Tiger Woods has confirmed he is in a relationship with Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump.
Woods announced the news on Sunday. “Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together,” Woods wrote on X to his 6.4 millions followers … At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts.”
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The Buffalo Sabres picked up a 5-3 road win over the Winnipeg Jets on March 23. Sabres goalie James Reimer was a major reason for it, as the veteran netminder stopped 33 out of 36 Jets shots.
New Sabres defenseman Jacob Bernard-Docker also played a role in Buffalo's victory. The right-shot blueliner recorded two primary assists in the win, which are his first two points with the Sabres. In addition, this is the first time in his five-year NHL career that he has had a multi-assist game.
Seeing Bernard-Docker make an impact in only his second game with the Sabres is quite encouraging. The hope is that the 2018 first-round pick will take that next step in his development after getting this much-needed fresh start with the Sabres. Having a game like this will certainly create more optimism surrounding the 24-year-old blueliner.
The Sabres acquired Bernard-Docker from the Ottawa Senators at the trade deadline as a part of the Dylan Cozens trade. In 131 career NHL games, he has five goals, 17 assists, and 22 points.
It will be interesting to see how Bernard-Docker builds on his strong performance from here, but this was a great way for him to make an early impression.
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The conference still has a chance to break the record if Ole Miss upsets Iowa State on Sunday night.
PEORIA, Ariz. — The Seattle Mariners have released Mitch Haniger after the veteran outfielder was hampered by left shoulder soreness during spring training.
Haniger, 34, was in his second stint with Seattle. He has a $15.5 million salary for this season after agreeing to a three-year, $43.5 million contract with San Francisco in December 2022.
The Mariners announced the move on Sunday.
“Putting on a Mariners uniform and playing at T-Mobile Park is something I’ll cherish forever,” Haniger said in a release. “To our fans, my teammates, and everyone a part of this organization, thank you for embracing my family and me. We have so many great memories to look back on.”
Haniger went 3 for 18 with a solo homer in seven spring training games. He hasn’t appeared in a Cactus League game since March 8.
“Mitch has been a significant part of Mariners history and will be missed,” president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said in a release. “The day he arrived for his first spring training back in 2017, he established himself as one of the most focused, prepared, and hardest working players I’ve ever been around. We all appreciate the many ways he’s made us all better, on the field and off.”
Haniger made his big league debut with Arizona in 2016 and was traded to Seattle after the season. He batted .263 with 107 homers and 306 RBIs in his first stint with the Mariners.
He had a breakout performance in 2021, hitting .253 with a career-high 39 homers and 100 RBIs in 157 games. But he hasn’t been able to reach that production since that season.
Haniger was reacquired by Seattle in a January 2024 trade with San Francisco. He played in 121 games last year and batted a career-low .208 with 12 homers and 44 RBIs.
Kentucky is joining its former coach in the Sweet 16. Koby Brea matched a career high with 23 points and Kentucky beat Illinois 84-75 on Sunday to advance beyond the NCAA Tournament’s opening weekend for the first time since they reached the Elite Eight in 2019. Kentucky (24-11), the No. 3 seed in the Midwest Region, faces No. 2 seed and Southeastern Conference rival Tennessee on Friday in Indianapolis.
Freshman star Cooper Flagg had 18 points, nine rebounds and six assists for the Blue Devils (33-3), the East Region headliners who faced little drama in two home-state wins to secure a spot in the Sweet 16.
Kentucky's back in the Sweet 16 behind a big game from Koby Brea and will join John Calipari in the NCAA tournament's second weekend.
The Philadelphia Flyers have had some tough losses this season. This was one that will leave you staring at the scoreboard, hands on your hips, wondering how it all went so wrong.
It’s not just that they lost 7-4—it’s who they lost to. The Chicago Blackhawks, firmly planted near the bottom of the league standings, shouldn’t have been able to hang with a team that can skate and apply pressure across 60 minutes in ways not many other groups can, especially at this point in the season. Instead, they dictated play, pounced on mistakes, and exposed cracks in the Flyers’ defensive structure all night long.
“Sloppy game, sloppy goalies, their powerplay works, ours doesn’t,” head coach John Tortorella told reporters postgame. “That’s the story of the game.”
Jordan Hall (@JHallNBCS) on XFlyers are handed a 7-4 loss by the Blackhawks.
Flyers have lost 10 of their last 11 games (1-9-1) and 18 of their last 24 (6-15-3).
They're 1-10-1 in the second game of back-to-back sets.It’s not as if the Flyers didn’t show up. They scored four goals, gave Ivan Fedotov some refreshing goal support, and even carried long stretches of play. But every time they inched closer, Chicago found another way to slip behind them and bury the puck in the back of the net.
With just a handful of games left in the season, this isn’t just a tough loss—it’s the kind that makes you wonder where do they go from here?
1. Defensive Breakdowns Were Costly
It’s hard to place the blame solely on Fedotov when the defense in front of him was leaky, but no matter who you point the finger at, the fact remains—seven goals against is ugly.
It wasn’t all bad—Fedotov made a few key saves that kept the game from getting out of hand earlier—and the fact that Tortorella started him again after having to pull him in the last game against Dallas shows that the team still has plenty of faith in the 28-year-old netminder—something that can go a long way, even after a bad game.
However, when asked postgame if Fedotov was still having to prove himself as belonging on an NHL roster, Tortorella gave a short, blunt, and quite telling response: “S— yeah.”
2. The Penalty Trouble Won’t Go Away
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: you can’t win hockey games from the penalty box.
The Flyers have been flirting with disaster in this department for weeks now, taking more penalties than they’d like and forcing their penalty kill to bail them out over and over again. But in a game where they desperately needed a structured, disciplined effort, they still found themselves in the box too often.
Gino Hard (@GinoHard_) on XThe Flyers just took 2 minor penalties on the same play in the span of a few seconds 😭😅And it wasn’t just the quantity—it was the timing. Every time it felt like the Flyers were gaining some momentum, there was a player in orange getting sent to the box. The Blackhawks aren’t exactly an offensive powerhouse, but give any NHL team enough power plays, and they’ll make you pay.
At this stage of the season, with the playoff race as tight as it is, the Flyers can’t afford to keep playing this undisciplined. They need to clean it up—and fast—if they want to have any chance of surviving against better teams down the stretch.
3. The Flyers’ Offense Deserved Better
Here’s the cruel irony of this game: for all of the Flyers’ defensive shortcomings, their offense actually put in a strong performance.
Four goals should be enough to win most nights. They generated chances, they sustained offensive pressure, and they didn’t look like a team struggling to score. That’s not nothing, especially in a game where they were chasing from behind for most of the night.
“I think it’s just symplifying, throwing pucks on net,” Jamie Drysdale told media postgame. “I think we’ve been due for some bounces…Just chuck pucks on net, and usually good things will happen.”
Travis Konecny netted another goal, proving that his scoring slump is a thing of the past. Even the defensemen got involved, with Drysdale and Travis Sanheim both contributing tallies of their own.
B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) on XTravis Sanheim puts it past Spencer Knight after the draw 👀It’s cruel that when the offense is clicking the way that they’ve been trying so hard to do recently, the Blackhawks had an answer. It’s frustrating. It’s demoralizing. And it’s the kind of loss that can weigh on a team, especially at this point in the season.
Final Thoughts
There’s no sugarcoating it—this loss hurts. Even with threadbare playoff hopes, every point matters, and dropping a game to the second-worst team in the league is the kind of result that lingers.
The Flyers now have to turn around and face a high-powered Toronto team that won’t be nearly as forgiving. If their defensive effort doesn’t improve, they’re going to get burned. If their goaltending doesn’t stabilize, they’re going to find themselves in another track meet they can’t afford to lose.
The Sweet 16 is taking shape with the second round of the men's NCAA Tournament wrapping up on Sunday.
Oscar Piastri was full of praise for his team after a triumphant weekend during which he redeemed himself from a nightmare end in Melbourne a week ago by emphatically winning the Chinese Grand Prix from pole.
The McLaren flyer never gave up the lead he earned in qualifying in Shanghai to win the third GP of his burgeoning career on Sunday. It adds to his triumphs in Hungary and Azerbaijan last year in what was a breakout season for the 23-year-old.
Continue reading...The Nashville Predators (26-35-8, 60 points) visit the St. Louis Blues (36-28-7, 79 points) Saturday at Enterprise Center.
It is the second of three meetings between the Central Division rivals in a span of 10 days. St. Louis won the previous matchup, 4-1, March 18 at Bridgestone Arena, and the teams will meet in Nashville for a final time this season on Thursday.
The Predators are 5-4-1 in their last 10 and are coming off a 5-2 win at home over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. The Blues, also on the second end of a back-to-back, are coming off a 4-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Justus Annunen gets the start in net for the Predators against St. Louis, while Jordan Binnington will guard the crease for the Blues.
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The Blues struck first in this one as Robert Thomas entered the zone and made a quick drop pass to Jordan Kyrou, whose shot got past Annunen off the near post and in to give St. Louis a 1-0 lead at the 12:13 mark of the first period.
The goal extended Kyrou's point streak to six games; he has 11 points (6 goals, 5 assists) in that span. He has now recorded three consecutive 30-goal seasons.
A roughing penalty from Michael Bunting gave the Blues their first power play opportunity, and they took advantage. A tic-tac-toe play finished with Thomas finding Alexandre Texier on the doorstep to tap it in and extend the Blues' lead to 2-0.
The first period ended with a scuffle that ensued behind the Blues' net when Jonathan Marchessault laid a hit on Philip Broberg. Broberg and Alexei Toropchenko were each assessed minor penalties, as was Marchessault, to give the Predators a 5-on-4 advantage with two seconds remaining in the period.
The Predators started the second period with 1:58 remaining on the man advantage and capitalized quickly with a beauty of a goal from Filip Forsberg. Forsberg skated around Ryan Suter inside the right circle and snapped a shot through Suter's legs that went inside the post and past Binnington to cut the Blues' lead to 2-1.
Scoresberg back at it again ✅ pic.twitter.com/x6f5mrKVwf
— Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) March 23, 2025
Nashville held the Blues to just three shots in the second period and outshot them 16-12 through 40 minutes of play.
An offensive zone face-off for Nashville turned into a 3-on-2 going the other way, leading to a quick and easy goal for Justin Faulk to allow St. Louis to regain the two-goal lead at the 10:30 mark of the third period.
The Chicago Blackhawks came into Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers looking for a win in the worst way. After losing seven in a row, the pressure to finally get one was starting to weigh heavy.
The Flyers, despite not being quite as bad as the Blackhawks, are a lottery team as well so it felt like a chance to end the bad streak.
It didn't start on a positive note for Chicago though as they found themselves down 1-0 under four minutes into the game. From there, however, they started to show more life.
Patrick Maroon and Joe Veleno each scored within a minute to give the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead.
For Maroon, he scored in his first home game since announcing his upcoming retirement at the end of the season. For Veleno, it was his first goal in a Blackhawks sweater. Those are both memorable moments for them.
12 seconds after the Veleno goal, Travis Sanheim slapped one on the net and it squeaked through the paraphernalia of Spencer Knight. It crawled past the goal line to tie the game.
In what became a barn-burner of a first period, Bobby Brink gave the Flyers the lead back which couldn't feel good for a team on a seven-game losing streak. Instead of mailing it in this time, however, the Blackhawks started to take over from there.
Before the first period was over, Connor Bedard took a wrist shot to score his 20th of the season which tied the game at three. Bedard now has 20 goals in back-to-back years to start his career. Most 18 and 19-year-old seasons don't go that well.
Under three minutes into the middle frame, Tyler Bertuzzi gave the Blackhawks the lead once more. From there, things went mostly well for Chicago.
Ryan Donato put them ahead by two for the first time in the game at 6:43 of the period before Travis Konecny got the Flyers back within one a few minutes after that.
Remarkably, Ryan Donato scored again before the period was over. His 25th of the season secured a 6-4 lead for the Hawks which would hold through the end of the period. To say that Donato is having a strong year would be an understatement.
Lukas Reichel scored early into the third period to extend Chicago's lead to three. The 7-4 score stood up as the final.
With Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson in attendance, the Blackhawks scored a touchdown and made the extra point. This is the first time in 2024-25 that Chicago scored seven goals.
Now, they can forget about the losing streak and get back to playing an honest game as they close out the year. Their next contest will come on Wednesday night as they take on the New Jersey Devils at United Center.
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