A soccer game in Spain involving the popular team Barcelona FC was postponed after a member of the team's medical staff died, the club announced.
Just around 15 minutes before a Saturday home game against Osasuna at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium was set to begin, fans were informed it would be postponed due to the death of doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia.
Barcelona said it was "deeply saddened to announce the passing of first-team doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia this evening," in a statement. The club also extended "heartfelt condolences to his family and friends during this difficult time."
Karl-Anthony Towns missed a game this week, and it was initially revealed he missed the game for "personal reasons."
After rumors circulated, it turned out a close friend of Towns' girlfriend, Jordyn Woods, died of breast cancer.
Towns returned to the team two days later after funeral services, but Draymond Green apparently had heard a different story about why Towns was absent.
The Knicks were hosting the Golden State Warriors, who include Jimmy Butler, Towns' former teammate.
Green said he had heard Towns did not want to go up against Butler.
"Some would say he didn’t play because Jimmy was in the building. I don’t known," Green said on his podcast. "They say KAT didn’t play because Jimmy came into town. You know him and Jimmy had the infamous practice in Minnesota."
Towns played against Butler earlier this year, when Butler was with the Miami Heat, and dropped 44 points.
Towns said it was "one of those moments where I had to be there for my family." Green was not aware of that until after the Warriors’ 121-119 victory over Brooklyn Thursday.
"That’s unfortunate, I’m sorry to hear that. That sucks," Green said. "But my comments that I made were what I heard was this. That’s what I heard. So I do send my well wishes to him and his family."
"But," he added, "the ‘Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis’ must go on."
Towns struggled in his return to the lineup, going 3-for-13 from the floor in Los Angeles with just 12 points. He's averaging double that this season.
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy was arrested in Texas on Friday for an alleged assault, online jail records showed. Worthy was a first-round pick in last year's NFL Draft.
He was booked by the Williamson County Sheriff’s office on an assault charge. Williamson County includes parts of Austin, where Worthy rose to football stardom during his time with the Texas Longhorns.
The charge read as an assault on a family or household member in which their breath was impeded. Under Texas law, impeding breathing means "intentionally, knowingly or recklessly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of the person by applying pressure to the person’s throat or neck or by blocking the person’s nose or mouth."
Also, in accordance with the laws of the state, the charge is a third-degree felony which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Jail records showed Worthy had not yet posted bond by Saturday morning. The records did not have any details of the arrest.
Shortly after news of the arrest surfaced, attorneys Chip Lewis and Sam Bassett issued a statement on Worthy’s behalf.
"We are aware of the allegation that led to Mr. Worthy’s arrest," the statement, obtained by The Associated Press, read. "We are working with law enforcement in Williamson County to ensure they have the benefit of the totality of circumstances that led to this allegation."
The lawyers argued that the "complainant" refused to leave Worthy's home despite numerous requests. Furthermore, Worthy's representatives claimed she attempted to extort the NFL star and described the allegation made against their client as "baseless."
"The complainant was asked multiple times over the last two weeks to vacate Mr. Worthy’s residence upon discovery of her infidelity, which a private investigator has video evidence of. She has refused to vacate the residence and made a number of extortive efforts prior to resorting to this baseless allegation against Mr. Worthy."
According to the statement, Worthy's property was damaged and he suffered bodily harm. The Chiefs' reciever also informed authorities that he was not in favor of pressing charges, per the statement.
"The complainant further destroyed a room in the residence, scratched Mr. Worthy’s face and ripped out parts of his hair, which there is photographic evidence of. Mr. Worthy told law enforcement at the time of the incident that he did not want to press charges against the complainant.
"We will continue to cooperate with Williamson County authorities as we have full faith their thorough investigation will support Mr. Worthy’s innocence."
The Chiefs also sent a statement to Fox New Digital saying, "We are aware and gathering information."
Worthy finished his rookie NFL season with 638 receiving yards and six touchdowns. He also scored three rushing touchdowns. The 21-year-old scored two touchdowns during the Chiefs' 40-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in last month's Super Bowl.
Fox News' Paulina Dedaj and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
After losing re-election in 2024, Former Montana Senator Jon Tester has spoken out against trans athletes in women's sports.
During an interview on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday, Tester said he agreed with California Governor Gavin Newsom's recent comments that allowing trans athletes in women's and girls' sports is "deeply unfair."
"In that statement, Gavin Newsom is 100% correct," Tester said. "We're talking about a very, very, very small amount of people who, by the way, men shouldn't be playing in women's sports. It's a bunch of crap."
However, Tester also argued, like many other Democrats, that it is an overblown issue.
"The truth is is that it has been blown way out of proportion," Tester said. "We're talking about that and Congress is acting on that, instead of acting on the issues that impact Americans."
A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Meanwhile, a national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of "Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men using girls' and women’s bathrooms" as important to them.
Additionally, 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was "very important."
Tester lost his seat to former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy back in November, after serving three terms in Montana – a state that has consistently voted for the Republican presidential candidate for decades.
Despite the fact that many Democrat lawmakers and the majority of voters have expressed opposition to trans athletes in women's sports over the last several months, figures like Tester and Newsom have still come up with other reasons not to support GOP-led legislation to address the issue.
While Tester suggested that the issue does not "impact Americans," Newsom argued that legislation to address the issue doesn't account for the fact that the transgender population is "vulnerable."
"So, that's easy to call out the unfairness of that," Newsom said on his podcast this week after claiming that trans inclusion is unfair. "There's also a humility and a grace . . . these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression, and the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with as well."
"So, both things I can hold in my hand," the governor continued. "How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think, you know, is inherent in you, but not always expressed on the issue?"
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes in women's and girls' sports back in February, but many states, including California, have refused to comply with it.
On Monday, Senate Democrats voted nearly unanimously to block the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
The law would have helped to set a stricter precedent to keep trans athletes out of women's and girls' sports across the country, as many states have so far refused to comply with Trump's executive order to address the issue. But not a single Democratic senator voted to help pass the bill, and filibustered it from reaching Trump's desk.
Earlier this week, ESPN announced its "Around The Horn," will go off the air in May after over two decades.
Jay Mariotti, who was a regular on the show until his domestic violence arrest in 2010, said in a recent interview that the show is being canceled because it went "woke."
"I think what John Skipper wanted from some of the shows was he started to install people on the shows who became anti-Trump," Mariotti told Front Office Sports.
Mariotti then mentioned Jemele Hill and Michael Smith by name, adding the show "lost some audience."
In a recent post on his own Substack, headlined "Around the Horn ended a long time ago - when I left the show," Mariotti reiterated that some of the panelists went "woke" while others were "on dope."
Hill caught wind of the comments and took exception.
"I don’t really appreciate Jay bringing my name into this or my friend Michael Smith. For one, I don’t even know Jay like that. And secondly, I started doing ATH in 2007 or 2008. Donald Trump obviously wasn’t in office then, so to suggest that ESPN started putting anti-Trump folks on the show on purpose is just a dumb statement," Hill said in an X post.
"The beauty of ATH is that it was a mechanism to get a variety of voices on air. It has launched and furthered so many careers, including mine. Having a run of over 20 years in sports television is a testament to what an institution this show became."
Hill and Smith later co-hosted their own SportsCenter. Hill left ESPN ahead of the turn of the decade and joined The Atlantic.
Brown had nine catches for 91 yards in those regular-season games and then added five catches for 50 yards in the Chiefs’ three playoff games.
Last season was Brown’s first with the Chiefs. Brown spent the prior two seasons with the Arizona Cardinals after being traded by the Baltimore Ravens.
Across six seasons, Brown has 322 receptions for 3,735 yards and 28 touchdowns in 74 career games.
With Brown back in the fold, Patrick Mahomes has one of his deep threats back.
One of Mahomes’ other top targets, Xavier Worthy, was arrested on Saturday morning after an alleged domestic dispute. Worthy emerged throughout the season as Mahomes’ top target, as he capped off his rookie season with an eight-catch, 157 yards, and two-touchdown performance in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl loss.
The Chiefs' wide receiving corps lacked a true No. 1 option after wide receiver Rashee Rice tore his ACL early in the season. Rice, too, could potentially face suspension in the 2025 season after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident last offseason.
Travis Kelce, who had been Mahomes top target throughout his career, while productive, took a step back last season with career lows in touchdowns and yards across a full season.
Despite re-signing Brown, and Kelce returning after mulling retirement, the Chiefs are expected to add more weapons for Mahomes once free agency begins next week.
President Donald Trump has thrust international trade relations and markets into a state of uncertainty with recent tariff declarations, but he also believes they will enhance the excitement the 2026 World Cup.
At a Friday press conference in the Oval Office with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Trump was asked how the current trade tensions, especially with Canada and Mexico, which are the other host countries with the U.S. in 2026, may affect the World Cup.
"I think it's going to make it more exciting," Trump said. "Tension is a good thing, it makes it much more exciting."
This week, the Trump administration imposed 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico but then announced Thursday a one-month reprieve for both countries on goods compliant under a North American trade pact.
The exemptions for the two largest U.S. trading partners expire on April 2. Trump has also threatened to impose a global regime of reciprocal tariffs on all U.S. trading partners.
When Trump first announced tariffs on Mexico and Canada in early February, he ended up delaying them by a month after working out agreements with both countries to help secure the northern and southern border.
However, the tension from the incident still spilled into sports during the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off exhibition tournament from Feb. 12 to 20. Fans in Canada booed the U.S. national anthem while fans in the U.S. booed the Canadian national anthem ahead of multiple games.
It started Feb. 13, when Canadian fans in Montreal booed the U.S. national anthem after President Donald Trump's recent threats to impose tariffs on Canada while also suggesting the country should become America's 51st state.
The booing prompted a flurry of brawls between Canadian and U.S. players in the first meeting of the tournament between the two teams on Feb. 15. The U.S. won that game 3-1.
The Canadian national anthem was then booed at TD Garden in Boston before a 4 Nations game between Canada and Finland.
The U.S. and Canada then met in the final on Feb. 20, and American fans in Boston once again booed the Canadian national anthem, albeit with a lighter tone. Canada won the game in overtime, 3-2.
Since then, hostile rhetoric between the two countries, including in sports, has only escalated. NHL games involving teams based in Canada and the U.S. have often featured booing during pre-game national anthems of the visiting team.
Fans at WWE Elimination Chamber in Toronto booed "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of the event last Saturday night. Star sports commentator Pat McAfee loudly lambasted the Canadian fans for booing, and the country as a whole, in response during the Peacock broadcast.
"It kind of sucks that it's in the terrible country of Canada that booed our national anthem to start this entire thing," McAfee shouted at the broadcast table.
McAfee has since said he has received death threats against his infant daughter for the comments.
Canadian men’s soccer coach Jesse Marsch blasted Trump for his "51st state" remarks, calling them "insulting" Wednesday. During CONCACAF Nations League media day, Marsch said he was "ashamed" of how Canada had been insulted by the president.
"If I have one message to our president, it’s lay off the ridiculous rhetoric about Canada being the 51st state," Marsch said. "As an American, I’m ashamed of the arrogance and disregard we’ve shown one of our historically oldest, strongest and most loyal allies. But one thing’s for sure: When I look forward a month from now, this will fuel our team. The mentality we have, the will we have to play for our country."
NHL legend Wayne Gretzky has also been criticized by fellow Canadians for his apparent support of Trump. Trump recently said he had asked Gretzky to become the next "governor of Canada" after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would be resigning.
But after Gretzky expressed support for "Canada remaining a separate country, rather than becoming a cherished and beautiful 51st State," Trump declared Gretzky a "free agent."
Los Angeles Lakers fan Mike Bell nailed the shot of a lifetime on Thursday night.
Bell hit a $100,000 half-court shot during a break in action, and plans to spend it wisely.
"We actually just got married in November and spent a good chunk of our savings on the wedding and honeymoon and such, so most of this money is going to replenish that and filling our bank accounts back up a little bit," Bell said via TMZ.
"But I’m going to treat myself to something nice, maybe a special pair of Kobe’s or something like that, something definitely to commemorate it."
Bell said, "I spent pretty much the whole third-quarter in the tunnel just kind of like getting ready for it, and so it was kind of down in the area where all the celebrities are walking through and stuff," Bell said.
"I’m sitting there trying to focus on like a potentially life-changing shot, and I’ve got celebrity after celebrity walking by me. It was kind of a wild experience. I was trying not to get in my own head about it."
After Bell drilled the shot, he said he "blacked out" in celebration.
"I blacked out man, I blacked out. It’s funny, my wife has been giving me a hard time about how the PA announcer woman, she like asked me how I was feeling, and my response is ‘Go Lakers.’ Honestly, I didn’t hear her question at all, I had no idea what she asked me, and ‘Go Lakers’ just felt like a safe response to give to whatever it might be."
In celebration, Bell said he high-fived Floyd Mayweather, Spike Lee and Los Angeles Rams’ star wide receiver Puka Nacua.
Bell said his wife hasn’t asked for anything specifically, but he will get something for her with the newfound money.
"She hasn't cited anything specifically," he said. "She puts up with me staying up late watching the games and having the TV on in bed. If she asks for something, it's the least I could do."
Legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick got an unlikely assist in his pursuit of the head coaching job at North Carolina.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was called on by the former New England Patriots coach to advocate to then-fellow Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina for the job at Chapel Hill, according to an ESPN report.
"Rubio follows the sports world pretty closely, and he called me and said, 'There's a chance Belichick would come to Chapel Hill,'" Tillis told ESPN.
"He said, '[Belichick] wants a school with a great academic reputation, and he wants to try to build a program to bring them a national championship. I said, 'Well, let me go [make some calls].'"
According to the report, Tillis then called North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, who was initially in disbelief until Tillis reassured him.
One source told ESPN that "the push to land Belichick all started with the politicians."
An eight-time Super Bowl champion, Belichick left the NFL for a year before returning in December for uncharted waters.
He entered the college football world on a lucrative five-year, $50 million deal to coach the Tar Heels. The deal also included a buyout if any NFL team were to come calling.
The 72-year-old coach returned to the practice field this week, where he revealed to reporters on Wednesday that he’s having a blast.
"That's the great thing about being a head coach — I can coach anybody I want," he said. "I can coach the line, I can yell at the tight ends, I can yell at the DBs, I can yell at the kickers.
"I can go to any group I want and coach them. And honestly, that's the fun part."
Belichick will make his college football debut at home against TCU on Sept. 1.
Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
The New York Yankees received some alarming news on Friday night.
Star pitcher Gerrit Cole is scheduled to undergo diagnostic tests on his pitching elbow over the next couple of days, according to MLB Network.
The news comes after Cole struggled in his spring training starts against the Minnesota Twins, where the 34-year-old gave up six runs over 2.2 innings of work.
Cole said his arm felt good during the start but worsened.
"As I got home, it continued to get more and more sore," Cole said, via the NY Post on Saturday. "Something wasn’t right."
Cole also had an injury scare last season during spring training, and was shut down due to what was later diagnosed as nerve irritation in his elbow.
The six-time All-Star didn’t make his first start until June 19 last season, due to an injury. Last season in his injury-shortened campaign, Cole was 8-5 with a 3.41 ERA in 17 regular-season starts.
In the Yankees' run to the World Series, Cole was sensational in the playoffs. The Yankees’ ace was 1-0 and had a 2.17 ERA across five starts in the postseason.
Cole said he changed his offseason routine to help mitigate the risk of another injury.
"We came up with a plan to mitigate the risks, and I executed it," Cole said.
"I felt the best I had in some time leading up (to the last start)."
Cole said he has an "initial idea" of what the injury is but is "concerned," calling the soreness he experienced "alarming" and that it was tough to sleep.
The 2023 AL Cy Young winner is not the only Yankees pitcher to be sidelined by injury, as Luis Gil suffered a high-grade lat strain.
Gil is expected to be shut down for six weeks as he recovers from his injury.
Without Cole and Gil, the Yankees’ starting rotation is now comprised of Max Fried, Carlos Rodon, Clarke Schmidt and Marcus Stroman, with prospect Will Warren among those competing for the fifth spot in the rotation.
The charge read as an assault on a family or household member in which their breath was impeded. Under Texas law, the charge is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
A bond had not been posted as of Saturday morning.
The Chiefs said in a statement to Fox News Digital, "We are aware and gathering information."
A standout at Texas, Worthy was drafted by the Chiefs with the no. 28 overall pick. He finished his rookie season with 59 catches for 638 yards and six touchdowns, and 20 rushes for 104 yards and three more scores.
Worthy also had a significant impact in the Chiefs' third-straight Super Bowl appearance, hauling in eight catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns in the 40-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
His total yardage set an NFL rookie record for the big game.
Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic became the first player in NBA history to record a 30-20-20 triple-double in Friday night’s thrilling overtime victory over the Phoenix Suns.
And his reaction to the historic feat was exactly what Jokic fans would expect to hear from the Serbian basketball player.
"It’s not supposed go that way," Jokic said. "I was talking to (Aaron Gordon), and he said to me, ‘That was a quiet 30 points.’ I didn’t do anything special, just seemed like everyone was in flow."
Jokic told SportsCenter separately after the game that he’ll be able to truly appreciate the accomplishment when "on my couch" after his career is over.
"I can’t describe him, so don’t ask me to," Denver coach Michael Malone told reporters after the game. "The guy is just an incredible player, and when you are one of one in this league, with the tremendous history of this league, that says a lot. There’s a lot of good players in this league, but Nikola, in my opinion, is just in a class all by himself."
Jokic finished the night with 31 points, 21 rebounds and a career-high 22 assists in the Nuggets' 149-141 overtime victory over the Suns.
He also tied the franchise record with his 29th triple-double of the season, and currently ranks in the top three in the league with an average of 28.9 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.6 assists per game.
"He’s just one of a kind," Christian Braun added. "You’ll never see something like this ever again – ever. You’ll never see a player that does the things he does night in and night out."
The Los Angeles Clippers are making a push for the NBA playoffs. If the postseason were to start today, the Clippers would be in the play-in tournament.
On Wednesday, Los Angeles bolstered their playoff hopes by defeating the Detroit Pistons. The 123-115 victory was fueled by James Harden's 50-point night. The number represented the most points the 11-time NBA All-Star has scored in a single game during the 2024-25 campaign.
Harden has appeared in 59 of the Clippers' 62 games so far this season. Los Angeles enters Friday night's home contest against the New York Knicks in eighth place in the Western Conference Standings.
Harden logged 38 minutes in the Clippers' latest win, and the 35-year-old's workload has appeared to increase since last month's All-Star break. After Wednesday's game, he was asked about the uptick in playing minutes.
He proceeded to deliver an epic response. "I’ll rest when the season’s over," the Clippers guard said before walking away.
Fellow Clippers star Kawhi Leonard sat out of Wednesday's win due to rest.
Harden's conditioning has been a topic of conversation at times throughout his NBA career.
In 2022, FOX Sports reported that Harden and Kevin Durant "butted heads." The discontent stemmed from Durant's belief that Harden was not "in peak physical shape." Harden and Durant both played for the Brooklyn Nets at the time.
The Clippers have gone 2-6 over their last eight games. They entered Friday's action trailing the seventh-place Minnesota Timberwolves by two games in the win column.
Former NBA MVP Charles Barkley took aim at Canadians who have been critical of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky in recent weeks.
Gretzky has come under scrutiny from Canadians for his friendship with President Donald Trump, and the hockey great's wife has said the criticism left Gretzky "heartbroken."
"You got them fools up in Canada giving ‘The Great One’ a hard time," Barkley said during a segment on Thursday’s "Inside the NBA." "Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player ever. He’s the nicest person."
Trump has become one of the most controversial figures in Canada since returning to office in January after suggesting the country should become America's 51st state and threatening to impose tariffs on Canadian imports into the U.S.
Gretzky attended a victory party after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. Gretzky was spotted wearing a MAGA hat shortly afterward and attended Trump's inauguration.
"Fools up in Canada gave him a hard time because of the tariff with Trump and everything," Barkley said. "He has nothing to do with that. He played hockey. He’s the greatest hockey player ever. He got no control of what these fools do down here in our government."
Trump has said he asked Gretzky to become the next "governor of Canada" after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would be resigning. But after Gretzky expressed support for "Canada remaining a separate Country, rather than becoming a cherished and beautiful 51st State," Trump declared Gretzky a "free agent."
"I don’t want anyone in Canada to say anything bad about him. He supports Canada the way it is, as he should, even though it’s not nearly as good as it could be as part of the Greatest and Most Powerful Country in the World, the Good Ole’ U.S.A.!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Gretzky's friendship and interactions with Trump during the controversy prompted harsh backlash against the hockey legend from Canadians, even though he's been universally beloved in the country since his playing career.
In response, fellow Canadian hockey legend Bobby Orr wrote a column in the Toronto Sun expressing disappointment when he read criticism of Gretzky.
"How fickle can people be, when someone who has given so much time and effort to Canadian hockey is treated in such a way," Orr’s column said. "Listen, we all have our personal beliefs as they pertain to things such as religion and politics. Wayne respects your right to such beliefs – why can’t you respect his?"
Gretzky's wife, Janet Gretzky, then shared Orr's column on social media, indicating the criticism had "broken his heart."
"Thank you Mr. Bobby Orr. Your words mean the world to Wayne and his family, I have never met anyone who is more proud to be a Canadian and it has broken his heart to read and see the mean comments… He would do anything to make Canadians proud, with his love for hockey and his country," Janet wrote in an Instagram post sharing Orr's column.
Former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders opted out of throwing passes at last week's NFL Scouting Combine. He did, however, travel to Indianapolis and conducted meetings with several teams.
Sanders also fielded questions from the media. While it remains unclear whether anything from the scouting combine will affect where he falls in next month's NFL Draft, some anonymous criticism has surfaced.
NFL Insider Josina Anderson reported that at least one assistant coach of "a team drafting in the top seven" described Sanders as "brash" and "arrogant."
"I’m purposely not naming the team, as not to directly call the team out. I’m just sharing that this coach’s personal assessment is the direct opposite from how Sanders came across to many reporters in his press conference with the media at the Combine," Anderson wrote on X.
In a video recently posted to social media, Sanders dismissed any notion that his draft stock was plummeting, describing it as "fool's gold."
"I'm a Raider fan," the camera operator responded to an inquiry from Sanders about his attire. "I'm praying for you, baby. I want you to go to the Raiders so bad. I hope to God they trade up for you."
"Well, everybody trying to make my stock drop right now, so who knows, man?" Sanders said. "You know just how life get. But it is what it is. It’s fool's gold. It ain’t real. Don’t believe (the) media."
Sanders has been linked to the Las Vegas Raiders due to his relationship with Tom Brady, who holds a minority stake in the franchise. Las Vegas holds the No. 6 pick in this year's draft.
Sanders and former Miami star Cam Ward are projected to be the first two quarterbacks selected in April's draft.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders coached sons Shedeur and Shilo at Jackson State and at Colorado. The Buffaloes head coach said he would only consider leaving Colorado for an NFL job if he could coach both of his sons.
"The only way I would consider [coaching in the NFL] is to coach my sons," Sanders told "Good Morning America" in January.
Shedeur finished his final college football season with 4,134 passing yards, 37 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
After watching the Kansas City Chiefs’ poor performance in last month's Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles, one Buffalo Bills star says his squad would have had a "better chance" at winning.
Kansas City had a letdown game in New Orleans, losing 40-22, and the score didn’t necessarily reflect the overall outing the team had. The Eagles were dominant on both sides of the ball before allowing 16 points in the fourth quarter with the game already out of reach.
To get to their third straight Super Bowl, the Chiefs had to get through the Bills yet again, and they did the job at home despite it coming down to the wire in the end.
While he accepted another postseason loss to the Chiefs, Dawkins was confident in assessing how it all went down.
"Now, after going to the Super Bowl and seeing it and feeling those emotions, not to say that we would’ve just went in there and beat the Eagles. We would’ve had a chance," Dawkins explained. "We would’ve had a better chance."
Dawkins has been with the Bills eight seasons and has the important job of protecting MVP quarterback Josh Allen’s blindside. He was a second-round pick out of Temple in 2017.
With the Bills, Dawkins has experienced success during the regular season, leading to playoff berths in all but one of his seasons.
However, the Chiefs have knocked them out of the playoffs four different times. All four of those have come in the last five seasons.
Allen and the Bills’ offense were unable to come back at Arrowhead Stadium once again as the Chiefs’ defense came up clutch, and Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs’ offense got the necessary first downs to ice the victory.
Buffalo must first reach the Super Bowl to test Dawkins' theory.
And it’s likely the Chiefs will continue to be a team the Bills have to go through to make that happen.
The FBI's newest Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive was an Olympic snowboarder during another chapter in his life. Now he's on the run as an alleged drug kingpin and murderer.
Former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list, and the agency is offering $10 million to whomever turns him in. Wedding is alleged to have run a transnational drug trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and Southern California to Canada and other locations in the U.S.
He's also alleged to have orchestrated and attempted multiple murders.
He even reportedly got an ex-wife involved in trouble along the way.
Here's a look at how the former snowboarder became one of the world's most dangerous criminals.
Wedding was born in 1981 in the town of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
It was a town once known for shipping lumber and grain via boats and railroads, but its shipping industry diminished in the ‘70s and ’80s around the time Wedding was born due to Canada's development of highways that enabled trucking.
The town has since become one of the more crime-ridden towns in the country. From 2012 to 2014, and again from 2016 to 2019, Thunder Bay had the highest per-capita rate of homicide among Canadian cities, according to the nation's census.
Wedding came from a family of skiers. His father, Rene, an engineer, skied in college. His mother, Karen, had a brother who skied on the Canadian national team. Wedding's grandparents even ran a small ski hill in the town.
And when Wedding pursued winter sports, he quickly exhibited a trait often necessary for both competitive athletes and relentless criminals.
"He had no fear," former national champion ski racer Bobby Allison told Rolling Stone writer Jesse Hyde of Wedding in 2009.
"A lot of kids, they say they want to go fast, but they don’t really want to go fast. They hold something back because there’s a little bit of fear there of falling. Ryan had none of that."
Around 1991, Wedding's family relocated from Thunder Bay to the Pacific coast, in Coquitlam, British Columbia, less than an hour away from Vancouver. Coquitlam is a town with lower-than-average crime rates in Canada. However, the town's biggest crime issue is "people using or dealing drugs" with a rate of 40.85 out of 120, according to Numbeo.
There, Wedding quickly excelled at snowboarding, winning the first race he competed in at age 12. Just three years later, he was part of the Canadian national snowboarding team at age 15 and began to regularly travel the world for competitions. Rene Wedding paid all the expenses for Ryan's participation on the team, spending around $40,000, according to Rolling Stone.
The young snowboarder reportedly "obsessed" over perfecting his snowboarding technique and also employed his dad's engineering skills to try modifications to his boots and snowboards for an advantage.
After missing out on the 1998 Winter Olympics, Wedding qualified for his first and only Olympic Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
But Wedding's natural talent, fearlessness and obsession weren't enough to get him to the podium.
In his only event, the men's parallel giant slalom, Wedding finished in 24th place. Switzerland's Philipp Schoch won gold, Sweden's Richard Rikardsson won silver and Chris Klug of the U.S. took bronze.
With a bronze medal, Klug launched his own foundation dedicated "to promoting lifesaving organ and tissue donation and improving the quality of life for those touched by donation."
With no medal in hand, Wedding went down a very different path after Salt Lake City.
After the Olympics, Wedding enrolled at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
In the early 2000s, Vancouver was ascending as one of the world's illegal marijuana capitals. The drug was not legalized but was also a low priority for law enforcement, resulting in an influx of "grey area" cannabis stores, official businesses that sold marijuana illegally under the guise of another purpose.
Gang activity related to the drug reportedly rose in the city from 2002-09. Gangs known as the "Red Scorpions," the "Independent Soldiers" and the "Wolfpack Alliance" emerged, according to multiple reports, and dealing marijuana was a suspected top activity and form of income for the gangs.
Wedding was first linked to criminal activity in 2006. He and another competitive snowboarder were named in a search warrant for a house in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, that was investigated for growing large quantities of marijuana, according to The Vancouver Sun.
Police seized 6,800 marijuana plants from that house, but no one was charged.
Wedding was arrested for the first time in 2009 in the U.S. after traveling with two friends from Vancouver to California to allegedly buy 24 kilograms of Colombian cocaine.
The FBI determined Wedding was working for a drug lord in Vancouver at the time.
That year, the city had devolved into a gang war with multiple shootings related to gang violence, according to multiple reports. The alleged gangs involved included the Independent Soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Family, the Buttar Crime Family, the United Nations Gang, the Red Scorpions and the Vancouver chapters of the Hells Angels, The Vancouver Sun reported.
That year, police responded to reports of more than 30 shootings.
"Lets not kid ourselves. There's a gang war and it's brutal," Jim Chu, Vancouver's police chief at the time, told CBC.
When Wedding was tried, he claimed he was volunteering for several cancer agencies, was doing real estate investing and was training for the 2010 Olympics. But the Canadian Snowboard Federation said he had not competed in years, according to The Vancouver Sun.
Wedding served a four-year jail sentence after agreeing to forfeit more than $121,000 seized during an airport sting and agreeing to drop an appeal of his conviction.
Just over a year into his sentence, Wedding had a wedding of his own behind bars. He got married to an Iranian-born businesswoman from British Columbia at Reeves County Detention Center in West Texas, according to CBC.
The woman, who has not been named, said Wedding insisted he was convicted because he was "at the wrong place at the wrong time."
"I don't want to be associated with these people," she said, according to CBC.
The woman has since been named in multiple money laundering and kidnapping investigations. While she has denied any involvement in criminal activity, her name has surfaced in an alleged international money laundering scheme tied to Mexican drug cartels.
Wedding and the woman are no longer together. She says they haven't spoken in recent years and that she has since remarried, per CBC.
If wasn't long after Wedding was released from prison before authorities cracked down on him again.
In 2015, he was charged with new drug offenses in Nova Scotia. That time, police never caught him. He has been on the run as a fugitive ever since.
U.S. investigators believe Wedding has been protected by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico and resumed trafficking soon after he was released from prison. Federal authorities first issued an arrest warrant for Wedding in September 2024, but he has still not been apprehended.
Wedding is believed to also go by the aliases "El Jefe," "Giant," "Public Enemy," "James Conrad King" and "Jesse King" and is estimated to have transported over $1 billion in cocaine.
Wedding and alleged accomplice Andrew Clark, who was apprehended in October and extradited last week, are accused of coordinating the murder of an Ontario family "in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through Southern California."
The FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allege Wedding and Clark coordinated a November 2023 double homicide in Ontario involving an innocent couple in a mistaken-identity killing, according to the FBI.
Wedding and Clark are also accused of coordinating the murder of another person in May over a drug debt.
FBI Los Angeles chief Akil Davis said at a news conference Thursday that Wedding's alleged trafficking ring "routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, and for orchestrating multiple murders and an attempted murder in furtherance of these drug crimes.
"The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, coupled with a major reward offer by the State Department, will make the public our partner so that we can catch up with him before he puts anyone else in danger," Davis added.
Investigators believe Wedding is living in Mexico but have not ruled out him being in the United States, Canada, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica or elsewhere.
The murder and criminal enterprise charges against Wedding carry a mandatory minimum penalty of life in a federal prison.
The Las Vegas Raiders have their new quarterback, and it’s someone head coach Pete Carroll is familiar with.
Geno Smith has been traded by the Seattle Seahawks to the Raiders in exchange for a 2025 third-round draft pick, according to multiple reports.
Las Vegas was always expected to add a quarterback this offseason after releasing Gardner Minshew and having quarterback troubles the past couple seasons with Jimmy Garoppolo and Aidan O'Connell in the mix.
Instead of signing a free agent or waiting for the 2025 NFL Draft, the Raiders made a blockbuster deal with the Seahawks, a team seemingly looking to shake up its own roster, to land the veteran signal-caller.
The Raiders, who have the sixth overall pick in this year's draft, may still take a quarterback.
Smith only has one more year left on his contract, and ESPN reports the trade was done without an extension in place, meaning Smith would become a free agent in 2026.
While the deal hasn't been made official yet, Raiders star defensive end Maxx Crosby, who just became the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history with a new extension in Las Vegas, shared his thoughts on the news.
There's also a reunion in "Sin City," as new head coach Pete Carroll and Smith get back together.
When Smith joined the Seahawks in 2020, Carroll was in his 11th season leading Seattle. Carroll oversaw Smith's career-altering campaign in 2022, when he was a Pro Bowler throwing for a career-high 4,282 yards with 30 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
The season cemented Smith's spot as the team's starting quarterback, and he's held that role the past two seasons. Carroll, though, was let go after the 2023 season and was out of coaching in 2024.
The 73-year-old was brought back to the NFL by the Raiders.
The Seahawks, a team that released veteran receiver Tyler Lockett and has DK Metcalf requesting a trade, appear to be tearing things down by letting their franchise quarterback walk.
The Seahawks will immediately be a contender for free agent quarterbacks like Sam Darnold, Aaron Rodgers and others searching for a new team.
Smith led the Seahawks to his best regular-season record since being named starter, going 10-7 in 2024. Despite those efforts, with Mike Macdonald as the team’s new head coach, the Seahawks missed the playoffs.
Despite a roller-coaster ride, Smith reset his career-high in passing yards, throwing for 4,320, also a franchise record. He threw for 21 touchdowns and 15 interceptions.
Despite just one playoff appearance in Seattle as a starter — a loss in the wild-card round in 2022 — Smith has proven he can get the job done in clutch moments. He led the Seahawks to four game-winning drives, and that ties him with Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes with nine over the past two seasons.
Smith and Carroll hope he can drop that interception number heading into 2025. It was the third most in the NFL last season.
Macdonald consistently backed Smith despite questions about his future with the franchise, including last month when he said, "Geno’s our quarterback. I don’t understand the conversation. It’s pretty obvious this guy is a heck of a quarterback."
But a shocking trade has gone down, altering both franchises heading into the new league year, which kicks off March 12, when free agents are officially allowed to sign with teams they’ve talked to during the legal tampering period beginning March 10.
The standoff between six-time Pro Bowler Myles Garrett and the Cleveland Browns reached new heights this week as reports surfaced about a meeting that ultimately did not happen.
Last month, the star pass rusher recently informed the Browns of his desire to be traded to another team. Garrett then asked to meet with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.
But according to NFL Network, Haslam rejected the request to meet with Garrett. Haslam then pointed Garrett in the direction of Browns general manager Andrew Barry, per Cleveland.com.
In a statement announcing his trade request, Garrett said he preferred to land with a contender next season. "The goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton, it has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl," he said.
Garrett doubled down on those sentiments and concluded they were not "aligned" with the direction of the franchise.
"I have a lot of love for Cleveland, but it's always for me been about [competing] for championships, winning those big games and winning Lombardis," Garrett told NFL Network in February. "We haven't had the opportunity to do that. That's all I'm asking for."
"It's not a decision I take lightly," Garrett said. "It took time and lots of conversation, but just looking at the trajectory of the team, talking to some of the higher-ups... I have a lot of respect for them, but I just don't think we're aligned on where the team is going in the near future."
The Browns finished last season with a 3-14 record and face uncertainty at the quarterback position as Deshaun Watson rehabs after recently tearing his Achilles tendon for the second time. Watson initially tore his right Achilles in October.
The Browns' brass have stated that they would not trade the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Head coach Kevin Stefanski previously said Garrett is "part of the present. He's part of the future."
Garrett has two years remaining on his contract with the team.
Trump wore a navy blue suit with a bright yellow tie to meet with Cousins, who left the Minnesota Vikings for the Falcons in free agency last offseason.
Trump and Cousins have a relationship that goes back to Cousins' time with the Vikings. Trump called Cousins after a 28-10 win by Cousins' Vikings over the New York Giants in October 2019.
A spokesperson for the Vikings confirmed to a local station that Trump called Cousins to "briefly congratulate him and the Vikings on the win in New York."
Trump was scheduled for a rally in Minneapolis for the 2020 election when Cousins defeated the Giants on "Monday Night Football."
And even before that, Cousins got some attention for playing a round of golf with Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in June 2017. So, their relationship has spanned a few years, and Cousins clearly supports the president to this day.
The upcoming NFL season will be interesting for the 36-year-old signal-caller.
Falcons head coach Raheem Morris made the switch at quarterback to rookie Michael Penix Jr. toward the end of last season, even with Atlanta in a playoff race, because Cousins struggled in his first campaign down south.
Cousins threw for 3,508 yards, 18 touchdowns and 16 interceptions, and his 88.6 quarterback rating was his worst since his 2014 season with the Washington Commanders.
Cousins was coming off a torn Achilles with the Vikings in the 2023 campaign, and many were wondering what would happen with him on the open market as he was recovering.
The Falcons signed him to a four-year, $180 million deal with a whopping $100 million guaranteed. However, in the biggest shock of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Falcons selected Penix eighth overall out of Washington, sparking immediate speculation about the quarterback position.
Cousins was the starter at the beginning of last season, but it became clear to Morris a change was needed. How that quarterback situation plays out in training camp will be a huge NFL storyline in 2025.
The Falcons can opt out of Cousins’ remaining two years on his deal after the 2025 season, when his $100 million guarantee is satisfied.
