Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Nothing has come easily in Xavier Parent’s career. The Utica Comets forward is 5-foot-8, 170 pounds. Undrafted. Never garnered much attention from the draft experts. Never part of the spotlight that the IIHF World Junior Championship draws. Still unsigned after four junior seasons. But slowly and quietly, Parent continues to…
Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel has preached it all season: Adversity breeds opportunity. How the team responds to adversity will shape the course of the rest of this season, especially after Monday night. The fourth episode of this year’s in-season version of Hard Knocks highlighted the worst Dolphins loss in recent memory. Miami led…
If you’re looking for reality TV drama, this Miami Dolphins in-season Hard Knocks is not the show for you. Certainly, the tone of any sports documentary is going to be upbeat when the subject of the show is steamrolling teams. But what sets this iteration apart is that NFL Films and HBO picked a team made…
We all knew how the second episode of Hard Knocks: In Season With the Miami Dolphins would end. But that didn’t make watching the lowest moment of Jaelan Phillips’ NFL career any easier. The NFL Films camera crew provided a crystal clear look at the moments before, during, and after Phillips suffered a season-ending Achilles’…
The retirement of Ashleigh Barty hit Iga Swiatek pretty hard, as she described in a recent interview with Polish media. Ashleigh Barty was at the peak of her tennis career when she announced her retirement. She had just won the Australian Open and was number one when she opted to do it. It shocked many…
