MILAN — Ilia Malinin didn’t want to skate the long program in the Olympic figure skating team competition. He wanted to rest up for the more important individual men’s event beginning Tuesday. His coaches felt the same way. It was a definite no. But when U.S. Figure Skating called upon him late Saturday night, saying the event was going to ...
MILAN — Amber Glenn said she ‘couldn’t believe the outlandish backlash’ she received for speaking out about LGBTQ issues in the United States. The first-time Olympian figure skater revealed her feelings about the response to her comments after Team USA won team event gold on Sunday, Feb. 8. ‘I couldn’t believe the outlandish backlash I received for just supporting people,’ ...
Super Bowl 60 took a brief break to become the Benito Bowl at halftime. The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks spent a longer than usual halftime likely going over what they could change in the second half of a defensive battle from Levi’s Stadium. While they were talking things over, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny took to the field for ...
The Seattle Seahawks not only are champions of Super Bowl 60 … they finally have a measure of revenge for Super Bowl 49. In 2015, with the Seahawks one yard from a go-ahead touchdown in the final 30 seconds, the New England Patriots intercepted Russell Wilson and denied Seattle its second straight Super Bowl championship. But with their 29-13 victory ...
MILAN — Ilia Malinin secured gold for Team USA. There was no Quad Axel from the ‘Quad God,’ but he pulled off a one-footed backflip that stunned the crowd and gave his country back-to-back team titles. The U.S. and Japan were tied for first place going into the final programs of the team event. Malinin performed in the men’s free ...
How would you rate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 60 halftime show? For several professional athletes, sports teams and sports media sites, the show was a hit. Various figures from around the sports world gave their reactions on social media throughout the show’s runtime in Santa Clara, California. Many expressed excitement about the Boricua singer’s performance, with a few referring to Bad Bunny ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy —The No. 1 rule in sports journalism is no cheering or jeering in the press box. More than a Dozen of reporters with more than a century of experience covering America’s most revered and reviled athletes and coaches crammed into the mixed zone at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Center Sunday for Lindsey Vonn’s final downhill race at ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — This was always the risk Lindsey Vonn was willing to take. She knew skiing at these Olympics was a gamble, as likely to end in pain and disappointment as in glory and gold. But life favors the bold. Whatever her physical injuries are now, that pain and those scars will eventually fade. Regrets and what ifs ...
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MILAN — Even though she’s a gold-medalist, Amber Glenn considered her Winter Olympics debut ‘lackluster.’ The three-time reigning U.S. champion skated for the first time in Milan with the women’s free skate portion of the team event Sunday, Feb. 8. She was shaky on her first two elements, a triple Axel and the triple flip-triple toe loop combination, which made for ...