HARTFORD, Conn. — Patrick Halgren said Wednesday was the best day of his life.

That was two days after he won his first Paralympic medal, a silver, in the Super G competition in Cortina, Italy.

Before Monday, he had never finished on a podium in any World Cup race, and had finished 24th in slalom and 26th in giant slalom at the 2022 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A report on how Olympic organizers will tackle civil rights, homelessness and human trafficking ahead of and during the 2028 Games has not been made public by the city more than two months after it was filed and no date for its release has been set, leaving human rights advocates fearing the issues will not get the attention and ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — When Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee presented Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu with the key to the city at Thursday’s hometown celebration for the superstar athlete, she reminded the audience: “She trained right here in Oakland, at the Oakland Ice Center. Her father and family work here in Chinatown, and they’re here today.�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Casey Wasserman's name has been scrubbed from the agency he founded decades ago, replaced with an amorphous moniker: "The Team."

Monday's move comes amid the lingering controversy over the sports mogul's decades-old association with Ghislaine Maxwell, accomplice of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Following revelations ...Read more

Gold-medal winning figure skater Alysa Liu may be getting a little too much love from her fans.

“So I land at the airport & there’s a crowd waiting with cameras and things for me to sign,” she posted on Instagram. “All up in my space.”

“Someone chased me to my car bruh,” she added. “Don’t do that to me.” She punctuated her ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Six and a half years have passed since Kayden Beasley, then a 13-year-old adolescent with visions of hockey pucks dancing in his head, first attended practice with the Hurricanes Sled Hockey team at Polar Ice Raleigh.

This weekend, those dreams have carried him all the way to Italy, where Beasley, now 19, will represent the ...Read more

Every team that wins a championship tends to get the same question: When are you going to the White House? For the gold medal-winning United States women’s Olympic hockey team, the better question might be: Is it worth it?

President Donald Trump certainly thinks so — for his own selfish reasons. He joked to the men’s team that he’d “...Read more

MIAMI — Even though he was not able to experience most of the moment live, there was ample respect from Heat coach Erik Spoelstra last Sunday when the United States men’s hockey team delivered Olympic gold.

Amid the drama of that overtime victory against Canada in Italy, Spoelstra was tethered to his day job, first running his annual ...Read more

Now that the dust has settled, and the emotions calmed, everyone can discuss the U.S. Olympians’ dramatic wins and tainted celebrations with proper perspective.

But you know what?

It still stinks, right to the end of celebrations this past week, when the official White House Tik-Tok account used artificial intelligence to transform American ...Read more

After a week or so of abusing the clueless 20-somethings for serving as President Donald Trump’s latest dupes, it only seems fair to credit the few USA hockey lads for their reluctant mea culpas.

Several of the players who were involved in the debauched postgame celebration with debased FBI director Kash Patel that devolved into a ...Read more

Blame AI or the White House social media employee who put controversial, profane words in the mouth of U.S. Olympic men's hockey star Brady Tkachuk.

Either way, Tkachuk doesn't appreciate the doctored video published Sunday on the official White House TikTok account that made it appear he was disparaging Canadians in the aftermath of the ...Read more

Hip-hop legend Flavor Flav is hosting a four-day event celebrating “ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists” this summer in Las Vegas.

The idea appears to have taken root after President Trump made a dismissive comment about the gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team while congratulating the men’s hockey team on its gold ...Read more

DALLAS — One of the most powerful images from the 2026 Winter Olympics is that of the members of the Canadian men’s hockey team wearing their silver medals while being handed a stuffed animal.

Here’s this adorable stuffed animal to go with the silver medal you don’t want.

There were some of the best hockey players in the world — All ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Most of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team has chosen not to criticize the men’s team. That’s nice of them. We should also acknowledge that women athletes shouldn’t constantly be expected to serve as social justice warriors, even though many of them handle that role exceptionally well.

When men do ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — As we all know, Orlando is the birthplace of humidity; a place where hot, sticky air doesn’t just reside here; it has filed for homestead exemption. Which is why it felt so especially refreshing to claim a cool little slice of ice hockey glory earlier this week.

The United States won its first Olympic gold medal in men’s ...Read more

GARDENA, Calif. — U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu made quite an impression at the Milan-Cortina Olympics with her unique style, her compelling backstory and, of course, her gold medals in the women's singles competition — the first for an American woman since 2002 — and in the team event.

Her feats captured the attention of local artist ...Read more

SEATTLE — The four Torrent players who won Olympic gold for Team USA were welcomed back from Italy with a celebration at the Space Needle on Wednesday.

City Council members, the Seattle Sports Commission, media members and even two-time FIFA World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe gathered in the Puget Sound Room overlooking Chihuly Garden and Glass ...Read more

Going for Olympics gold takes a lot of carb-loading.

That dietary imperative might still be active in Alysa Liu, the 2026 Olympics star who just won two U.S. figure-skating gold medals in the women's singles and team event. On Tuesday evening, she dropped by Trabocco Kitchen and Cocktails in Alameda, Calif., where she enjoyed some pasta ...Read more

I, for one, am astonished that several entitled young white millionaires were eager to capitalize on their brief moment of relevance by becoming pawns of a president for whom most of them probably voted, especially if they listened to the most popular podcasters — that is, if they even bothered to vote.

Let’s unpack that sentence.

The ...Read more