TEMPE, AZ — He’s the iron man of pitching, stretching the human element to limits beyond comprehension, so it only made sense that World Series hero Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the first pitcher to step onto the mound Saturday in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring-training opener. “When you think about it,’’ Joel Wolfe, Yamamoto’s agent, told USA TODAY Sports, “what can’t ...
American women tennis star Sloane Stephens and her husband Jozy Altidore are splitting after four years of marriage, according to Stephens. The 2017 U.S. Open Champion and the former soccer player have decided to go their separate ways, according to an Instagram story Stephens shared to her followers. ‘Jozy and I have decided to end our marriage,’ the post read ...
MILAN — Figure skating came to an end at the 2026 Winter Olympics with a spectacular show of glitz, flips, twirls and talent at the figuring skating exhibition gala. The sport’s medal winners and top stars came together to have fun on the ice and put on a show for a packed crowd at Milano Ice Skating Arena. That included ...
The NFL’s great annual migration is about to begin, free agency set to reshape rosters – and competitive balance, to some degree – throughout the league. The market will officially open at 4 p.m. ET on March 11, the start of the 2026 league year. But the list of free agents is sure to evolve significantly and virtually continuously before ...
This is a critical fight for Ryan Garcia, coming off a disappointing loss to Rolly Romero in May and a victory over Devin Haney in 2024 that was tainted by a positive drug test. Now he looks to Mario Barrios to continue his return to form and claim the WBC welterweight title. Garcia comes into Saturday’s fight with a 24-2-0 ...
Vonn did not provide any new medical updates in her Instagram post on Saturday, Feb. 21. She said in a post a day earlier that she was “struggling a bit post op” from her latest surgery, her fifth, to repair the complex tibial fracture in her left leg suffered in a crash during the Olympic downhill. But Vonn said in ...
Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won a gold medal in men’s figure skating. But somehow, that might not be his biggest highlight from Milano Cortina. In the exhibition gala on Saturday, Shaidorov went all out in his homage to the 2008 movie ‘Kung Fu Panda’ — taking to the ice in a full-body panda suit. The 21-year-old bowed to the audience, ran ...
The stars are out in Milan to catch the best athletes around the world compete against one another while representing their countries at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Many celebrities and athletes have made their way to Italy as spectators for the athletic winter spectacle including the likes of rapper and honorary Team USA coach Snoop Dogg, Olympic gymnastics gold medalist ...
Finland remains the biggest medal collector of the NHL era of the Winter Olympics. The Finns won a bronze medal on Saturday, Feb. 21, by defeating Slovakia 6-1, avenging a 4-1 loss to that country in the opening game of the men’s hockey tournament. Finland now has five medals in Olympics using NHL players (1998-2014, 2026). It previously won bronze ...
The United States will be battling history as well as Canada when the countries play in Sunday’s gold medal game (8:10 a.m. ET, NBC, Peacock) at the 2026 Winter Olympics. That’s because Canada has the edge against the USA in recent championship games of best-on-best tournaments featuring NHL players. You have to go all the way back to the 1996 ...