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If a trade involving Dallas Mavericks big man Anthony Davis were to come to fruition, there is a potential date on when that would take place. Davis has been on and off the court throughout his stint with the Mavericks. He is going through his second season with the franchise following the major blockbuster trade that saw him go from Los Angeles to Dallas in exchange for Luka Doncic. The Mavericks haven’t been able to have significant success with Davis due to injuries on the roster, including himself. This has resulted in trade rumors surrounding the veteran star, which NBA insider Brett Siegel went over when it comes to the overall interest teams have in Davis. “If Anthony Davis or the Mavericks are to make a big move, it won’t come until right at that trade deadline. We’re talking February 3, February 4, February 5, when the trade deadline is. I wouldn’t expect any significant move there unless they were able to get a huge trade package, which has not come to them,” Siegel said around the 25-minute mark during a segment of Clutch Scoops. “At this time, there’s been reporting out there that there’s several Eastern Conference teams interested in AD, but there’s been pushback in all those areas. When you ask around the league, it’s a big question market. And the big question is, is this Rich Paul trying to create a market for Anthony Davis? Is it the Mavericks trying to say, ‘hey, there’s interest out there to try to get teams to offer up their best assets.’ Because each of those teams that have been mentioned have something that the Mavericks would want.” Reporter Tomer Azarly added in his thoughts on Davis’ standing in the league. He believes the Mavericks will remain patient until they see what they have in their overall core when healthy. “The Mavs want to see what they have here with Cooper Flagg, with Kyrie Irving, with Anthony Davis before they pull any franchise-altering moves. That obviously could change, assuming you get the right package for AD,” Azarly said. What’s next for Anthony Davis, Mavericks Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images It’s clear that the Mavericks will have a lot of decisions to address in the present and future, especially with Anthony Davis. They like the skillset he brings to the table, but will evaluate other options if they wish to go in a different direction. Dallas has a 9-16 record on the season, holding the 11th spot in the Western Conference standings. They are even with the Utah Jazz while trailing the Portland Trail Blazers by 0.5 games and Memphis Grizzlies by 2.5 games. The Mavericks will continue preparations for their upcoming matchup, being at home. They host the Brooklyn Nets on Dec. 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET. The post Mavericks rumors: An Anthony Davis trade would be at last minute before trade deadline appeared first on ClutchPoints.

It’s a big week in Boston, as the city is about to bid farewell to one of the most historic sports buildings in North America: Matthews Arena. Opened on April 16, 1910, and recognized as the oldest hockey and basketball venue in the NCAA as well as the oldest multipurpose athletic facility in the world, the venue will host its final event when Northeastern University faces Boston University in men’s hockey on Saturday. After 115 years of continuous use, the arena will shut down to make way for a new complex scheduled to open in September 2028, with demolition beginning in early 2026. Originally launched as the Boston Arena, the building predates Fenway Park, both Boston Gardens, the NHL, the NBA, and even the Bruins and Celtics themselves. The arena became Boston’s first indoor ice rink. Before its construction, hockey in the city was strictly outdoors. The minute hockey went indoors, interest blew up, contributing to Massachusetts ultimately producing 229 NHL players, the second-most of any U.S. state. The arena served as the original home of the Boston Bruins, who became the NHL’s first American franchise in 1924 and played there until 1928. It also housed the first home game in Boston Celtics history in 1946, with the team splitting time between the Arena and the Garden until 1955. In 1972, the WHA’s New England Whalers, now the Carolina Hurricanes, also began their franchise history on the same sheet of ice. In addition to sports, the arena has been a central cultural hub in Boston. Its stages and floors hosted appearances by both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, along with Taft, Hoover, Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. Not only that, musicians ranging from Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye to The Doors, Johnny Cash, Phish, and Ludacris performed within its walls. It was also the site where Nancy Kerrigan returned after her 1994 attack, and where more than 12,000 mourners attended the funeral of Reggie Lewis. Northeastern made the arena its hockey home in 1929, purchased the building in 1979, and renamed it Matthews Arena three years later. Since then, it has housed Northeastern’s men’s and women’s varsity hockey teams, men’s basketball program, club hockey groups, figure skating teams, university gatherings, and the city’s first Beanpot Tournament in 1952. Northeastern’s hockey identity grew with the arena. The men’s team has produced 34 NHL players, while the women’s program won six straight Hockey East titles (2018–23) and reached three consecutive Frozen Fours (2021–23). The famous DogHouse student section became one of the loudest and most recognizable fan groups in college hockey. Age, however, finally caught up with the structure. By 2024, the building’s condition required large exterior steel supports, upper-deck closures, and scaffolding to keep it operational. Its narrow lobby, wooden-plank ceiling, tight corridors, and maze-like balcony tell you the arena is long past modern standards. The farewell to the arena has been a drawn-out process, stretching from the 2024 demolition request to the final basketball game last month and Monday’s last community skate, and it reaches its climax this weekend. After Saturday night’s final puck drop, Northeastern’s teams will begin two years of temporary relocation across rinks throughout Massachusetts and Maine. Once demolition concludes in mid-2026, Matthews Arena will be gone after more than a century, but its influence on Boston sports, American hockey culture, and Northeastern University will remain forever. The post Matthews Arena to close after 100 years as North America’s longest-operating hockey venue appeared first on ClutchPoints.

« Qui sont les promoteurs du roman national ? Quels sont les mythes qui, hier et aujourd’hui encore, le soutiennent et structurent les représentations et les pratiques des élites dirigeantes, et celles de nombreux clercs devenus des scribes consciencieux ? » 1870. Les troupes de Napoléon III sont défaites par les armées prussiennes ; la France perd l’Alsace et la Lorraine. 1871. Les « Rouges » triomphent à Paris. Au terme d’une nouvelle guerre civile, la Commune est écrasée. Autant d’événements dramatiques pensés par les contemporains comme des preuves de décadence. Pour arracher le pays à cette situation, il est indispensable de refaire le corps social, politique et symbolique de la nation. Les élites dirigeantes et universitaires de la Troisième République s’attèlent donc à la fabrication d’un extraordinaire roman national-républicain fondé, entre autres, sur l’invention de deux mythologies : l’« universalisme » et l’« exception » française. De là, aussi, la construction d’un puissant État éducateur et moralisateur, notamment voué à la domestication des classes « dangereuses ». Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison revient ici sur la genèse de ces mythologies, leurs reprises successives et leur fonction politique, hier et aujourd’hui, où des politiques, des historien·nes, des philosophes et des essayistes [...]

Qui a peur des bibliothèques ? On doit se poser la question, avec la dernière livraison de la NrF. Elles vivent depuis la nuit des temps à l’ombre de la censure, nous rappelle l’écrivain, traducteur et ancien directeur de la Bibliothèque nationale d’Argentine Alberto Manguel dans un éloge à ces temples du livre. Lieux de savoir à l’usage du pouvoir depuis leur création, nous rappelle, avec Ovide, le professeur au Collège de France William Marx. Lieux de fantasmes et de symboles aussi, pour l’éditeur Julien Brocard, qui échafaude la vertigineuse bibliothèque des livres qui n’ont jamais été écrits. Tandis que Vanessa de Senarclens, enseignante à l’université Humboldt de Berlin, revient sur « les pertes de guerre » des bibliothèques allemandes. Quel scénario d’avenir à l’heure de l’IA et de la numérisation des collections ? L’avenir appartient aux rats de bibliothèque, affirme dans une fiction déjantée le romancier et directeur de la Bibliothèque de littérature française et comparée de la Sorbonne, Cyrille Martinez. Les États-Unis sont-ils en train de renouer avec les pratiques de l'autodafé ? Un second dossier donne la parole à l’ancien directeur de la bibliothèque de Harvard, Robert Darnton, qui revient sur la multiplication des interdictions de livres aux États-Unis, tandis que les [...]

«Will any of the more fortunate sons of Erin exclude their ignorant Gaelic Brethren from the advantages to be derived from the perusal of the Sacred volume […] ? ». C’est par ces mots qu’un pasteur baptiste écossais interpellait en 1818 des Anglicans dublinois afin de les encourager dans la formation de l’Irish Society for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish. Comme son nom l’indique, cette dernière a pour but d’alphabétiser les Irlandais gaéolophones afin qu’ils puissent tous lire la Bible dans leur langue maternelle. Alors que l’Irlande est dominée par la minorité protestante, cette innovation est perçue comme une tentative de corruption des âmes et d’éradication du catholicisme, voire d’une nouvelle stratégie de colonisation. Karina Bénazech Wendling démontre comment l’utilisation de la Bible vernaculaire dans les écoles vient bouleverser le statu quo de la territorialité religieuse, provoque l’opposition des catholiques et contribue ainsi à la catholicisation du mouvement nationaliste de Daniel O’Connell. Maîtresse de conférences à l’Université de Lorraine (IDEA-UR2338), Karina Bénazech Wendling est spécialiste d’histoire du protestantisme. Sa recherche s’intéresse aux implications sociales, religieuses et politiques du développement d’une éducation dite scripturaire en Europe et dans l’espace transatlantique. Extrait de l'introduction... Table des matières... — Version PDF [...]