Jamie Anderson wins her second Olympic gold in women’s snowboard slopestyle Jamie Anderson is golden again. Four years after she won gold in snowboard slopestyle’s debut in the Games, Anderson claimed another here in Pyeongchang. Long the queen of slopestyle with 14 overall X Games medals, including five gold in […]
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No longer ‘mentally tired,’ Shiffrin eyes ’18 Olympic debut When an athlete succeeds as often as Mikaela Shiffrin does, the slip-ups suddenly seem to get a lot more attention. So when Shiffrin held a pre-Olympics news conference Saturday, 48 hours before the first of what could be five events for […]
Except when he races, U.S. speedskating star Shani Davis refuses to toe the line Shani Davis is one of the greatest long-track speedskaters in history, a man who dominated two races for a decade, set world records, won four Olympic medals and became the all-time World Cup points leader. To […]
The Opening Ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games Finds Poetry Amid the Politics The Olympic opening ceremony broadcast by NBC on Friday had dozens of agendas, and like an awards ceremony that takes three hours to hand out many awards — some of them a little bit boring — the […]
Vikings hire Eagles QB coach John DeFilippo to run offense John DeFilippo stood on top of a double-decker bus with the rest of the Eagles, as they cruised through raucous downtown Philadelphia on Thursday to celebrate the franchise’s first championship in 57 years. Hours later, the Minnesota Vikings handed him […]
Tony Romo makes golf his latest challenge Tony Romo is ramping up his work again – with a golf club in his hand, not a football or mic. The former Dallas Cowboys star received terrific reviews in his first season as the lead NFL analyst for CBS Sports but now […]
Koby Altman says deadline deals addressed Cavs’ ‘culture’ issues Hoping to save the Cleveland Cavaliers from a season he likened to “marching a slow death,” rookie general manager Koby Altman shook up the team with a series of franchise-altering deals before the NBA trade deadline Thursday. Altman completed three trades […]
Jimmy Garoppolo inks $137.5M deal, now NFL’s highest-paid player SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback of the present is officially their quarterback of the future. The Niners announced Thursday they have signed Jimmy Garoppolo to a five-year contract extension through the 2022 season. Sources confirmed to ESPN […]
Olympic Swimmer Ariana Kukors Accuses Former Coach of Sexual Abuse An American swimmer who competed in the 2012 Olympics has accused her former coach of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager. The swimmer, Ariana Kukors, 28, said in a statement on Wednesday that the coach, Sean Hutchison, began […]
Georgia Tech men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner fights back against sexual assault claim Georgia Tech men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner pushed back against the claims leveled against him in an Arizona court filing Thursday. “Unequivocally, there is zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero truth to any of those disgusting, bogus […]
