The National Hockey League chose not to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, which means some of the world’s greatest hockey players, including Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, were not allowed at the Games. The NHL decided in 2017 not to give its players a break during the 2017-18 season to […]
Kenya’s Mary Keitany, 34, won her third straight New York City marathon on Sunday, pulling ahead of the lead pack of runners and finishing with a time of 2:24:26. In the men’s race, Ghirmay Ghebreslassie of Eritrea won with a time of 2:06:51. He was followed by Lucas Rotich of Kenya with 2:08:53 and Somali-born […]
Fifty years after she became the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer plans on finishing the race again. As Switzer runs the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, she’ll be wearing the same number she wore during her historic race in 1967. The number will be retired after the marathon — something […]
Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has confirmed that he has fathered twins, following reports that he used a surrogate to mother the babies. He has given no other information about the twins or their mother, but unconfirmed reports from Portuguese TV channel SIC say that they were born in the U.S. last Thursday through a surrogate […]
Waving the Texas state flag, NFL star J.J. Watt made an emotional return to the field Sunday after raising millions of dollars for the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Watt, the Houston Texans’ star defensive end, emerged as a hero in Texas off the field after Harvey caused catastrophic flooding and destruction in the Lone Star […]
Amid heightened tensions between the NFL and President Donald Trump, an image of one of the league’s players burning the American flag is circulating around the internet. It’s fake. The “photograph,” which has made its way across Facebook and Twitter, shows Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett enthusiastically burning the flag in a locker room […]
If performing for one of the largest audiences in the world is not already enough pressure, imagine doing it with the flu. That’s what Grammy Award-winning artist Pink had to do ahead of the Super Bowl LII Sunday when she performed the National Anthem as this year’s competitors, the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, […]
Scott Hamilton is talking about the harrowing health scares that changed his life forever. In the new People/Entertainment Weekly (PEN) docu-series Scott Hamilton Today, the Olympic figure skater opens up his home to talk about his life today. During the six-episode series, Hamilton, 58, discusses his battle with testicular cancer — which he overcame in […]
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman confronted Larry Nassar, the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor who she says sexually abused her for years, with a blistering statement in court on Friday. The six-time Olympic medalist came face-to-face with Nassar — one of several women who made victim impact statements at his multi-day sentencing hearing. Nassar has pleaded […]
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa! …” The sound pierced the radio airwaves, for 19 years, a shrill blare that somehow offered comfort: Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo, co-host of the wildly popular and influential “Mike and The Mad Dog” radio show on WFAN in New York City kicking off the program, at around 1:05 PM on weekday afternoons. “Good afternoon […]