cone drill at the NFL Combine.

Davis and Cousins have become pretty tight on and off the court. In an interview with SLAM Magazine in January, Davis called Cousins a teddy bear.

He’s soft, man锟斤拷he’s a teddy bear, honestly. Of course he gets this rep about being a certain type of guy, but honestly he’s really not like that. Off the floor he’s one of the coolest guys I’ve ever been around. He gets perceived as this angry type of guy. You really just gotta know him to know him, honestly. You just can’t go off what the media tries to perceive him to be.

They were one of the best duos in the league this season before Cousins went down, averaging a combined 51.2 points and 23.4 rebounds per game.

It stinks to see Cousins out of this game and down for the season, but Davis’ gesture is pretty great. Beyond that, it’ll probably make a difference when Cousins is making his free agency decision.
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Either way, shoutout to Davis for being a great teammate.
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He was the guy who wasted a first-round pick on Tim Tebow, a player almost no one else thought could play quarterback at the NFL level.

He went 8-8 in his first season, plunging to a 2-8 finish after starting with six consecutive victories. They were alive in the playoff hunt on the final day of that season, but lost at home by 20 points to the Chiefs. KC finished that year — no kidding — 4-12.

It got no better in the second season, when he was allowed to coach a dozen games but won just three of them. Management had seen enough. After firing him, the Broncos made the playoffs the next five years in a row, including two Super Bowls and one championship.

Forget the offseason. This would be the top storyline of the 2018-19 postseason if the stars align for that matchup. Imagine if Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s return coincides with a playoff matchup against the Patriots – 17 years after the Tuck Rule” game on Jan. 19, 2002, that is considered the launch point for Belichick, Brady and eight Super Bowl appearances.

Would a Raiders’ victory knock down the rest of the Patriots’ dominoes the AFC has been hoping would fall while simultaneously renewing one of the NFL’s most-fabled franchises?

Going back to the first hire of the offseason, the Bears wasted no time in landing Matt Nagy, who succeeded Pederson as the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator. The Colts’ pursuit of McDaniels was predicated on the fact that they wanted an offensive-minded coach to reboot the career of a hopefully healthy Andrew Luck. Reich, as Pederson’s latest right-hand man, is the right man for the task.

The biggest difference between McDaniels and Reich is experience. McDaniels turns 42 in April, but he’s had a previous head-coaching stint in Denver plus multiple long stretches on New England’s staff. Reich turned 56 in December, but he entered coaching late, only 10 years ago.

After being one of the best-ever backup QBs for the Bills behind Jim Kelly, Reich has built his second NFL career in his own right. In 2008, his first shot came with the Colts’ offensive staff under the legendary Tom Moore. That crosses over into another familiar coaching name with the Colts — Bruce Arians.

Arians, as interim coach during Luck’s rookie season in 2012, was NFL coach of the year filling in for Chuck Pagano. Arians got his head-coaching shot later than most, and unexpectedly. After few winning seasons with Indianapolis and Arizona, his short time in that capacity will go down as a success. Reich’s age shouldn’t be a factor, because as Arians did, he connects well to young players.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is on the verge of handing President Trump a significant political victory by calling on his players to stand for the national anthem.

For the first time since some players began taking a knee in protest of police misconduct, the commish officially and explicitly said he wants players to honor the anthem by standing 锟斤拷 even Torry Holt Youth jersey as he respects their right to protest. He says the league will come up with a formal policy at next week’s owners meeting.

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Despite Elliot’s plea for an independent arbiter, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell selected Harold Henderson, a former league executive, to hear the case.

Becker and Poliakoff sports attorney Daniel Wallach shed light on the biggest obstacle facing Elliot and his powerful legal team: The NFL arbitration process is not like a typical courtroom appeal.

In the judicial form, appeals are somewhat confined factually, Wallach told The Post. But in the NFL’s appeals procedure in connection with player discipline 锟斤拷 [it] is a hybrid of an appeal/evidentiary hearing.

The NFL’s procedure does not include many of the niceties afforded by courtroom evidence rules such as upholding Sixth and Seventh Amendment rights, including the right of the accused to confront his accuser.

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NFL ratings turnaround hits big speed bump

The NFL’s ratings comeback has stalled.

The TV audience for NFL games, down sharply from last season, had been closing the gap with 2016 for the last seven weeks 锟斤拷 until last weekend.

NBC’s Sunday Night Football game between the Oakland Raiders and the Miami Dolphins attracted 14.4 million viewers, down 22 percent from SNF’s Week 9 game last year, according to data compiled by Sports Media Watch.

It doesn’t get any easier for the NFL from here on. Last season, audiences were tamped down, in part, because attention was diverted to the raucous presidential campaign.

Ratings picked up last season with Week 10, the first post-Election Day slate of games 锟斤拷 an increase in viewerhip that may be hard to match this year.

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McNair said Trump’s divisive and counterproductive words couldn’t have come at a worse time for the country.

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It causes me to wonder what is ESPN about because I thought it was about news and information and highlights, and I’m not sure that is the point of emphasis anymore, Werder said on The Doomsday Podcast.
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How is ESPN going to cover the NFL without all of the people who just lost their jobs? What happens without Merril Hoge and Ron Jaworski to ‘NFL Matchup’? What happens to ‘NFL Insiders’ without a number of analysts, former general managers like Joe Banner and Mark Dominik? Are we really about to see a time when ESPN can no longer afford to cover its most valuable property in the way that historically it has?

Seattle Seahawks

NFL owners stop short of making rule to stand for national anthem

NFL owners will not to force players to stand for the national anthem, even though they agree they should, league Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.

Another issue we spent a great deal of time talking about this morning was how much we believe that everyone should stand for the national anthem, he said following an owners’ meeting in Manhattan.

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Goodell refused to wade into the political debate.

I have not communicated with Trump, Goodell said. We are trying to stay Larry Johnson Jersey out of politics. We are not looking to get into politics. What we are looking to do is continue to keep people focused on football.

The league isn’t taking Trump’s bait, according to New York Giants owner John Mara.

We’re all aware that that’s going to continue, but we just can’t allow ourselves to get baited by that. We’re going to do what we think is right, he said.

Game Reggie Nelson Jersey It seems obvious that the news cycle ahead of last year’s election had a negative impact on the NFL’s ratings, he said.

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Nathanson added that NFL ratings were also hurt by poor matchups, something he said is lnot so much of a challenge this year.

It does look like the NFL has constructed a better primetime schedule this year, he said, noting the NFL game power rankings were up solidly this season over last.

The slide in NFL ratings was the talk of the media world 锟斤拷 and beyond 锟斤拷 last year. It came after years of steady growth.

The league attracted $3.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2016 and draws the most consistent TV audience of young male adults.

There were scores of stories about the ratings slide, with everything from ex-San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the pre-game national anthem to the threat of concussions and the poor off-field behavior of some players being blamed for the ratings fumble.

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The long-term status of Miami Dolphins linebacker Lawrence Timmons is uncertain after the veteran defensive player went missing Saturday

It probably isn’t a recipe worth following — spotting teams double-digit leads time and time again — but it’s working. This team, short-handed and embattled as it is, is finding a way to get the job done.

You can’t overstate the job Pearl has done in getting Auburn to this point, but it’s also impossible to overlook how the program got into this position in the first place.

The Dolphins, with what was supposed to be their season opener postponed to November because of Hurricane Irma, relocated to California ahead of Sunday’s game against the Chargers and, on Saturday, the team was unable to locate him. Although he was accounted for Sunday, he was listed as inactive ahead of the 4:05 p.m. EDT kickoff. Timmons had started 101 consecutive NFL games.

Jones’s aim, he and his associates have said, is to slow the negotiating process so that all owners have time to consider whether paying Goodell so handsomely is wise. Some owners have interpreted it as a move to oust Goodell in what amounts to a temper tantrum by Jones over the six-game suspension given to Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott under the personal conduct policy. Jones has said the two issues are unrelated. He has said he has the league’s best interests at heart.

“We do need to improve,” he said following a Cowboys’ victory over the Washington Redskins late last month, talking about the “challenging times” being faced by the NFL. “There’s no question about that. We need to improve throughout, every constituency in the NFL …. This could be a great occasion for us to look for accountability, get it and move forward in a very productive way.”

It is a season that has included President Trump urging owners to fire players who protest during the anthem; Houston Texans owner Robert McNair enraging players by saying during an owners’ meeting that the NFL “can’t have the inmates running the prison”; and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the players’ protest movement last season, filing a grievance accusing teams of colluding to keep him out of the league.
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The Packers haven’t ruled out the possibility of Rodgers playing again this season.

Asked which measure the pro-discipline owners favor taking against Jones, the person said: It depends on how far he goes.

It is not realistic, however, for league leaders to try to force Jones to sell the Cowboys, that person said. The Cowboys are estimated by Forbes to be worth more than $4 billion.
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The NFL, in a letter from an outside attorney for the league to Boies, has said it considers Jones to be engaged in conduct detrimental to the league.

But there would be no reason to put Rodgers back on the field in the final weeks of the regular season if they are out of playoff contention. The next chance for Hundley and the Packers comes Sunday in Chicago. Their season may not be on the line quite yet, but it’s getting close. Rodgers is not around to rescue them the way he did last season, when the Packers won their final six games of the regular season Kurt Warner Womens Jersey following a 4-6 start and then reached the NFC title game.

Some of them expressed surprise at the report when contacted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Billionaire Thomas Tull told the P-G, Art Rooney and Coach Tomlin have my full support. Larry Paul, who holds shares along with his brother Stephen, said they were not aware of the PFT report and offered support for Rooney.
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The source that spoke to PFT indicated there were issues with how Tomlin handled the Jacksonville game, particularly at the end, and the team’s supposed lack of discipline.

In August, after the incidents in Charlottesville, a poll conducted by NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist asked Americans whether they agreed or disagreed with a number of movements and ideologies. More than half of Republicans and those who supported Trump said they disagreed with the ideology of Black Lives Matter. Specifically, 64 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of Trump supporters said they mostly disagreed with Black Lives Matter. By contrast, 70 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of Trump supporters 锟斤拷 the same number 锟斤拷 said they mostly disagreed with the beliefs of white nationalists.