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Vegas head coach John Tortorella keeps his lips sealed about massive fine, loss of draft pick

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Usually, if an NHL team is going into its conference final with a cloud hanging over, it has to do with a player who’s out of the lineup because of injury or maybe a suspension.

Rarely is that cloud because the team just had its second-round pick that’s just a month away, yoinked from them, and the coach was slapped with a $100,000 fine.

But that’s what’s happening to the Vegas Golden Knights.

And head coach John Tortorella does not want to talk about it… which is also kind of how all of this started.

Tortorella usually gets in trouble for what he says, but in this case, it was for what he didn’t say, which was anything to the media after Vegas’ Game 6 over the Anaheim Ducks.

That led to the penalties from the league, which said there had been multiple warnings to the club.

Vegas responded by saying it would not comment on the matter, and on Saturday, Tortorella toed the company line and followed suit.

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Which, again, is rare.

While he was mum on this topic, Tortorella did discuss the upcoming series with the Colorado Avalanche.

It’s still unclear why Tortorella skipped his media obligations and the post-series handshake line, but Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that it was because the coach was upset about defenseman Brayden McNabb’s suspension from an incident in Game 5 that kept him out of Game 6.

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Of course, since neither the Golden Knights nor Tortorella wants to talk about it, we still don’t know for sure.

It also seems unusual that the team made no mention of whether or not it plans to appeal the ruling. The original statement — which Tortorella alluded to on Saturday — was as much of a “no comment” as it gets.

It’s hard to imagine this subject going away or disappearing from everyone’s mind before the Western Conference Final starts.

So, we’ll have to see if both the Golden Knights and Tortorella can continue to skirt the issue.

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Trump shares stunning photos of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, says project is ahead of schedule

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Trump shares photos of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, saying the upgraded project should be completed before July Fourth in time for America’s 250th anniversary.
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Napoleon Solo wins 151st Preakness Stakes

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Napoleon Solo took home the 2026 Preakness Stakes on Saturday, the 151st running of the race.

The favorite in Taj Mahal, the 1 horse, was in the lead from the start until the final turn until Napoleon Solo made his move on the outside and took the lead at the top of the stretch. As Taj Mahal fell off, Iron Honor, the 9 horse, snuck up, but the effort ultimately was not enough. 

Napoleon Solo opened at 8-1 and closed at 7-1. Iron Honor, at 8-1, finished second, with Chip Honcho fishing third after closing at 11-1. Ocelli, one of just three horses to run both the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago and Saturday’s Preakness, finished fourth at 8-1.

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A $1 exacta paid out $53.60, while a $1 trifecta brought in $597.10. But someone out there is very lucky, as a $1 superhighfive – picking the top-five finishers in order – paid out $12,015.70.

Even moreso, a 20-cent Pick 6 – picking the winners of the six consecutive races, with the final being the Preakness, paid out $33,842.34.

The race was run without the Kentucky Derby winner for the second year in a row. After Sovereignty did not run the Preakness last year – and wound up winning the Belmont Stakes – the training team of Golden Tempo opted to skip the Maryland race.

From 1960 to 2018, only three Derby winners did not run in the Preakness. Three Derby winners have skipped the Preakness in the last five years, and for the sixth time in eight years, for various reasons, the Triple Crown had already been impossible to accomplish by the time the Preakness even rolled around.

“I understand that fans of the sport or fans of the Triple Crown are disappointed, but the horse is not a machine,” Golden Tempo’s trainer, Cherie DeVaux, told Fox News Digital earlier this week.

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Only three horses from two weeks ago – Ocelli, Robusta, and Incredibolt, were back at the Preakness. Corona de Oro, the 11 horse on Saturday, was scratched well ahead of the Derby, and Great White, who reared up and fell on his back after becoming startled shortly before entering the Derby gate, took the 13 post on Saturday.

The Preakness went off roughly 24 hours after a horse died following the completion of his very first race.

Hit Zero, trained by Brittany Russell, came into the race as the favorite. However, he finished last in the race, which was won by another one of Russell’s horses, Bold Fact — and upon crossing the finish line, Hit Zero reportedly began coughing, dropped to his knees, then put his head down and died.

The Preakness took place at Laurel Park as Pimlico undergoes renovations. It was the first time ever that Pimlico did not host the race, moving roughly 20 miles south.

The Belmont Stakes, the final Triple Crown race, will take place on June 6. The race will return to Saratoga for a third year in a row as Belmont Park continues to be renovated.

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Coca-Cola quietly axed one Reagan-era drink that disappeared from store shelves

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A popular Minute Maid citrus drink that vanished from store shelves decades ago still lives on in the memories of kids who grew up drinking it in the 1980s.

Coca-Cola, Minute Maid’s parent company, quietly discontinued Five Alive around 1995. 

But nostalgic social-media posts keep wondering why.

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“When did Five Alive fall off?” a person on Reddit wondered about a year ago.

Another post from the same time showing an ad for Five Alive from 1979, the year it launched, drew sentimental reactions.

“Honestly, I loved that stuff,” wrote one commenter. 

“Why did it go away?” asked another.

“I miss this stuff so much,” someone else wrote.

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“I could go for some Five Alive right now,” wrote a Redditor three years ago. 

“Does anyone remember Five Alive?” asked another around the same time.

Both posts drew enthusiastic reactions from like-minded readers.

Some people even have fond memories of the less-expensive frozen concentrate version of the drink.

“Remember how it would slide slowly out of the can?” wrote a Redditor a year ago, drawing the response of, “SSHHHHHHHHHPLOP” from yet another commentator.

Five Alive faded from the U.S. market in the mid ’90s when Coca-Cola introduced Fruitopia in 1994 in a bid to keep up with trends, Tasting Table reported.

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Despite a $30-million marketing campaign, a spot in McDonald’s drink offerings and a shoutout from Stephen Hawking on “The Simpsons,” Fruitopia didn’t last either. Coca-Cola did away with it in 2003.

Coca-Cola announced earlier this year that Minute Maid is discontinuing its frozen juice concentrate products altogether “in response to shifting consumer preferences,” as Fox News Business reported.

Five Alive may have evaporated from American stores, but it isn’t fully extinct. 

Coca-Cola advertises both Five Alive and Fruitopia for sale in Canada.

Five Alive is also available in Nigeria, according to Tasting Table.

On its website, Walmart touts Five Alive as “a nutritious blend of five fruit flavors” that has “the ‘citrus zing’ that makes you Feel Alive!”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Coca-Cola for comment.

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