Ducks find advantage on road to knot series with Nashville Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said the team will  stick with Frederik Andersen moving forward in their first-round series against the Nashville Predators.  This is probably a wise decision. Andersen has entered the Ducks’ first-round series against the Predators and allowed one goal in his two games played. He holds a 0.50 … [Read more...]

This is how the Fenway Park organist paid tribute to Prince While society as a whole mourned the loss one of the coolest people on the planet, Josh Kantor paid tribute to Prince the best way he knew how. On his organ. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Kantor is the resident organist at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox started their game with the Tampa Bay … [Read more...]

Pens' Matt Murray beats nerves before beating Rangers in Game 3 NEW YORK — Nerves? Yeah, Matt Murray had a few prior to making his NHL playoff debut in Tuesday night’s Game 3 at the New York Rangers. But Murray cooly dealt with those nerves and helped the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 victory and a 2-1 series lead. Murray suffered a concussion in the regular season finale on April 9 and … [Read more...]

Dana White announces Conor McGregor has been yanked from UFC 200 Several hours after featherweight champion Conor McGregor sent out a tweet announcing his retirement, UFC president Dana White announced on "SportsCenter" Tuesday that the Irish superstar has been yanked from the main event of UFC 200 opposite Nate Diaz. The announcement marked a stunning turn of events in a strange day that … [Read more...]

Lightning ‘never gave up’ on Jonathan Drouin, Game 4 hero For three games, the Tampa Bay Lightning power play was dormant, going 1-for-14 against the Detroit Red Wings. This was to be expected, since the Lightning power play was No. 28 in the NHL this season at 15.8 percent, and that was with Steven Stamkos for most of the season.  The saving grace? The Wings’ power-play had gone a putrid … [Read more...]

Greg Cosell's Draft Preview: Ohio State's Joey Bosa can do it all One reason I like defensive end Joey Bosa is when you try to make an NFL comparison for him, many different ones jump to mind. Teams could see him as a base 3-4 outside linebacker and an outside pass rusher in sub-packages, like Ryan Kerrigan of the Washington Redskins. Bosa mostly lined up at left defensive end in Ohio … [Read more...]

Your team's QBs stink. We rank the desperation to draft one, 1-32 We’re about a week away from the draft and a shocking number of teams don’t know who their starting quarterbacks are. If the season began today, we’d have Mark Sanchez, Case Keenum and Blaine Gabbert all starting games in Week 1. PRIME-TIME GAMES. So yeah, that’s likely going to change. Man, we hope it changes. [Follow Yahoo … [Read more...]

Arthur Blank: Atlanta would like to host an NFL draft As part of the NFL's relentless quest to turn 16 Sundays into a 365-day-a-year obsession, the NFL draft—quite literally the grownup version of elementary school kickball team-picking—is now both programming gem and barganing chip amongst cities. Having moved from New York to Chicago last year, the Draft is now in play as a moveable feast … [Read more...]

NHL Three Stars: Carlson powers Caps; Pearson helps Kings No. 1 Star: John Carlson, Washington Capitals The Capitals defenseman recorded a three-point night with a power play goal and two assists in a 6-1 rout of the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 3. Carlson’s power play goal was one of five on the night for Washington. He also played 24:14, second only behind Matt Niskanen among all players. … [Read more...]

Jon Jones squashes one beef while another intensifies Jon “Bones” Jones has had his fair share of enemies. But that doesn’t necessarily mean he holds grudges for an extended period of time. Before he was involved in a heated war of words with current rival Daniel Cormier, Jones had a public feud with Rashad Evans. The former training partners’ friendship went south when Jones leapfrogged … [Read more...]