Montreal Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj will undergo season-ending surgery on his left shoulder, the team announced Tuesday. Per the Canadiens, Xhekaj will have surgery Wednesday and is expected to be ready for the start of next season. Xhekaj, 23, recorded 10 points (three goals, seven assists) and a plus-6 rating in 44 games this season. He also had 11 points …

During Jackson State’s annual spring football game Saturday, head coach T.C. Taylor called the offensive plays as the Blue team defeated the White team 23-9 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. It was a duty made necessary by offseason changes in the coaching staff. Co-offensive coordinators Maurice Harris and Jason Onyebuagu, who called the plays in 2023 when the Tigers led …

Five new helmet models will be used in the 2024 season that the NFL says are safer than any helmets previously worn in the league. The NFL and NFLPA announced today that the new models tested better than ever before in the safety testing that the league oversees before approving helmets for use. Additionally, six helmet models that have previously …

Getty Images This offseason, New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers was in the headlines for non-football reasons. The New York Times reported last month that Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. approached Rodgers about potentially serving as his running mate. However, Kennedy eventually landed on attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.  During a Monday interview on …

The Miami Hurricanes lost a talented local player to the transfer portal on Tuesday. Defensive lineman Nyjalik Kelly plans to enter the transfer portal, he shared on his Instagram account. The next transfer window starts on April 15. Kelly, a former Dillard High star and Sun Sentinel Super 11 pick, was a standout for the Panthers. He was rated a …

Logan Ryan, the versatile defensive back who won a pair of Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, announced on Tuesday that he is retiring from the NFL after spending 11 seasons in the league.  Ryan was a third-round pick of the Patriots out of Rutgers back in 2013, and he quickly emerged as a starter and one of the …

Apr. 9—Some of the most common questions of spring football at Ohio State have centered on the impact of Chip Kelly’s arrival in Columbus. The Buckeyes’ new offensive coordinator isn’t likely to reveal much in the spring game Saturday at Ohio Stadium, but we have gotten some clues from interviews over the past few weeks. Here is a sampling: Head …

Former 49ers DB Logan Ryan retires from NFL after 11 seasons originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Defensive back Logan Ryan may have figured he had already played his final NFL game when he went on a late-November Disney cruise to the Bahamas with his family. On Tuesday, he made it official. Ryan, 33, announced his retirement in a …

Year after year, Dabo Swinney and the Clemson football program boast one of the best defenses in college football, and that isn’t expected to change in 2024.  The Tigers have a tremendous amount of talent on their defense and continue to recruit at a tremendous level on that side of the ball. In the 2023 recruiting class, it was bringing …

When projecting what could occur during the 2024 NFL Draft, analysts often explore the likely outcomes, but the long shots should be acknowledged just to explore all possibilities.  Here are some specific scenarios that are considered unexpected: New England passes on a quarterback in the first round At this point in time, most fans expect the Patriots to use the …

All 16 teams in the NHL’s Eastern Conference will have completed their 82-game seasons by the end of April 17. At that time — and perhaps not a moment earlier — we will officially know the identities of the eight Eastern clubs moving on to the Stanley Cup playoffs. Eight of Tuesday’s 13 games include Eastern teams, and no game …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When the Rivals Camp Series makes its annual stop in South Florida, the expectation is that the impressive depth and quality of the wide receiver and tight end prospects in the region will be on display. It was more of the same on Sunday, with the pass catchers putting the most pressure on evaluators when it …

The Cowboys’ flagship radio station recently dropped a bomb regarding the relationship between the team and its best defensive player (if not best overall player), Micah Parsons. Shan Shariff of 105.3 The Fan, the station on which Cowboys owner Jerry Jones appears twice per week during the season, shared a surprising claim about the relationship between the Cowboys and Parsons. …

OXFORD — The Ole Miss football spring game comes with a twist in 2024 ‒ it’s not actually a game. Instead, Rebels coach Lane Kiffin has opted to transform the Grove Bowl into the Grove Bowl Games, which will include seven-on-seven action and some skills competition fun. Undoubtedly, though, it will make for a different viewing experience than the more …

Holley: ‘Really good chance’ Patriots take J.J. McCarthy at No. 3 originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The J.J. McCarthy hype train continues to gain steam. While McCarthy was viewed as a late first-round pick at best earlier this offseason, the Michigan quarterback prospect has rocketed up draft boards since the NFL Scouting Combine, with many draft experts now pegging …