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Scoreboard roundup — 2/15/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Atlanta 124, Cleveland 116 Boston 135, Philadelphia 87 Dallas 107, Miami 99 Memphis 121, New Orleans 109 Minnesota 126, Charlotte [Read More…]
Athletes question decision in Kamila Valieva’s Olympic doping case: ‘What a shame’
iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — The ongoing dilemma in the Winter Games involving Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who is under investigation over alleged use of a banned heart medication, has athletes around the world calling [Read More…]
Simone Biles announces engagement to Jonathan Owens
Carmen Mandato/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Simone Biles is getting married! The Olympic gold medalist shared a post Tuesday announcing her engagement to Jonathan Owens, who she has been dating since 2020. Alongside four photos [Read More…]
Valieva earns highest score in women’s short program after CAS allows her to skate
Justin Setterfield/Getty Images (BEIJING) — Kamila Valieva earned the highest score in the women’s figure skating singles event short program at the Olympics on Tuesday. The 15-year-old, who represents the Russian Olympic Committee, scored a [Read More…]
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin misses medal in fourth Beijing event
Alex Pantling/Getty Images (BEIJING) — U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin on Tuesday came up empty handed in her fourth competition, placing 18th in the downhill skiing event, after wiping out in her first two races and [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 2/14/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Washington 103, Detroit 94 Brooklyn 109, Sacramento 85 Oklahoma City 127, New York 123 (OT) New Orleans 120, Toronto 90 [Read More…]
LA Rams win Super Bowl LVI
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images (INGLEWOOD, Calif.) — The Los Angeles Rams delivered a Hollywood Super Bowl ending Sunday, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in front of a star-studded home crowd at SoFi Stadium. Watch game highlights [Read More…]
Los Angeles Rams’ Van Jefferson welcomes son after Super Bowl win
Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles Rams’ wide receiver Van Jefferson has a lot to celebrate after he and his wife, Samaria Jefferson, welcomed their second child — a son — following Jefferson’s [Read More…]
Wife of Rams’ Van Jefferson goes into labor during Super Bowl LVI
Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images (INGLEWOOD, Calif.) — The wife of the Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Van Jefferson left SoFi on a stretcher Sunday after going into labor during the Super Bowl LVI, a team spokesperson [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 213/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Boston 105, Atlanta 95 Minnesota 129, Indiana 120 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Buffalo 5, Montreal 3 Ottawa 4, Washington 1 Pittsburgh [Read More…]
Americans Kallie Humphries, Elana Meyers Taylor win gold, silver in first Olympics monobob competition
Yao Jianfeng/Xinhua via Getty Images (BEIJING) — American bobsled athletes Kallie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor took gold and silver respectively in the first monobob competition in Olympics history. Meyers Taylor’s silver was especially impressive [Read More…]
The Rams Big Gamble Pays Off
Getty Images/FotografieLink (LOS ANGELES) — It began with a chance encounter at a resort in Cabo. Two men who were both at a proverbial fork in the road in their respective careers. Matthew Stafford. The [Read More…]
Friends who have attended every Super Bowl plan last trip
Getty Images/Dan Thornberg/EyeEm (LOS ANGELES) — Fifty-five years ago three men attended the first Super Bowl. Every year since, they’ve had a seat at the biggest football game of the year, and in more recent years, [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 2/11/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Philadelphia 100 Oklahoma City 87 Final Charlotte 141 Detroit 119 Final Cleveland [Read More…]
Deaf football players, who rose to stardom in California, get front-row seat to Super Bowl
Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The California School for the Deaf in Riverside’s football team brought pride and triumph to the state last year, and now the high school [Read More…]
Authorities seize nearly $100 million in counterfeit goods ahead of Super Bowl
Luke Barr/ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — Homeland Security Investigations has seized nearly $100 million in fake goods, including counterfeit Super Bowl merchandise, ahead of Sunday’s big game, a top HSI official told reporters on Thursday. [Read More…]
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva fights positive test ahead of women’s individual event
Lintao Zhang/Getty Images (BEIJING) — Russian star figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance during December’s Russian Figure Skating Championships, the International Testing Agency confirmed Friday, as rumors of her positive tests [Read More…]
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin misses podium in third straight event
Alex Pantling/Getty Images (BEIJING) — Mikaela Shiffrin came up empty-handed in her third competition after shockingly wiping out in her first two races, both of which she was expected to contend for the gold. Shiffrin [Read More…]
Shaun White misses podium in final Olympics as Japan’s Ayumu Hirano puts down historic run
Maddie Meyer/Getty Images (BEIJING) — Legendary snowboarder Shaun White came up short in his bid to win his fourth overall and second straight gold medal in the halfpipe. He settled for fourth place in what [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 2/10/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Memphis 132, Detroit 107 Miami 112, New Orleans 97 Washington 113, Brooklyn 112 Toronto 139, Houston 120 Dallas 112, LA [Read More…]