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SEATTLE - The Seahawks received their Super Bowl LX rings during a private ceremony in Seattle for players, coaches and football staff Thursday night. Created by Jason of Beverly Hills, the rings contain diamonds, sapphires, team mantras and three special features. The centerpiece includes a pair of Lombardi Trophy replicas in honor of the franchise's two Super Bowl wins. They sit behind a Seahawks logo, which has 50 round white diamonds in a nod to 2025 being the team's 50th season.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Chelsea Gray matched a WNBA record with nine 3-pointers Thursday night, propelling the Las Vegas Aces to a 105-98 win over the host Portland Fire. Gray went 9-of-13 from deep, hitting her record-tying 3 with 2:53 left in the game. She shares the mark with four other players, most recently Atlanta Dream star Rhyne Howard, who did it twice last season.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Vegas Golden Knights coach John Tortorella vowed that the Stanley Cup Final will return to Raleigh for Game 7 after the Carolina Hurricanes pushed his team to the brink of elimination. "We'll be back here. We're just going to do it in a different order," said Tortorella after the Golden Knights' 4-2 loss in Game 5 on Thursday night, putting them down 3-2 to the Hurricanes. "I'm going to leave my clothes here. That's for sure.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Aliyah Boston had 34 points and 12 rebounds and Caitlin Clark added 32 points and 10 assists to become the the first pair of teammates in WNBA history to have 30-point double-doubles in the same game, leading the Indiana Fever past the Chicago Sky 114-106 in overtime Thursday night. Indiana had its lead trimmed to 96-93 with 18.9 seconds left in regulation before Clark made two free throws for a five-point lead.
TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said Thursday there is "absolutely no question" he wants Baker Mayfield as his quarterback long term. That comes after Mayfield said last week that he and the Bucs are "not anywhere close to what we were thinking" on a new deal heading into the 2026 season, the final year of his three-year deal worth $100 million.
In a 20-plus-minute video released Thursday night, Texas Tech officials defended their integrity and reiterated their support for Brendan Sorsby amid widespread criticism from the rest of the Big 12 and other corners of college sports to the likelihood of the quarterback playing for the Red Raiders this fall.
We are about to enter the first elimination game of the Stanley Cup Final on the heels of Game 5, which put the Carolina Hurricanes in position to win their first championship since 2006.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Andrei Svechnikov scored twice and Sebastian Aho added a second-period goal in a breakout game for Carolina's top-line performers, helping the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Thursday night to move within a victory of winning the Stanley Cup. Captain Jordan Staal added his fifth goal in the series on a night when Carolina overcame multiple hiccups from these playoffs, from a shaky power play to being outplayed in the second period of this series.
Matchroom Sport chairman Eddie Hearn fired back at UFC CEO Dana White on Thursday, calling him "absolutely clueless" and vehemently denying White's recent claim that he will be the lead promoter for the highly anticipated showdown between heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. White, who also is the founder of Zuffa Boxing, made the claim at a news conference Saturday, saying that Hearn has no hand in negotiating the contracts for the Joshua-Fury bout.