It was a battle of the Grays in Unrivaled 1-on-1 championship on Saturday night at Sephora Arena in Miami. Rose BC’s Chelsea Gray fought back to defeat Mist BC’s Allisha Gray in the best two-out-of-three-games format. Chelsea won $200,000 as champion. Allisha Gray earned $50,000 as runner-up and Phantom BC’s Kelsey Plum and Phantom BC’s Aliyah Boston nabbed $25,000 each ...
PHOENIX — One was a 36-year-old career journeyman infielder from Venezuela who hadn’t produced a hit in more than a month. The other a 26-year-old reliever with his fourth team in 11 months who wasn’t even on the playoff roster the first three rounds. Who would have imagined that in a clubhouse full of All-Stars and future Hall of Famers, ...
MILAN — Figure skating is more than halfway done at the 2026 Winter Olympics, with the pairs next to take the ice in Milano Cortina. The U.S. will have two teams competing on Sunday, Feb. 15, with team gold medalists Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam, as well as Spencer Akira Howe and Emily Chan. While Team USA boasts top contenders ...
MILAN — Representing Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics carries a little more weight for Spencer Akira Howe. The pairs figure skater makes his Olympic debut in Milano Cortina, completing what has been a whirlwind past year for the California native. As he and partner Emily Chan fought for their spot on Team USA, it all came with Howe’s ...
All season, it seemed as if the narrative around the Texas Tech basketball team has been they’re just sort of there. In a long season such as this, when the college basketball is as good as ever, there are more great teams than ever and so much attention is given to the star-studded freshman class, players like JT Toppin and ...
Noahkai Banks may be young and still looking for his first U.S. men’s national team cap, but that hasn’t stopped Landon Donovan from predicting the defender will start at the 2026 World Cup. Banks has become a regular starter this season for Augsburg, despite only recently turning 19. The 6-foot-4 defender is considered one of the best American center-back prospects ...
AMES, Iowa – In the attention economy, “What have you done lately?” has been largely replaced by, “What have you done right this second?” There’s no patience nor hardly any memory, but there certainly is an urgency bordering on frantic. That makes for a tough environment to appreciate what Iowa State basketball has done. The Cyclones (22-3, 9-3 Big 12) are ranked fourth nationally, so it’s not as though they’re being overlooked ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — When Italy’s Federica Brignone crossed the finish line for a second time Sunday, Feb. 15 in the women’s giant slalom, Swedish skier Sara Hector and Norwegian Thea Louise Stjernesund fell to their knees and bowed before the queen of Olimpia delle Tofane. Brignone won her second gold medal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, adding the ...
Despite an admission that he cheated on his now-former girlfriend before coming to the 2026 Winter Olympics, biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid continues to prosper at the Milano Cortina Games. The Norwegian won his third medal of the competition on Sunday, Feb. 15, taking second place in the men’s 12.5km biathlon pursuit behind gold medalist Martin Ponsiluoma of Sweden. Laegreid went ...
MILAN — For Ilia Malinin, a terrible night was followed by a wonderful postscript. The 21-year-old Quad God’s epic meltdown on the ice at the 2026 Winter Olympics has already been well documented. He fell twice, made mistakes on other jumps and finished a devastating eighth in the men’s figure skating competition. It was the worst performance by a gold-medal ...