Panthers xxxxx Blue Jackets

     The Florida Panthers xxxx the Columbus Blue Jackets x-x at Nationwide Arena on Tuesday night. The Panthers finished off a three-game road swing. The Cats are in the middle of a stretch with five of six contests on the road. 

     Florida(9-7-2)

     Columbus(7-8-0)

Heat xxxx Jazz

     The Miami Heat xxxxx the Utah Jazz xxx-xxx on Tuesday night at Delta Center. The Heat concluded a five-game road trip against Western Conference opponents.

     Miami(4-6)

     Utah(1-9)

Miami Awarded 2028 NBA All-Star Game

     The National Basketball Association has awarded the Miami Heat and the South Florida region the 2028 NBA All-Star Game along with NBA All-Star Game Weekend events. The event will happen at Kaseya Center in February 2028. 

     It has always been very unlikely that Miami could host the NBA All-Star Game over the past 25 years due to the annual Miami International Boat Show in mid-February. The city of Miami and Miami Arena did host their only NBA All-Star Game back in 1990.

WTGL Television Announcers

     WTGL had their inaugural event held at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens on Sunday. It began the first season for that organization. Personnel participating with WTGL are women golfers from the LPGA. 

     Justin Kutcher is the television play-by-play announcer and Emilia Doran is the game analyst. Taylor Tannebaum works as a sideline reporter on ESPN telecasts while Addie Parker will be a sideline reporter on ION telecasts of WTGL. 

WTGL Debuts

     The new golf organization WTGL featuring women golfers debuted on Sunday at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens. Los Angeles Golf Club defeated New York Golf Club 3-1 in the first match ever in WTGL history. 

     WTGL contests will be held on Monday nights and Tuesday nights for the next couple of months. Matchups in WTGL are played in the same venue as TGL events have happened over the past two seasons. 

Sal Stewart National League Rookie Of The Year

     Cincinnati Reds first baseman Sal Stewart has been named the 2026 National League Rookie of the Year Award. Stewart played high school baseball with the Westminster Christian Warriors. 

     He was taken 22nd overall in the first round by the Reds in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft. Stewart finished with 32 home runs, 112 runs batted in and .263 batting average in a MLB-high 162 games. 

2026 FHSAA Open Division Playoff Brackets

     The Florida High School Athletic Association has introduced a new classification tournament in 2026 named the Open Division. It will involve the top eight Florida high school football programs. Many of them are powerhouse teams that have showed their dominance in recent years and captured at least one FHSAA state championship in the past decade. 

     The tournament format will be totally different from other FHSAA tournaments that have been used for many decades. Each high school football team will participate in a round-robin format against three different squads to make up the first third rounds of the tournament. The top two teams from each bracket with the best records after three rounds of play will advance to one of the two Open Division semifinal games. 

     Five of the eight high schools in the Open Division are from South Florida. #1 St. Thomas Aquinas and #4 Chaminade-Madonna are in Bracket 1 while #2 Columbus, #3 West Boca Raton and #6 Miami Central are place in Bracket 2. 

     The state-record 17-time FHSAA state champions and seven-time reigning FHSAA state champions #1 St. Thomas Aquinas will be at home against #5 Lakeland, visit #8 Venice and host #4 Chaminade-Madonna. The FHSAA Class 1A state finalist last year #4 Chaminade-Madonna will host #8 Venice along with #5 Lakeland and then head to #1 St. Thomas Aquinas. 

     #2 Columbus hosts #6 Miami Central, drive to #7 Raines and returns home versus #3 West Boca Raton. The two-time defending FHSAA Class 6A state champions #3 West Boca Raton stays home to take on #7 Raines and #6 Miami Central followed by visiting #2 Columbus. #6 Miami Central go on the road to #2 Columbus and #3 West Boca Raton followed by a home game against #7 Raines.