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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Here's how to get tickets to the NFL draft
What's more exciting than watching your favorite NFL team pick its next great player? How about doing it for free. That's the case for the NFL Draft 2025, where attendance will be free all weekend in Green Bay. The only catch is registration is required to get into the area called the NFL Draft Experience, which houses the main entertainment. Advertisement Registering is fairly straightforward. To do so, download the NFL OnePass app on your mobile device to register or at Once registered, you'll have access to the NFL Draft Experience. That will feature games, daily football clinics, food from what the NFL calls some of Wisconsin's best restaurants in a "taste of the town" tailgate, as well as photo ops of a replica gameday NFL locker room, a Pro Football Hall of Fame exhibit with Hall of Fame busts with a Packers focus, an oversized replica of all 32 NFL team helmets, Super Bowl rings, the Vince Lombardi Trophy and more. The draft will take place at and near Lambeau Field, the Titletown District and the nearby Resch Expo. Teams will make the announcement of their picks at The Draft Theater, which is between Lambeau field and Resch Expo. It's important to know that while entry to the draft is free, that's only for standing room and general admission access. Seats at the draft are for those invited or those who bought tickets in advance — but those tickets are now sold out. Advertisement Here's a map of the draft area: NFL Draft Fan Map by Post-Crescent on Scribd David Clarey is a public safety reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at dclarey@ This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: How to get tickets to the NFL draft today
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Here's how to get tickets to the NFL draft
What's more exciting than watching your favorite NFL team pick its next great player? How about doing it for free. That's the case for the NFL Draft 2025, where attendance will be free all weekend in Green Bay. The only catch is registration is required to get into the area called the NFL Draft Experience, which houses the main entertainment. Registering is fairly straightforward. To do so, download the NFL OnePass app on your mobile device to register or at Once registered, you'll have access to the NFL Draft Experience. That will feature games, daily football clinics, food from what the NFL calls some of Wisconsin's best restaurants in a "taste of the town" tailgate, as well as photo ops of a replica gameday NFL locker room, a Pro Football Hall of Fame exhibit with Hall of Fame busts with a Packers focus, an oversized replica of all 32 NFL team helmets, Super Bowl rings, the Vince Lombardi Trophy and more. The draft will take place at and near Lambeau Field, the Titletown District and the nearby Resch Expo. Teams will make the announcement of their picks at The Draft Theater, which is between Lambeau field and Resch Expo. It's important to know that while entry to the draft is free, that's only for standing room and general admission access. Seats at the draft are for those invited or those who bought tickets in advance — but those tickets are now sold out. Here's a map of the draft area: NFL Draft Fan Map by Post-Crescent on Scribd David Clarey is a public safety reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at dclarey@ This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: How to get tickets to the NFL draft today
Fox Sports
16-04-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Spencer Carbery coached the Capitals to 1st in the East. His NHL colleagues rave about how he did it
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Spencer Carbery integrated several offseason additions to perfection, helped the Washington Capitals become the first NHL team to qualify for the playoffs this season and navigated Alex Ovechkin's successful pursuit of breaking Wayne Gretzky's career goals record. All that makes Carbery a prime candidate to win the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year, and his contemporaries around the league — believe he deserves a ton of credit. 'He's turned them into a deep, four-line juggernaut that just wins hockey games,' said Tampa Bay's Jon Cooper, the longest-tenured coach in the league who won the Stanley Cup in 2020 and '21 and has made two other trips to the final. 'They do everything right. There's no egos on the team and he's found a way to coach a Hall of Fame superstar and coach players that are just surviving to be in the lineup every night and he's found a way to make it all work.' Quick work Carbery previously coached Washington's top affiliate, the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, before two years as a Toronto Maple Leafs assistant. He replaced Peter Laviolette as Capitals coach in the spring of 2023. 'From Day 1, he put in a system that wins hockey games,' said Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour, the 2021 Jack Adams winner. After initially wanting to play fast, Carbery changed on the fly to a tight-checking, defensive style when it was clear the personnel were better suited for that and adjusted the team's offensive approach accordingly. Paul Maurice, who has coached the second-most games of in league history and won the Stanley Cup last year with Florida, said Carbery's work has been 'incredible in a short period of time.' 'He got them to play very hard,' Maurice said. 'Last year he came in and changed the intensity level, and now it's systemized. If you can get your team to play hard, and then they're learning these systems, the more time they spend doing it, the faster that they get.' Another level Capitals general manager Chris Patrick, who goes back more than a decade with Carbery to their time with the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays, has been most impressed with the 43-year-old not thinking he had it all figured out. 'He came in and he looked for ways to improve in his own approach: 'On bench, off bench, how can I get better? How can I improve?'' Patrick said. "I see areas where he's definitely different than how he was last year.' Carbery has also had different aims. In Year 1, he was tasked with trying to squeeze the most out of a borderline playoff contender and made the most of an aging roster, while this season has been about maximizing some extra talent at his disposal and taking his team to another level. 'Both years he's been here, he's gotten a lot out of the group,' said St. Louis coach Jim Montgomery, who won the Jack Adams in 2023 when he and the Boston Bruins broke NHL records for the most wins and points. 'They play an intelligent, hard-working game." Until a late-season swoon after clinching the division and the No. 1 seed in the East, Washington allowed the second-fewest goals in the league and scored the most. 'That takes discipline from your structure,' said Seattle's Dan Bylsma, who coached Pittsburgh to the Cup in 2009 and won the Jack Adams in 2011. "The structure with which they play with is evident when you watch it over and over again, and that's a credit to his coaching and a credit to the guys.' Clear communicator Carbery is not Patrick Roy or John Tortorella in terms of publicly calling out players. But unlike his predecessor, Carbery is not afraid to answer honestly about someone's struggles and does so in a measured way. Still, he remains a player-friendly coach. "As guys get to know Spence, that they see that and it's coming from a good place,' close friend and San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. 'When it's time to be hard on someone, he can do it, knowing it's from a good place. That's why he gets such a good response.' Patrick calls communication skills one of Carbery's biggest strengths. 'He's more open-minded than a lot of coaches as far as some of the quirks of certain players and willing to work with them, which is why I think when you see a bunch of new guys come in here and play really well, that's a big part of it,' Patrick said. Example A is Pierre-Luc Dubois, the well-traveled center who set career highs in assists and points after Washington took a risk acquiring him in a trade from Los Angeles last summer. Dubois applauded Carbery and his staff for believing in him, then he rewarded them for that trust. Other newcomers also excelled under Carbery, who made their transitions to a new team as smooth as possible. 'Day 1, the communication was there: what he sees me doing, the way he wants me to play, the way he feels like I will have success playing,' winger Taylor Raddysh said. 'You know what your job is, you come here every day and work.' Carbery has also done a good job delegating responsibilities among assistants Kirk Muller, Scott Allen and Mitch Love, along with goaltending coach Scott Murray and skills coach Kenny McCudden. Combined, they've helped the Capitals have their most wins in a season since 2017. 'He's built a really good staff that gets along really well, that works really hard and that complement each other well,' Patrick said. "It's encouraging to see his continued growth because he's still a young coach in this league, and if he continues to grow, he can be a really, really good coach in this league for a long time.' ___ AP NHL: recommended
NBC Sports
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
Brent Musburger wins the 2025 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced that longtime play-by-play announced Brent Musburger has won the 2025 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. Musburger will receive his award during the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Week, which includes the Enshrinees' Gold Jacket Dinner on Friday, Aug. 1, and the Class of 2025 enshrinement on Saturday, Aug. 2. 'The Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award recognizes broadcast excellence in pro football, and Brent Musburger certainly measures up to that standard,' Jim Porter, president and CEO of the Hall of Fame, said. 'Brent has entertained and informed generations of fans – across not only pro football but college football, basketball, Little League baseball, golf, tennis and other sports – with insights and some signature phrases that became a trademarked style.' CBS Sports hired Musburger in 1973 as a play-by-play voice. He took over as host of 'The NFL Today' in 1975 and held that role until 1990. With Musburger at the helm, the pregame show began an 18-year run as the highest-rated program in its time slot that didn't end until the program ceased in 1994 with pro football's move from CBS to FOX. Former NFL defensive back Irv Cross, winner of the 2009 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award, was among Musburger's on-air partners on 'The NFL Today.' Following his departure from CBS in 1990, Musburger joined ABC Sports and stayed with the network family for 27 years. His broadcast credits there included college football and basketball, World Cup soccer and a stint as a halftime reporter for 'Monday Night Football.' After a short hiatus from broadcasting, he returned to the booth as the radio play-by-play voice of the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders for three seasons (2019-21). He also launched his current venture, Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN), the first multichannel network dedicated to sports gaming information, where he remains active. Musburger is a member of the Medill Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University. While still in college, he joined the staff of the Chicago American newspaper as a sports writer. His broadcasting career started shortly thereafter, when he joined WBBM Radio in Chicago as sports director. He later was named sports director for WBBM-TV before moving to Los Angeles to co-anchor the nightly news for KNXT-TV. Musburger's 50-year on-air career includes broadcasts of several NCAA men's national basketball tournaments — he is credited with coining the phrase 'March Madness' — Indianapolis 500 races, U.S. Open and British Open golf tournaments, Little League World Series games, Triple Crown horse races and NASCAR events.
Associated Press
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
China's annual political meetings feature minority delegates in tribal finery with a message
BEIJING (AP) — Every year in early March, China's rubber-stamp legislature and its advisory body gather to hear speeches and hold discussions in the capital, Beijing. In contrast to the long and monotonous sessions, a bustling scene unfolds outside the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing, where ethnic minority delegations from far-flung provinces pose for photographs donning their finest traditional costumes. Jangly silver headdresses and elaborate embroidery work, felt hats and long, layered skirts in a kaleidoscope of colors draw attention in stark contrast to the drab business suits, routinely dark grey with conservative ties or bows. It's a visual display of one of the purported ruling concepts of the Chinese Communist Party, that all 56 ethnic groups in the nation are equal. Yet, the majority Han group has dominated politics and the economy going back thousands of years and continues to do so, making up about 92% of the population. The vast majority of minority delegates come from mountainous and border areas, such as Yunnan, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet. While some names may be familiar, such as Uyghurs and Tibetans, most are from smaller or less known groups, some with just a few thousand members. Many have become virtually assimilated with the Han, including the Manchus who, despite their relatively small numbers, swept down from the Great Wall of China and ruled the country for around 300 years before being overthrown by its first republic. After taking power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared all were members of a single Chinese nation, regardless of ethnicity, and began a steady campaign to impose a single Chinese language on Han and minority peoples alike, accompanied by rigid political orthodoxy and campaigns against Tibetan Buddhism and Islam as practiced by Uyghurs and other groups in the far northwest.
