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The seniors playing in this weekend’s Army-Navy football game all know where they are headed after graduation. Navy’s star quarterback, Blake Horvath, will be off to Naval flight school in Florida. His favorite receiver, Eli Heidenreich, will spend a year training as a Marine Corps ground officer. Army linebacker Kalib Fortner, the team’s defensive captain who as a sophomore was named the 2023 Army-Navy game MVP, is headed to the infantry, one of eight Army senior cadets who will serve in that branch, the same number who will train in artillery. But a law working its way through Congress would…

Ever notice how stadium chants of “keep politics out of sports” fade when a referee blows the whistle? Nations use sports as geopolitical chessboards, with athletes as pawns. Mandela was serious when he said games are “more powerful than governments”. Athletic events today are battlegrounds for borders, visas, and national identities. This is more than just sports. In the Cold War, Olympic medals were like nuclear warheads. Today, conflicts are more subtle. Athletes from disputed areas are banned, and flag issues cause diplomatic crises. Qatar’s World Cup was more than just a sports event. It was a $220 billion campaign…

Addison Nee netted a hat trick for Pembroke, leading it to the Judy Gormley Cup championship, with a 6-2 girls hockey win over Dennis-Yarmouth. Nee won tournament MVP honors with five goals in two games. Nolan Craven (goal, assist) and Elise Musa (goal, assist) each scored on third-period power plays, pairing with Addie Murray’s first varsity goal and Avery Savage’s 20-save shutout to pace Pope Francis (2-0) past Weymouth, 3-0. Boys hockey James Warren scored twice and Cody Silver dished two assists to help lead Mansfield over Silver Lake, 6-3, in nonleague action. Girls basketball Keyona Raines did a little…

World News “A man walking up to a gunman who had fired on the community and single-handedly disarming him, putting his own life at risk to save the lives of countless other people.” Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) AP Photo/Mark Baker By Associated Press December 14, 2025 | 12:50 PM 1 minute to read SYDNEY (AP) — A bystander seen in a widely circulated video disarming a gunman during a deadly shooting rampage at a popular Australian beach is being heralded as a…

Here are the Free Press All-State teams and honorable mentions for the 2025 Michigan high school football season.

Lausanne: The IOC will wait until next June to decide whether to include new sports for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, president Kirsty Coventry said yesterday. “We are going to continue assessing all existing disciplines on the Olympic Winter Games programme, as well as with any potential new additional sports, and the decision will be done in June,” the Zimbabwean said. The International Olympic Committee had initially considered announcing the list of sporting events selected for 2030 at its December 2025 meeting. But this decision runs up against the broad reflection process launched by Coventry since she…

Author Alex Berenson joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss Massachusetts’ push to recriminalize marijuana amid rising daily use and data linking high-potency THC to youth psychiatric emergencies.

The Boston Bruins are expected to be without two of their key players against the Minnesota Wild on Dec. 14.According to The Boston Globe’s Jim McBride, Bruins head coach Marco Sturm shared that forward Viktor Arvidsson and defenseman Jonathan Aspirot are both not expected to be in the lineup for the Original Six club against the Wild. McBride also shared that the Bruins are not expected to make any call-ups in response to Arvidsson and Aspirot both being out.Arvidsson and Aspirot both exited the Bruins’ most recent matchup against the Winnipeg Jets early after suffering their injuries. Arvidsson was acquired by the…

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a multi-year agreement with the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports to bring an expanded slate of US college sports content to fans around the world (excluding the US). Beginning this season, DAZN will stream all regular season football games, as well as the 2025 Discover Big Ten Football Championship game, from the Big Ten Conference. In addition to football, DAZN will offer a slate of men’s and women’s Big Ten basketball games, as well as a round-the-clock feed of the Big Ten Network and a variety of shoulder programming and highlights. The…

In case it wasn’t already clear, Lindsey Vonn is back to claim her thrown as the queen of downhill skiing.On Friday, Vonn picked up her first World Cup win since 2018. Although she trailed after the first two time checks, she found a way to win the women’s downhill in Switzerland. She posted a time of 1:29.63 to defeat runner-up Magdalena Egger and the rest of the field.Advertisement“It was an amazing day, I couldn’t be happier, pretty emotional,” Vonn told Swiss broadcaster RTS. “I felt good this summer but I wasn’t sure how fast I was. I guess I know now…