Tang ripped his team following the Wildcats’ 91-62 home loss to Cincinnati — a third straight home loss by 24 or more points and fifth straight loss overall. ‘This was embarrassing,’ Tang said. ‘These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform, and there will be very few of them in it next year. I’m embarrassed for the university, I’m ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Breezy Johnson is coming home with more than an Olympic gold medal. The newly minted downhill champion got engaged Thursday, Feb. 12 after the super-G, her last race of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. With Johnson’s teammates surrounding them in the finish area, Connor Watkins got down on one knee in the snow and proposed. ...
Unlike college athletes, Olympic curlers often remain loyal to their national teams for multiple Olympic Games. U.S. curler Tabitha Peterson is also a pharmacist. Olympics medalist Cory Thiesse is a lab technician. Put college basketball on hold, in favor of Cory Thiesse at Olympics. So, I hear fans say they’re a bit exhausted by the number of transfers in college ...
MILAN ― What an awful message the sport of figure skating just sent to sexual abuse survivors and victims, and parents who want their children to participate in a safe sport. Figure skating just put Olympic gold medals around the necks of a French ice dance team that exists only because of the investigation and subsequent suspension of an alleged ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Simply getting to the Milano Cortina Olympics was a triumph enough, and Federica Brignone arrived with no illusions about her medal chances. Ten months ago, the Italian Alpine skiing star was simply hoping to be able to walk again, her left leg shattered in a crash during the Italian national championships. Even now her leg is ...
From high-speed downhill racing to high-flying big air jumps, the six snowboarding events featured at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics have something for everyone. All events will take place at the Livigno Snow Park located near the Rhaetian Alps near the Swiss border. Women’s Halfpipe promises to be a must-watch event for U.S. audiences, featuring two-time gold medalist Chloe Kim. ...
The game of hockey is no stranger to familial connections. In a sport that has seen the Niedermayers and Staals play alongside and against each other, contemporarily we have the Tkachuks and, of course, the Hugheses. The latter are going to be well-represented in Milano Cortina, with both Quinn and Jack representing Team USA on the men’s side and the ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — A Ukrainian skeleton athlete has been disqualified from the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics after insisting on wearing a helmet honoring fellow athletes killed in Russia’s unprovoked invasion of his country. The International Olympic Committee announced the decision on Thursday, Feb. 12, after Vladyslav Heraskevych met with IOC president Kirsty Coventry before the start of the skeleton ...
If you build it, they will come? Some Iowa state senators introduced a bill this week that would expand the state’s major economic growth attraction program, creating financial incentives that could lure an NFL team seeking to build a stadium in the Hawkeye State. Their target? The Chicago Bears. ‘After years of Bears fans seeking refuge across the Mississippi River ...
MILAN — Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ teammates say the U.S. ice dance pair are their champions. The husband-and-wife duo turned in a season-best free skate on Wednesday at the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will likely be the couple’s fourth and final Games, but Chock and Bates fell 1.43 points short of gold-medal winners Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France. Fellow American pair Emilea Zingas ...