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China less worried about global criticism these Olympics 
When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Games could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same. Such talk is all but absent this time for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The Games are a reminder of both China’s rise and...
Olympic star Mikaela Shiffrin: Loss of father 'still pretty painful' 
Mikaela Shiffrin glances over her right shoulder at the photo of her late father, Jeff, hanging on a wall in her Edwards, Colo., home. She smiles. Then she bows her head, sighs and begins speaking, occasionally pausing between words, perhaps because it simply still just doesn’t seem real, nearly two...
The age-old question in figure skating: How old is too old? 
Tara Lipinski was a sprightly 15-year-old ballerina-on-ice when she won figure skating gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Sarah Hughes but a year older when she did the same thing four years later in Salt Lake City. In fact, six of the past seven Olympic champions in women’s figure skating...
No NHL players boosts Russian hopes for Olympic gold in men's hockey 
Seven weeks before puck drop at what was supposed to be the first Olympics with NHL players since 2014, the league pulled the plug amid a rash of postponements for coronavirus-related reasons. Instead of getting the world’s best on Olympic ice for the sixth time since 1998, the tournament will...
Beijing Olympics will showcase hockey's next generation 
The disappointment of the NHL not participating in the 2022 Winter Olympics quickly turned to excitement for a handful of U.S. players at the world junior championship. Matty Beniers, Jake Sanderson and Brock Faber were together in Red Deer, Alberta, when USA Hockey’s John Vanbiesbrouck asked them to go to...
U.S. women's hockey once again led by a shining Knight 
Cammi Granato never had forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Hilary Knight. “Her stick broke, and...
Nathan Chen vs. Yuzuru Hanyu the latest in Olympic figure skating rivalries 
In the pantheon of figure skating rivalries, Nancy and Tonya soars like a triple lutz above the rest. Two athletes in their prime, each trying to be America’s golden girl, on the biggest stage in winter sports. And it came draped in the most bizarre of controversies: An attack on...
China richer, stronger, more confrontational compared to 2008 Olympics 
BEIJING — China has undergone history-making change since the last time it was an Olympic host in 2008: It is richer, more heavily armed and openly confrontational. As President Xi Jinping’s government prepares for the Winter Olympics, it has greater leverage to exert influence abroad and resist complaints from the...
Roger Goodell pressured by Congress to release Washington report
Former Washington Commanders employees and members of Congress pressured the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to release a report about the team’s history of sexual harassment and its sexist, hostile workplace culture. They said the team and owner Dan Snyder have not been held accountable for their misdeeds....
U.S. men's national team inches closer to World Cup berth with win over Honduras 
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Until the must-win 3-0 victory over Honduras on Wednesday, the U.S. men’s national team had gotten little out of the first half, out of set pieces and out of star forward Christian Pulisic in its recent World Cup qualifiers. All that changed in the night’s bitter...
Blackhawks owner on Kyle Beach: 'Not going to talk about anything'
CHICAGO — Speaking Wednesday night at a town hall organized by the team, Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz angrily rejected any conversation connected to the franchise’s response when a player said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach. It was the first time the franchise’s top leaders had faced...
NBC announcers ready to call Olympics action from U.S. 
Dan Hicks had a short drive from his home to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Conn., the past two years to call the French Open and some World Cup skiing events. He didn’t imagine he would be doing it for an Olympics, though. With China’s strict policy about those who...
Wake Forest rolls over Pitt; road losing streak in ACC reaches 11 games
Pitt coach Jeff Capel is well aware playing good defense is his team’s only hope this season. When he saw Wake Forest ball handlers enjoying open spaces and shooters getting time to gauge their shots, he knew his team was in trouble. So, it was no wonder Wake Forest rolled...
Olympic champ Chloe Kim eyes 2nd gold on her terms 
Chloe Kim, prodigy, is no more. The same goes for Chloe Kim, political symbol. And that’s a good thing for snowboarding in general and the sport’s current standard-bearer more specifically. Eight years ago, she was the halfpipe’s Next Big Thing. Four years ago, the California-born daughter of South Korean immigrants...
Jim Harbaugh says he'll stay at Michigan after Vikings interview
Jim Harbaugh will stay at Michigan after all, ending his dalliance with a return to the NFL after interviewing with the Minnesota Vikings for their head coach vacancy Wednesday. Harbaugh withdrew from consideration and will be back at his alma mater for an eighth season. “With an enthusiasm unknown to...
Pat Narduzzi: Notre Dame 'back channels' asked Kenny Pickett about transferring before '21 season
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi said Wednesday that tampering with other schools’ players — in this age of uncontested transfers — has become a serious problem in college sports. How serious? During an interview on Sirius XM ACC Radio, he said people with connections to Notre Dame tried to get former...
Former Browns coach Hue Jackson implies he was paid to lose 
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns say suggestions by former coach Hue Jackson and an associate that he was paid by the team to lose games are “completely fabricated.” Jackson, who is now coaching at Grambling, made several posts on Twitter implying he received bonus payments from Browns owner Jimmy Haslam...
Recruiting wars: A&M's Fisher says rumors about booster-funded endorsement deals are 'garbage' 
After Texas A&M added yet another blue-chip prospect to the highest-rated recruiting class in college football Wednesday, coach Jimbo Fisher went off about rumors that booster-funded endorsement deals were fueling the Aggies’ success. “There is no $30 million fund. There is no 10 million, there is no five million. This...
Home again, Frank Cignetti Jr. eager to get his hands on Pitt's offense
Frank Cignetti Jr. took big, eager steps Wednesday when he entered Pitt’s team meeting room. There, he hugged an old friend, acknowledged another with a great-seeing-you-again wave and, truly, looked like a guy who had just returned home for the first time in years. Which is, actually, the case. “It’s...
Spieth, Cantlay carry load of limited star power at Pebble 
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Patrick Cantlay was 12 when his father first brought him to Pebble Beach, and it remains one of his favorite golf courses in the world. “Every time I’m here I feel lucky and no different this week,” he said. Jordan Spieth feels the same way. He...
West Virginia adds wide receiver Cortez Braham to 2022 recruiting class
West Virginia’s football team added a fourth wide receiver to its 2022 recruiting class. Cortez Braham (6-foot-2, 193 pounds), a junior receiver from Hutchinson Community College in Kansas, signed a letter of intent Wednesday. He has three years of eligibility remaining. He had 68 receptions and 1,387 yards in two...
With Mike Munchak on the market, interim Steelers OL coach Chris Morgan leaves for Bears
The Pittsburgh Steelers soon will have their fifth offensive line coach since January 2019. Or maybe could it, perhaps, be an old name to fill the newest incarnation of the job’s opening? Chris Morgan, the Steelers’ assistant O-line coach in 2021 who filled in as the top position coach late...
3-star offensive lineman signs with Penn State on National Signing Day
UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State seemed to have its Class of 2022 firmed up when it inked 23 signees during the early signing period in December. But Nittany Lions coach James Franklin and his staff want to leave no stone unturned on the recruiting trail, and some of that work...
America East bans Stony Brook from conference tournaments
Stony Brook’s basketball teams will need to receive at-large bids to the NCAAs if the Seawolves want to make it to the tournament this year. The America East announced Wednesday that the school is ineligible for conference postseason tournaments because it’s leaving for the Colonial Athletic Association next year. Stony...
Mark Madden: Forever linked, Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin are still faces of the NHL
Tuesday’s matchup between Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin wasn’t enthralling statistically: Crosby got two assists but remained two goals away from 500 on his career. Ovechkin went pointless and has scored just once in his last 14 regular-season games vs. the Penguins. It didn’t much matter in terms of grabbing...


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