Tyreek Hill vows he's 'turned up and locked in' as Dolphins release him after 4 seasons

 Hill promises whatever team signs him is going to get someone "turned up and locked in."

Hill penned a lengthy Instagram caption on Monday following the Dolphins’ decision to let him go before the start of the 2026 season, as their new regime ushers in big changes already to the roster.

Other than Hill, the Dolphins are expected to release defensive end Bradley Chubb, offensive lineman James Daniels and wide receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.

Hill, who will be 32 in March, was reminiscent in his post while looking forward to what the future holds.

"Every chapter in life has taught me something," Hill wrote on Instagram. "This one taught me leadership, resilience, and mostly gratitude. The love I have for this game is unexplainable. And right now, this off season, for the first time ever, The Cheetah is all the way turned up and locked in. Focused.

Police ID Pawtucket shooter; 2 killed, 3 hospitalized

 PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The 56-year-old father of a North Providence High School senior opened fire at his son’s hockey game on Monday afternoon, killing two family members and injuring others, Target 12 has confirmed.

Police identified the shooting suspect as Robert Dorgan, who also goes by the name Roberta. The mother of the hockey player was killed at the rink, while a sibling died at the hospital, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the incident. The injured included two other family members and a family friend, authorities said.

The attack took place at Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, an indoor skating rink, around 2:30 p.m. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves identified Dorgan during a news conference Monday night.

Goncalves said the shooting was targeted and is believed to have stemmed from a family dispute, though she stressed it remained under investigation.

Police have not publicly identified the victims, saying that information will come out after they notify family members.

At Pawtucket Police Department headquarters, a woman identifying herself as the shooter’s daughter told reporters, “He shot my family and he’s dead now.” She also said the shooter had “mental health issues,” adding that he was “very sick.”

USA's Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, wins 1st Olympic gold in monobob

 

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Elana Meyers Taylor's two young sons watched her leap into the air, throw her fists skyward, wave the American flag, then fall to her knees and start to cry.

In time, they'll understand what they saw.

They saw history.

The 41-year-old U.S. bobsledder -- a mother of two children, an athlete whose career was jeopardized by concussions, someone who dealt with plenty of doubt in recent years -- is, finally, an Olympic champion. Meyers Taylor won the gold medal in monobob at the Milan Cortina Games on Monday night, her sixth career medal and first Olympic title.

She became the oldest American woman to hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" played in her honor at the Winter Games. Rallying in the fourth and final heat, Meyers Taylor prevailed with a four-run, two-day time of 3 minutes, 57.93 seconds.

Meyers Taylor had medaled five times before -- three silver, two bronze. She was the most decorated Black athlete at a Winter Olympics even before this win, and her place in history got a whole lot more dazzling on a frosty night in the Italian mountains. And this medal, her sixth, tied Bonnie Blair for the most by a U.S. woman in the Winter Olympics.

"To have my name up there with Bonnie Blair, it doesn't even make sense to me," Meyers Taylor said.

Shooting in stands at R.I. rink leaves 3 dead, others injured

 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A shooting inside a Rhode Island hockey rink Monday left three people dead, including the shooter, three others injured and the two high school teams playing fleeing the ice as it all unfolded.

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that the shooter died from an apparent self-inflicted gun wound. While police were not involved in the shooter's death, authorities were still investigating, she said.

"It appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute," she said.

Goncalves did not provide details about the suspect or the ages of those who were killed, though she said it appeared that both victims were adults. The three people injured were hospitalized in critical condition.

The shooting took place in the stands at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a few miles outside Providence.

The game between the two high school teams was livestreamed. Several gunshots could be heard on video that later appeared on social media as players and coaches raced off the ice on the opposite end of the rink. Other video showed some players, with skates still on, taking cover in nearby stores.

"I was on the ice, and I thought it was balloons at first," Olin Lawrence, a goalie on one of the teams, told WJAR, the NBC affiliate in Rhode Island. "It was pop, pop, pop. And I thought it was balloons. But it just kept going and it was actually gunshots. And after the gunshots, me and my teammates ran right to the locker room, and we just bunkered up. We pressed against the door and just tried to stay safe down in there.

"It was very scary. We were very nervous."

Outside the arena, tearful families and high school hockey players still in uniform could be seen hugging before they boarded a bus to leave the area. Roads surrounding the arena were shut down as a heavy police presence remained and helicopters flew overhead before being reopened late Monday afternoon.

Official: Barcelona starting lineup against Girona | La Liga MD 24

 

Having slipped down to second place after Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad, FC Barcelona will be gunning to reclaim top spot in the La Liga table as they take on Girona in a little over an hour at Estadi Montilivi.

Ahead of kickoff, manager Hansi Flick has announced the starting lineup that will take the field against Michel’s men, with some changes being made to the team that featured against Atletico Madrid last time out.

The biggest headline is that Raphinha, having missed the last three games through injury, has recovered fully and returns right into the starting XI on the left flank.

The Brazilian international will join forces with Ferran Torres and Lamine Yamal in the attacking unit, while Fermin Lopez will also pose a threat from the No. 10 position.

Meanwhile, Frenkie de Jong starts in midfield as usual, with Dani Olmo partnering him in place of Marc Casado, who had a night to forget against Atletico Madrid. It also means Marc Bernal is left on the bench yet again.

At the back, Gerard Martin comes into the team at the expense of Alejandro Balde at left-back. Jules Kounde, Eric Garcia, and Pau Cubarsi form the rest of the defensive line that is shielding Joan Garcia in goal.

Reddick wins the Daytona 500 for Michael Jordan-owned 23XI Racing

 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tyler Reddick won the Daytona 500 in a car owned by Michael Jordan when Chase Elliott crashed as he and Reddick were battling for the win.

Reddick, in a Toyota for 23XI Racing, led only one lap on Sunday — the one to the checkered flag for the team owned by the NBA Hall of Famer and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin.

Just incredible how it all played out. Just true Daytona madness,” Reddick said. “I’ve already lost my voice from screaming. Never thought I’d be Daytona 500 champion.”

Neither did Jordan, who met Reddick in Victory Lane for a bear hug, and the two then jointly hoisted the Harley J. Earl trophy into the air. Jordan, who turns 63 on Tuesday, will get a Daytona 500 ring for his birthday and made it known in Victory Lane he wears a size 13.

“It feels like I won a championship, but until I get my ring, I won’t even know,” Jordan said.

It was a celebration that included multiple stars of NASCAR as Reddick is teammates with Bubba Wallace, who went to Victory Lane in tears after dominating a huge chunk of the race but finished 10th.

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Buried 650ft underground, the lost Elvis reels behind Baz Luhrmann’s ‘EPiC’

 Elvis Presley in Concert (EPiC) was born from Luhrmann’s deep dive into a film archive in a Kansas City salt mine. The ’70s Vegas concert footage he retrieved is now in Imax theatres, and Australia’s most successful director is celebrating 25 years since Moulin Rouge made him a household name.

The lights went down as a kangaroo and emu-emblazoned production company emblem filled the seven-storey Imax screen, framed by the words ‘Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love.’ True to form, the jewel-toned Bazmark logo is vivacious, punchy, and unapologetically Australian, in much the same fashion as the evocative Sydney-boy who put decadent ‘red curtain’ cinema on the global map.

The night belonged not only to Luhrmann, our greatest directorial export, but also to a Mississippi-born legend whose voice hasn’t bellowed through live theatres since 1976.

“I’d like to talk to you a little bit, ladies and gentlemen, about how I got into this business,” the King of Rock and Roll told the sold-out Melbourne audience. “There’s been a lot written and a lot said, but never from my side of the story.”

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