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Sportie Newsletter
January 07, 2026

🏒 Hockey

Johnson retires from NHL after 19 seasons, will join Canucks as pro scout

Jack Johnson announced his retirement from the NHL on Tuesday after 19 seasons and will join the Vancouver Canucks as a professional scout.

The 38-year-old defenseman had 342 points (77 goals, 265 assists) in 1,228 regular-season games for the Los Angeles Kings, Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and Colorado Avalanche. The Carolina Hurricanes selected Johnson with the No. 3 pick in the 2005 NHL Draft and traded him to the Kings with Oleg Tverdovsky for Eric Belanger and Tim Gleason on Sept. 29, 2006.

Landeskog out ‘some weeks’ for Avalanche with upper-body injury, status for Olympics unclear

Gabriel Landeskog will miss “some weeks” for the Colorado Avalanche, and it’s unclear if he will be able to play for Sweden in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

Landeskog, the Avalanche captain, sustained an upper-body injury early in the second period of a 2-1 loss at the Florida Panthers on Sunday when he lost his footing while driving to the net and crashed into the goal.

"He's going to miss some weeks,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said Tuesday before its game at the Tampa Bay Lightning

🏀 Basketball

Knicks try to back up owner's belief with better play vs. Clippers

New York Knicks owner Jim Dolan spent Monday afternoon giving a rare interview in which he said he expected the Knicks to win the NBA Finals.

Hours later, the Knicks didn't exactly make Dolan look prescient.

The Knicks will look to snap their longest losing streak of the season Wednesday night when they host the Los Angeles Clippers in a nonconference battle.

Both teams were off Tuesday after playing Monday night, when the Knicks were routed by the host Detroit Pistons 121-90 and the Clippers held off a furious fourth-quarter rally by the visiting Golden State Warriors to earn a 103-102 win.

NBA refs admit they screwed Warriors out of 2 points in 1-point loss

The referees for the Golden State Warriors’ game at the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday admitted they had blown a call that cost the Dubs two points — in a game Golden State ultimately lost by one.

A missed goaltending call played a major factor in the Dubs’ 103-102 loss on Monday and not only led to Warriors coach Steve Kerr’s ejection, but Kerr skipping his postgame press conference, too.

The Dubs were trailing 78-74 with less than nine minutes left in Monday’s game — which was a Peacock broadcast featuring Snoop Dogg, of all people — when back-to-back possessions had calls leaving the Warriors incensed. First, Steph Curry drove through contact and decided to shoot a floater. But as his shot went in, officials waved off the basket, instead saying the contact was before the shot.

🏈 Football

John Harbaugh FIRED as Baltimore Ravens coach after 18 seasons

John Harbaugh is out at the Baltimore Ravens in the biggest NFL head coaching decision of the cycle, just days after his team missed out on the playoffs with a last-second loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Harbaugh has been in charge in Baltimore since 2008, coaching 18 seasons and winning the Super Bowl in 2012, and is now expected to be the No 1 target of multiple teams looking for a new head coach.

Bengals' Cam Taylor-Britt to serve five days in jail for reckless driving

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt has begun serving a five-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to traffic charges. 

Taylor-Britt pleaded guilty to reckless driving and an unclassified no-license charge stemming from an incident in September. Taylor-Britt was driving recklessly following a Bengals game while pedestrians were still in the area, according to a Cincinnati police officer. 

Taylor-Britt, who was booked at 11 a.m., appeared in court on crutches as he continues to recover from a season-ending Lisfranc injury that was sustained during the Bengals' Week 11 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.