CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer at TSR Injury Law in Bloomington, Minnesota. He is also making his Olympic debut this week as the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old. Ruohonen started curling on Saturday mornings at the St. Paul Curling Club in the fifth ...
As the 2026 MLS season nears its kickoff, the time-honored tradition of Jersey Week has arrived. Over the course of two days — Tuesday, Feb. 10 and Wednesday, Feb. 11 — all 30 MLS teams will be unveiling one new Adidas kit that they will wear during the 2026 season. ‘The 2026 jerseys are a representation of how the league, ...
MILAN ― The precise speed Lindsey Vonn was traveling at the time of her crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics does not fully capture what propelled her down that mountain. ‘Lindsey only knows one speed, and that’s all out and that’s what she was doing that day,’ said Fraser Bullock, the President and Executive Chair of Utah 2034, the Olympic ...
Hockey fans have had Feb. 10 circled on their calendars since the 2026 Winter Olympics women’s hockey schedule was released. The USA women’s national hockey team will face off against Canada in a preliminary matchup on Tuesday, marking the latest edition of the nations’ rivalry and a possible preview of the gold-medal match. ‘It’s going to be a dog fight,’ ...
Tight end David Njoku’s ninth season with the Cleveland Browns may be his last. Njoku, 29, is set to hit free agency for the first time in his career this offseason. He announced in an Instagram post on Feb. 9 that he does not intend to re-sign with the Browns once his free agency begins in March. ‘Cleveland, first off ...
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Last year’s college baseball season featured one of the most exciting NCAA tournaments in recent memory. Only five of the 16 regional hosts advanced to the College World Series, with only coming from the top 10. Despite the chaos, it was LSU that won the national championship in the end after defeating Coastal Carolina. The Tigers appear to have ...
CORTINA, D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan upstaged their Olympic champion teammates, Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin. Got redemption, too. Wiles and Moltzan won bronze in the women’s team combined event Tuesday, Feb. 10, finishing 0.06 seconds ahead of Johnson and Shiffrin. ‘It’s a competitive sport. At the end of the day, they’re our friends, but they’re also ...
MILAN — After Maxim Naumov finished in fourth place at the 2025 U.S. figure skating championships for the third straight year, his father, Vadim, wanted to game plan. Vadim and Maxim’s mother, Evgenia Shishkova, were two-time Olympic pair skaters for Russia, and they knew Maxim’s upcoming year was critical with the 2026 Winter Olympics on the horizon. The patriarch laid ...
MILAN — The men of figure skating take their turns at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and it’s time for the ‘Quad God.’ The short program will kick off the men’s singles Tuesday, Feb. 10, starting what’s expected to be a successful discipline for the United States. Three American skaters are in the field, but the star of it all is ...