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DU men’s hockey coach David Carle forgoes NHL to stay in Denver

DENVER — Home is where the heart is, and for University of Denver men’s hockey coach David Carle, his home is in Denver. “We chose to make the decision we thought was best for our family,” said Carle when asked about factors that contributed to him signing a multi-year extension. Carle was perhaps the most […]

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DENVER — Home is where the heart is, and for University of Denver men’s hockey coach David Carle, his home is in Denver.

“We chose to make the decision we thought was best for our family,” said Carle when asked about factors that contributed to him signing a multi-year extension.

Carle was perhaps the most coveted candidate during the NHL’s most recent coaching vacancy cycle, so much so that some pundits believed a jaunt north on Interstate 25 to supplant Jared Bednar at Ball Arena may be worth the risk for the Colorado Avalanche.

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DU men’s hockey coach David Carle signs multi-year contract extension

His record speaks for itself. Carle’s 0.694 career winning percentage is the highest all-time among DU hockey coaches. Two national championships, four Frozen Four appearances, and it seemed a natural progression in Carle’s career to test pro hockey’s waters.

When Denver7 asked why the time wasn’t right to make that jump, Carle’s answer was as pragmatic as it’s been consistent:

“I’ve stated it before, there’s no issue in being patient,” said Carle. “27 of 32 jobs have turned over in the last three years. Some of those jobs have turned over multiple times. It’s a reality that I’d be foolish to put my head in the sand and not think it’s a real thing.”

Job security, although high on his list of reasons, wasn’t at the heart of what’s keeping Carle at DU.

“This is, I think, the best job outside of the NHL,” said Carle. “Potentially a better job, and some guys in the NHL would trade with me if they had that opportunity. I love working with our players, I love working in this environment. We love living in Denver, we think it’s a wonderful place to raise our kids.”

With three kids vying for dad’s attention, including a 7-week-old, Carle said keeping his life consistent while continuing to build up the Pioneers’ program ended up being an obvious choice.

“The investment that the school continues to put into our hockey program to ensure that it’s at an elite level is much appreciated,” said Carle.

As it relates to investment, Carle is putting his money where his mouth is to keep Denver competing for national championships.

He’s committing to a multi-year major gift pledge to support current and new initiatives within the hockey program. Carle will be the first Denver Athletics head coach to join the department’s Gold Standard Society. His gift will directly support the Murray Armstrong Hockey Student-Athlete Enhancement Fund and the Athletics Excellence Fund.

“In today’s changing college athletic landscape, we are grateful for philanthropy and season-ticket holder support more than ever to help our program stay at the highest level,” said Carle. “The legacy of Denver hockey wouldn’t be where it is without the foundation laid by coach Murray Armstrong. My family and I are honored to support the Murray Armstrong Fund and become members of the Gold Standard Society with the signing of this agreement. I would invite others to honor Murray’s legacy and support current and future initiatives of Pioneer Hockey at a time when it is as crucial as ever.”

Carle’s impact will reach beyond Denver’s campus. His goal is to impact the entire sport of college hockey in a positive way.

“I’ve spoken a lot on the NCAA regional format and trying to get that changed,” said Carle. “College hockey is a wonderful thing, and we all owe it a lot. Our effort is to try and grow it and make it better.”

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NHL Playoffs 2025: Stanley Cup schedule, bracket, scores, as Oilers outlast Stars in Game 4

The Edmonton Oilers have taken full control of the Western Conference Final after their 4-1 win over the Dallas Stars in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Edmonton leads the series 3-1 and is one win away from advancing to the Stanley Cup Final for the second consecutive year. Unfortunately for the Stars, the story of […]

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Unfortunately for the Stars, the story of Game 4 was a familiar one. Just like in Game 3, Dallas played well through 40 minutes but trailed going into the third period. As was the case last time out, the Stars ran out of steam in the final frame, throwing just four shots on Stuart Skinner.

One of the heroes of the game for the Oilers was Corey Perry, who became one of five players aged 40 or older to score in a conference finals game. His power-play tally in the second period proved to be the game-winner as the Oilers locked down the Stars late.

Stars vs. Oilers: Scores, schedule, odds, where to watch as Edmonton wins Game 4 to take 3-1 series lead

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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also recorded his fourth straight multi-point game of this series, assisting on each of Edmonton’s first two goals. He’s now up to nine points in four games against the Stars, and he has elevated his game after an underwhelming regular season.

A Stars offense that had been so explosive all season has suddenly gone ice cold. Dallas has just two goals in the least three games, and some of its top players have been no-shows in the series. Mikko Rantanen hasn’t scored in seven games, and Matt Duchene and Jamie Benn are stuck on one goal apiece in the playoffs.

Now, we are on the brink of a rematch of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Oilers and Florida Panthers. On Wednesday night, the Panthers will roll into Raleigh with a chance to oust the Hurricanes in Game 5.

For the complete schedule and results for every matchup, follow along right here at CBS Sports.

Eastern Conference Final

(2) Carolina Hurricanes vs. (3) Florida Panthers

Western Conference Final

(2) Dallas Stars vs. (3) Edmonton Oilers

Round 2

(1) Toronto Maple Leafs vs. (3) Florida Panthers

(1) Washington Capitals vs. (2) Carolina Hurricanes

(1) Winnipeg Jets vs. (2) Dallas Stars

(1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (3) Edmonton Oilers

Round 1

(1) Toronto Maple Leafs vs. (WC1) Ottawa Senators

(2)Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (3) Florida Panthers

(1) Washington Capitals vs. (WC2) Montreal Canadiens

(2) Carolina Hurricanes vs. (3) New Jersey Devils

(1) Winnipeg Jets vs. (WC2) St. Louis Blues

(2) Dallas Stars vs. (3) Colorado Avalanche

(1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (WC1) Minnesota Wild

(2) Los Angeles Kings vs. (3) Edmonton Oilers

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KSHB 41 reporter Lily O’Shea Becker covers Franklin and Douglas counties in Kansas. Share your story idea with Lily. — A behind-the-scenes look at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas, previews the amenities it would offer to a 2026 World Cup team if it’s chosen by a country as a training site. Rock Chalk Park […]

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KSHB 41 reporter Lily O’Shea Becker covers Franklin and Douglas counties in Kansas. Share your story idea with Lily.

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A behind-the-scenes look at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas, previews the amenities it would offer to a 2026 World Cup team if it’s chosen by a country as a training site.

Rock Chalk Park is home to the University of Kansas women’s soccer and softball teams, but its amenities can serve teams on the road: a laundry room, a medical room, a weight training room, and what Jason Booker with KU Athletics calls a locker room made for match days.

READ | KC Current training center being considered for World Cup team base camp

“I think they (countries) were a little bit surprised because they’ve seen some photos and things like that, but until you actually walk the facility, they were like, ‘Oh, OK, now I get it,'” Booker, KU deputy athletic director for external revenue, said. “These are large countries you would consider the A-class of soccer.”

Booker said two countries have toured the facility, and KU anticipates several more tours throughout the year.

“Getting the read on their faces, it felt like it was very special, made us feel like we were onto something, that we were really going to do a great job being able to host,” he said.

Booker serves on the executive board of the Kansas City Sports Commission.

“I think what’s unique about this market is the opportunity to potentially host three base camps,” he said. “Two in Kansas City and one here (Lawrence), and we really consider ourselves as part of the Kansas City market.”

He said countries touring base camps seem interested in Midwest sites due to their centralized location and distance from both coasts.

But, it wasn’t just the countries impressed by the tour, according to Booker. He said officials with FIFA took notice of the pitch.

“They came out and did a soil sample and said it would hold up to any English Premier League soccer pitch,” he said. “They were almost surprised when they came out and walked on the field, and they kind of looked at each other and were like, ‘Is this really a college soccer field?’”

Booker also mentioned Rock Chalk Park’s proximity to Lawrence Memorial Health West Campus and Topeka Regional Airport, where KU teams charter planes for sporting events, as external but nearby amenities for a team.

Booker said resources from the University of Kansas could help with hosting an international team, and the university itself could benefit from being in the spotlight.

“To be able to showcase this facility, we hope it will help with future recruiting, not only of student athletes but students on campus from an international perspective,” he said.

Booker said on open practice days, fans could fill the 2,000 seats around the pitch, and an additional 4,000 could watch from the lawn that surrounds the field.

Booker is planning alongside the City of Lawrence, which he said could see thousands of soccer fans next summer.

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Kirby Smart says recruits are making $20K/month in NIL to stay committed

We cannot leave well enough alone, now can we? As a society, we love to meddle and consume ourselves with other people’s business, mostly because we cannot stomach the lives we are currently leading. It is the sad state of existence in today’s world, so the wonderful world of NIL shall be no different. Man, […]

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Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart told Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports “that collectives are striking deals with high school recruits to keep and gain their commitments — paying them as much as $20,000 a month in this unregulated market. If they de-commit, they are being asked to return the compensation.” So a top college football recruit can make $100,000 over a semester for being loyal?

This is not about Georgia getting or not getting someone. It is all about the entire system being established on a house of cards with an even flimsier foundation. It is why Deloitte is setting up a college sports clearinghouse for NIL called “NIL Go”. This is to make sure every NIL deal is legit. Dellenger does a far better job of explaining what all is going on in this with his latest for Yahoo.

This feels like NIL is becoming part of the FDIC, but who knows what each collective is trying to do.

Smart argued that teams who are recruiting abnormally well are taking advantage of this system.

Why is Kirby Smart so mad about the state of college football NIL?

Look. This is not about Georgia as much as it is about the rest of the sport. Georgia regularly recruits inside the top 10 as a top-five program of today and a top-15 program of all time. It is about those punching up and trying to have a seat at the big kid’s table. Collectives appear to be gumming up the process and preventing free enterprise from happening. NIL is still the wild west, but it is being tamed.

Not to say Smart’s opinions of this are directly tied to what one of his former players experienced coming out of high school, but he did coach Jaden Rashada for a year. His recruitment was a nasty mess, painting everyone involved in an awful light. We also saw a former quarterback of a rival team in Nico Iamaleava leave Tennessee abruptly for less money at UCLA over a hostile internal NIL debate.

What I am gathering from all this is there could be even more dirty money being exchanged under the table than we even realized. Collectives are not part of a university, but serve as a slimy conduit to one. Again, this is not about Georgia missing out on recruits, but rather prospective teenagers effectively being paid hush money to stay silently with the team that offered them the biggest bag.

Eventually, we will get the regulations the players and coaches deserve. Everybody deserves to get a slice of the pie, but we cannot be handing out pies that do not meet the requirements of the FDA of college football. Red tape will kill us all, but not as fast as red meat will. For the last time, these are kids. Many of them want to do the right thing. They may not always have the best people in their ears.

Bringing in $20,000 a month to stay quiet for one year could give a kid who cannot even vote nearly $250,000!

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Gator Gymnastics lands All-American emJae Frazier

Ten-time All-American gymnast eMjae Frazier transferred from Cal to Florida Tuesday. The New Jersey native will compete in the Orange and Blue for her senior season. So thankful to join the fam!!! — emjae frazier (@EmjaeFrazier) May 27, 2025 Career Highlights Frazier has three perfect 10.0s in her career. She was the first to ever […]

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Ten-time All-American gymnast eMjae Frazier transferred from Cal to Florida Tuesday. The New Jersey native will compete in the Orange and Blue for her senior season.

So thankful to join the fam!!!

— emjae frazier (@EmjaeFrazier) May 27, 2025

Career Highlights

Frazier has three perfect 10.0s in her career. She was the first to ever score a 10 on floor for Cal, which she first accomplished in her freshman year. In the second week of the 2024 season, Frazier achieved a 10 on beam, becoming the first Bear to score perfectly on two events. She also holds the three highest all-around scores in Cal history.

In 2024, the Bears placed second in the NCAA National Championship Finals, its highest finish in program history. The Gators placed fourth, while LSU won the national title for the first time. At that competition, Frazier shared the highest all-around score of the meet with Haleigh Bryant of LSU.

In Cal’s first year in the ACC, Frazier received five all-conference honors after earning six in the Pac-12. She was also a member of the 2025 ACC Championship team.

“eMjae comes to us with a wealth of competitive and leadership experience,” Florida head coach Jenny Rowland said. “We can’t wait to see her make an impact in Orange and Blue both on and off the floor this season!”

The Gators eliminated the Bears in the regional finals in Tuscaloosa in April, ending Cal’s season and Frazier’s time with the squad. She did not qualify for any individual events at the national championship despite finishing the year prior as the No. 3 all-around gymnast in the NCAA.

The Transfer

On April 21, Frazier announced on Instagram that she would graduate after three years at Cal. She said she would use her final year of eligibility while pursuing a master’s degree.

She now joins Selena Harris-Miranda — who transferred to Florida from UCLA after the 2024 season — on the east coast in their senior seasons. Frazier’s all-around talent can help fill the hole left behind from Gator graduates Leanne Wong and Victoria Nguyen.

The news of Frazier’s flip to Florida comes days after she tumbled across the graduation stage at the University of California, Berkley.

Thank you University of California, Berkeley, Class of 2025! pic.twitter.com/bY8AIfVFWj

— emjae frazier (@EmjaeFrazier) May 24, 2025

More change is to be made at Cal, as it lost its co-head coaches to Clemson on May 12. After being with the Bears since 2012, husband and wife Justin Howell and Elisabeth Crandall-Howell replace Amy Smith in the Tigers’ third season.

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Elvert to Lead Colby's Men's Soccer Program

Story Links Waterville, Maine – Colby College is excited to announce the selection of Sean Elvert, a multi-faceted and accomplished professional in the soccer industry with a history of success as a player, assistant coach, and head coach, as the new leader of its men’s soccer program. He becomes the fourth coach of the men’s […]

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Elvert to Lead Colby's Men's Soccer Program

Waterville, Maine – Colby College is excited to announce the selection of Sean Elvert, a multi-faceted and accomplished professional in the soccer industry with a history of success as a player, assistant coach, and head coach, as the new leader of its men’s soccer program. He becomes the fourth coach of the men’s soccer program since 1975.

“I’m honored and grateful to lead this dynamic Colby team,” said Elvert, “and I am thankful to Amanda DeMartino and the search committee for their trust and support. The last three years with Scott Palguta at a program as distinguished as Colorado College has prepared me well for the opportunity and I couldn’t be more excited to help shape the future of Colby men’s soccer.”

Colby competes in the highly competitive New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), a conference that saw eight member institutions selected for the 2024 NCAA Division III tournament, with three advancing to the Final Four.

Elvert comes to Colby from Colorado College where he served as an assistant coach from 2022-2025. He helped guide the Tigers to a 22-0-5 record in the SCAC conference over his three seasons with back-to-back NCAA Division III tournament appearances, advancing all the way to the Elite Eight in 2023. Colorado College held a 13-game unbeaten streak in 2022 and in their most recent season maintained an NCAA top-10 ranking for the entirety all the way from preseason through the tournament.

Elvert also had a remarkably successful career as a leader in the net during his time as a student-athlete at Loras College, guiding the Duhawks to four conference championships and two trips to the NCAA Division III Final Four. Entering into the coaching realm, Elvert held assistant stints at Ohio Northern and Bluffton Universities before landing the head coaching role at Bluffton, guiding the Beavers to their first winning season in 30 years.

Elvert has also been active in the junior ranks, guiding Colorado’s top youth players for Arsenal Colorado and Real Colorado in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL).

“We are incredibly excited to welcome Sean to Mayflower Hill,” said Amanda V. DeMartino, the Harold Alfond Director of Athletics. “The search committee was impressed with the combination of his high level playing and coaching experience, his passion for Division III athletics and his vision for the next era of Colby men’s soccer. Sean understands the importance of striving for competitive excellence while providing a stellar student experience. He has proven to be a talented recruiter yielding high-academic athletes, and his commitment to developing students as both players and people aligns perfectly with our values.”

“With a strong foundation in place, I’m thrilled to provide stability and guidance for the program moving forward,” continued Elvert. “We’re well positioned to offer a holistic student-athlete experience rooted in on-field success, and I cannot wait to get started with the Mules.”

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'I'm ready to take that challenge'

Tessa Rohleder is honored at Spring Signing Day for junior college soccer By JAXON HANSARD, Staff Writer Posted 5/28/25 The National Spring Signing Day for the 2024-25 school year was May 16. Of the six Pirates who will continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level, one is taking theirs to the junior college … […]

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Tessa Rohleder is honored at Spring Signing Day for junior college soccer

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The National Spring Signing Day for the 2024-25 school year was May 16. Of the six Pirates who will continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level, one is taking theirs to the junior college …