MILAN — The 2026 Winter Olympics continued Thursday with more curling mixed doubles round robin matches, men’s Alpine downhill training and luge training runs. But women’s ice hockey entered the chat as well, highlighted by Hilary Knight and the U.S. women’s hockey team opening their Olympic slate against Czechia. Ski jumping also got in the mix with training runs, too. ...
The 2026 World Baseball Classic begins on March 4, with some exhibition games taking place a day earlier. The Dominican Republic, the 2013 champions, will once again be one of the most daunting teams in the tournament. The DR disappointed in the most recent tournament, though, failing to make it past pool play in 2023. That could certainly change this ...
Tampa Bay Lightning center Brayden Point has been ruled out of the 2026 Winter Olympics because of a lower-body injury. He is being replaced on Team Canada by the Carolina Hurricanes’ Seth Jarvis. Jarvis had played for Canada in the 4 Nations Face-Off but wasn’t part of the initial roster for the Olympic team. Point, injured on Jan. 12, is ...
WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark is ready for the 2026 Winter Olympics. On Thursday, Comcast shared an Instagram video of Clark wearing an Olympic hockey jersey. In the video, the Indiana Fever star picks up a camera off the floor and shows off her outfit (a gray crop top sweater and jeans) before placing the camera down and covering the camera ...
SAN JOSE, CA − Should the Seattle Seahawks have simply run the ball? It’s a question that’s been posed countless times over the past decade-plus but has returned to the forefront with a vengeance this week as Seattle prepares to play the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 − 11 years after the Seahawks’ stunning, controversial, pall-casting 28-24 loss ...
MILAN — As the United States enters an Olympic Games in the midst of the Trump Administration’s volatile foreign policy, leaders of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee said Thursday they emphasized in pre-Olympic meetings that they are ‘partners’ with sports leaders around the world. ‘I think the United States is very important to the future of the Olympic movement ...
Since they weren’t able to swing a deal before the NBA trading deadline expired, the Brooklyn Nets are reportedly waiving guard Cam Thomas. Thomas, 24, had an uneven tenure with the Nets. He proved at times that he was a capable scorer, averaging a career-high 24.0 points per game last season. But Thomas was a restricted free agent this past ...
The Detroit Tigers are well-positioned to triumph in the land of the indifferent. All it took was one handshake with Framber Valdez and a short-term commitment to the left-hander to ensure the 2026 Tigers will be significant favorites in the American League Central, where five teams worth a combined $8 billion typically engage in an annual ritual of seeing who ...
Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump is already starting to endorse some GOP candidates – including three-time MLB All-Star Mark Teixeira. In a post on X, Teixeira shared a screenshot from President Trump’s Truth Social post, where he endorses the former World Series champ in March 3’s Republican primary for Texas’ 21st Congressional district. ‘I know Mark ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Mikaela Shiffrin’s grief after her father died was so great her mother didn’t think the all-time World Cup wins leader would ever ski again. ‘Mikaela laid with her head on his chest for nine hours, I think,’ Eileen Shiffrin said in a new episode of adidas’ Illuminated docuseries that was released Thursday, Feb. 5. ‘We ended ...