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USA Today
4 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Commanders WR Terry McLaurin makes decision ahead of training camp
The Washington Commanders expected wide receiver Terry McLaurin to report to training camp, despite his frustrations over the breakdown in communications on a potential contract extension. However, the situation between the two sides devolved even further with McLaurin reportedly skipping training camp and officially beginning his holdout. It's a surprising turn of events for a Commanders team that made it all the way to the NFC Championship Game last season. McLaurin, who led Washington in receiving, was a big reason for their success. He had an All-Pro season with 82 receptions for 1,096 yards and 13 touchdowns during the team's unlikely postseason run. FOX Sports' Henry McKenna recently reported that McLaurin was willing to hold out or potentially ask for a trade. Granted, the veteran wide receiver would prefer to stay with the Commanders, but he isn't afraid to rock the boat. If the boat gets rocked and the Commanders start listening to trade offers, the New England Patriots should be one of many teams picking up the phone. Follow Patriots Wire on Twitter and Facebook.
NBC Sports
6 hours ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Jayden Daniels: When Terry McLaurin's back, we won't miss a beat
Terry McLaurin isn't at Commanders training camp, but quarterback Jayden Daniels isn't worried about the impact that will have on their partnership this fall. McLaurin caught 12 of Daniels' 25 touchdown passes during the quarterback's rookie season, so questions about what his absence will do to preparations for the coming year was a natural one at a Wednesday press conference. Daniels said that the connection that the two men built while making a run to the NFC Championship Game was strong enough that he isn't worried about the two men being on the same page. 'I think it's an overstated thing,' Daniels said. 'Obviously me and Terry got a very good relationship and that's just the business of the NFL. Whenever the time comes and he's back out there on the field, I don't feel we'll miss a beat.' The longer McLaurin is away from the team, the more questions there will be about how it will affect the team but the bigger concern may be with McLaurin's own condition rather than how in sync the passing game is this fall.
USA Today
8 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Sights and sounds from Day 1 of Washington Commanders training camp
We are back for another year of first player to the field, day one of training camp is … *drumroll* … Cole Turner Welcome back, football. Training camp opened on Wednesday for several NFL teams, including the Washington Commanders. It marked the start of a new year for Washington. Fans are excited to see what the Commanders do for an encore after last season's surprising success. A return to practice also meant the return of star quarterback Jayden Daniels. Wednesday's practice featured the Washington debut for future Hall of Fame edge rusher Von Miller. Miller was working through drills with his fellow 2011 draft alum Ryan Kerrigan, who is now Miller's coach with the Commanders. The duo has a combined 225 career sacks. The Daniels to Deebo Samuel connection already looks promising as the pair hooked up for a touchdown in the early portion of practice. It was a beautiful day in Ashburn for the opening of camp. Let's take a look at some of the best photos and videos from those in attendance on Day 1 of Commanders' training camp. Laremy Tunsil: And here is Sam Cosmi in the flesh JD5 and the QBs getting warmed up #raisehail Back Leremy Tunsil & OL Coach Bobby Johnson before practice 🏈 Jayden Daniels is on site for 1. Year 2. Let's go campin' 🏕️ Noah Brown loosening are here & Sam Cosmi walks out with no sleeves. #Commanders @team980 Defensive guys headed out for Day 1 🏈 #Commanders The newest member of the #Commanders, welcome 2-time Super Bowl Champ #24 Von Miller!@JPFinlayNBCS @Gio_Delfa #RaiseHail Year 2 on deck The smile says it Daniels excited to be back on the field for Day 1 of Washington Commanders training might be the best :55 seconds of your welcome. Ryan Kerrigan and Von Miller workin'Just a casual combined 225 career sacks between the two 2011 first rounders LT1: Large human being. Get used to seeing Deebo operate around the line of scrimmage with catch-and-run opps. Jaylin Lane catching punts from Tress Marshon Lattimore is my X-factor for the Washington Commanders defense this he's healthy and goes back to being that shut down changer. Make sure to follow along for more coverage of Commanders' training camp.
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Commanders LB, ex-Seahawk Bobby Wagner buys stake in Seattle Storm as 1st active NFL player to invest in WNBA team
Washington Commanders linebacker Bobby Wagner has purchased an ownership stake in the Seattle Storm. The Storm announced the transaction on Wednesday in a statement Wagner shared on his social media. 'It's an honor to join the Seattle Storm ownership group and support a franchise that has consistently set the standard in women's professional sports,' Wagner said, via the announcement. 'This is about more than basketball, it's about investing in a legacy of excellence, empowering women and continuing to elevate the game for future generations.' The Storm did not announce the percentage of Wagner's stake. They announced the news of Wagner's purchase weeks after reports that that Storm had sold 1.5% of the franchise's equity to three different investors at a valuation of $325 million. It's not clear if Wagner was part of that group or if his is a separate transaction. [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] Prior to joining the Commanders in 2024, Wagner was a fixture in the Seattle community as an 11-year veteran with the Seahawks and a defensive anchor for the franchise's only Super Bowl championship team from the 2013 season. Now he's a stakeholder in the city's WNBA franchise. Multiple retired athletes have invested in WNBA franchises, including Tom Brady (Aces), Dwyane Wade (Sky) and Alex Rodriguez, who purchased a majority stake of both the Minnesota Timbewolves and Lynx alongside business partner Marc Lore. But, according to the Storm, Wagner is the first active NFL player to invest in a WNBA team. He does so prior to his 14th NFL season and after being selected to an All-Pro team for the 11th straight season.
Japan Today
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Japan Today
Trump likes renaming people, places and things. He's not the first to deploy that perk of power
By LAURIE KELLMAN FILE - President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day, as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum watches aboard Air Force One as Trump travels from West Palm Beach, Fla. to New Orleans, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) History, it has been said, is written by the winners. President Donald Trump is working that lever of power — again. This time, he's insisting that Washington's NFL team change its name from the Commanders back to the Redskins, a name that was considered offensive to Native Americans. Predictably, to Trump's stated delight, an internet uproar ensued. It's a return to the president's favorite rebranding strategy, one well-used around the world and throughout history. Powers-that-be rename something — a body of water, a mountain in Alaska, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Mumbai, various places in Israel after 1948 — in line with 'current' political and cultural views. Using names to tell a leader's own version of the nation's story is a perk of power that Trump is far from the first to enjoy. A name, after all, defines identity and even reality because it is connected to the verb "to be,' says one brand strategist. 'A parent naming a child, a founder naming a company, a president naming a place ... in each example, we can see the relationship of power,' Shannon Murphy, who runs Nameistry, a naming agency that works with companies and entrepreneurs to develop brand identities, said in an email. 'Naming gives you control.' In Trump's case, reviving the debate over the Washington football team's name had the added effect of distraction. 'My statement on the Washington Redskins has totally blown up, but only in a very positive way,' he wrote on his social media platform, adding a threat to derail the team's deal for a new stadium if it resisted. In fact, part of the reaction came from people noting that Trump's proposed renaming came as he struggled to move past a rebellion among his supporters over the administration's refusal to release much-hyped records in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation. Over about two weeks, Trump had cycled through many tactics — downplaying the issue, blaming others, scolding a reporter, insulting his own supporters, suing the Wall Street Journal and finally authorizing the Justice Department to try to unseal grand jury transcripts. Trump's demand that the NFL and the District of Columbia change the team's name back to a dictionary definition of a slur against Native Americans reignited a brawl in miniature over race, history and the American identity. Trump's reelection itself can be seen as a response to the nation's reckoning with its racial history after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd. That year, Americans elected Democratic President Joe Biden, who championed diversity. During his term, Washington's football team became first the Washington Football Team, then the Commanders, at a widely estimated cost in the tens of millions of dollars. And in 2021, The Cleveland Indians became the Cleveland Guardians. In 2025, Trump has ordered a halt to diversity, equity and inclusion programs through the federal government, universities and schools, despite legal challenges. And he wants the Commanders' name changed back, though it's unclear if he has the authority to restrict the nearly $4 billion project. What's clear is that names carry great power where business, national identity, race, history and culture intersect. Trump has had great success for decades branding everything from buildings he named after himself to the Gulf between Mexico, Cuba and the United States to his political opponents and people he simply doesn't like. Exhibit A: Florida's governor, dubbed by Trump 'Meatball Ron' DeSantis, who challenged him for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. And Trump is not the first leader to use monikers and nicknames — branding, really — to try to define reality and the people who populate it. Naming was a key tool of colonization that modern-day countries are still trying to dislodge. 'Naming,' notes one expert, 'is never neutral.' 'To name is to collapse infinite complexity into a manageable symbol, and in that compression, whole worlds are won or lost,' linguist Norazha Paiman wrote last month on Medium. 'When the British renamed places throughout India or Africa, they weren't just updating maps," Paiman wrote. "They were restructuring the conceptual frameworks through which people could relate to their own territories." Trump's order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America is perhaps the best-known result of Executive Order 14172, titled 'Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness.' The renaming sent mapmakers, search engines and others into a flurry over whether to change the name. And it set off a legal dispute with The Associated Press over First Amendment freedoms that is still winding through the courts. The news outlet's access to events in the Oval Office and Air Force One was cut back starting in February after the AP said it would continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its copy, while noting Trump's wishes that it instead be renamed the Gulf of America. It's unclear if Trump's name will stick universally — or go the way of 'freedom fries," a brief attempt by some in the George W. Bush-era GOP to rebrand french fries after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But there's evidence that at least for business in some places, the 'Gulf of America' terminology has staying power. Chevron's earnings statements of late have referred to the Gulf of America, because 'that's the position of the U.S. government now,' CEO Mike Wirth said during a Jan. 31 call with investors. And along the Gulf Coast in Republican Louisiana, leaders of the state's seafood industry call the body of water the Gulf of America, in part, because putting that slogan on local products might help beat back the influx of foreign shrimp flooding American markets, the Louisiana Illuminator news outlet reported. The racial reckoning inspired by Floyd's killing rippled across the cultural landscape. Quaker retired the Aunt Jemima brand after it had been served up at America's breakfast tables for 131 years, saying it recognized that the character's origins were 'based on a racial stereotype.' Eskimo Pies became Edy's. The Grammy-winning country band Lady Antebellum changed its name to Lady A, saying they were regretful and embarrassed that their former moniker was associated with slavery. And Trump didn't start the fight over football. Democratic President Barack Obama, in fact, told The Associated Press in 2013 that he would 'think about changing' the name of the Washington Redskins if he owned the team. Trump soon after posted to Twitter: 'President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense.' Fast-forward to July 20, 2025, when Trump posted that the Washington Commanders should change their name back to the Redskins. 'Times," the president wrote, 'are different now.' © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
