Latest news with #Vikings
Yahoo
39 minutes ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
AJ Barner sends Sam Darnold warning ahead of QB's first Seahawks season
The post AJ Barner sends Sam Darnold warning ahead of QB's first Seahawks season appeared first on ClutchPoints. Sam Darnold parlayed his career-best season with the Minnesota Vikings in 2024 into a three-year, $100.5 million contract with the Seattle Seahawks this offseason. Now Seattle is hoping Darnold can build on last season's success and lead the team back to the playoffs for the first time since 2022. Seahawks tight end AJ Barner is a believer. 'He's one of the best quarterbacks in the league, no doubt about it. We're going to show it this year,' Barner said of Darnold, per Michael-Shawn Dugar of The Athletic. 'Sam's been phenomenal… Really takes the time to get with the guys. He's open about communication back and forth about what you see. His timing is really something I've really taken notice of and think he's very, very good at. When he hits his drop and when he sees it, the ball is going to be out before you're out of your break. I'm really excited to work with him,' Barner added. Sam Darnold looks to continue career revival with Seahawks Darnold was selected third overall out of USC by the New York Jets in the 2018 draft. After three underwhelming seasons, the Jets moved on, using the second pick in the 2021 draft on Zach Wilson. Darnold was shipped to the Carolina Panthers where he started 17 games over two seasons, throwing for 3,670 yards with 16 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. In 2023, Darnold landed with the San Francisco 49ers where he backed up Brock Purdy. He then signed a one-year deal with the Vikings in 2024. However, after signing Darnold, Minnesota drafted J.J. McCarthy with the 10th overall pick in that year's draft. The eighth-year veteran hoped to beat out the rookie for the starting job in training camp. But Darnold became the Vikings' QB1 after McCarthy tore his meniscus in the preseason opener. He would go on to record career-highs in passing yards (4,319), touchdowns (35), attempts (545), completions (361) and completion percentage (66.2). Darnold was named to his first Pro Bowl as he led the Vikings to a 14-3 regular season record. However, the team was eliminated in the Wild Card round by the Rams as Darnold struggled in his first ever postseason start. Still, his time working with Kyle Shanahan in San Francisco and Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota seems to have triggered a turnaround. Now the Seahawks hope that trend continues. Seattle traded longtime starter Geno Smith to the Raiders this offseason, making room for Darnold. He'll take over a Seahawks offense featuring third-year wideout Jaxon Smith-Njigba and newcomer Cooper Kupp. Related: DeMarcus Lawrence's drill work leaves Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald astounded Related: Seahawks' Mike Macdonald shuts down question about Noah Fant release
NBC Sports
3 hours ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
RB Latavius Murray retires from the NFL
Running back Latavius Murray is retiring from the NFL, Jordan Schultz reports. Murray, 35, last played in the NFL in 2023. He had hoped to play in 2024 but did not get a contract offer. Murray finishes his 10-year career with 1,560 carries for 6,552 yards and 59 touchdowns. He also has 239 receptions for 1,620 yards and two touchdowns. He earned Pro Bowl honors in 2015 when he had his only 1,000-yard season with 1,066. The Raiders made Murray a sixth-round pick in 2013. He also played for the Vikings, Saints, Ravens, Broncos and Bills.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
NFL Quarterback Sam Darnold Makes Life-Changing Decision
NFL Quarterback Sam Darnold Makes Life-Changing Decision originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After stints with the New York Jets, Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers, Sam Darnold landed with the Minnesota Vikings for 2024. He led the Vikings to a 14-3 record, set career highs with 4,319 passing yards and 35 touchdowns and earned his first Pro Bowl nod. Following a Pro Bowl resurgence with the Vikings in 2024, Darnold inked a three‑year, $100.5 million deal with the Seahawks this past March. As Darnold gears up for his first year as a Seahawk, he made another exciting announcement on Monday. On his official Instagram account, he shared photos of himself and longtime partner Katie Hoofnagle, captioned simply, 'Forever starts now 💍,' confirming they are engaged. Hoofnagle, a 2020 University of South Carolina graduate, parlayed her marketing and business administration degree into roles ranging from mortgage‑loan officer assistant to account executive at Minneapolis‑based Renvio. Darnold and Hoofnagle first went public with their relationship in April 2023, lived together in Minneapolis and now will continue their journey together in Seattle. Darnold, meanwhile, will enter a season under center for a team in need of a spark. The Seahawks finished with a strong 10-7 record last year but missed out on the playoffs for the second consecutive season. To make matters worse, the franchise experienced significant turnover this offseason. Seattle lost Geno Smith, DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, replacing them with Darnold, rookie Jalen Milroe and veteran Pro Bowl receiver Cooper Kupp. As the Seahawks gear up for training camp in the coming weeks, all eyes remain on No. story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
Irish Examiner
8 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Coastal Living: Top tier prices reflect the joy of living by the sea
Irish coastal property has had an appeal for quite some time, since, oh since around the time of the Viking invasion, well over 1,000 years ago. Not only did the Vikings stay, but they turned small backwaters into major port towns, and even cities such as Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford along the coast, lured by back-up rivers for inland trading and raiding. Since, we have had the Normans, colonising Saxons, the Spanish came (but didn't stay) and, more recently, Europeans including Dutch, German, Swiss and French in the post-Cold War period/1960s have been small but important 'colonising' influences, rising and falling in strength like the tides, currency and economy swings, but always returning. Ever since, along with 20th and 21st century hordes of English, increasingly the very upper echelons of the coastal property market are marked by buyers from the US, many of them escaping climate change havoc, and White House mayhem. It's not just overseas waves: second home ownership for native Irish has been a 'thing' also for decades now, with a surge in the increasingly affluent 1990s and 2000s (with tax breaks in the 1990s for designated seaside resort developments). Home-born Irish are once more in the ascendant since recovery from the economic and property 'crash' period, picking up once more from about 2010 in long-popular locations like Baltimore, Schull and Kinsale (the Vikings' longboats have been replaced with swarming RIBs?) and given an extra oomph since the global pandemic and a lifestyle migration to open spaces, big skies and distant horizons all of five years ago. According to the Central Statistics Office, non-resident buyers make up between 6% and 10% of Irish residential property purchase, and notably in two key areas: urban, due to employment needs and institutional investors, and 'lifestyle' locations in scenic rural and coastal settings in the main. The Mill and Barn at south Cork's Nohoval went sale agreed at €2.25m within a week of going to market. Some 40% of the Irish population live within 5kms of the coastline, or 2.5m within 10kms of the sea: lucky us. Prices remain high for properties in proximate reach of lifestyle and coastal settings — despite Munster values being up 10% within the last year and forecast to rise another 5% in the year — what with a strong economy, supply at a 17-year low, and the ongoing if not escalating national love affair with the sea, saunas, surfing, swimming and sipping on lattes and lagers by the ocean. Ireland has about 3,000 kilometres of coastline to go around, our maybe twice as much, over 7,000 km if you follows every indentation and Muster and the west coast up to Donegal shares the most scenic section of that total. Waterford kicks it off with likes of Dunmore East, Tramore and Ardmore, while the Cork Waterford border has of course seen UK billionaire James Dyson invest over €30m in the Ballynatray Estate a few miles upriver of Youghal on the River Blackwater, attracted by the land (he's one of Britain's largest landowners) and water access. The spread of demand has hit Ballycotton and lifted it to new heights, with a number of strong results from out-of-county buyers, with €1m barrier breached for Troy House which had been listed at €695,000 by Hegarty Properties who also saw bidding push a derelict boathouse from a €70k ask to €205,000, and who have a dozen new builds in scheme called Ocean Drive priced from €950,000 and have five reserved. It's reaching Cork harbour homes too, inside and outside the mouth, with a string of high end sales in the likes of Myrtleville and Fountainstown — at least six are in excess of €1m and even humble beach shacks are making €150,000. Inside the harbour, Cobh is on a rising tide, now a full-time commuter lifestyle location with buyers flocking from all over Ireland and Dublin buyers are keen, metaphorically swapping Kingstown for Queenstown of old, lured by the likes of regular public transport and the sustainability of taking the train to the city. 'We have an immense amount of amenities and services, our lifestyle is refreshing — looking at the harbour every day is like being on your holidays, but most importantly we are only 30 minutes from Cork city and the Airport and I always feel the concept of living on an island 30 mins from Cork city is fascinating,' says local Cobh agent Johanna Murphy who also sells in Kinsale, the kick-off point for the Wild Atlantic Way. The Disneyland charm On an international property prize par surely with James Dayson's Ballynatray has to be the late spring 2025 arrival of Coolmain Castle on the Cork coast between Kinsale and West Cork, with a €7.5 million price tag quoted by joint agents Hodnett Forde and Lisney Sotheby's International Realty. Ballycotton's Troy House topped €1 million, with stunning views adding to the appeal. With land, and direct water access, Coolmain Castle has been in the Disney family hands for the past 36 years (the late owner Roy Disney's wealth was put at over €1bn): understandably, there's only been a select handful of viewings to date, and it remains likely the buyer will be international, very rich and quite possibly a 'Donald Ducker,' one of the increasing band of Americans seeking to a sanctuary from Donald Trump's chaotic regime. Already, US wealth has swamped Kinsale, with one buyer Jame Berwind so far having laid out over €20m on house purchase assembling a land bank near Sandycove and paying c €5m a pop for a trio of purchases to date. They however are the headline makers: behind the headlines, overseas buyer are strong in the €1m to €3m+ price range, notes Maeve McCarthy of Skibbereen based Charles P McCarthy who has had a steady stream of sales in that bracket, with a top sale of close to €7m for Glandore's Kilfinnan Castle back in 2019 … not too far off the €7.5m AMV now for Disney's Coolmain Castle closer to Cork city and airport and Old Head Golf Course. Coolmain's joint agents Andy Donohoe of Hodnett Forde and Eileen Neville also paired up recently with the nearby Kilbrittain Georgian beauty Rathclaren House, largely rebuilt internally to a painstaking standard. Rathclaren House appeared in these pages within the past month and is currently under offer at the guide of €2.95m 'another testament to the growing interest in high-quality coastal properties,' according to Lisney SIR's Eileen Neville who also had The Mill and Barn in Nohoval (also featured in these pages very recently) near Kinsale and Carrigaline go 'sale agreed' within a week of going to the market at its €2.25m asking price.
Scotsman
14 hours ago
- General
- Scotsman
30 surnames that prove you could be descended from real Vikings
Think your family came over with the Normans? This fearsome Viking re-enactor is a reminder that many northern and Scottish surnames trace back to Norse invaders. | Canva This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Think you're pure Scottish? You could be wrong. These 30 surnames still common in Scotland and the north of England may point to Viking ancestry - is yours one of them? Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Think you're pure Scottish? You might be surprised. Many Scots have Viking ancestry woven into their DNA, especially in places like Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides and Caithness where Norse settlers didn't just raid, they stayed. And it's not just in your blood. It might be in your name. Research from the University of Leicester and the People of the British Isles project found that parts of northern and coastal Scotland have some of the strongest traces of Viking genetics in the UK. Families in these regions often carry surnames with direct Norse origins, passed down through centuries. Want to see if your name is one of them? You can start your Viking ancestry journey with MyHeritage DNA and explore your family tree in minutes. Here are 30 surnames with strong Viking links, all of which still appear commonly across Scotland. 1. Raven From the Old Norse Hrafn, meaning 'raven'. The raven was a powerful symbol for Norse warriors and is often linked to the god Odin. This surname reflects its deep cultural and mythological roots. 2. Gunn Derived from gunnr, the Old Norse word for 'battle' or 'war'. Found widely across northern Scotland and Orkney, it's also the name of an old Highland clan with Viking origins. 3. Harold / Harald A classic Viking name carried by leaders like King Harald Hardrada, who famously died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. It means 'army ruler' and was popular in both Scandinavian and Anglo-Norse cultures. 4. Ormsby A toponymic name meaning 'Ormr's farm' – Ormr being a Norse personal name meaning serpent or dragon. The suffix -by was used by Vikings to denote a farmstead or settlement and still appears in dozens of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire place names. 5. Thoresen / Thorburn Derived from Þórr, the Norse god of thunder. Names beginning with 'Thor' usually signal a Norse origin and indicate ancestry that honoured or referenced Thor's might and protection. 6. Haldane From Old Norse Halfdan, meaning 'half Dane'. A real surname still found in Scotland, possibly referring to someone born of mixed Norse and native ancestry. Wondering if your surname could link you to the Vikings? You can trace your family tree and find out with MyHeritage DNA – click here to begin 7. Croft From the Norse kropt or kroft, referring to a small enclosed field or farm. The word became rooted in Scottish and northern English landscapes and eventually surnames. 8. Scarth Likely from the Norse word skarthi, meaning 'notched' or 'hare-lipped'. Common in Orkney and parts of Yorkshire. The Scarth family appears in 16th-century land records tied to Norse-descended farming families. 9. Clegg Believed to be from kleggi, meaning 'haystack' or 'mound'. A stronghold surname in West Yorkshire, especially around Rochdale and Oldham. 10. Birkby A compound of birk (birch) and by (settlement). Still found as both a surname and a place name in North and East Yorkshire, tracing back to Danish or Norwegian farming outposts. 11. Tait Common in the Borders, Shetland and Orkney. Possibly from Old Norse teitr, meaning 'glad' or 'cheerful' – a rare example of a Norse name denoting personality rather than place or lineage. 12. Skene A Scottish surname from Aberdeenshire, sometimes traced back to a Norse word for a blade or dagger. The clan motto is 'Virtutis regia merces' – 'virtue is the reward of valour' – further hinting at a warrior heritage. Your family tree could be bigger than you ever imagined — and DNA testing can help you trace its many branches. | Canva 13. MacAulay A Hebridean and Highland name from the Norse personal name Áleifr, meaning 'ancestor's descendant' or 'heir'. Evidence suggests the MacAulays may descend from Viking settlers who integrated with Gaels. 14. Main Found in northern Scotland, particularly Caithness and Orkney. Possibly derived from mæinn, the Old Norse word for 'strong' or 'forceful'. 15. Ketill This personal name meant 'kettle' or 'cauldron' but was commonly used for a helmet in a poetic or symbolic sense. It appears in Norse sagas and survives in names like Kettlewell or Ketilson. 16. Eirikson / Ericson / Eriksen Means 'son of Erik' – one of the most common Viking naming patterns. Erik comes from Eiríkr, meaning 'eternal ruler'. Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, is believed to have reached North America centuries before Columbus. 17. Sanderson A northern English patronymic meaning 'son of Sander', itself derived from Sandarr, a Norse personal name related to defender or protector. 18. Foss From Old Norse foss, meaning 'waterfall'. Found in surnames and place names in Yorkshire and Cumbria – often near rivers or rocky outcrops. 19. Thwaite A suffix in dozens of northern English place names like Braithwaite and Micklethwaite. From þveit, meaning 'clearing in the woods' – a sign of Norse agricultural colonisation. 20. Askew Believed to come from askr (ash tree) and skogr (wood), likely referencing a settlement near a wooded area. Found in Lancashire and Yorkshire. 21. Osmond From Old Norse Ásmundr, meaning 'divine protection'. A name passed down by Norse settlers who brought both pagan and Christian influences. 22. Rigg From the Old Norse hryggr, meaning 'ridge'. Found widely in hill-country surnames across Cumbria and the Dales. 23. Rawlinson 'Son of Raoul' – with Raoul or Ralph descending from Ráðulfr, a Norse name meaning 'wise wolf'. A surname common in Lancashire and northern England. 24. Ulf A powerful Norse name meaning 'wolf'. While rare today, it appears in Domesday Book records and some East Anglian settlements in the former Danelaw. 25. Ingerson A patronymic meaning 'son of Inge' or Ingvar, both linked to the Norse god Ing or Yngvi, associated with fertility and prosperity. 26. Janson Means 'son of Jan', with Jan being a Norse adaptation of Johannes. Still common in the Netherlands and northern UK. 27. Colby A compound of Kol (meaning coal or dark) and by (village). Found in Lancashire, Cumbria and parts of Lincolnshire. 28. Halcro Unique to Orkney and Shetland, with deep Norse roots. Believed to derive from a personal name and farm site occupied during the Viking period. 29. Gunnarsen Means 'son of Gunnar', from gunnr (war) and arr (warrior). A classic Norse warrior name that still appears in Scandinavian communities. 30. Leifson Means 'son of Leif'. Leif means 'heir' or 'beloved'. The most famous bearer is Leif Erikson, who explored North America long before the modern age of discovery. Did your name appear? Or maybe one from your extended family? It could be the start of a fascinating journey into Norse ancestry and the Viking history of the North. With MyHeritage, it's free to begin building your family tree. You can also order a DNA kit and discover your genetic connection to Scandinavia, Viking settlements and more – all for just £33. This article was produced with the support of AI tools to assist in sourcing and structuring information. All content has been reviewed, verified and completed by a National World journalist prior to publication. Canva Uncover your family's hidden connections with an exclusive MyHeritage DNA kit £ 29.00 Buy now Buy now Every generation, your family tree branches wider — yet most of your extended relatives are strangers to you. A DNA test can help change that. MyHeritage DNA doesn't just estimate your ethnic makeup; it connects you to real living relatives and uncovers the stories of your ancestors' journeys. From Viking roots in Orkney to Sephardic Jewish heritage, or even surprise half-siblings, your DNA holds the key to discovering the family you never knew you had. Canva Get beach-ready with MySweetSmile's gentle teeth whitening range £ 20.99 Buy now Buy now Sunshine, selfies and holiday cocktails – summer is here, and so are all the moments you'll want to capture with a glowing smile. Whether you're jetting off for a beach escape or heading to a sunny staycation, MySweetSmile can help you look your best. This UK best-seller offers peroxide-free, gentle whitening that works its magic without harsh ingredients or faff. Their powder is perfect for whitening before take-off, while the handy on-the-go pen is great for keeping your smile photo-ready poolside. Shop the full MySweetSmile summer-ready range here.
