American Brita Sigourney wins bronze in women’s halfpipe skiing at 2018 Winter Olympics After season-ending injuries the two seasons going into Sochi, freeskier Brita Sigourney was just happy to be there. Her sport made its debut, and the halfpipe skier was glad to get to compete. But Pyeongchang was different. […]
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Ex-NHL player Slava Voynov competing for OAR despite domestic abuse issues Slava Voynov’s NHL career effectively concluded after he was arrested and eventually pleaded no contest to abusing his wife in 2014. Voynov, a Los Angeles Kings defenseman at the time, was suspended indefinitely after he choked, hit and pushed […]
Ice Hockey: USA down Finland to head to gold medal game The U.S. cruised into third straight gold medal game appearance in the Olympic women’s ice hockey tournament on Monday, shutting down Finland 5-0 in semi-finals with help from a pair of goals by Dani Cameranesi and a shutout from […]
LeBron James wins third career NBA All-Star Game MVP, tying Michael Jordan The All-Star Game had meaning for LeBron James. Because of the format change, he picked his squad. He wanted to win. He disagreed with a replay review. He challenged and fouled DeMar DeRozan as DeRozan drove to the […]
Team World routs Team USA in Rising Stars Challenge One-hundred and eight international players — from a record 42 countries and territories — were on opening-night rosters for the 2017-18 NBA season. Ten of those players lit up Staples Center on Friday night for Team World in the league’s annual […]
Hebard sets NCAA record, No. 9 Oregon beats USC in 2nd OT Oregon coach Kelly Graves summed up Ruthy Hebard’s performance in one word: “Perfect.” Hebard scored 27 points and set an NCAA record with 30 consecutive field goals to help the No. 9 Ducks hold off Southern California 80-74 […]
Golf: Inconsistent Woods six behind first-round leaders at Riviera Tiger Woods “fought hard” in an inconsistent performance to trail first round leaders Tony Finau and Patrick Cantlay by six strokes at the Genesis Open on Thursday. Woods, in his second start of the PGA Tour season after a year-long absence […]
Bengals QB AJ McCarron wins grievance, becomes a free agent AJ McCarron tried to stay busy Thursday. He got a workout in, working on his dropbacks and getting in some throws. He went to lunch with his cousin. Anything to stay out of the house as he anxiously waited to […]
2018 Winter Olympics: Frosty relations between U.S., Russian skeleton racers? The Olympics are supposed to be a time of unity and sportsmanship, when any pre-existing political strife or conflict is placed aside in favor of pursuit of the Olympic ideal. And that has largely held true at the Winter Games, […]
Soccer: Low-cost Asensio upstages Neymar and Mbappe in Real win Paris St Germain spent 400 million euros ($498 million) on Neymar and Kylian Mbappe last year but it was Real Madrid’s bargain signing Marco Asensio who stole the show when Real beat the Parisians 3-1 in Wednesday’s showcase Champions League […]
