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Winnipeg Free Press
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Calgary Stampeders off to a hot start host winless Ottawa Redlacks in CFL
CALGARY – Doing it for Reggie was a Calgary Stampeders theme head of Saturday's CFL game against the Ottawa Redblacks. Veteran receiver Reggie Begelton, in his eighth season as a Stampeder, had surgery this week following a leg injury that will keep a key cog in Calgary's offence out of the lineup for some time. 'Big piece, can't replace him, but you know he's been here, he's been talking to us all week, watching film with us, helping us, so you know we're looking to do it for Reggie this week because we know he wants to be out there with us,' said receiver Erik Brooks, who was promoted to starter because of Begelton's absence. Both Calgary (2-0) and Ottawa (0-2) enter Saturday's clash at McMahon Stadium with significant lineup changes. Ottawa's quarterbacking carousel stopped on Dustin Crum after Dru Brown (hip) was injured in the season-opener against Saskatchewan and Matt Schiltz was intercepted three times by Montreal in Week 2. Brown took a few reps in practice this week, but it was Crum doing first-team duty. The 26-year-old Crum has a 3-11 record in CFL starts. 'We know all three quarterbacks. Obviously Dru's not going to suit up,' Stampeders head coach and general manager Dave Dickenson said. 'Different styles. I'm sure (they) call a different game for all three guys. 'But we're just going to play our game, we're going to see what the weather's like, how we feel the best way to stop them is.' Continuous rain forecasted for southern Alberta could make for a soggy afternoon at McMahon. Quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. says that prospect isn't unsettling for him having played for the University of Oregon Ducks. 'The rain's not a huge deal,' Dickenson said. 'You can call your game. Maybe a little harder to catch the ball and throw the ball. We've all played in some nasty weather, especially playing and living in Canada. 'It's ball security basically. Special teams has a huge impact in a bad-weather game. Balls on the ground, the kicks that are hitting the ground and bouncing backwards. Special teams is always important, but in windy, bad-weather games, I think the importance is even more.' Adams has yet to throw for a touchdown in two games, but he's navigated Calgary to nearly 400 yards of net offence per game and ranks second to Hamilton's Bo Levi Mitchell in passing yards (585). 'The first two games I feel like the defence has really held us in there and then we come back like later on in the game,' Adams said. 'That shows our resiliency. We would like to get going a little bit more and stay more consistent, but I just like the fight that we have and just staying together.' Begelton, a three-time 1,000-yard receiver, was placed on the six-game injured list after he went down on the Stampeders' second play from scrimmage in last week's 29-19 over the Toronto Argonauts. He underwent surgery Thursday. When Adams goes to the air, he's expected to lean on Canadian Jalen Philpot, who compiled a career-high 117 receiving yards against the Argos, and Dominique Rhymes, who had four receptions for 98 yards. A wet game can turn into a running game, and Adams has a solid option in Dedrick Mills with 122 rushing yards and a league-leading four touchdowns in two games. The Stampeders will also be minus offensive lineman Bryce Bell (shoulder), long snapper Aaron Crawford (knee) and linebacker Marquel Lee (bicep), who was scheduled for Friday surgery. Micah Teitz has shifted to middle linebacker and Jacob Roberts into starting weak side in Lee's absence. Calgary's defence ranks third in the league in yards allowed (355.5), points allowed (22.5) and opponent rushing yards (57.0). Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. According to CFL statisticians, strong-side linebacker Derrick Moncrief allowed only three of eight passes in his direction to be completed in Toronto, and those passes amounted to a total of seven yards with no first downs. New Stampeder cornerback Adrian Greene had two interceptions, including one for a touchdown against the Argos. Ottawa is thin at weak-side linebacker with Lucas Cormier (ankle) and Davion Taylor (ankle) both out. The Redblacks need to get their run game going as 70 yards over two games ranks last in the league. They also need to stop shooting themselves in the foot with a league-leading 231 yards in penalties. Shiltz was 22-for-32 in passing for 205 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions in last week's 39-18 loss to Montreal. Crum has scored a pair of short-yardage touchdowns this season. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 20, 2025.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Reggie Jackson says Judge's home run wasn't 469 feet
Reggie Jackson says Judge's home run wasn't 469 feet originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Aaron Judge hit a baseball Tuesday night that looked like it needed clearance from air traffic control. Statcast measured the New York Yankees captain's homer at 469 feet. Advertisement Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson respectfully — and very vocally — disagrees. New York Yankees Hall of Fame slugger looks out of the dugout during the 2019 Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium. © Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images 'I know what 500 feet feels like,' Jackson told YES Network's Meredith Marakovits before Wednesday night's game. He went on to explain if it hadn't hit the building where the Kansas City Royals house their Hall of Fame, that ball would have definitely cleared 500 feet. And when Mr. October says a home run felt like 500 feet, you at least got to take it into consideration. This is a man who hit baseballs into light towers. Who treated 1970s pitchers like they were throwing Wiffle balls. Reggie knows moonshots — and this one apparently made his inner seismograph twitch. Advertisement The blast in question came off the bat at 114.9 mph and crashed off the facade of the Royals Hall of Fame in left-center. Statcast gave it the 469-foot label, but the ball may have lost a few feet of travel time thanks to a premature collision with a wall, which was sporting some patching on it Wednesday. Judge didn't seem bothered. He flipped his bat, put his head down, and headed back to work. The Yankees slugger has a habit of humbling Statcast's tape measure. Tuesday's launch may have been one of those. Reggie seemed convinced. And honestly, we're not betting against the man who once hit a ball completely out of Tiger Stadium. Statcast is great and we love the information, but Reggie knows home runs. So, we're going to go with the Yankees legend on this one. Advertisement Related: Marcus Stroman Takes Surprising Turn As Yankees Face Big Decision Related: Aaron Judge's 469-Foot Blast Wasn't Even Close to Yankees Slugger's Longest This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Indiana's basketball moment: Pacers' NBA Finals run and Caitlin Clark mania
INDIANAPOLIS — The scene spoke to this team's hard luck history, all the way back to the night it nearly died. The Indiana Pacers were on the verge of collapse in July 1977, broke and bereft of hope, desperate enough to host a 16-hour telethon on local TV in hopes of selling a preposterous number of tickets — 8,000 of them — just to climb out of debt and live to see another season. Advertisement Nancy Leonard wasn't just there that night; along with her husband, coach Bobby 'Slick' Leonard, she was the reason the Pacers survived. They sold 8,028. The NBA's first woman general manager sat courtside this past Saturday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the first game Leonard has attended all season due to health concerns, and watched the team she saved from being sold and shipped out of town punch its ticket to the NBA Finals. Amid the celebration, the Pacers' longest-tenured player weaved his way through the crowd and found the 93-year-old for a long embrace. 'You were with us every step of the way,' Myles Turner told her. The path of these Pacers, embodied by the Leonards' resolve in the late 1970s and Turner's five decades later, has them four wins from their first NBA title, with Game 1 tipping off Thursday night in Oklahoma City. The franchise's most improbable postseason run hasn't merely stirred echoes of the past, from Slick's three ABA titles to Reggie Miller's 1990s heroics. It's delivered a proud basketball state a moment it has craved for years. Advertisement In Indiana, hoops are as hot as ever. 'This is the first time I have real, real confidence we can win the whole thing,' said Matt Asen, whom Pacers owner Herb Simon has long referred to as the team's No. 1 fan. (You probably know Asen as Sign Guy. Or Flamingo Guy. Or Hard-Hat Guy. He's had seats under the Pacers' basket for over three decades, and he's hard to miss.) 'After Reggie left, there was this big lull there … and it was really hard. But this has been so fun. The city's pumped. It almost feels better than the Reggie days.' Meanwhile, the biggest draw in the women's game, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, sat courtside for the Game 6 clincher over the Knicks. When she returns from a quad injury in the coming weeks, the raucous crowds that have filled the Fieldhouse recently won't taper off. Same as the Pacers, the Fever pack the place. Midway through last season, Clark's first in the WNBA, the Fever reported staggering spikes in ticket sales (up 264 percent), jersey sales (up 1,193 percent) and corporate sponsors (up 225 percent). So far, there has been no Year 2 letdown. Advertisement 'It's hard to put a finger on a more unique sports moment here,' said Chris Gahl, executive vice president at VisitIndy, the city's lead tourism agency. 'The Pacers are in the NBA Finals. The Fever are red-hot. The WNBA All-Star game is coming, on the heels of (2o24's) NBA All-Star Game. It's a very unique moment in our city's history, and it's tipping tourism to record-setting levels.' Gahl noted that fans are traveling from all over the world to watch the Fever in person, and when his staff pitches convention organizers from across the country on which sporting events they can take in while in town — the Big Ten Championship Game? How about the NCAA Tournament? Or the Indianapolis 500? — it's the Fever that are often 'the most compelling invitation in luring people to our city.' Not that the Pacers lack appeal. More than 10,000 are expected to fill Gainbridge Fieldhouse for Games 1 and 2 watch parties before the series shifts to Indianapolis next week. (Team brass also offered to fly out every full-time staffer to Oklahoma City for Games 1 and 2.) After the Pacers dusted the Knicks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals — or as Asen's sign read, 'Hicks in Six' — fans lingered outside the arena well past midnight, roaring as players pulled out of their parking spots. Truth told, the party has lingered for weeks in the Circle City: an estimated 350,000 were on hand for the 109th running of the Indy 500 on May 25, the same day the Pacers hosted Game 3. Some were brave (read: lucky) enough to pull the double: racers in the afternoon, Pacers in the evening. Advertisement 'It's bringing back the old days,' said Craig Emmons, a lifelong Hoosier who owns SOS Pub, a bar that sits across the street from Gainbridge Fieldhouse that has tripled its business over the last month. Beyond Turner's embrace with Nancy Leonard, another hug amid the celebration spoke to the Pacers' tortured past and booming present. During the trophy presentation, Miller pulled in Tyrese Haliburton for several seconds. This was the franchise's greatest icon and lone NBA Hall of Famer showing respect for the man who now carries the mantle. It was two weeks ago, after Haliburton's Game 1 heroics in Madison Square Garden — complete with a Miller-esque choke sign that blanketed the tabloids the following morning — when Miller asked Haliburton during a TNT interview what it would mean to lead the Pacers to their first NBA championship. 'It was something I was never able to do,' Miller conceded, 'and it haunts me to this day.' For a moment, Haliburton weighed the possibility. The sixth-year guard smiled and tilted his head, his mind dancing at the thought. He went back to a ride he took during the Indianapolis 500 parade a few years back, and how the city's streets were lined with swaths of people, too many to count. Advertisement 'Triple that,' Haliburton finally said, imagining a championship celebration. 'It would be ridiculous. 'It to happen.' The torch has been passed, and even New York writers have noted the striking similarities between the two: string-bean shooter, awkward jump shot, late-game assassin. 'The Curse of Reggie Miller is still very much in full force around here,' the New York Daily News' Mike Lupica wrote after Haliburton connected on three consecutive fourth-quarter runners late in Game 6 that stretched the Pacers' lead. A moment later, he drained a 32-foot dagger to seal it. TNT duties aside, Miller had to be beaming. His team was . Advertisement He had dropped 34 in the Game 6 clincher in 2000 that sent the Pacers to their first finals; Haliburton dropped 22 and dished out 13 assists Saturday to send them to their second. Indiana's won six of its last seven playoff series against New York. Few things make this fan base happier. 'There's a lot of fans who've never seen this kind of success from this organization,' Haliburton said. 'They've never been alive for it.' More than anyone on the roster, it's Turner who can appreciate the long road here. The years of middling seasons and middling records, the persistent trade rumors and perennial disappointments, the superstars who had the city at their fingertips — Paul George and Victor Oladipo — only to decide they wanted out. Turner's 10-year NBA odyssey feels like 15. To think: when he was drafted in 2015, Frank Vogel was still the coach. He survived the Nate McMillan and Nate Bjorkgren eras and now is thriving under Rick Carlisle. Advertisement There was a certain level of conviction — a conviction Turner has earned — when he spoke late Saturday about how the Pacers have climbed from mediocrity to contention for the first time in a decade. This group, Turner pointed out, was 'a new blueprint for the league.' In other words: the anti-superteam. Selfless leaders. Stoic coach. Dogged demeanor. Some late-game guile. 'I've done this for a long time,' said TV play-by-play man Chris Denari, who's in his 19th year calling games for the team. 'This is the closest locker room I've ever been around.' The Pacers have been wholly embraced by a city and state that has long cherished the game. At one point, 12 of the 13 biggest high school gyms in the country were in Indiana. In 1990, more than 41,000 — still a national record — packed the Hoosier Dome to watch a high school state championship game. The list of icons goes on and on: Oscar and Larry, Wooden and Knight. Advertisement The game runs deep here. It always has. Which is why, during the trophy presentation Saturday night, Carlisle spoke to the fans who've waited years for a moment — and a team — like this one. 'In 49 states, it's just basketball,' Carlisle said. 'But this is Indiana …' Four more wins and the Pacers will celebrate something that would've been unthinkable the night of July 3, 1977, when Slick and Nancy Leonard saved the franchise from collapse. Without that telethon, the team would've been sold and shipped to another city. Indianapolis would've lost a part of its identity. Carlisle knows simply getting here isn't enough. Bring home an NBA championship, and his team will live forever in these parts. Advertisement 'It's an all-or-nothing thing,' the coach said. 'This is no time to be popping champagne.' This article originally appeared in The Athletic. Indiana Pacers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Fever, NBA, WNBA, NBA Playoffs 2025 The Athletic Media Company
Indianapolis Star
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
Doyel: Pacers' 'magical ride' has been a long time coming. Four more wins ends it with a first NBA title
INDIANAPOLIS – Cars are honking on Virginia Avenue and Maryland Street. Pedestrians are dancing on Delaware and Pennsylvania streets. They've just been sent out into the final moments of Saturday night by the Indiana Pacers' 125-108 victory against the New York Knicks — they're probably having a good time on New York Street, too, to say nothing of Washington and Illinois — a victory that put the Pacers into the NBA Finals for the second time in franchise history. 'In 49 states it's basketball,' Pacers coach Rick Carlisle is telling TNT's Ernie Johnson over the P.A. system, though he's really saying this for the benefit of the sold-out, gold-out crowd at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. And the crowd is starting to make noise, because it knows what's coming next. 'But this is Indiana!' Carlisle thunders, and now it's bedlam, and people are heading for the exits, to all those streets named after all those states where it's just, you know … basketball. But it's different here, and it's been too long. The Pacers of Slick Leonard and George McGinnis won three ABA titles in four years in the early 1970s, but the last time the Pacers reached the NBA Finals — the only time they reached the NBA Finals — it was 2000. Donnie Walsh built that team, Larry Bird coached it and Reggie Miller led it. Reggie was courtside for this one, calling the game for TNT. 'It was 25 years ago that the Pacers went to the NBA Finals for the first time,' Johnson had told the crowd before handing the mic to Carlisle, 'beating the New York Knicks in six games. Now it's happened again. And the guy that scored 34 points (in Game 6 of 2000), I think you just call him by one name.' This is a revival, the call-and-response part of the service, and the crowd knows its line: Reg-gie! Reg-gie! Reg-gie! 'So,' Johnson continues, 'we're going to have Reggie have the honors and hand the Bob Cousy Trophy to (Pacers owner) Herb Simon.' Reggie hands the trophy to Simon, a 2024 inductee into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and Simon seems surprised by its weight. He's smiling, he's thrilled, but he's looking for someone else to hold the trophy. Let them have a turn. Myles Turner, the longest-tenured player on roster — the No. 11 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft — is right there. He takes the trophy, hoists it over his head and looks absolutely, positively gleeful. The crowd knows its line here, too. The crowd roars. Pictures: IndyStar photographers find best moments from Pacers-Knicks in Game 6 Doyel in 2024: Herb Simon goes from Bronx to Hall of Fame. Mel should've been here too. These guys are greedy, man. Carlisle took out Tyrese Haliburton with 47 seconds left. He's letting the Pacers' franchise star — who started slow, without a point or a rebound in the first quarter, but finished with 21 points and six boards, to go with 13 assists — get some love from the crowd. Haliburton's also getting love from the bench, but when assistant coach Lloyd Pierce approaches for a hug, Haliburton has two words for him: 'Four more.' He's talking about the NBA Finals. The Pacers still have 47 seconds before they can put on the ballcaps calling themselves Eastern Conference champions, but already Haliburton is doing what he does on the court better than anyone ever has in a Pacers uniform: looking ahead. The Pacers follow his lead, too. A few minutes later, after the game ends — before Carlisle has his drop-the-mic moment and sends the crowd out into the states, er, streets — Pacers analyst Pat Boylan is on the court, inside the ropes, looking for a player to interview on the giant videoboard. He makes the sentimental choice. 'Myles Turner,' Boylan tells him, 'you're going to the NBA Finals. What's going through your mind right now?' Turner is beaming. Has he ever been happier? Maybe. But I've not seen it. Not until Herb Simon hands him the Bob Cousy Trophy, anyway, but that's a few minutes away. And right now, Turner has a message for the crowd, and his team. 'We got four more, baby,' he shouted. 'We got four more to bring it home.' Turner keeps going, stoking the crowd into a frenzy of hometown love. 'This team thrives on adversity,' he says. 'This city thrives on adversity. We're overlooked. We keep fighting. 'We don't quit, man. We don't quit in this city, baby.' Four more days. And then they can go about the business of winning those four more games. This game was never in doubt. Not in the classical sense. The Knicks scored the first bucket, and they led 22-20 late in the first quarter, but that was it. The rest of the game was an avalanche of the Pacers doing what they do best: Running, scoring, coming at the opponent in waves, getting points from players you'd expect — Pascal Siakam (31), Haliburton (21), Andrew Nembhard (14), Turner (11) and Aaron Nesmith (10) — and getting a boost from players you might not have seen coming. Former Knicks player Obi Toppin, for example, scored 18 points and added six rebounds and three blocked shots off the bench. And Thomas Bryant, who didn't play in two of the first five games this series, had 11 points — and was, frankly, the spark that got this rout rolling. It was Bryant's 3-pointer that erased the Knicks' final lead of the game, putting the Pacers ahead 23-22 late in the first quarter. And it was Bryant who sandwiched a pair of corner 3s around one from Nembhard in the third quarter as the Pacers expanded their 69-61 lead to 78-63. And this one was over. Pretty soon Nesmith is getting a pass from Nembhard and dunking. The Knicks are leaving T.J. McConnell alone for the second time behind the 3-point arc, and for the second time McConnell is all but shrugging before burying the 3-pointer. Now it's Haliburton with the ball in transition, a 2-on-1 fast break with Siakam on his right. Haliburton looks to Siakam, and the defense goes that way, but hang on. What? Haliburton is going to the rim and throwing it down with two hands? Yes he is. That finish is almost as startling as whatever becomes of the 2025 Indiana Pacers — four more, baby — when you consider where this franchise was just a few years ago. The Pacers averaged 31 victories from 2020-21 to 2022-23, losing enough to miss the playoffs all three years but winning just enough to miss out on a transformational player at the top of the lottery. Less than a year after the 2023 NBA draft lottery, the Pacers qualified for the 2024 Eastern Conference Finals. And here they are one year after that, heading to the 2025 NBA Finals. Afterward, to reporters in the postgame interview room, Carlisle is talking about those two players involved in that finish — about Haliburton and Siakam — to explain how the Pacers have been writing this one. "Getting Tyrese made it very clear what our identity as a team needed to be," Carlisle says of the team's trade in February 2022 that sent Domantas Sabonis to Sacramento for Haliburton and Buddy Hield. 'The Siakam trade (in January 2024) took things to another level." The Pacers have two All-Stars, Haliburton and Siakam, and three more starters capable of big nights. One game after the starting five was uncharacteristically quiet, combining for 37 points in that Game 5 loss to the Knicks in Madison Square Garden, all five starters reached double figures and combined for 87 points, total. That starting lineup, and a deep bench that gets occasional starring performances from McConnell, Toppin and Bennedict Mathurin — and quality minutes from Bryant, Ben Sheppard, Jarace Walker and Tony Bradley — has helped the Pacers set up an NBA Finals featuring the two hottest teams in the NBA. Fact: Since Jan. 1, only the Thunder have had a better record (53-13) than the Pacers (46-18). Insider: OKC Thunder vs Pacers in 2025 NBA Finals: Who has the edge? How to watch: Schedule, start date, time, TV channel for Pacers-Thunder in NBA Finals The Pacers have been getting better as the games get tougher, eliminating Milwaukee in five games in the first round, top-seeded Cleveland in five in the second round, and now the Knicks in six. Afterward, Carlisle is congratulating the Knicks on a fine season of their own, and almost feeling bad about having to end it. 'They caught a team that's been on a magical ride,' Carlisle told the crowd afterward. Wheels up, soon, for Oklahoma City. And the hunt for four more. Find IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel on Threads, or on BlueSky and Twitter at @GreggDoyelStar, or at Subscribe to the free weekly Doyel on Demand newsletter.
Indian Express
17-05-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
Boxer dog hailed ‘hero' for saving epileptic bulldog brother during seizure; video goes viral: ‘Yogi would not be alive today'
You've probably seen clips of dogs stepping in to protect their humans from danger, sensing trouble before it hits. But in a recent incident, a dog turned hero not for a person, but for his fellow four-legged friend. In Milford, Connecticut, United States, a French bulldog named Yogi, who suffers from severe epilepsy, was home alone with his younger brother Reggie, a 16-month-old boxer. Their owner, Sarah McArdle Strilka, wasn't home when Yogi suddenly had a seizure. But Reggie sprang into action. Surveillance footage captured Reggie's instinctive response. Despite having only seen one seizure before, he rushed to Yogi's side – nudging him, pacing around, and keeping him upright to prevent choking or aspiration. For nearly three hours, Reggie stayed by his brother's side, offering support and comfort until Strilka returned. 'As soon as Yogi started seizing when I wasn't home, Reggie jumped into action,' she told Storyful. 'If it wasn't for Reggie, Yogi would not be alive today.' The touching video, shared by multiple Instagram accounts including @sarahmcardlestrilka, quickly went viral. You can watch it here: A post shared by CBS News (@cbsnews) Many users responded to the video. One user commented, 'Animal nature is incredible. Empathy is engrained. We sure do have a lot to learn from them.' Another user wrote, 'The way he looked around for his humans to help and realizing that no one was there so it was up to him to save his buddy.' A third person asked, 'How do you leave your dog alone that has epilepsy?' A fourth user said, 'Reggie is now a certified support dog for Yogi. Their natural instincts sense the smell of the dog. It's just like they are trained for humans for these same reasons.'
