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Boston Fleet win five top honors at PWHL awards event
Members of the Boston Fleet took home five of the seven individual honors at the 2026 PWHL Awards in Detroit on Tuesday night.,Boston's Aerin Frankel was named both the Billie Jean King MVP and the Goaltender of the Year.,Frankel, 26, is the first netminder to claim MVP honors. She set league record...
Victor Wembanyama a unanimous All-Defensive first-team selection
After being named the unanimous Defensive Player of the Year last month, dominant San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama was also the lone unanimous pick for the All-Defensive First Team, the NBA announced on Friday night. ,Wembanyama, 22, was joined on the first team by one of his opponents ...
Luka Doncic, Cade Cunningham now eligible for awards
Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham are eligible for postseason awards after winning their challenges to the 65-game rule, the NBA and the players union announced Thursday.,Both players had filed "extraordinary circumstances" challenges to a rule that requires players to appear in at least 65 games to b...
Jon Hamm to host NFL Honors during Super Bowl week
Award-winning actor Jon Hamm will host the 15th annual NFL Honors, which will include a new award for offensive lineman on Feb. 5 as well as announcing the Most Valuable Player and Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026.,The program, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, takes place three da...
Temwa Chawinga earns second straight NWSL MVP award
Temwa Chawinga made history on Wednesday, when the Kansas City Current forward became the first player ever to win consecutive NWSL Most Valuable Player awards.,Chawinga scored a league-high 15 goals in 23 games this year after producing a league-record 20 goals in 25 games during 2024.,The 27-year-...
Kansas City pair lead five NWSL MVP finalists
Kansas City Current teammates Temwa Chawinga and Bia Zaneratto were among the five finalists for the 2025 NWSL Most Valuable Player award announced Monday.,Delphine Cascarino of the San Diego Wave, Esther Gonzalez of Gotham FC and Manaka Matsukubo of the North Carolina Courage are also up for the aw...
NASCAR fetes Kyle Larson at annual awards ceremony
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- In the moments after Kyle Larson and his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team celebrated his milestone second career NASCAR Cup Series championship Sunday night at Phoenix Raceway, Hendrick executive, NASCAR Hall of Famer and four-time series champion Jeff Gordon grinned when asked i...
Johnny Keefer named Korn Ferry Tour POY and ROY
Johnny Keefer swept the 2025 Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards in the Korn Ferry Tour, the PGA Tour announced Thursday.,The only other players to win both awards in the same season were Sungjae Im (2018) and Scottie Scheffler (2019). The awards are voted on by Korn Ferry Tour members....
Major League Soccer announces 2025 award finalists
Major League Soccer announced the finalists for its 2025 year-end awards on Thursday.,Inter Miami's Lionel Messi, who won last year's Landon Donovan MLS MVP and whose three-year contract extension through 2028 was announced Thursday, is one of five finalists for the award again along with Denis Boua...
Panthers QB Bryce Perkins named UFL Offensive POY
Michigan Panthers quarterback Bryce Perkins was named the 2025 UFL Offensive Player of the Year on Tuesday.,St. Louis Battlehawks linebacker Pita Taumoepenu was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year.,Winners were selected by a panel of league and team executives, coaches and players from a...
Colorado's Travis Hunter collects unique double at college football awards
Colorado's Travis Hunter collects unique double at college football awards,Colorado star Travis Hunter cemented his legacy as the best two-way player in recent decades by becoming the first in college football history to win both the annual Chuck Bednarik Award as top defensive player and the Fred B...
LPGA Awards: Nelly Korda takes top two honors
Nelly Korda capped her best season by capturing the top two honors on Wednesday at the Rolex LPGA Awards in Naples, Fla.,The 26-year-old Florida native received the Rolex Player of the Year Award and the Rolex Annika Major Award, which goes to the major winner who had the best overall results in the...
Shohei Ohtani, Chris Sale among honorees at MLB awards show
Shohei Ohtani and Chris Sale, who are expected to receive bigger prizes next week, were among the honorees Thursday at the MLB Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.,Los Angeles Dodgers star Ohtani, the likely National League Most Valuable Player, received the Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designated Hitter Awa...
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve, F Napheesa Collier win key WNBA awards
Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve won a pair of top WNBA awards and forward Napheesa Collier was named the Defensive Player of the Year, the league announced Sunday.,Reeve was honored as Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year after leading the Lynx to a 30-10 regular season and a sweep of the P...
Report: Caitlin Clark wins Rookie of the Year, Napheesa Collier DPOY
Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark is the WNBA's Rookie of the Year, The Athletic reported Friday night.,The Athletic also reported that Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier won the league's Defensive Player of the Year award.,Clark's honor was widely expected after she set multiple records in he...
Hubert Davis' silence around UNC’s treatment of Ida B. Wells Society, Nikole Hannah-Jones is pathetic but expected
Being the only one of your kind in “the room” is an honor as much as it is a burden. Ask women, Black people, or anyone from a minority group who has been in that position, and they’ll tell you about the pride that comes with being a needed representative for your community, along with the weight of...
C’mon now, 13 seconds is a ton of time
Hey, Bills fans, I know life sucks and everything hurts right now, but it’ll get better. There’s always next year is something Cubs fans tell themselves after their team is mathematically eliminated in August, so don’t tell yourselves that. Tell yourselves that you have one of the best young QBs in ...
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Who cares if the Stanley Cup got yet another dent? [Narrator: Montreal cares, very much]
Any team that wins a championship deserves a huge parade in their hometown in front of thousands of their adoring fans. They deserve to party the night away and celebrate what they were able to accomplish....
MLB awards 2020: A look at the front-runners for this weird-ass season
We’re approaching the final weekend of the baseball season, and a lot remains up in the air, with several playoff spots still yet to be clinched....
The Deadspin Awards Have Happened For The Third Time
A week ago today, on December 5, the third annual Deadspin Awards were held at Irving Plaza in New York City. Winners were announced, Deadspin’s new mascot, Shitty, was introduced, the open bar tab stayed open even after the limit was hit, and copious fun was had. If you missed it, take a look at wh...