MILAN — Alysa Liu brought down the house, winning an Olympic gold medal with her free skate Thursday at the 2026 Winter Olympics and becoming the first American woman to win an individual figure skating Olympic medal in two decades. ‘I can’t process this, there’s no way,’ Liu said on the broadcast as she walked into the tunnel after being ...
PHOENIX — Bruce Meyer hasn’t even been on the job 24 hours as the new chief of the MLB Players Association, and already he knows he has enemies. There are some folks who wish he never got the job. There are MLB executives who hate dealing with him. There are agents who believe he favors only Scott Boras and other ...
Before NFL free agency can begin in earnest, teams have some spring cleaning to do with their respective rosters. By the start of the new league year on March 11, all teams must be compliant with the league’s salary cap. That leaves less than a month for teams to release players no longer in their plans. Though the process is ...
After one of the most successful All-Star breaks in recent memory, the NBA is back to regular season action Thursday night. Tipping off the home stretch of the season is an Eastern Conference heavyweight matchup: the first-place Detroit Pistons (40-13) head to New York to take on the third-place Knicks (35-20, six games back) at Madison Square Garden. The Pistons ...
Alysa Liu created U.S. figure skating Olympic history Thursday at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. The 20-year-old figure skater followed up her short program performance from earlier in the week with a stunning performance in the free skate on Thursday, Feb. 19 inside the Milano Skating Stadium that helped her become the first U.S. woman to win an individual Olympic medal ...
MILAN — The U.S. women’s national hockey team is golden once again. Team USA has appeared in all but one gold medal match since women’s hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1998 Nagano Games — each time facing off against the Canadians — but the Americans have only walked away with two gold medals. Make that three. Team USA ...
Alysa Liu ended a 24-year streak at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday, Feb. 19, becoming the first American to win women’s singles since Sarah Hughes in 2002. Liu finished in sixth place in women’s singles at the 2022 Winter Olympics as a 16-year-old before she retired from the sport. She returned in 2024, winning the world championship in 2025 ...
Team USA star Hilary Knight is ending her Olympic career as the all-time U.S. leader in goals and points by doing what she does best, scoring a clutch goal at a clutch time. And she is going home a winner after Megan Keller scored in overtime as the USA won gold with a 2-1 victory against archrival Canada in Thursday’s ...
It was Hilary Knight who provided the U.S. women’s hockey team with a chance of Olympic gold with a late-third-period game-tying goal against Canada. It was Megan Keller, one of her alternate captains, who provided the game-winner for the United States in overtime. Keller broke several ankles of Canada’s defense for a chip shot into the back of the net ...
LIVIGNO, Italy – After a scare, Eileen Gu kept alive her quest for a third Olympic freestyle skiing medal in consecutive Games. She fell in her first run of the snowy women’s halfpipe qualifying on Feb. 19 before rallying to advance to the Feb. 21 finals. But, per usual with her, that was only part of the evening’s story. Afterward, ...