President Donald Trump has pardoned five former NFL players, White House ‘pardon czar’ Alice Marie Johnson announced on Feb. 12. The president pardoned Joe Klecko, 72; Nate Newton, 64; Jamal Lewis, 46, Travis Henry. 47; and Billy Cannon, who died in 2018 at age 80, Johnson announced in a post on social media. ‘As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, ...
MILAN, Italy — Jordan Stolz resumes his chase for four Olympic gold medals when he competes in the 500 meters at the 2026 Winter Games Saturday, Feb.14. He’s also chasing a legend, Eric Heiden, who in 1980 became the only person to win five gold medals in a single Winter Olympics. While Stolz, 21, can’t win five at these Games, ...
NBA All-Star Weekend, during the past several years, has faced sharp criticism, even from the highest levels of NBA management. ‘I thought this was a little better, but it was a miss,’ NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in March 2025 of last year’s event. ‘We’re not there in terms of creating an All-Star experience that we can be proud of ...
In college basketball, about the only thing certain is uncertainty. The final NCAA men’s tournament bracket still won’t be announced for over a month, and it will in all likelihood look quite different from this latest projection from our USA TODAY Sports team of bracketologists. In just the last few days since our most recent effort, we’ve seen half the ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Rich Ruohonen, 54, remembers when curlers smoked cigarettes on the ice. “All we did was throw rocks and think we could be better,” he said. That was a few decades ago, when the oldest American Winter Olympian first started throwing and sweeping stones in Minnesota. Today, curlers rebuff their longstanding reputation as dads with brooms and ...
MILAN — Olympic Gold is in sight for the ‘Quad God’ of figure skating. Men’s singles at the 2026 Winter Olympics is concluding today, and 21-year-old Ilia Malinin is hunting down the top prize to add to his long list of accolades he’s already earned in his young and already epic career. The U.S. star is sitting in first place ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Alpine skier Breezy Johnson pulled her Olympic gold medal out of her front right coat pocket. Ribbonless. “Don’t jump in them,’ she said during her press conference Feb. 8 after winning gold in the downhill. ‘I was jumping in excitement, and it broke. I’m sure somebody will fix it. It’s not crazy broken, but a little ...
The Seattle Seahawks emerged the ultimate winner of the 2025 NFL season, but other teams, players and personnel scored some moderate victories of their own. Only one team typically emerges happy from any given NFL season, as that squad gets to hoist the Lombardi Trophy and enter the offseason as the No. 32 team in the NFL draft order. But ...
There’s a long history in basketball between Duke and North Carolina, the Tobacco Road rivals separated by less than 11 miles. In women’s basketball, the recent rivalry between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels has been defined by defense. In the last eight meetings between these two teams — where the average margin of victory has been seven points — ...
CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy — Breezy Johnson is multi-talented. In addition to skiing really, really well, the newly minted Olympic downhill champion has gotten really, really good at knitting. She makes a new headband or hat to wear at each race, and she knit hats for many of her family and friends to wear at the Milano Cortina Olympics. That includes ...