MILAN — This was not the plan for Erin Jackson at the 2026 Winter Olympics With a chance to defend her Olympic title in the women’s 500 meters, Jackson instead finished fifth on Sunday, Feb. 15 at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium with a time of 37.32 seconds. Dutch star Femke Kok won gold with a time of 36.49 seconds, an ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Mikaela Shiffrin appears to be finding her Olympic groove. Shiffrin finished 11th in the giant slalom on Sunday, Feb. 15 at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics but showed a comfort level she didn’t seem to have during her slalom run in the team combined event last week. Her combined time in the two-run race was ...
Three have left via the transfer portal, while three have come in. Western Carolina’s Taron Dickens is the latest addition to the Tar Heels’ quarterback room. Dickens made national headlines last season, shattering the NCAA record for most consecutive passes completed in a single game with 46 in a row against Wofford on Oct. 4. Dickens finished the day 53-for-56 ...
Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is free – at least from the confines of a state prison. Velasquez, 43, was released on parole Sunday after nearly 11 months in Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, Calif. It’s unclear what the stipulations of his release are. The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News was among the outlets to report his release, which had ...
MILAN — U.S. goalkeeper Aerin Frankel is known as the ‘Green Monster,’ nicknamed after the iconic left field wall at Fenway Park because she’s just as solid in front of the net for the U.S women’s national hockey team. But her nickname could also apply to her love of romaine lettuce. Frankel is such a big fan of Caesar salads that ...
LIVIGNO, Italy – All’s well that ends well. Indeed, snowboarding’s Red Gerard is still alive in his pursuit of a second Olympic gold medal in the men’s slopestyle. But as for the ordeal he’d just endured? ‘It was awful,’ he said. Out of 12 riders to advance out of the 30-man qualifying field on Feb. 15 at Livigno Snow Park, ...
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 ...
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 ...