Sports teams' social media departments have become increasingly important over the years. Whether it's player interviews or schedule reveals, an organization's social team is charged with high ...

The Seattle Kraken’s mascot got into a hairy situation with a real bear. In a video shared on social media, the hockey team shared the close call between a wild grizzly bear and the team’s mascot, ...

What happens when a hockey player, a troll and a bear go fishing in the same stream? Sounds like some sort of weird riddle, but it's actually something that played out in real life Friday when a ...

I was born loving the Cubs! My great-grandbear Joa was once the original live bear mascot for the team back in the early 1900s. When Joa retired to the Lincoln Park Zoo, he delighted all the young ...

Would you rather encounter a grizzly bear or a random man in the woods? The question dominated social media discourse for a few weeks back in 2024, generating an impressive tonnage of Internet hot ...

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Tens of thousands of fans will fill Soldier Field Saturday night to cheer on the Bears against the Green Bay Packers. The team is returning to the playoffs for the first time in five years. It's a ...

Buoy, the mascot for the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, was briefly charged by a grizzly bear during a promotional video shoot in Alaska. Buoy and Kraken forward John Hayden were fly-fishing in Katmai National ...

If you’ve watched sports on even a casual basis, you’ve likely noticed a trend when it comes to the team names and mascots. Many sports mascots are wild animals, and sometimes endangered ones. It’s ...

"I want to blame it on Buoy, they were pretty interested in his whole look," Kraken center John Hayden said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.