Japan took gold and silver in men’s snowboarding big air thanks to some big tricks from Kira Kimura and Ryoma Kimata. Defending gold medalist Su Yiming of China overtook 17-year-old American Ollie Martin for bronze to keep Team USA from winning its first medal of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. But apparently, that all […]

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Mikaela Shiffrin, the most decorated Alpine skier of all time, is grateful to be at her fourth Winter Olympics. It’s an ‘honor’ and a ‘privilege’ to be part of this event with the red, white and blue on her chest, she said Saturday, Feb. 7 during media availability in Cortina. But […]

Summer Britcher posted the fastest times for the Team USA during women’s singles luge training runs at the Cortina Sliding Centre on Sunday, Feb. 8. Britcher’s time of 53.172 seconds on her fifth run was the ninth-best time recorded during the training session, tops among the three American competitors. The women’s luge course at the […]

CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy — I actually do work for USA TODAY and although I am not a doctor, either, I can very confidently say Greg Graber’s opinion about Lindsey Vonn is ill-informed, condescending and misogynistic. How do I know this? Because unlike Graber, I have actual, applicable knowledge on this topic after covering skiing for […]

Being a professional football player was never Terry Schmidt’s goal. He wanted to be a dentist. But there Schmidt was, on the field in Houston, staring at Earl Campbell, who was churning toward him. ‘He broke free,’ says Schmidt, a former NFL defensive back in the 1970s and 1980s, ‘and it was me and the […]

SAN JOSE, CA — When it comes to special teams in the NFL, nearly every team talks the talk – even if it’s merely lip service – regarding their often-crucial importance. But the NFC champion Seattle Seahawks walk the walk. “We have such a good group of core guys – everybody’s bought in. I think […]

MILAN — Team USA has made its picks for who can secure figure skating team event gold at the 2026 Winter Games, and it will include the ‘Quad God.’ The competition day will also feature pairs’ and women’s free skate. Amber Glenn will make her Olympic debut for the women, with Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea […]

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Cortina has a special place in Lindsey Vonn’s heart. And on her résumé. ‘Cortina has always been a place that’s been so special to me,’ Vonn said. ‘I just have a lot of amazing memories, so it wasn’t really a leap for me to say I want to come back and […]