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Team USA honors late NHL star Johnny Gaudreau after Olympic gold winAfter winning Olympic gold, Team USA hockey honored late NHL star Johnny Gaudreau by carrying his jersey and inviting his kids onto the ice.The defending champion United States’ chances of making the men’s hockey world championships quarterfinals got tougher after a loss to Latvia.The Americans fell to sixth place and no longer controlled their fate in their bid to finish in the top four in Group A and clinch a spot in the quarterfinals.But an Austria loss to Germany gave the USA two possible paths to advance. The standings…

Getty Who does Norway play next at the 2026 FIFA World Cup? Here’s the Vikings’ next opponent, match date, kickoff time and knockout schedule. Norway’s World Cup journey continues as the Vikings pursue a historic run at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and the road now runs through England. Here’s how the quarterfinal matchup shapes up. Whether Norway advances or is eliminated, here’s a breakdown of the challenge England presents, including the Three Lions‘ strengths, their vulnerabilities and what history says about a matchup between two of the tournament’s more intriguing quarterfinalists. England’s win over Mexico sets up a Saturday,…

BOSTON — A Massachusetts city home to one of the nation’s largest Cape Verdean communities will impose a nighttime curfew ahead of Cape Verde’s World Cup match Friday after police said recent postgame celebrations were marred by shootings, stabbings and other violence, prompting city officials to request National Guard assistance.Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues announced what he called a “temporary safety curfew” within the Boston suburb at a news conference Wednesday. Cape Verde, an island nation off the west coast of Africa that qualified for the World…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Seven members of the Boston College baseball team have been named to the 2026 Baseball All-ACC Academic Team, announced by the league office on Tuesday afternoon.   Seniors A.J. Colarusso and Kyle Wolff led the way, earning the honor for the third-straight year. Senior Jack Toomey and sophomore Colin Larson made the list for the second-straight year, while sophomores Jacob Burnham and John D Mitchell and freshman Luke D’Ancona make the list for the first time in their careers.   To be eligible for the All-ACC Academic Team, student-athletes must have earned a 3.0 grade point average for…

WORCESTER — After starting the spring hot, BC High ran into adversity at the end of the regular season. Entering the statewide playoffs, some had developed doubts about whether the Eagles could even make it back to a state championship. With each passing week, they kept their faith in one another, and proved everybody wrong. Senior Murphy Belvin and sophomore Nathan Rogers each finished with a hat trick Friday, as sixth-seeded BC High (18-5) captured its first Div. 1 boys lacrosse title since 2018 with a memorable 10-9 victory over top-ranked Lincoln-Sudbury (17-4). “It’s so complete, right?” BC High coach…

Getty Analyst rips Bruins offseason moves. The Boston Bruins lost in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and were looking to build off that this offseason.However, Boston has been relatively quiet to begin the offseason, outside of a couple of moves. The Bruins emphasized improving their blue line, and they went out and signed Connor Clifton and traded for Will Borgen.Yet, NHL analyst Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic doesn’t like the additions as he doesn’t think either improves the blue line.“The Bruins improved their offense by acquiring JJ Peterka for two first-round picks,” Shinzawa wrote. “Peterka, 24, should…

Editor’s note: As the World Cup continues in the United States for the first time since 1994, The Athletic is looking back at college sports in the 1990s and how much has changed since then. Join us for a couple of weeks of offseason football and basketball nostalgia.For anyone born between 1978 and 1986, it is not hard to identify the moment when college football reached its cultural zenith.College football peaked in the latter half of the 1990s, the era of puffy Starter jackets, the voice of Keith Jackson bellowing “Whoa, Nellie!” and the dawn of EA Sports’ NCAA Football…

If the comments had come from anyone else, they may have seemed ill-timed and ill-informed. For two weeks, the United States national men’s basketball team had struggled to find its form against squads with considerably less starpower, prior to finally stomping Serbia to take the gold medal in Rio. And here was someone saying that, rather than the U.S. making apologies for continuing to reign atop the world, “we just need to see these other countries get their acts together and become more competitive.” Nor could these be mistaken for the rantings of an arrogant, ignorant American exceptionalist. The speaker…

BOSTON (SHNS) – As the governor declared in New Bedford on Wednesday that Massachusetts is where offshore wind was “born in this country, and where it’s going to take off from,” the Senate advanced a series of policies that could be key to a potential revitalization.Healey joined labor leaders, union workers and offshore wind industry representatives to cheer the completion of the Vineyard Wind 1 project, the first offshore wind farm selected to serve Massachusetts under a 2016 clean energy law. It is also likely to be the only Massachusetts offshore wind project to become a reality this decade as…

Oscar Hemming did not get a normal first season in North America. He got four months of waiting, lifting and wondering when he would be allowed to play again, and by the time the Boston College freshman left wing arrived in late December, he was stepping into one of the sport’s toughest environments without the usual runway. The stat line at Boston College in 19 games (one goal, seven assists) only tells part of the story. The youngest player in NCAA Division I men’s hockey joined a loaded lineup in December after not playing live games since the summer, and…