There will be two Russian athletes at the Milano Cortina Olympics. The International Olympic Committee said Thursday that three independent neutral athletes, all figure skaters, are eligible to compete at the Winter Olympics in February. Adeliia Petrosiant and Petr Gumennik are Russian and the third, Viktoriya Safonova, is from Belarus. The three will be identified at the Games as ‘AIN,’ ...
The Europa League match between Aston Villa and Young Boys was briefly interrupted when objects were thrown from the away section, causing tensions to rise in the stands and prompting a police response. Tensions escalated after Donyell Malen scored his second goal of the match in the 42nd minute, prompting visiting fans to throw objects onto the field. During Malen’s ...
The University of Louisiana-Monroe is expected to hire SJ Tuohy, son of the family that inspired the hit movie ‘The Blind Side,’ as their next athletic director, The Athletic and Yahoo Sports reported. Tuohy is currently the deputy athletic director at Oral Roberts University. Previously, he served as the executive director of the University of Central Florida’s official NIL collective. ...
The NFL’s Thanksgiving slate in 2025 will conclude with an AFC North battle between the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals. NBC will broadcast the game and will have most of its No. 1 broadcast crew on the call for the game. However, one notable member of the crew will be absent. Game analyst Cris Collinsworth will not be on the ...
COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colorado — His time and where he finished were irrelevant. For the first time since a horrific crash almost two years ago, and the surgeries, setbacks and fears that followed, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was racing. With fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin watching anxiously in the finish area, the Norwegian made a triumphant return Thursday to the sport he once dominated. ...
The 2025 National Dog Show, hosted by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia, featured 201 breeds competing in this year’s event. This show has been a Thanksgiving Day tradition since 1933 and has crowned a new champion. The event, founded in 1879, features only purebred dogs registered with the American Kennel Club competing across seven groups: herding, hound, non-sporting, sporting, terrier, ...
Two of the top five teams in women’s college basketball will finish the holiday weekend with a loss. No. 4 Texas defeated No. 3 UCLA, 76-65, at the Players Era Women’s Championship semifinal in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The Longhorns will now face No. 1 South Carolina, who beat Duke in the other semifinal game, for the tournament championship at 8 p.m. ET ...
The Navy Midshipmen have traveled to play the Memphis Tigers in an American Conference game on Thanksgiving. The Midshipmen won their first seven games before losing back-to-back games to North Texas and Notre Dame on the road. Navy managed to bounce back last week with a victory over South Florida on Nov. 15. Quarterback Blake Horvath serves as both the ...
The Cincinnati Bengals have long been without Joe Burrow at their disposal. That will change on Thanksgiving as they take on the Baltimore Ravens. Burrow is expected to return to Cincinnati’s lineup after missing the team’s previous nine games with a toe injury. The Bengals (3-8) have gone 1-8 in his absence and will certainly welcome him back with open ...
Every week for the duration of the 2025 regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the NFL’s ever-evolving playoff picture − typically starting Sunday afternoon and then moving forward for the remainder of the week (through Monday’s and Thursday’s games or Saturday’s, if applicable. And, when the holidays roll around, we’ll be watching then, too). What just happened? What does it ...