Hayden Panettiere's final Instagram post captured a playful moment with a friend just three weeks before the Heroes and Nashville actress died at age 36.
Panettiere shared the black-and-white photo on July 27, posing alongside director and photographer Randall Slavin. "Good times and good friends randallslavin ✨," she wrote, according to PEOPLE.
The image showed Panettiere with her hands on Slavin's shoulder, one eye closed and her tongue out as he wrapped an arm around her. After news of her death emerged, Slavin reshared the photograph to his Instagram Stories with the short message, "Peace be with you, H."
Panettiere's family confirmed her death on Aug. 16. She had spent much of 2026 back in the public eye, releasing her memoir, promoting new screen work and speaking candidly in interviews about her life after decades of growing up in entertainment.
The July 27 photo was the final post visible on Panettiere's Instagram feed before her death. There was only the brief reference to good times and friendship and a tag for Slavin.

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Fan-favorite actress Hayden Panettiere is dead at the age of 36, a representative confirmed to ABC News. Now fans have begun looking back on the actress's social media, reflecting on her lifelong career.
The actress last posted on Instagram on July 27, 2026, with a photo of herself with director and photographer Randall Slavin, captioning the post "good times with good friends."
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Following news of her death, Slavin reposted the image to his Instagram Story, captioning the photo "Peace be with you, H."
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The drama arising from quarterback Brendan Sorsby's saucer of sorbet at Texas Tech isn't ending.
At the Big 12 Media Days (Something Something Monster Energy), Cincinnati football coach Scott Satterfield claimed that Texas Tech was one of several schools that spoke with Sorsby’s camp about transferring before the 2025 season ended. If true, that would be a violation of the NCAA's tampering rules.
“We had already heard that schools had reached out — Texas Tech in particular had already reached out — with four games left,” Satterfield told Chris Vannini of The Athletic. “So we knew we wouldn’t be able to compete financially with that, so we’d started looking for quarterbacks."
Sorsby's agent, Ron Slavin, denied to The Athletic that he heard from Texas Tech before the 2025 season ended.
Tampering is rampant in the Wild West that is college football in the NIL age. Everyone does it, to the point at which any program that doesn't is operating at a disadvantage.

Of the 32 NHL teams, several front offices stand out amongst the rest. These organizations consistently make moves to put their teams in positions to contend for a Stanley Cup. Their general managers are bold, gambling and winning through free agency, trades and the NHL Draft.
It should be no surprise that these teams are the cream of the crop in the current NHL. Some of these teams also have a leg up in attracting free agents due to state income tax laws, weather or the fun of the city.
But success, whether through skill or luck, and being born on third base, are part of life, and thus part of hockey. It’s impossible to exclude these factors. In this sense, sports have never been fair. But this list will be as fair as it gets.
The Hurricanes made a number of moves in the past 15 years that set them up for long-term success. They drafted Jaccob Slavin, a defensive cornerstone, in the fourth round of the 2012 NHL Draft. They drafted a steal in Sebastian Aho in the second round of the 2015 NHL Draft. Then they selected Andrei Svechnikov and Seth Jarvis in 2018 and 2020, respectively.
Arguably, their best decision was signing Rod Brind’Amour as their coach in 2018. They haven’t missed the playoffs since and have one Stanley Cup from this year to show for it. Brind’Amour has them use an aggressive forecheck and pepper the opposing goalie with shots, a playstyle that has proven effective 90% of the time.

Monday was the deadline to apply for the supplemental draft. The general belief in league circles is that, in the coming days, the NFL will issue a memo identifying the date of the supplemental draft and the players who will be in the supplemental draft pool.
There's still an open question as to whether the NFL will reject quarterback Brendan Sorsby's application. On Monday's #PFTPM , Sorsby's agent, Ron Slavin, was asked whether there's any reason to think the league could decide to not let him in.
"I would hope not," Slavin said. "I mean, if anybody reads the NCAA investigation, they went through all four years of Brendan's bets. The conclusion was there's never integrity of the game violations. Again, his bets at Indiana were from the dorm room, not on the travel roster. The minute he was on the travel roster, there was never another college football bet ever placed.
"What I keep hearing over and over and over is, 'Oh, can I trust this kid on my roster? Is he gonna bet on games that he plays in?' He had 35 starts in college football. He never bet on any games he played in. He never bet on college football once he actually was playing. Again, I think this was a situation where we've created 18-to-22-year old kids, if they're gonna watch a game, they're gonna put money on it. And at the time, that's what he did. But he never did it again. And, I mean, this is a kid who literally doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. He's just a great kid who, you know, made a mistake at 18. He was getting crucified now, four or five years later."
There continue to be two questions, as it relates to the league's approach to Sorsby. First, will the league let him in the supplemental draft? Second, will he be suspended after he's drafted?

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A celebration 20 years in the making will play out in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday.
The Carolina Hurricanes will celebrate their first Stanley Cup championship since 2006 with a parade through the capital city and a rally to follow.
The 'Canes took down the Vegas Golden Knights in six games to capture the most beloved trophy in sports for the second time, capping a spectacular run that saw them go 16-3 in the playoffs.
Coach Rod Brind'Amour, captain of the 2006 champions, cemented his status as a hero to Carolina's hockey fans by leading the team back to the promised land. A notch lower, perhaps, are long-serving 'Canes like Sebastian Aho, Jaccob Slavin and Andrei Svechnikov, who finally got to lift the Cup after some tough postseason losses through the years.

The Brendan Sorsby saga has given rise to an intriguing question about the period of time during which he was actively, and heavily, betting on sports in violation of NCAA rules.
What did Cincinnati know, and when did Cincinnati know it?
Earlier this week, agent Ron Slavin — while defending Texas Tech against the intense scrutiny it has absorbed over Sorsby — said that, if anyone should "catch heat," it should be Cincinnati. As Slavin put it, Cincinnati "knew for two years and never said anything and didn't do anything about it."
Cincinnati thereafter issued a statement denying the contention.
Regardless, there's enough there to require the NCAA to fully and completely investigate the situation. If Cincinnati truly knew nothing, and if it has nothing to hide, it should welcome the opportunity to show that it did not allow Sorsby to play at a time when (given that he had placed bets on Indiana while on the Indiana roster) he had permanently lost his NCAA eligibility.

On Wednesday morning, agent Ron Slavin suggested that Texas Tech gave quarterback Brendan Sorsby a nudge toward the NFL supplemental draft. The official paperwork dismissing Sorsby's lawsuit against the NCAA describes it as something much more than a nudge.
In the two-page voluntary dismissal of Sorsby's lawsuit, as posted by Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, Sorsby's lawyers stated this: "On June 15, 2026, Plaintiff was informed by Texas Tech that, notwithstanding the Temporary Injunction Order, the University would not permit Plaintiff to play for his football team during the 2026-27 football season, thereby rendered the relief afforded by the Temporary Injunction Order moot."
In English, Texas Tech told Sorsby on Monday that the school would not allow him to play. Period. End of discussion.
It didn't matter if Sorsby was willing to hold firm with the injunction and bypass the supplemental draft. Texas Tech, per Sorsby's lawyer, told Sorsby he would not be allowed to play.
The timing is important. On Monday, the Big 12 sued Texas Tech in federal court in Dallas. The Big 12 wanted to have the ability to sanction Texas Tech, if/when it played Sorsby in a game.

So why did quarterback Brendan Sorsby decide to enter the supplemental draft? As his agent tells it, Sorsby believed Texas Tech wanted to move on from a difficult situation.
Appearing Wednesday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, agent Ron Slavin explained Sorsby's decision to waive his remaining college football eligibility by withdrawing his lawsuit and heading to the NFL.
"It just came down to too much pressure from everybody else on Tech, and Brendan still wanted to play at Tech," Slavin said. "This wasn't Brendan Sorsby not wanting to play college football. This was Brendan Sorsby just being advised by the school that, 'I think it's time for you' — you know, we had seven days left to file for the supplemental draft and didn't know where this thing was gonna go. So, we won in court. We did our job on our side, but, for whatever reason, the world melted down like college football was ruined forever."
Although Slavin eventually pegged the decision as a 50-50 split between Sorsby and Texas Tech "just to make everybody happy," it's clear from the overall interview that Slavin (and, by extension, Sorsby) believes Tech got skittish.
"When we made the decision to hire Jeffrey Kessler, you know, he's the Harlem Globetrotters," Slavin said. "You know, he doesn't lose. And the NCAA, unfortunately, is the Washington Generals. So, you know, that's kind of how we stood on it. And we still haven't — we didn't lose. That's the thing."

June 14 (UPI) -- Jaccob Slavin and the Carolina Hurricanes vaporized Vegas Golden Knights offensive threats in a Game 6 shutout Sunday to seal the franchise's first Stanley Cup in 20 years.
Slavin provided an ******* ist, but made most of his impact as a spoiler of the Golden Knights' hopes of extending the series, foiling countless chances in Carolina's 3-0 triumph in Las Vegas.
"What a feeling," Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal, the Stanley Cup playoffs MVP, said on the ABC broadcast. "What a battle. The boys were grinding today. So many individual efforts to keep the puck out of the net. It was an amazing ride."
Hurricanes goalie Brandon Bussi, who took over for benched starter Frederik Andersen in Game 3, made 22 saves in Game 6 to become the first rookie to record a shutout in a Stanley Cup clincher since 1936. The Hurricanes are the first team since the 1984 Edmonton Oilers to win a Stanley Cup while using two starting goalies.
"It's special," Bussi said. "It's been a special year. It's been an honor to do it with this group. Everybody deserves it so much."

Taylor Hall was a No. 1 pick in the draft in 2010. He was the NHL's MVP in 2018.
Now, he is a Stanley Cup champion.
No longer in the prime of his career, Hall was one of the biggest reasons the Carolina Hurricanes won 16 of 19 games during this playoff run.
“He’s fast, he’s physical (and) he makes great plays with the puck,” defenseman Jaccob Slavin said. “He’s selling out to block shots. And so you need that. He’s really just been a complete player this whole playoffs.”
Hall at 34 took on a workmanlike role on a line alongside 23-year-old Logan Stankoven and 22-year-old Jackson Blake. That trio led the way through the first three rounds of the playoffs and in the final against Vegas. Hall was a force in every way — generating offense, hammering opponents and sacrificing himself on defense.

The coach is the same. The system is the same. The core is the same.
That is nothing against Rod Brind'Amour, considered one of the best behind the bench in the NHL, or Jordan Staal, Jaccob Slavin, Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis, who have been the centerpiece of the Carolina Hurricanes making the playoffs year after year.
But the difference this year came from all the new talent general manager Eric Tulsky added over the past 17 months to get over the hump. It added up to the franchise winning the Stanley Cup for the second time and first since 2006.
Tulsky took a big swing by acquiring elite winger Mikko Rantanen from Colorado in January 2025 and also got veteran Taylor Hall from Chicago as part of the three-team blockbuster. When Rantanen didn't want to be part of Carolina's long-term future, Tulsky traded him to Dallas and received center Logan Stankoven and two first-round picks, one of which became part of getting defenseman K'Andre Miller on July 1.
Two days later, the Hurricanes won the bidding competition to sign top free agent Nikolaj Ehlers, the speedy winger who gave them just what they needed after seven consecutive postseason appearances without a trip to the final. Falling one goal short so many times in key situations, Ehlers, Stankoven, Hall and Miller put an end to the rite of spring of wondering where that would come from.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Vegas Golden Knights would love nothing more than to throw a block party at Lenovo Center beginning Tuesday night. It’s a path, albeit a painful one, to winning a second Stanley Cup.

Blocking shots in the NHL takes courage. Ask Pavel Dorofeyev, who took one off the knee in the Anaheim series then returned to the ice and was the overtime hero of Game 5 when he scored the game winner.

“It’s kind of a s— part of my job, but it hurts more when I miss it,” I just had to get myself together and get back on the ice,” was Dorofeyev’s now-famous postgame quote. And it exemplifies what the mentality is when it comes to blocking shots.

On this team, no one is exempt when it comes to getting in front of pucks. It’s one of those “non-negotiables” that coaches love to talk about. And John Tortorella has been a long-time advocate of demanding his players block opponents’ shots.

The memo was received loud and clear, Through three rounds of this year’s playoffs, the Knights have a total of 278 blocked shots compared to 223 for their opponents. Shea Theodore, who’s not known for being a big shot-blocking presence unlike his blueline partner Brayden McNabb, is second in the NHL in postseason blocks with 46. McNabb has 31 and ranks sixth, followed right behind by Noah Hanifin with 30 and Rasmus Andersson is 11th with 26 blocks.

And if you think the Vegas forwards get a free pass, guess again. Colton Sissons has 17 blocks, Jack Eichel has 16 and Nic Dowd has 14. Dorofeyev? He’s got nine and he’s got the bruises to prove it.

Carolina defenseman Jaccob Slavin is the Hurricanes’ top shot-blocker with 28, which ranks him ninth in the playoffs. The Canes don’t block a lot of shots. But don’t be fooled. Opponents don’t get a lot of shots for Carolina to block as shot suppression is preached by coach Rod Brind’Amour. In five games of the Eastern Conference Final, the Montreal Canadiens managed just 89 shots total, an average of under 18 shots on goal. No wonder the Habs were sent packing.

Can Carolina contain Vegas’ attack? Can the Knights get enough shooting volume each game to make Frederik Andersen work in the Carolina net? Or will the Canes have to block more shots in order to get the desired result?

Conversely, will Carolina be able to pressure Carter Hart enough and not get frustrated when Theodore, McNabb and the rest of the Knights throw their bodies in the way of shots from the Canes’ shooters?

Defenseman Dylan Coghlan said it’s a mindset that was there before Tortorella arrived, basically emanating from ******* istant coach John Stevens, whose primary responsibility is working with the Vegas defensemen.

“It’s just one of those things you have to do,” Coghlan said. “I think (Stevens) said it a few times — it hurts more if it goes by you. So just having that mentality and trying to do everything you can.

“I think it started as a joke, but I don't think anybody takes it as a joke. It's true, if it goes by you and i