Drake Maye’s wife gives inside look at tropical vacation after Super Bowl loss in new pics: ‘Much needed sunshine’

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye's wife, Ann Michael, shared some behind the scenes of their recent vacation in Hawaii, including a brand new food review he filmed for the influencer.

Ann Michael shared a carousel of Instagram photos that showed the couple posing together nearby the ocean.

"Much needed sunshine

," the Pilates instructorcaptioned her post, adding a yellow heart emoji.

Maye filmed her trying Hawaiian shaved ice topped with sour gummy worms for a food review, as seen Thursday in a TikTok video.

"Shoutout drake for the camera work

," Ann Michael wrote.

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"It's tastes so good. It's sweet but it's not artificial flavoring because it's real [strawberry] fruit," she says in the video. "They put tajín on it… I'm going to give it an 8.7."

Ann Michael — who rose to fame in New England with her viral holiday baking TikTok videos — also shared a "day in the life" video while exploring the resort they stayed at while in Hawaii.

She shared clips of her lounging and reading a Harry Potter book, while the Pro Bowl quarterback was seen talking on a panel and played catch on a football field.

It seems Maye mixed in some work obligations during their vacation.

The pair, who tied the knot last summer, are enjoying some R&R in paradise afterNew England's 29-13 loss to Seattlein Super Bowl 2026.

Maye was intercepted twice, sacked six times and registered a fumble in the big game, which took place at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8.

Maye, the No. 3 pick in 2024, helped the Patriots to a 14-3 mark in the regular season in coach Mike Vrabel's first year.

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All eyes focused on Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza as QBs take center stage at NFL scouting combine

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza possesses all the traits NFL teams covet in a franchise quarterback.

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He's smart, mobile, makes fast reads and quick releases. He has a strong arm and prototypical size. He has three years of starting experience anda national championship,too.

But the once lightly recruited Mendoza learned long ago not to take anything for granted. So ifthe overwhelming favorite to be the No. 1 overall pickin April 's draft fulfills those expectations, he'll embrace the pressure to succeed. And ifthe quarterback-needy Las Vegas Raidersbypass Mendoza, the former Indiana star won't fret. Instead, the Boston-born Mendoza hopes to steal a page from one of his favorite player's game plans.

"Whatever team drafts me, I'm grateful — whether it's the No. 1 pick or whether it's the 199th pick," Mendoza said, denoting the very spot Raiders part owner and seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady was selected in the 2000 draft.

Nobody, of course, anticipates Mendoza sliding that far, though stranger things have happened.

Carson Beck began the 2024 season as the favorite to go No. 1 then suffered a late-season elbow injury that required surgery and forced his transfer from Georgia to Miami. When the league's annual scouting combine rolled around last February, Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward seemed positioned to go at the top. Ward won that battle, going to Tennessee at No. 1, while Sanders had to wait until Cleveland finally took him at No. 144.

This year, though, there seems to be no serious debate. Mendoza is clearly at the head of this class.

He's reaping the benefits. Mendoza recently spent time with two-time Super Bowl-winning brothers Peyton and Eli Manning, as well as Daniel Jones, last season's Colts starter. He even spoke briefly on the phone with Brady during a recent interview with Raiders brass.

And everywhere he went Friday, cameras followed — from the phones popping up at his podium to the subsequent television rounds he made inside the media room to those filming Mendoza strolling the hallways inside the Indiana Convention Center. He does not plan to throw Saturday night because Indiana's 16-game season left him with less time to prepare for the combine than other players. He does intend to throw April 1 at his Pro Day.

"It's been hectic," Mendoza said. "A lot of our teammates were joking we played the natty on Jan. 19, and Jan. 23 we had three days of celebrating with a parade. Then it was all off to training. Everybody was going to Miami, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago to go train. That process of being dispersed so quickly shows why you need to be enabled in the present moment, how much it matters to be in the present moment and how much you've got to really enjoy the good times while they last."

Some of the quarterbacks in this group understand what Mendoza means.

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Beck spent last spring and summer rehabbing in an effort to prove he could regain his pre-injury throwing form. The result: He led Miami to the national championship game in their home stadium, rebuilt his draft stock and now hopes to prove he could be a first-round pick.

"You look at the beginning of the 2024 season, going into it, nobody envisioned that season to go that way, starting with myself," Beck said. "I didn't know I was going to get injured at the end of the season. I didn't know I was going to end up coming back to college for another year. That was never the plan, right? So when the injury happened, I had declared for the draft. I was going to go through the process and from that point, I'm gone. It's like 'OK, Gunner (Stockton) is next up.' So when I decided to not go to the NFL, it was like, 'I'm going to go somewhere else.'"

Drew Allar is facing a similar comeback attempt albeit on an expedited schedule.

He returned to Penn State last fall rather than turning pro to pursue a national championship. Nothing went right. The top-ranked team in The Associated Press preseason poll faltered early and the season unraveled quickly, leading to the midseason firing of coach James Franklin.

Then in mid-October, Allar suffered a broken left ankle that required season-ending surgery. Now, he's trying to show NFL scouts he's healthy.

"As soon as I really got back to school and started my rehab process my whole focus has been getting to this point, being healthy enough to have the chance to put myself out there and throw," Allar said. "So I am really excited to go out there on Saturday and just cut it loose."

Allar plans to throw — not run.

For Mendoza, this is a different kind of stage. Here, he's trying to show dozens of teams he's got what it takes to follow in the footsteps of Brady and become some team's long-term solution at quarterback. First, though, he wants to win the job.

"Right now, I'm unemployed," he said. "So this is my job interview and like everyone says, it's the most important job interview of your life. So right now, I'm just trying to do everything to hopefully get employed."

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Austin Smotherman leads by three at Cognizant Classic

Austin Smotherman will carry a three-stroke lead into the weekend at the Cognizant Classic at The Palm Beaches.

Smotherman followed his opening 62 with a 2-under-par 69 on Friday at PGA National's Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. That brought him to 11 under, comfortably clear of Taylor Moore, who is in second after his second straight 4-under 67.

"Yeah, leading a PGA Tour event, come on, pretty awesome," Smotherman said.

Smotherman, 31, is in fine position for his first win on the PGA Tour since turning pro a decade ago. He has won three times on the Korn Ferry Tour, including last June.

Afterwards, he credited himself with playing "Austin Smotherman golf." When asked what that meant, he responded, "as boring and simple as it can be.

"That's what I want to do out there. I feel like I ball strike it good enough to have that kind of boring golf, a bunch of fairways ideally," he said.

He suffered three bogeys Friday after a bogey-free opening round, but the key stretch for him after starting on the back nine was between Nos. 17 and 3. He birdied four holes in that stretch, starting with a 54-foot bomb at the par-3 17th hole.

"Anything under par I thought would have been (good) following up a round like yesterday, which was a special one," he said, "and try not to get too far ahead of myself thinking I'm going to make every long putt I'm looking at, like kind of was the feeling yesterday, and then today I still make a 55-footer on 17."

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Moore overcame a bogey in each half of his round with three birdies on either nine, more than counterbalancing the rough patches to earn his second straight solid score.

"I think very different 67s," Moore said when comparing his rounds. "I didn't hit many fairways yesterday, kind of grinded a lot, had a couple chip-ins, which obviously helps. I thought I struck the ball much better today. Drove it in the fairways on the par-5s, I felt like. Yeah, still had a few up-and-downs, obviously, with the tough windy conditions this afternoon, but overall I thought it was solid."

Canadian A.J. Ewart had the round of the day, a 64 that powered him to 7 under for the week. He's tied with Colombia's Nico Echavarria (72), and Joel Dahmen is in fifth at 6 under after a second consecutive 68.

Ewart, who played for nearby Barry University in college, came in with some familiarity.

"We used to come and watch this tournament when I was at school. I think I came up here twice, maybe three times and watched," Ewart said. "I had never actually played the golf course, but I felt like I knew it just from watching it."

Irishman Shane Lowry, one of the most recognizable players in the field, is in a large knot for sixth at 5 under after posting a 67. Defending champion Joe Highsmith made the cut on the number at even par.

Notable players who missed the cut included Webb Simpson (1 over), Gary Woodland (2 over), Matt Kuchar (2 over) and Canada's Adam Hadwin (3 over).

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Attorney general announces indictments against 30 more people who protested at a Minnesota church

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in aJanuary protest inside a Minnesota churchwhere a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Bondi said on social media that 25 people were in custody and more arrests would follow. The new indictment comes a month after independent journalistsDon LemonandGeorgia Fortand prominent local activistNekima Levy Armstrongwere charged for their alleged roles in the protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Bondi accused the group of attacking a house of worship.

"If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you," she wrote on social media.

A livestreamed video posted on Facebook shows people interrupting services at Cities Church on January 18 by chanting "ICE out" and "Justice forRenee Good," a reference to the woman who was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on January 7.

Protesters targeted church over its pastor

Protesters descended on Cities Church after learning that one of the church's pastors also serves as an ICE official. The protest drew swift condemnation from Trump administration officials and conservative leaders for disrupting a Sunday service.

In total, 39 people have been charged over the church protest and all are charged with conspiracy against religious freedom and interfering with the right of religious freedom.

Lemon and Fort said they were at the church as journalists covering news. Levy Armstrong was the subject of a doctored photo posted by the White House showing her crying during her arrest. The three have pleaded not guilty.

The indictment says the "agitators" entered the church in a "coordinated takeover-style attack" and engaged in acts of intimidation and obstruction.

"Young children were left to wonder, as one child put it, if their parents were going to die," the indictment says.

Church welcomes more arrests

A lawyer for the church praised the Justice Department for charging more people.

"The First Amendment does not give anyone — regardless of profession, prominence, or politics — license to storm a church and intimidate, threaten, and terrorize families and children worshipping inside," Doug Wardlow said in a statement.

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The revised indictment adds new allegations when compared to the original filed in January.

It says two people "conducted reconnaissance" outside the church a day before the protest and recorded their visit on video, with one saying, "My thoughts are to be able to close up this whole alleyway right here."

The court filing quotes one protester as chanting in the church, "This ain't God's house. This is the house of the devil."

Trahern Crews, who was charged in January and is lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, said the latest arrests were a "waste of time."

"It's a shame that the people who have killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good or Keith Porter have not been arrested but peaceful protesters have," Crews said. Porter was fatally shot in Los Angeles by an off-duty ICE officer.

Minnesota was hotbed for immigration blitz

Levy Armstrong defended the protest shortly after it occurred. She said critics needed to "check their hearts" if they were more concerned about a disruption than the "atrocities that we are experiencing in our community."

The protest came at a tense time in Minnesota, where the Trump administration sent thousands of federal officers forOperation Metro Surgeafter a series of public fraud cases where the majority of defendants had Somali roots. Officers frequently deployed tear gas for crowd control in neighborhood clashes with residents, often detaining them along with immigrants.

Good, 37, was shot in Minneapolis. In another fatal shooting one week after the church protest, a federal officer killed 37-year-old nurseAlex Pretti.

Nationwide demonstrations erupted in response, followed by a change in Operation Metro Surge's leadership and the eventual wind-down of the immigration enforcement operation. Roughly 400 ICE officers and Homeland Security agents were expected to remain in Minneapolis by early March, down from roughly 3,000 at the peak, according to a court filing.

Since then, the Twin Cities have grappled with the impact to communities and the local economy. The city of Minneapolis said it suffered an impact of $203.1 million due to the operation, with tens of thousands of residents in need of urgent relief assistance.

Separately, a woman who was at the church service has filed a lawsuit against some people who were charged, alleging emotional trauma and an inability to exercise her religion that day.

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North Dakota judge finalizes $345 million judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case

By Nate Raymond

Feb 27 (Reuters) - A North Dakota judge on Friday finalized a $345 million judgment against Greenpeace in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company ‌Energy Transfer over the environmental group's role in protests against the construction ‌of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The final judgment by Judge James Gion was in line with a ​decision he issued in October, in which he slashed by almost half a damages award of about $667 million that a jury had awarded Energy Transfer in March.

Greenpeace in a statement said it would seek a new trial and, if necessary, appeal the decision ‌to the North Dakota Supreme ⁠Court, calling the lawsuit "a blatant attempt to silence free speech."

"Speaking out against corporations that cause environmental harm should never be deemed unlawful," ⁠Marco Simons, interim general counsel at Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace Fund, said in a statement.

Energy Transfer in a statement called the decision an "important step in this legal process of ​holding Greenpeace ​accountable for its unlawful and damaging actions ​against us during the construction of ‌the Dakota Access Pipeline."

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It added it was "analyzing possible next steps that we may choose to take to make sure they are held fully accountable."

The Dakota Access project near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation began in 2016 and was completed in 2017.

Construction of the pipeline, which now transports roughly 40% of the oil produced in North ‌Dakota's Bakken region, was met with fierce protests by ​environmental and tribal advocacy groups who said it ​would poison the local water supply ​and exacerbate climate change.

Texas-based Energy Transfer first sued Greenpeace in a ‌federal court in North Dakota in ​2017, accusing it of ​spreading falsehoods about the project and paying protesters to disrupt construction.

The North Dakota jury delivered its verdict in March, including damages for defamation, trespassing and ​conspiracy.

Greenpeace countersued Energy Transfer ‌in the Netherlands in February under a European law aimed at curbing ​lawsuits filed to harass or silence activists. That litigation is ongoing.

(Reporting by Nate ​Raymond in Boston; Editing by Chris Reese)

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