Hockey may seem like the marquee cold weather sport in the U.S. and Canada, but its far from the world’s favorite game when it comes to the Winter Olympics. The sport looks like it has global dominance on a map due to the immense size of Russia as well as preference in two large Scandinavian […]
It’s not too often that hecklers wind up the heroes in any story. But golf fan and North Dakota native David Johnson stole the show during a Ryder Cup practice round at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota on Thursday. After British Open champion and Olympic silver medalist Henrik Stenson heard Johnson trash talking Team […]
The criminal complaint unveiled in late September contained all sorts of unsavory details about college basketball’s underground economy: five-figure bribes to coaches, six-figure payouts to high school players and their families, and the alleged complicity of employees at some of the nation’s most prominent universities. The 10 defendants “allegedly exploited the hoop dreams of student-athletes […]
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who has become an advocate for the sexual abuse victims of Larry Nassar, sentenced the osteopathic gymnastics doctor to 40 to 175 years in prison on Wednesday. Immediately after, many of the 156 victims, who made statements at the sentencing, hearing expressed relief that their reports were finally heard. Kaylee Lorincz “It’s […]
A 12-foot-high statue of soccer legend Diego Maradona has become the latest dodgy depiction of a player to provoke online ridicule. The 57-year-old Argentine unveiled the bronze likeness at a charity event in Kolkata, India on Monday. The statue was supposed to feature a 25-year-old Maradona, sporting curly locks, and clutching the World Cup trophy […]
A Dodge commercial aired during the Super Bowl using the voice of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. backfired Sunday, with viewers criticizing the spot on social media and questioning whether King’s family approved of the ad. Dodge used an excerpt from King’s “Drum Major Instinct” sermon, which was originally delivered on Feb. 4, […]
Among the 81 people aboard the ill-fated charter plane that crashed late Monday local time in Colombia were members of the Brazilian first division soccer team Chapecoense — hailed just three days ago as the “Cinderella story” of Brazilian soccer and the team with “a real shot at becoming 2016’s most successful Brazilian club at […]
At the tail end of September, in a tiny arena in a skiing town near Germany’s Bavarian Alps, two North Korean figure skaters put in the performance of their careers to earn qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Kim Ju-sik, 25, and Ryom Tae-ok, 18, glided across the ice — to “Je ne suis qu’une […]
Former Olympic figure skater Scott Hamilton has been diagnosed with a brain tumor for the third time. Hamilton—who previously battled testicular cancer in 1997 and two brain tumors in 2004 and 2010—received a third brain tumor diagnosis earlier this year, he told People on Friday. “I have a unique hobby of collecting life-threatening illness,” he […]
Almost a year after Colin Kaepernick first knelt as the U.S. national anthem played ahead of a game, his silent protest has once again become the subject of national attention — this time, because President Trump has launched a days-long tirade at players who have joined the movement. But while a year ago, it was […]