Former Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews officially announced his retirement on Friday. Toews played with Chicago from 2007 until 2023. He joined Winnipeg last season after sitting out two years. Toews won three Stanley Cups with the Blackhawks and scored 372 goals and 511 assists in 1,067 career games with the team.
Kyle Calder, who spent 10 seasons in the National Hockey League including 6 with the Blackhawks, died on Monday after briefly battling an unknown illness.
The 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs were most watched on record in the U.S. with an average of 1.8M viewers. Carolina beat Vegas 3-0 this past Sunday in Game 6 to claim the championship, their first in 20 years. Jordan Staal was the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Vegas Golden Knights General Manager Kelly McCrimmon has announced John Tortorella will not return to the team's coaching staff following the 2025-26 runner-up season.
Chicago White Sox center fielder Everson Pereira was put on the seven-day injured list because of a concussion Thursday after crashing into the left-center field fence at Yankee Stadium.
White Sox infielder Colson Montgomery hit his 40th career home run this week in his 140th game. It’s the fastest in team history and is tied for 6th fastest to reach 40 HR in MLB history. He is also the first player in MLB history to hit 20-plus home runs within his first 275 at-bats in each of his first two seasons
MLB announced a new Home Run Derby format for this year:
-8 participants, Top 4 advance to Round 2
-Clock has been eliminated
-Players will get 20 swings in Round 1, 15 swings in Round 2, and 15 swings in the Final Round
-A player who homers on his last swing continues until he makes an out or wins the round
Major League Baseball has once again proposed an international draft as part of its negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement, sources told ESPN on Thursday, painting it as a push to provide structure for an increasingly unruly and corrupt system. Click here to read more.
WNBA will move to a 50-game season in 2027, up from the current 44-game schedule.
The Bulls have officially hired Tiago Splitter as the franchise’s new head coach. Splitter, 41, led the Trail Blazers to the playoffs as interim head coach in 2025-26.
Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby plans to enter NFL supplemental draft amid legal dispute over his NCAA eligibility
