Yahoo Sports AM: Tragedy on the Potomac

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🚨 Headlines

🏈 Tucker faces six accusations: Ravens kicker Justin Tucker has been accused of sexual misconduct by six Baltimore-area massage therapists, who said he exposed his genitals during sessions from 2012-16. Tucker calls the allegations “unequivocally false.”

🏀 Rozier under investigation: Heat guard Terry Rozier is under federal investigation for his potential involvement in an illegal sports betting scheme while with the Hornets in 2023.

⚽️ The 16th team: The NWSL has officially announced Denver as its 16th franchise. The team cost a women’s sports record $110 million expansion fee and will begin play in 2026.

🏀 WNBA expansion: Tennessee alumni Peyton Manning and Candace Parker are part of group that has submitted a bid to bring a WNBA team to Nashville; Pistons owner Tom Gores has submitted a bid for Detroit, which lost its former team to Dallas in 2010.

⚾️ Mad Max to Toronto: Max Scherzer is joining the Blue Jays on a one-year, $15.5 million deal. This will be the 40-year-old’s fifth team in five seasons (Nationals, Dodgers, Mets, Rangers).

💔 Tragedy over the Potomac

At least 67 people are believed to have died on Wednesday night when an incoming flight collided with a military helicopter above the Potomac River near Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport.

• The death toll includes several members of the figure skating community, who were returning from a national development camp in Wichita, Kansas.

• U.S. Figure Skating experienced a similar tragedy 64 years ago, when the entire national team died in a plane crash en route to the 1961 world championships.

Here’s Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel on this unimaginable tragedy through the lens of the figure skating world, “a tight-knit community, where…