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While the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea have been filled with no small amount of memorable moments, one of the highlights of the Olympic games for American viewers was seeing Team USA beat their longtime Olympic rivals from Canada in women’s hockey and men’s curling, two Olympic events that Canadians have historically dominated. […]
Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy and figure skater Adam Rippon shared a moment at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday with a friendly kiss and powerful messages on social media. “We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it,” Kenworthy captioned a set of photos shared to Twitter, including the image of him planting a smooch […]
The Dallas Mavericks nabbed the top overall player in an NBA draft Wednesday afternoon in New York City. Mavs owner Mark Cuban gave him a congratulatory phone call, before NBA commissioner Adam Silver called his name as the number one pick. Wearing a snazzy purple bow tie, he ascended the stage at Madison Square Garden’s […]
After agreeing to be a correspondent for NBC for the remainder of the PyeongChang Winter Games, breakout star of the Olympics Adam Rippon changed his mind Sunday and declined the offer. Rippon turned down the post after he realized he would need to give up his official Olympic standing, move out of the Olympic village, […]
Actually it’s Santa who better watch out, specifically for Gritty. Since the first evidence of Gritty’s existence in September, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot’s rapscallion reputation has been legendary. And he upped the ante during the first intermission at the Philadelphia Flyers game against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center […]
No one is more familiar with the ups and downs of a competitive figure skater’s life than Mirai Nagasu, who is going for a medal this week at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Nagasu, a California native and only child of parents who immigrated to the U.S. from Japan, made her […]
Serena Williams has maintained that she did not receive coaching in the U.S. Open women’s singles final in her first public comments since the post-match press conference. In a forthcoming interview with Australian talk show The Project, the tennis superstar refuted comments that her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, made about gesturing to her from the stands […]
The figure skating men take to the ice tonight (or morning in PyeongChang time) at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and they are hoping for a better showing than the rough start they got when they opened the team event last week. This time, 30 figure skaters will be competing for the top three places […]
The broadcast of the peace-themed Opening Ceremony of the highly-anticipated 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea officially kicked off Friday at 8 p.m. local time. Around 3,000 athletes from 92 countries and territories braced frightful temperatures as they marched into the new PyeongChang Olympic Stadium under their country’s flag during the Parade of Nations […]
LeBron James, the best basketball player in the world and one of the most influential athletes on the planet, fights for off-court causes he cares about. In 2017, for example, James starred in Nike’s “Equality” ad campaign, which was released at the outset of the Trump presidency in 2017, following the Women’s March and the […]