Team USA men’s hockey gold medalists Dylan Larkin and Zach Werenski opened up about where their American pride came from as they celebrated their Olympic accomplishment.
Larkin and Werenski appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, hours after celebrating their gold medal victory against Canada across Miami. The two opened up on what it meant to them to represent the Stars and Stripes.
Zach Werenski #8 and Dylan Larkin #21 of Team United States celebrate winning the gold medals after the team’s 2-1 overtime victory in the Men’s Gold Medal match between Canada and the United States on day 16 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milan Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 22, 2026 in Milan, Italy.(Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
“I think a lot of us played at the U.S. National Team Development Program … When we were there, you get to put the jersey on every day for two years, before you’re drafted. We go through training. We’re not military by any means but they put us through some training and they really instill in you some pride,” Larkin said. “Once you go through that, you take the jersey off … and every time you take it off, for me at least, I don’t know the next time I’m going to put it on.
“So, every time I get the chance to represent the United States of America, I put that jersey on, I’m all in. I love doing it and it’s just something special. I could go on all day about how great our country is. Just being home and seeing our friends and family, it’s just special.”
Auston Matthews (34) of the United States, Zach Werenski (8) of the United States and Matthew Tkachuk (19) of the United States hold up the jersey of John Gaudreau after defeating Canada in the men’s ice hockey gold medal game during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on Feb. 22, 2026.(Amber Searls/Imagn Images)
Werenski was asked whether playing in other countries made him more proud to be an American.
“I think you’re spot on. I remember my first World Championships with him was in Slovakia. I’ve been to Denmark, I’ve been to Czech (Republic) – these are all great countries and you play in them and it’s a ton of fun. The Olympics were in Italy, which is an unbelievable country,” he said. “You get reminded of how great the United States of America is when you get back here. And we love representing our country, we love wearing those colors.
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“Like Dylan said, we learn about it from a young age. We’re allowed to live out our dream because of the military – the people that serve, the first responders. It’s just an incredible country. It’s the best country in the world and we love wearing these colors and you definitely get an appreciation for it when you go overseas and play.”
The United States celebrates after winning the men’s ice hockey gold medal game during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.(James Lang/Imagn Images)
Stefanos Tsitsipas set to drop outside Top 40 after Dubai Exit
Stefanos Tsitsipas is set to fall outside the top 40 of the ATP rankings for the first time in eight years following his loss to Ugo Humbert in Dubai.
Tsitsipas entered the tournament as the defending champion, meaning he was unable to defend the ranking points from last year’s title run. With those points dropping, the ranking slide is unavoidable.
For much of the past decade, Tsitsipas has been a fixture near the top of the game. He has reached Grand Slam finals, won multiple Masters titles, and established himself as one of the leading names of his generation. Falling outside the top 40 marks a clear shift from where he has operated for most of his career.
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Humbert, meanwhile, delivered a good performance to end the Greeks’ title defence.
For Tsitsipas, attention now turns to the upcoming hard court events, where he will look to steady his form and halt the ranking drop. The question now is how quickly he can respond.
On Tuesday the PGA Tour announced that Eugenio Chacarra has earned an exemption into the Puerto Rico Open, the alternate event opposite next week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.
That’s a big deal for the Spanish 25-year-old, who will become one of the first ex-LIV players to tee it up in a Tour event. It’s also the latest in a murky swirl of pros tour-hopping as the battle for pro golf dominance rolls on — and as pathways back from LIV continue to open.
Chacarra spoke to a group of media on Tuesday morning in a call announcing the move. While he has been forthright about where his LIV experience fell short — his “there is only money” interview last month turned heads — on Tuesday he expressed gratitude for his time at LIV, calling it a “tremendous opportunity for me, my family and my future family” while emphasizing that this gets him one step closer to his childhood dream.
“Yeah, obviously very thankful for the opportunity. My goal since I was little is to be on the PGA Tour,” he said.
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Chacarra signed with LIV in 2022 as a promising young talent and won in the opening season. He also won on the Asian Tour in 2023 and won on the DP World Tour in 2025; now he’s hoping to pick up another tour’s title next week.
“The next step in my career is to hopefully make it on the PGA Tour and to win on the PGA Tour,” he said.
Chacarra’s LIV tenure came to a close after the 2024 season, when he finished in the league’s “open zone” and wasn’t re-signed by Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC. It’s unclear what his LIV options were in free agency, but the ex-Oklahoma State Cowboy embraced the chance for a fresh start.
“I lost a bunch of weight. I got my team working really hard. I wake up every day motivated to get better and having goals to achieve, it’s completely changed my mindset,” he said. “Like I’ve said, I think I was losing a little motivation to get better out there on LIV at the last year I was there, so it was time for me to move on and start a new pathway in my professional career.
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“Obviously LIV didn’t exist when I was little, I grew up watching the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour, and that’s what I dream of playing and winning, and that’s what my heart and my ambition was, so we thought it was the best for me to move forward and try to get on the PGA Tour.”
Chacarra won last year’s Hero Indian Open, a victory that earned him berths into every big-time DP World Tour event. He finished T4 at the following week’s Volvo China Open and picked up top 10s at the Italian Open and the Alfred Dunhill Championship. While he has played the PGA Tour in the form of the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open (as have several other LIV pros) this will mark the his first start in a non-co-sanctioned (sorry, that’s a mouthful) event. He’s currently No. 27 on the DPWT’s Race to Dubai; earning one of that tour’s 10 PGA Tour cards is one of his goals.
“If I keep playing good out there I also have a chance to get my PGA Tour card through that,” he said.
He also echoed the words of another recent LIV defector:
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“I agree with Patrick Reed. The grind of playing a Friday to make a cut or coming into Sunday with a chance to win.”
Chacarra lives in Tulsa, Okla., where he’s a member at major championship host site Southern Hills. He’s not the only ex-Cowboy to stay in state; he said he regularly sees Bo Van Pelt, cited Viktor Hovland and Austin Eckroat as pros in residence and adds that he still frequents Karsten Creek, Oklahoma State’s home course.
Chacarra added that while his goal is ultimately the PGA Tour, playing the DP World Tour has given him additional appreciation for the pro game and that he hopes to continue competing there.
“Obviously it gave me a little more of what, like, real golf is. Having a cut, having to grind, having different tee time times. Just playing with every week with a lot of players. It’s fun to see where my game is, where I need to improve, what areas I need to improve a little more to be able to be one of the best and get on the PGA Tour quick.”
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Chacarra’s announcement comes amidst a flurry of LIV-, DPWT and PGA Tour-related news.
At the end of 2025, Laurie Canter earned a PGA Tour card via the DP World Tour but turned it down in favor of a LIV deal.
Brooks Koepka has already returned to the PGA Tour and headlines this week’s Cognizant Classic in Florida, his third event since his acceptance back via all-new Returning Member Program.
Patrick Reed led a group of ex-LIV pros who will regain Tour eligibility next year, a group that includes Pat Perez, Hudson Swafford and (though his timeline is less clear) Kevin Na.
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Just last week the DP World Tour reached an agreement with a group of eight LIV pros to play on both tours without fines provided they hit certain benchmarks — although Jon Rahm was, notably, not among them.
As for Chacarra? He follows the footsteps of James Piot, who last summer became the first ex-LIV pro to receive a sponsor invite into a PGA Tour event at the Rocket Classic.
He knows the week could lead to nothing — or to everything.
“Like I said to my team, I mean, this is like a major for me. So it’s going to be fun and I’m going to try to perform the best I can.”
The German national team’s sporting director, Rudi Völler, stressed in a weekly sports talk show recently, that while no gag order would be imposed on anyone, “it cannot be that it’s being talked about, practically on a matchday like with this disaster in Qatar.”
Germany were met with a lot of criticism for their gesture in Qatar, but Jürgen Mittag, a professor of sports politics at the German Sport University Cologne, believes had they made the quarterfinals things might have been different.
“But as it was, they were met with a great deal of ridicule because they were symbolically strong but sportingly weak,” Mittag told DW.
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Germany’s protest ahead of the Japan game in Qatar was met with a lot of criticismImage: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images
EU weakens Germany’s stance
The hope is that in the United States of America, Canada and Mexico Germany will perform better on the field, but what does that mean for their stance off it?
Michael Mutz, a professor of social sciences in sports at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, doubts that any political statement will be made.
“I can’t imagine that the DFB (German Football Association) will actively pursue a political agenda against the host country again after the negative experiences in Qatar,” Mutz told DW.
“The DFB is exposing itself to accusations of double standards because it criticized the situation in Qatar so harshly and will now presumably remain silent about the US, but the association will have to accept that.”
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Mittag believes Germany’s postion is weakened by the current state of the European Union. The bloc is now further challenged by Donald Trump’s new round of tariffs on six member states as well as the UK and Norway who sent troops or officials to Greenland — which Trump is intent on acquiring — for security purposes.
“European democracy is also suffering a little… it is becoming increasingly fragmented and is therefore somewhat less capable of acting in foreign policy. This applies to the big picture as a whole, as well as to the internal sphere of football and other sports-related matters,” Mittag explained before the tariffs, set to start on February 1, were announced.
“Germany has been very proactive in sports diplomacy in recent years, but has also found that although it plays a prominent role, it doesn’t receive much support,” Mittag added.
Mittag cites the example of Germany’s stance on Russia and Belarus’s return to the Olympics. Germany petitioned hard against this and tried to forge a strong alliance, but only received minimal support. Mittag believes this defeat has hurt them, and forced them to reconsider their approach.
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“That’s when Germany realized that it needs to pursue a different strategy. It doesn’t want to give up its position, but placing too much emphasis on moral, value-based issue is strategically clumsy. So, in the end, it does not lead to success and then you even have to put up with scorn or schadenfreude when you perform poorly in sporting terms,” Mittag explained.
Andreas Rettig (right) meets with DFB President Bernd Neuendorf (left) and Germany’s former Economic Affairs and Climate Action minister Robert HabeckImage: Dominik Butzmann/BMWK/picture alliance/dpa
Political shift in sports diplomacy
Andreas Rettig, an outspoken sports executive who used to work at St. Pauli, was appointed as the new DFB’s CEO in 2023 and may be the perfect person to forge new alliances and better position Germany in committees. Even he has come up against challenges though. Rettig’s attempt to initiate a dialogue on critical issues ahead of the 2024 Euros was not met with much enthusiasm by regional associations.
Others in Germany have been loud, though. St. Pauli President and DFB Vice President Oke Göttlich recently told Sportschau: “Personally, I would advise against traveling given the current situation in the country.”
After Bayern Munich’s Champions League win over Union Saint-Gilloise, Bayern and Germany captain Joshua Kimmich said he would “no longer be taking part in the political discussion.”
The DFB have yet to comment.
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“There has been a realpolitik shift in sports diplomacy, it’s somewhat less value-based, somewhat more realistic and acting pragmatically in order to perhaps achieve more success than in the past,” Mittag added.
Jürgen Mittag believes that Germany can have a more effective strategy by winning over associations and committeesImage: BEAUTIFUL SPORTS/Wunderl/picture alliance
Viewership might drop
The January protests against the Trump administration’s clampdown on illegal immigration – including a decision by the US justice department not to launch a criminal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on January 7 – have increased tensions in many places.
Given that Germany’s viewership dipped for the World Cup in Qatar, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see another drop this summer, particularly given the difficult kickoff times for European viewers.
“I believe that we will not see the same viewing figures as in previous World Cups,” Mittag said.
“I would actually assume that broadcasting and media behavior will also reflect the fact that a lot of people in the summer of 2026 will say, ‘I’m aware of this World Cup, but I’m not going to watch it all. I’m not as enthusiastic as in previous years, and in a small way, I’m expressing my criticism.’”
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What is clear is that the moment Germany touch down in the United States, players and staff will have to answer questions about playing a tournament in the current political and social climate. The strength of their answers will depend on many factors, but perhaps most of all on how well they play on the field.
“The decisive factor for identification with the national team is not so much the political situation as the fact that the DFB team is perceived as a likeable, approachable, and successful team,” Mutz explained.
“Certainly, there is also a growing awareness in society that we are living in times of crisis and that political opinions are highly polarized. Especially in these times, the national football team could be an important anchor point for identification and the experience of belonging and community—across all social groups and political camps. However, football’s ability to bring different people together is weakened when the national team is perceived as too political.”
Edited by: Chuck Penfold
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This article was updated on January 26, 2026 to include the statement from the St. Pauli President.
Garden Horizons is a tycoon simulator on Roblox in which you become a gardener and grow Plants of different rarity and types on your plots. To purchase seeds for them, you must reach Bill’s Seed Shop, available at the center of the map, and interact with Bill, who will show you the available stock. Moreover, this shop gets restocked every five minutes, which will help you obtain different Plant seeds.
This guide will introduce you to every Plant seed available in the game.
What are Plants in Garden Horizons?
Bill’s Seed Shop (Image via Roblox)
Developed by Dawn Digital, Garden Horizons allows you to purchase seeds of different kinds and rarity by interacting with Bill at Bill’s Seed Shop. Located at the center of the map, this shop possesses a limited stock of multiple seeds that you can purchase by spending Shillings.
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By sowing these seeds in your garden, you can grow them into mature plants that either possess or produce some harvestable byproducts over time. Upon selling the harvested produce to the Steve NPC, located beside the seed shop, you can earn Shillings based on the weight, mutation, and modifier it has.
Plant Modifiers
Depending on the ripening stage a fruit has been harvested, you can obtain one of these three value multipliers:
Unripe: 1.0x to 1.9x increase in base value of the fruit.
Ripened: 2.0 to 2.9x increase in base value of the fruit.
Lush: 3.0x increase in base value of the fruit.
Plant Mutations
While growing, a fruit or Plant can obtain one of the following mutations, which can increase the base value of the produce:
Soaked: 1.2x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Foggy: 1.2x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Chilled: 1.5x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Flooded: 1.5x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Silver: 2.0x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Snowy: 2.0x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Sandy: 2.5x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Mossy: 3.5x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Shocked: 4.5x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Gold: 5.0x increase in base the value of the fruit.
Starstruck: 6.5x increase in the base value of the fruit.
Sep 2, 2023; New York, New York, USA; Vancouver Whitecaps forward Sergio Cordova (9) plays the ball against New York City FC midfielder Alfredo Morales (7) during the second half at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images
St. Louis City acquired forward Sergio Cordova on loan from Switzerland’s BSC Young Boys on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old Venezuelan international returns to MLS through June 30 with a purchase option.
Cordova, who played for Real Salt Lake (2022) and the Vancouver Whitecaps (2023), will occupy designated player and international roster slots.
“Adding Sergio on loan gives us valuable depth and short-term reinforcement while maintaining the flexibility that is important to our long-term plans,” sporting director Corey Wray said. “We are always looking to maximize the MLS roster mechanisms, and putting Sergio in the DP spot will benefit us in several ways while also giving us options moving forward.
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“Beyond that, he brings qualities we value in a striker with his movement, ability to link play, and stretch defenses. We are excited to get him integrated with the group and look forward to what he can add over the coming months.”
Cordova tallied 15 goals and two assists in 61 matches during his previous MLS stint. He has also played in Germany, Turkey, Russia and his native Venezuela.
U.S. men’s hockey star Jack Hughes appeared to have no qualms about the potential of going to Washington for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
Trump invited the men’s hockey team to his speech on Sunday after Hughes scored in the overtime period of the gold medal game, defeating Canada 2-1.
Jack Hughes (86) poses with teammates after the gold-medal game against at the Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
The players’ excitement appeared to miff critics of Trump. But while talking to reporters outside the E11EVEN nightclub in Miami on Monday night, the New Jersey Devils star said meeting the president is a once-in-a-lifetime chance.
“Everything is so political. We’re athletes. We’re so proud to represent the U.S. and when you get the chance to go to the White House, meet the president, you know, we’re proud to be Americans, that’s so patriotic. No matter what your views are, we’re super excited to go to the White House and just be part of that,” he said.
Jack Hughes, who scored the winning overtime goal, celebrates after defeating Canada at the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Hughes was dripping in patriotism right after he scored the goal on Canadian netminder Jordan Binnington.
“This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It’s unbelievable. The U.S. are a hockey brotherhood. It’s so strong and we had so much support from ex-players. I’m so proud to be American today,” he said.
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As the team celebrated in the locker room, FBI Director Kash Patel held his phone on speaker as Trump invited the team to his State of the Union address.
“I’ll tell you what. I just told my people two minutes ago, I didn’t know they’d be calling, I said we’re giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night,” Trump said. “I can send a military plane or something, but if you would like to, it’s the coolest night, it’s the biggest speech …”
One player cut off Trump and said, “We’re in.”
Jack Hughes celebrates with the U.S. flag after scoring the team’s second goal in overtime to win gold on Feb. 22, 2026.(Reuters/Alessandro Garofalo)
“We’ll get Kash, and we’ll get the military to get you guys over,” Trump continued. “You won’t have to worry about the weather or landing. We don’t care if it’s snowing or if it’s the worst blizzard – we’ll be sailing through like you did on the ice.”
Following the official announcement of a rematch between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather’s uncle admitted he believes the fight reflects a “sad” state of affairs in boxing.
Speaking to FightHype following the fight announcement, Jeff Mayweather — who trained Floyd in the late 1990s — said boxing is in a “sad” state, with the sport relying on former stars to return and revive it.
“It is kind of sad to me, that these two guys have to come back for it to be one of the biggest fights again. With all of these great new champion that are out here, there should be some big fights but Manny and Floyd are bigger than anybody else. That is why it is happening.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say that is the fighters’ fault, that is not the fighters’ job – that is the promoters’ job, that is what promotion is. So, if you don’t have a promoter that is promoting you in the right way to make you loved and accepted by your fans, then they are not doing the right thing by you.”
As for the fight itself, Jeff Mayweather predicted a repeat victory for the 49-year-old, believing that ‘PacMan’ has severely declined.
“I think that the fight is probably going to be pretty much the same [as last time], but both of them are not the same fighters that they once was. The name are the same, but the fighters, they are not.
“They have both aged and, I’m going to be honest, the last fight with Pacquiao, when he fought Barrios, that fight looked like crap to me. He looked like crap. Even though the fight was close, and I understand that the fight was close, the greatness of Pacquiao was gone. I didn’t see it, I didn’t even see an inkling of it.”
TAPALPA, Mexico — Maria Dolores Aguirre’s corner store has lived off the tourism that flows into her cobblestoned town of Tapalpa, tucked away in the mountains of Mexico’s state of Jalisco.
Then gunshots erupted and helicopters flew overhead as the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord Sunday just a few kilometres from her home. The killing sparked a surge in violence and put the country on edge.
Now the 50-year-old Aguirre worries that the bloodshed will deal a blow to her livelihood and change towns like hers. Many others in Jalisco are grappling with the same concerns, from the Pacific Ocean beaches to the capital of Guadalajara, which will host matches in June for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
“It’s going to affect us. It’s collateral damage,” Aguirre said. “The government is going to have to have a lot of security. … The entire world just saw what happened and, of course, people are going to think twice about coming.”
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President offers ‘every guarantee’ for World Cup
In the capital, workers were busy Tuesday fixing up the exterior of the soccer stadium that will host World Cup matches. Cyclists zipped around outside the stadium as the city snapped back to its normal rhythms.
President Claudia Sheinbaum was asked Tuesday at her daily news briefing what guarantees there are that World Cup matches will be held in Jalisco. “Every guarantee,” she said, adding that there was “no risk” for fans coming to the tournament.
Also Tuesday, the Portuguese soccer federation said it was “closely monitoring the delicate situation” in Mexico. Its national team was scheduled to play Mexico’s team in a friendly on March 28 at the newly renovated Azteca Stadium, which is scheduled to host the opening match of the World Cup on June 11.
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Mexico was scheduled to play Iceland on Wednesday in a friendly in Queretaro.
Fighting between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Mexican security forces raged on in a number of states Monday, fuelling fears that more violence is to come.
More than 70 people died in the attempt to capture Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes and its aftermath, authorities said Monday. Known as “El Mencho,” he was the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico, known for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the United States and staging brazen attacks against Mexican government officials.
The White House confirmed that the U.S. provided intelligence support to the operation to capture the cartel leader and applauded Mexico’s army for taking down a man who was one of the most wanted criminals in both countries. The U.S. State Department had offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest.
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The death of Oseguera Cervantes came as Mexico’s government has stepped up its offensive against cartels in an effort to meet demands by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on criminal groups. He has threatened to impose more tariffs or take unilateral military action if the country does not show results.
Mexico hoped the death of one of the world’s biggest fentanyl traffickers would ease that pressure, but many people were anxious as they waited to see the powerful cartel’s reaction.
Oseguera Cervantes died after a shootout Sunday with the Mexican military. Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Ricardo Trevilla said Monday that authorities had tracked one of his romantic partners to his hideout in Tapalpa. The cartel leader and two bodyguards fled into a wooded area where they were seriously wounded in a firefight. They were taken into custody and died on the way to Mexico City, Trevilla said.
Unease looms over tourist towns
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In the aftermath, a sense of unease simmered in tourist towns.
The Pacific Ocean resort city of Puerto Vallarta also was hard hit by cartel reprisals, frightening tourists.
Steve Perkins, 57, was visiting Puerto Vallarta with his wife, Gayle, and some friends. They were on their hotel room’s terrace when explosions and black smoke started appearing around the city Sunday morning.
Their return to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was delayed when their flight was cancelled Monday, and they were rebooked for March 1.
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Perkins and his wife have been taking annual trips to Puerto Vallarta since 2012 and have always felt safe, until now. He said they don’t plan on returning to Mexico.
“There’s a lot of Americans trapped here,” Perkins said.
Aguirre worked next to her son in the small neighborhood shop her family has owned for 50 years. The 15-year-old’s classes were cancelled due to the violence.
Aguirre said it was unclear whether the military or the cartel was in control of the area surrounding her. The other question on her mind was if this was a one-off event, or if more violence was in store.
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“We don’t know if these people (cartel leaders) are permanently here or not,” she said. “If they really did kill this leader, it could be that they fight between each other to win control or see who will lead it.”
The Cognizant Classic 2026 is set to begin on Thursday, February 26, at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The seventh event of the season will feature 123 players divided into 41 threesomes.
The first-round action of the Cognizant Classic 2026 will begin on Thursday at 6:45 a.m. ET, with Taylor Moore, Harry Higgs and Hank Lebioda teeing off from Hole 1, while Austin Eckroat, Danny Willett and Beau Hossler will simultaneously begin from the tenth hole.
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Isaiah Salinda, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and A.J. Ewart will tee off at 1:23 p.m. ET as the last group on Hole 1, while Zecheng Dou, David Ford and Justin Hicks will be the last group off the tenth tee at 1:35 p.m. ET
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Cognizant Classic 2026 pairings explored
Ryan Gerard is the highest-ranked player at the Cognizant Classic 2026 (Image Source: Imagn)
Here’s a look at the complete tee time details for the Cognizant Classic 2026, Round 1
Hole 1
6:45 am: Taylor Moore, Harry Higgs, Hank Lebioda
6:57 am: Matthieu Pavon, Adam Hadwin, Doug Ghim
7:09 am: Lee Hodges, Matt Wallace, Mac Meissner
7:21 am: Brendon Todd, Kevin Streelman, Vince Whaley
7:33 am: Steven Fisk, Nico Echavarria, Kevin Yu
7:45 am: Davis Thompson, Stephan Jaeger, Webb Simpson
7:57 am: Nick Dunlap, K.H. Lee, Chad Ramey
8:09 am: Adrien Saddier, Paul Waring, Christo Lamprecht
8:21 am: Jimmy Stanger, Neal Shipley, Jeffrey Kang
8:33 am: Austin Smotherman, Jordan Smith, Chandler Blanchet
11:35 am: Mark Hubbard, Eric Cole, Alex Smalley
11:47 am: Gary Woodland, Brandt Snedeker, David Lipsky
11:59 am: Emiliano Grillo, Kevin Roy, Danny Walker
12:11 pm: Michael Brennan, Ryan Gerard, Max Homa
12:23 pm: Brooks Koepka, Will Zalatoris, Daniel Berger
12:35 pm: Tom Kim, Michael Thorbjornsen, Rasmus Højgaard
12:47 pm: Patton Kizzire, Andrew Putnam, Kristoffer Reitan
12:59 pm: Haotong Li, Marcelo Rozo, Davis Chatfield
1:11 pm: Jesper Svensson, Kensei Hirata, Luke Clanton
Kirk Cousins‘ time with the Atlanta Falcons is all but over.
General manager Ian Cunningham told reporters Tuesday that the team will release the veteran quarterback once the new league year officially begins next month.
Cunningham said he had already told Cousins of the team’s decision.
Kirk Cousins of the Atlanta Falcons warms up for the Buccaneers game at Raymond James Stadium on Dec. 11, 2025, in Tampa, Florida.(Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)
“Just felt that was out of respect for Kirk. What he’s done in his career, I owed that to him. We owed that to him to allow him some clarity going into free agency,” Cunningham said at the NFL Scouting Combine Tuesday.
Cousins headed to the Falcons two years ago after the Minnesota Vikings decided it was time to move on, draft J.J. McCarthy and sign Sam Darnold. Cousins signed a four-year, $180 million deal with $100 million guaranteed.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins passes against the New Orleans Saints at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.(Dale Zanine/Imagn Images)
However, the marriage was already soured when, roughly a month after signing Cousins, the Falcons were the biggest shockers of that year’s NFL Draft, selecting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth overall pick.
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Cousins struggled in his first season, prompting the team to move on to Penix earlier than expected. Penix was then the starter this year, while Cousins was the backup.
Penix was injured this season with a partially torn ACL, which left Cousins to play in 10 games, starting eight of them. In his 24 games under center with the Falcons, Cousins threw 28 touchdowns and 21 interceptions with a 65.0 completion percentage for 5,229 yards.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins walks off the field after the Minnesota Vikings game, Dec. 8, 2024, in Minneapolis.(AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
