Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Has anyone, in or out of the dentist's chair, shined more brightly after losing teeth than Jack Hughes, the New Jersey Devils center, who at the Milano Cortina Olympics scored the game-winning goal in overtime to give Team USA a 2-1 win over Canada, and the Americans their first men's hockey gold medal since the 1980 Miracle on Ice? Despite a high-stick to the mouth from Canada's Sam Bennett late in the third period, Hughes played on and fired a left-wing rocket past goalkeeper Jordan Binnington to seal the victory.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. If you need a lift, just watch--or perhaps rewatch, on a loop-- the viral clip of horse-racing trainer Cherie DeVaux losing her mind as her 23-to-1 Kentucky Derby long shot, Golden Tempo, charged from the back of the pack down the backstretch to clinch a stunning comeback victory. It's almost guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. While at Ohio State, Jaxon Smith-Njigba--the football artist known as JSN--broke the record for receiving yards at the Rose Bowl, with 347 on New Year's Day 2022. In his rookie NFL season with the Seattle Seahawks in 2023, his one-handed catch on Thanksgiving, in front of a prime-time national TV audience, announced his arrival.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Before joining the WNBA coaching ranks for the 2022 season, Becky Hammon was already a trailblazer. At the conclusion of her 16-year pro playing career in 2014, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, winner of five NBA titles, hired Hammon as the first full-time female assistant coach in NBA history.

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