The women’s short-track speed skating quarterfinals were briefly paused at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday after Kamila Sellier of Poland suffered a scary injury after an opponent’s blade sliced her face during a fall. Sellier led the pack with nine laps to go in the sixth quarterfinal heat of the 1,500-meter race on Friday before she was passed by ...
LSU football coach Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin are in a wild online spat. ‘Have y’all ever heard of a football coach, tagging a WBB coach, after a game?’ McPhee-McCuin posted to X on Friday. ‘This guy doesn’t even like women’s sports! Cope harder! #GoldingEra’ Without naming anyone, McPhee-McCuin’s tweet seemed to take issue with the Rebels ...
MILAN — Lindsey Vonn says her latest surgery went well and she hopes to be out of the hospital soon. The surgery Wednesday, Feb. 18, took a little over six hours and photos of her left leg show more than a dozen screws. Vonn suffered a complex tibial fracture in a crash in the Olympic downhill Feb. 8. ‘As you can ...
The growth of women’s hockey since it was added as an Olympic sport in at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, has been exponential. That popularity showed up in the ratings for the women’s gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Feb. 19. Team USA’s overtime victory against rival Canada was the most-watched women’s hockey game on ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has announced a return to boxing after retiring from the sport nearly 10 years ago. Mayweather, 48, said that through a partnership with CSI Sports/FIGHT SPORTS, he would return to the ring, professionally, following his planned upcoming exhibition with heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson. Just before his 49th birthday, Mayweather told ESPN that he feels that he ...
Scottie Scheffler entered the 2026 Genesis Invitational with the longest active streak of cuts made on the PGA Tour. He hadn’t missed the weekend at an event since August 2022. He cut it close on Friday at Riviera Country Club, though. Scheffler ended Feb. 20 with a second-round 68, moving to even par for the tournament and sitting tied for ...
The CIA on Friday said that director John Ratcliffe had ordered the retraction or ‘substantive revision’ of 19 intelligence assessments over the past decade that were deemed to be politically biased. In a release, the CIA included three redacted assessments from between 2015 and 2021 that related to White women’s extremist radicalization, attacks on LGBT activists in the Middle East ...
A leading domestic energy advocacy group praised EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s announcement that his agency would undo recent additions to the federal ‘mercury and air-toxics standards’ (MATS) for coal-fired power plants. Zeldin said removing the restrictions allows the already ‘robust’ MATS standards to remain in effect, ensuring both public health and the health of America’s coal industry amid a push ...
MILAN — The American men made good on what hockey fans across North America have wanted since the 2026 Winter Olympics began: USA vs. Canada for the gold medal. USA delivered on its end by routing Slovakia, 6-2, on Feb. 20, hours after Canada defeated Finland, 3-2 in the first semifinal of the day at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena. ...
Forward Tage Thompson scored another power play goal for the U.S. men’s hockey team but wasn’t able to finish Friday’s game because of a lower body injury. Thompson, a Buffalo Sabres standout, sat out the third period of the USA’s 6-2 win against Slovakia, but the team said that was done as a precaution. NBC replays showed that he was ...