Rangers must answer these looming questions as training camp opens
NY Post
This offseason was a peculiar one for the Rangers.
One that was capable of inducing some whiplash following a prolific Presidents’ Trophy-winning campaign, another conference final loss and then a brief flood of indications that major changes would be made.
While most never materialized, the Blueshirts made it clear they are at a crossroads.
Three straight seasons of finishing among the top three teams in the Metropolitan Division and two shots at a Stanley Cup Final berth is nothing to scoff at. When it comes with the context of a championship drought spanning more than three decades, however, it’s diminished.
This is the core the Rangers want to win with.
It is also the core that hasn’t gotten it done.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.