Alysa Liu won the Olympic gold medal in women’s figure skating, ending a 20-year U.S. medal drought. Liu’s career includes winning two national titles, retiring at 16, unretiring at 18, and now winning Olympic gold at 20. She secured the victory with an error-free long program, finishing ahead of Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai. Liu’s teammate, Amber Glenn, finished ...
After a successful first season, Miami-based Unrivaled made plans to elevate its footprint, including adding more players and playing games in additional markets. The league accomplished its vision for Year 2, expanding from six to eight teams and adding a player development pool, taking the number of players from 36 to 54. Unrivaled also added a Philadelphia tour stop, reaching ...
Slovakia beat the United States 3-2 in a shootout in the 2022 Olympics quarterfinals on its way to a bronze medal in Beijing. Tournament MVP Juraj Slafkovsky, who scored in that game as a 17-year-old, is back with Slovakia, but Team USA is loaded with NHL players and Slovakia has only seven. The United States has done well against teams ...
MILAN — Ruining the friendship was worth it for Mikaela Shiffrin. Taylor Swift responded to one of Shiffrin’s Instagram posts, congratulating her on winning her third Olympic gold medal. The post was a photo of Shiffrin during the slalom race Wednesday, Feb. 18, and she captioned it, ‘My advice is always ruin the friendship.’ ‘HISTORIC’ Swift replied, adding three gold ...
MILAN — The Olympics took Amber Glenn’s joy away. On Thursday night, she made herself find it. ‘I told myself,’ Glenn said, ‘no matter what, in that spiral you’re gonna look up, and you’re gonna say, ‘I’m at the Olympics.’ And I was really proud I was able to do that.’ Her team event free skate was ‘lackluster’ (Glenn’s word). ...
MILAN — Megan Keller threw her arms in the air and threw her equipment on the ice as teammates mobbed her. She had just scored a golden goal, completing a remarkable rally for USA women in the final game of the 2026 Winter Olympics women’s hockey tournament. They trailed with three minutes to go, were tied with two minutes to ...
MESA, AZ — Perhaps back in the day, when Alex Bregman burst into the big leagues as a brash rookie third baseman with the Houston Astros, it would be different. It was a time when Bregman was a must-hear sound bite, a must-write interview, and had absolutely no filter. Now, 10 years later, Bregman still is one of the most ...
Before the NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket is carved in stone, attempts to anticipate what the final product will look like more closely resemble molten lava. That was made abundantly clear over the last three days, which featured numerous developments that in turn led to significant changes in our latest projection. The quartet of No. 1 seeds was shaken up ...
While Alysa Liu embodied that in her seemingly effortlessly graceful routine, the silver and bronze medalists in Japan are representing two generations of skate in the Land of the Rising Sun. Silver medalist Kaori Sakamoto and bronze medalist Ami Nakai stood alongside Liu on the podium as a triumvirate. It was a sweet moment away from the podium, however, that ...
MILAN — The U.S. women’s national hockey team captured gold over Canada in a dramatic overtime victory at the 2026 Winter Olympics, but that wasn’t the most nerve-racking part of Hilary Knight’s week. ‘I was more nervous for the proposal than I was for the gold medal game’ Knight said Feb. 18 following the gold medal win. The five-time Olympian ...