MILAN — It’s Friday, Feb. 20 at the 2026 Winter Olympics and we’re underway with another day of competition at the Milano Cortina Games. If Friday’s action can match the excitement we saw Thursday – with the USA women’s hockey team and Alysa Liu both winning gold – we will be lucky Olympic viewers. Among the action to keep an ...
Coach Curt Cignetti brought a national championship to Indiana football, and he’s being paid handsomely for it. The second-year Hoosiers coach received a new contract on Friday, Feb. 20, according to the IndyStar, part of the USA TODAY Network. It’s his third contract revision at Indiana, and will pay him an average of $13.2 million per season, among the highest ...
All you see on the ice during the second men’s hockey semifinal at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan are red, white and blue jerseys everywhere. One thing both the United States and Slovakia men’s hockey teams have in common are their nations’ colors. From the colors to the design, the jerseys are eerily similar. They are some pretty ...
The ‘Teddy Bridgewater Act’ could bring significant change to the high school sports scene, setting off a potential ripple effect across the country. If passed, the bill would allow high school coaches to use up to $15,000 of personal funds to support student athletes with things like transportation and food. It was something that the 33-year-old NFL quarterback brought attention ...
MILAN — Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” blasted on the speakers at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan ahead of the gold-medal game between the U.S. women’s national hockey team and Canada. “I got a feelin’ that tonight’s gonna be a good night,” musician Will.i.am sang on the track. The song served as a premonition for what was ...
It’s not often that a Major League Baseball team veers significantly from its intended path based on anything achieved under the skies of Florida or Arizona while pitchers get their extra running in on the warning track. Still, there’s plenty worth watching as spring training exhibitions get underway in the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues. From position changes to emerging prospects ...
Longtime Tennessee sports reporter Wes Rucker died Thursday, Feb. 19, the only fatality of a multi-vehicle crash on I-40 West in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was 43 years old. Rucker’s death was confirmed by his father-in-law, David Goldberg, in a Facebook post published late Feb. 19. According to a Feb. 20 news release by the Knoxville Police Department, police officers responded ...
MILAN — The stunning performance from Alysa Liu that propelled her to victory in the women’s figure skating singles at the 2026 Winter Olympics will transcend the gold medal she won. And the accolades. And the fame. So suggested Amber Glenn, one of Liu’s teammates. ‘This is going to make such a great impact on so many people’s attitude towards ...
There was a time, earlier this season, when the Iowa women’s basketball team looked like it could make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. It seemed as if the Hawkeyes had found a winning formula in the post-Caitlin Clark era and in coach Jan Jensen’s second season at the helm. Iowa’s success depended on a few things: strong play ...
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 ...