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A mere 221 minutes after the first pick, the Hurricanes are on the clock at No. 29.

Will Horcoff was still six months away from being born when Shawn Horcoff was playing for the Oilers against the Hurricanes in the 2006 finals.

The Pitt-Philly swap (12 for 22/31) is more or less in line with Eric Tulsky's pick-value chart ... from 2013. Plus ca change. www.broadstreethockey.com/post/nhl-dra...

Wish our website had older stories like this but here you go. (Up Dawson's Creek with no paddle, might have been my headline.)

This is the first time the NHL has allowed Joshua Jackson around since he got thrown out of the then-RBC Center and arrested.

NHL draft picks doing their awkward interviews with the draft war room.

Mandatory neck guards in the new CBA? Wrote about some players' issues with them last year -- and why some players, like Dylan Coghlan, were wearing them already. www.newsobserver.com/sports/nhl/c...

Jim Ryan's term as chair of the ACC's board of directors was ending Monday anyway. Wake Forest's Susan Wente, the current vice-chair, is likely to assume that role July 1. Ryan helped steer the ACC through two wild years, settling The Lawsuits and adding 3 schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Not pictured: Seth Trimble www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

In years past, UNC would have used Seth Trimble’s photo in anything and everything to promote next basketball season. In this new NCAA world, post-House settlement, some players get a say in that now, along with their share of revenue. That includes Trimble. www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

Not pictured: Seth Trimble www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

In years past, UNC would have used Seth Trimble’s photo in anything and everything to promote next basketball season. In this new NCAA world, post-House settlement, some players get a say in that now, along with their share of revenue. That includes Trimble. www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

Breaking from Gatorade:

“Someone might have gotten a point for a rouge in there somewhere.” amp.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

Local highlights: 1. Cooper Flagg, Duke (Dallas) 4. Kon Knueppel, Duke (Charlotte) 8. Khaman Maluach, Duke (Brooklyn) 27. Drake Powell, UNC (Brooklyn) 39. Tyrese Proctor, Duke (Toronto) 51. Sion James, Duke (LA Clippers) 53. Hunter Sallis, Wake (Utah)

Still another 10-15 Blackhawks to get into the HHOF ahead of Brind’Amour. To quote Pete Karmanos, be “even more patient.”

The Lives of Others is the best movie not enough people have seen. Pained to leave Collateral, Win Win and Duplicity off the list.

Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

Checking the Sox score on nando.net

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Huh.

Duolingo serving up ads featuring college athletes capitalizing on their own image. Shame about the earth no longer spinning on its axis, college sports not being popular and the Big Ten dropping to D3, though, as we were told would happen. (On that topic: www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...)

Two former winners of PGA Canada’s Staal Foundation Open on the US Open leaderboard: JJ Spaun (2015, 1) and Ben Griffin (2018, T11).

Amid a tumultuous weekend in America, Johnathan Vegas has been trying to navigate both the US Open and the realities of the outside. We spoke Saturday. “As an immigrant, as a guy from Venezuela, a country that’s being highlighted in all this, it’s tough to see.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...

Happy Father’s Day to a golf legend. And also Phil Mickelson. (from 2014) amp.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

Pulled up next to Jeff Goldblum at a stoplight in Beverly Hills.

The actual finalization of the House settlement with the NCAA wasn’t earthshaking because everyone in college sports has been preparing to act under its terms for months. If it doesn’t feel like much has changed yet, it’s because so much already has. www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...

The unbelievable summer this dude is having continues in R1 at Oakmont.