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With the trade deadline for the 2018 NBA season looming on Thursday, teams across the league scrambled to seal a flurry of deals in hopes of maximizing their chances for future success. The Cleveland Cavaliers in particular made a number of notable last-minute switch-ups, sending Isaiah Thomas and Channing Frye to the Los Angeles Lakers, […]
For American athletes at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics Games, facing off against Russia in any sport is, well, complicated. Hockey, the sport in which the United States achieved its greatest Olympic moment as a nation — the 1980 Miracle on Ice victory in Lake Placid against the Soviet Union — offers a particular chill. Geopolitical […]
This winter, all eyes have been on the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang as the world’s top athletes compete for gold in skiing, snowboarding, figure skating and more. But although Adam Rippon and Chloe Kim may have won our hearts — and some hardware — in the events so far, there’s another major competition […]
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman spoke out on Twitter about being featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. The 23-year-old athlete appeared in swimsuits and in a nude shoot for a feature titled “In Her Own Words.” In a tweet captioned, “Thank you to the @SI_Swimsuit team,” the gold medalist shared an image from the photoshoot, […]
A Connecticut minor league baseball team is banning peanuts and Cracker Jack from its stadium to protect fans with food allergies — and it’s even rewriting a classic ballpark song because of it. As of the 2019 season, the Hartford Yard Goats will no longer sell peanut products at Dunkin’ Donuts Park, according to a […]
Another weekend, another legend born. A hammy young soccer fan has made the absolute most of his fifteen minutes of fame as Marseille’s football team played against Rennes at the Orange Vélodrome stadium in southeastern France on Sunday. The young Marseille fan was just supposed to do the ceremonial kickoff, according to ESPN. But he […]
Click:科仪 For many football fans, an England-France World Cup final would have been a dream. After all, those two countries clashed the Hundred Years’ War. A ten-decade-long spat, plus a smattering of other conflicts across the ages, tends to sizzle up a soccer rivalry. Croatia, however, had other ideas. And that’s just fine. The Blazers […]
Olympic figure skater Denis Ten, 25, was stabbed to death in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Thursday. Ten, who earned a bronze medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi and was a two-time world medalist, died of stab wounds after confronting thieves who were stealing his car mirrors on a street in Almaty, Kazakh Minister of […]
Chloe Kim, gold medal-winning American snowboarder at just 17, already demonstrated that she can tweet in between competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She also can dance too. Following her first impressive run and just before her victory-sealing follow-up, Kim busted out the moves on top of a slope. Clearly, fear does not faze the […]
Swiss skier Fabian Bösch has a new game to play at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The 20-year-old freestyle slope specialist decided to have a little fun riding an escalator in PyeongChang, South Korea. Instead of stepping aboard the rising stairs, Bösch opted to ride along its side in a remarkable show of upper body strength. […]