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For about 58 minutes, the Colorado Avalanche played a fantastic game at Canada Life Center in Winnipeg.
The problem for the Avs? The best team in the NHL to date was the opponent, and Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck looked a lot more like a two-time Vezina Trophy winner than he did the last time the Avalanche saw him.
Gabriel Vilardi scored 66 seconds in, and that was enough for the Jets to fend off the Avs in a 1-0 game Thursday night.
The Chiefs have become the Patriots. And that is not a compliment. At least not in these parts.
I am getting irritable in my 50s. Losing patience for reruns. What started innocently five years ago has become a full-blown annoyance.
It all began when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2019.
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Rookie quarterbacks have won just one game against the Chiefs since 2019. Despite Kansas City’s success against first-year signal callers, the unit is not taking Bo Nix for granted.
“It’s another athletic quarterback,” Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo told reporters in Kanas City on Thursday. “I think those guys are always headaches because there are certain things you can and can’t do because you’re afraid that he’s going to make you look bad with his feet.
Javonte Williams heard his head coach.
Sean Payton was asked Monday if he thought rookie running back Audric Estime would see an increased workload in the second half of the season.
“That’s a good and fair question, and one that I think I would answer, ‘Yes,’” Payton said then.
Of course, Payton said similar to Estime and other young players previously.
Football analyst Kirk Herbstreit announced Thursday that his beloved dog, Ben, died at age 10.
Ben was a golden retriever who gained fame for regularly accompanying Herbstreit to games and even appearing on set and the sideline.
Herbstreit, who calls college football on ESPN and NFL games on Amazon Prime Video, posted on X that cancer had spread through his dog’s organs and “there was nothing left we could do — we had to let him go.”
The 55-year-old former Ohio State quarterback said he’s had dogs his whole life but “Ben was 1 on 1.”
Ben last traveled to Bloomington, Indiana, for the Hoosiers’ game against Washington on Oct.