Alysa Liu created U.S. figure skating Olympic history Thursday at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. The 20-year-old figure skater followed up her short program performance from earlier in the week with a stunning performance in the free skate on Thursday, Feb. 19 inside the Milano Skating Stadium that helped her become the first U.S. woman to win an individual Olympic medal ...
After one of the most successful All-Star breaks in recent memory, the NBA is back to regular season action Thursday night. Tipping off the home stretch of the season is an Eastern Conference heavyweight matchup: the first-place Detroit Pistons (40-13) head to New York to take on the third-place Knicks (35-20, six games back) at Madison Square Garden. The Pistons ...
Before NFL free agency can begin in earnest, teams have some spring cleaning to do with their respective rosters. By the start of the new league year on March 11, all teams must be compliant with the league’s salary cap. That leaves less than a month for teams to release players no longer in their plans. Though the process is ...
Team USA star Hilary Knight is ending her Olympic career as the all-time U.S. leader in goals and points by doing what she does best, scoring a clutch goal at a clutch time. And she is going home a winner after Megan Keller scored in overtime as the USA won gold with a 2-1 victory against archrival Canada in Thursday’s ...
Alysa Liu ended a 24-year streak at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday, Feb. 19, becoming the first American to win women’s singles since Sarah Hughes in 2002. Liu finished in sixth place in women’s singles at the 2022 Winter Olympics as a 16-year-old before she retired from the sport. She returned in 2024, winning the world championship in 2025 ...
The Trump administration has repeatedly assigned additional job roles to Cabinet members and other officials, and one of his top health officials is the latest to begin pulling double duty for the president. On Wednesday, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya became the latest Trump official assigned an additional role. The NIH chief and staunch COVID contrarian will ...
A repeat offender once described by federal prosecutors as a ‘danger to the community’ was set to be released Thursday after receiving a sentence commutation signed with an autopen in the final days of former President Joe Biden’s administration. Oscar Freemond Fowler III had been serving a 12-year, six-month federal sentence after pleading guilty in 2024 to being a felon ...
LIVIGNO, Italy – After a scare, Eileen Gu kept alive her quest for a third Olympic freestyle skiing medal in consecutive Games. She fell in her first run of the snowy women’s halfpipe qualifying on Feb. 19 before rallying to advance to the Feb. 21 finals. But, per usual with her, that was only part of the evening’s story. Afterward, ...
It was Hilary Knight who provided the U.S. women’s hockey team with a chance of Olympic gold with a late-third-period game-tying goal against Canada. It was Megan Keller, one of her alternate captains, who provided the game-winner for the United States in overtime. Keller broke several ankles of Canada’s defense for a chip shot into the back of the net ...
For the first time in a generation, Team USA has a gold-medal winner in individual women’s figure skating. In doing so, she became the first U.S. figure skater to win a women’s individual gold medal in figure skating since Sarah Hughes did it in 2002. But it almost didn’t happen. Liu retired from competition in 2022 – three years after ...