Sports, Entertainment & Culture — September 17, 2026

Jets suspend Hellebuyck for camp no-show. The Winnipeg Jets suspended star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck after he failed to report to the team’s training camp as it opened this week.

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Aaron Judge exits with leg tightness. The Yankees slugger left Wednesday’s game with lower leg tightness just a week after returning from a rib injury, clouding New York’s tight AL East race.

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Kraft answers Macklemore with $2 million. After Macklemore pledged $1 million to Palestinian aid groups following his removal from Ed Sheeran’s tour, Patriots owner Robert Kraft committed $2 million at Sheeran’s request.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Macklemore publicly invited Kraft to match his $1 million pledge, framing the donation as a direct challenge to the Patriots owner. Kraft’s response, which doubled that figure, came at Sheeran’s request rather than Macklemore’s, and the exchange marked a deepening of the fallout from the rapper’s removal from the tour.

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Peter Max dies at 88. The New York-based pop artist, known for euphoric, color-saturated posters and portraits that defined the flower-power era of the 1960s, died at 88.

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