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The formerWashington Commandersoffensive coordinator is joining theLos Angeles Rams' coaching staff, according to multiple reports Friday.

Kingsbury is a close friend of McVay's, with the Arizona Cardinals famously having referenced their relationship upon hiring the former as head coach in 2019. Now, the two will work together in 2026.

It was not immediately clear in what capacity Kingsbury would serve on the offensive staff. TheRamshave an opening at offensive coordinator afterMike LaFleur was hired as the Cardinals' head coach. Passing game coordinator Nathan Scheelhaase, however, was expected to be the leading candidate for the role, with McVay continuing to retain play-calling responsibilities.

Kingsbury parted ways with theCommandersin January after two seasons, with reports indicating lingering ideological differences with general manager Adam Peters on the direction of the offense.

Super Bowl VII (Dolphins 14, Washington 7): Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Manny Fernandez (75) tackles Washington running back Larry Brown (43) in Super Bowl VII at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Dolphins completed a 17-0 undefeated season with the win.

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Super Bowl XL (Steelers 21, Seahawks 10): Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward jumps in the air and scores after catching a 43-yard touchdown pass from fellow wideout Antwaan Randle El.

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In 2024, Kingsbury helped quarterback Jayden Daniels becomethe nearly unanimous NFL Offensive Rookie of the Yearfor a team that made a surprise run to the NFC championship game. With Daniels and several other key figures suffering injuries last season, however, Washington stumbled to a 5-12 record.

In Los Angeles, Kingsbury joins an offense that led the NFL in total yards and scoring. Afterwinning NFL MVPon Thursday,quarterback Matthew Stafford announced he would return for next season.

Kingsbury also interviewed with the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans for both their head-coaching vacancies as well their offensive coordinator openings.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Kliff Kingsbury joining Los Angeles Rams' coaching staff

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"Obviously, any team with Jayson Tatum's going to be better," Stevens said on Friday. "If he needs it, I'll tell him every day. Because every team -- all 30 of us -- would be way, way better with him on the team."

Tatum led Boston to its 18th title and had it on track for a repeat last spring before he tore his Achilles tendon in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks. The Celtics seemed headed for a rebuilding year when they traded key contributors Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis over the summer to avoid the punitive second apron of the league's luxury tax.

But they hit this week's trade deadline tied for the East's second seed, with the possibility that a late-season return by Tatum could ignite another long playoff run. Asked about that scenario last week, Tatum wondered whether he might upset the team's chemistry by returning.

"That's something I contemplate every day," he said onThe Pivot podcast. "They would have played 50-some odd games without me. So they have an identity this year, or things they've felt that have clicked for them, and it's been successful.

"So there's a thought in my head that is, like: 'How does that work? How does that look with me integrating myself off an injury,'" he said. "And it is a thought, like, 'Damn, do I come back, or should I wait?'"

Stevens said he hadn't heard the podcast, but from his conversations with the six-time All-Star he hasn't seen anything other than the usual doubts from a rehabbing player about whether he would be able to get back to the same level.

"Those are just things that go through everybody's minds," Stevens said, chuckling at the thought the team would be better off without Tatum. "In all of our conversations, he's confident he can make the team better, too."

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For now, Tatum still has "a ways to go," and theteam isn't going to rush him, Stevens said.

"He's hit a lot of the thresholds, he's doing more and more and will continue to do more and more," the former Celtics coach and current president of basketball operations said. "There's no pressure from us. But there's also not going to be any of us saying, 'Well, why don't you just take another week?' It's going to be: When he's ready, he's ready."

Despite Tatum's absence and the offseason salary dump, the Celtics (33-18) won four straight games heading into Thursday's trade deadline, when Stevens further lowered the payroll bytrading Anfernee Simons to Chicago for Nikola Vucevicand then unloading Josh Minott, Xavier Tillman and Chris Boucher to move below the luxury tax threshold itself.

Originally a first-round draft pick by the 76ers, Vucevic made his NBA playoff debut when the Celtics of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen ousted Philadelphia in the 2011 Eastern Conference semifinals. But the 35-year-old Montenegrin has only been to playoffs three more times in a 15-year career and has never won a postseason series.

"It's something that I think every player wants to get a chance to do, and make deep runs," Vucevic told reporters on Friday. "Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to do that in my career. So I'm excited to be here, be around a championship team, a lot of the players that have done it before and the coaching staff as well, and the Celtics throughout their history."

Stevens said swapping the 6-foot-3 Simons for the 6-foot-9 Vucevic gives the team depth at big man at the cost of a position where they remain relatively deep. The possibility of Tatum's return didn't play a part in his thinking, Stevens said.

"It's best for Jayson to come when he's 110% healthy, he's fully cleared by everybody that matters in that decision, and he's got great peace of mind and ready to do it," Stevens said. "That's it. That's the objective, and that's what we're going to stick with."

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But on Thursday night, the bus never came. The 64-year-old bookseller spent the night sleeping in a nearby restaurant instead, worried that this could be the new normal if the gas that fuels the island runs out.

Anxieties simmered in Havana on Friday, a day after CubanPresident Miguel Díaz-Canelwarned that U.S. efforts to block oil supplies would take a heavy toll on the Caribbean nation and asked Cubans to endure further sacrifices to weather the impending hardship.

Many Cubans, already reeling from years of deepening economic crisis, were left asking: What more can we sacrifice?

"I'm very worried," Oña said. "Before, things were always difficult. But there was always one bus. One way to get home. Now, there are none."

By Friday morning, working class residents like Oña were already seeing an inkling of what the future might hold.

Already unreliable public buses stopped running altogether, leaving many stranded for hours. Others were left walking large distances or hitchhiking.Long gas lines and black outs, a constant on the island, have grown even worse as U.S. President Donald Trump presses down on Cuba with an increasingly heavy hand.

Last week, Trumpsigned an executive orderthreatening to impose tariffs on countries providing oil to Cuba, a move that couldfurther cripple an islandplagued by a deepening energy crisis.

On Friday, the national transportation company also said it was cutting routes in the east of the island while the University of Havana said it would cancel some events and push for more remote learning, citing "energy deficits."

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Meanwhile, much of the city of 2 million – schools, banks, bakeries and shops – continued to operate as usual, underscoring how normal the crisis has become on the Caribbean island. Taxis, shared electric motorcycles and other transportation organized by some employers were still working in Havana's capital. However, taxi fares remain far out of reach for the many Cubans living on a state salary of less than $20 a month.

While the U.S. announced$6 million in aid to Cubans Thursday night, severing the island from its primary energy sources has dealt a blow to the nation, especially to civilians who often bear the brunt of the economic crisis. Cuba only produces 40% of the oil it consumes.

The island's communist government says U.S. sanctions cost the country more than $7.5 billion between March 2024 and February 2025, substantially more than the year before.

The crisis deepened after Venezuela — once Cuba's primary oil-rich ally — ceased shipments in January, following aU.S. military operation that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro. Then, in late January Mexico, a long vocal ally of Cuba,halted its oil exports to the island.

Left with few alternatives, many Cubans now say the current economic turmoil U.S. policies have wrought on their daily lives is comparable to the severe economic depression in the 1990s known as theSpecial Period, following cuts in Soviet aid.

"What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country?" Díaz-Canel said. "It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?"

For Cristina Díaz, a 51-year-old mother of two, the answer was to walk to her work as a house cleaner. She was joined by packs of others in the capital that strolled along the side of the road on Friday, once again adapting to a new reality.

"We're living as best we can," Díaz said. "What can I do? I live here, I was born here and this is my lot. I have to walk to get to work and to be able to feed my children."

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