MILAN — There are roughly 2,900 athletes in the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, all trying to win medals — except for one. Already a gold medalist in the figure skating team event, Alysa Liu has a chance to add to the haul by taking home another piece of hardware in the all-important women’s singles. After the short program, she’s in ...
He walked into the place as players were filing out, beginning the buildout as they were pulling up stakes. By the time the whirlwind of player procurement ended at Iowa State for new coach Jimmy Rogers, there were 81 players on the current roster that weren’t part of the program a season ago. That’s 81 of 105 players. “It’s college ...
The NHL draft is a fluid process. Nothing ever really stays the same, and from team to team, opinions on players vary widely. There is a group of players every year that rise up boards, however. This year, that ranges from players who have put themselves in the top-10 conversation to prospects who have proven they are worth consideration in ...
Twenty-five years ago — on Feb. 18, 2001 — the Man in Black suffered his tragic fate on the final lap of the Daytona 500. The sport of stock car racing has never been the same. Now, you can remind yourself and also show others why generations of NASCAR fans consider Dale Earnhardt to be the great racer of all ...
If there’s an American Olympic athlete who can relate to what Ilia Malinin went through on Friday, Feb. 13, it would be Simone Biles. Malinin — nicknamed ‘The Quad God’ — entered the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics as the favorite in the men’s figure skating competition — he was a two-time reigning world champion and four-time U.S. national champion. ...
Milan — American hopes were sky high coming into the Olympic women’s figure skating competition. Could there be a U.S. sweep of the medals? Would the 20-year U.S. medal drought finally end? Who would be the breakout star among the trio known on social media as the Blade Angels: Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito? Then they all skated ...
With NBA commissioner Adam Silver fining teams for tanking and making statements about repercussions, there has been a lot of talk in league circles about the process and strategy of tanking its effectiveness and fairness. The Utah Jazz received a $500,000 fine and the Indiana Pacers got a $100,000 fine for recent game management and roster decisions, the league announced ...
Vice President JD Vance, former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama were among the prominent political figures who issued statements following the death of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. The civil rights leader and two-time Democratic presidential primary candidate was 84. Vance indicated that one of his family members voted for Jackson in the 1988 Democratic presidential primary ...
Arguing that noncitizens could be on state voter rolls — something that is illegal under federal law — the Trump administration is escalating its campaign to obtain registration data ahead of the 2026 midterms, despite a string of federal court setbacks. The strategy has unfolded on three fronts: cooperation from Republican-led states willing to share voter data, lawsuits against roughly ...
The House Oversight Committee is hearing from a billionaire on Wednesday who was named one of Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators by a 2019 FBI document. Les Wexner is the latest person to be deposed in the House’s investigation into the federal government’s handling of Epstein’s case. Unlike most previous depositions, however, committee staff and potentially some lawmakers are traveling to Ohio ...