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Here’s a quick rundown of the schedule for the U.S. Figure Skating Nationals, which are airing all weekend on NBC. You can also catch the Europeans Nationals streaming live on UniversalSports.com. Friday, Jan. 25 Session 15 – Championship Short Dance – 3:00 p.m. Session 16 – Championship Men’s Short Program – 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan.…
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Shaun White didn’t disappoint fans on the opening day of the X Games in Aspen, coasting into Saturday’s superpipe finals, where he’s the five-time defending champ. He actually didn’t do a single trick on his second run after scoring an 87.00 with back-to-back double corks to secure second in qualifying. White didn’t fare as well…
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Ashley Wagner is on her way to becoming the first American woman since Michelle Kwan in 2005 to win back-to-back national figure skating championships after taking the lead in Omaha with a solid short program performed to “Red Violin” Thursday night. “I felt really solid,” the eight ranked skater in the world said after her skate.…
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Three-time Olympic medalist Yevgeny Plushenko decided to withdraw from the European figure skating championships in Croatia Thursday after receiving a less than stellar score on his short program. He was sitting in sixth with just 74.82 points, a full fifteen points behind Frenchman Florent Amodio, after mistakes on two key jumps during his routine. “It’s…
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New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur, The NHL’s all-time leader in wins (658) and games (1,193, and counting) already has two gold medals for team Canada under his pads. But at 41 he’s thinking he has enough left in the tank for one more. “I’d love to,” he told WSJ.com. “For me, playing in the Olympics…
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The X Games have slowly but surely infiltrated the Winter Olympics, and for that we can mostly thank gold medal snowboarder Shaun White. The popular halfpipe and ski cross and the like are all enjoyed on both stages, and as slopestyle debuts in Sochi next year, there seems to remain only one exciting event left…
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San Francisco 49ers star Vernon Davis is heading to his first career Super Bowl in a couple weeks. And while football is all well and good for paying the bills, it seems that the tight end’s true passion is curling. Yes, curling. And he credits it for helping him learn how to become a total…
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As we approach the one-year-out date from the Sochi Olympics, it’s time for the annual pilgrimage that snowboarders, extreme skiers and, more recently, snowmobile operators make to Aspen, Colo. The X Games are here. And what would the X Games be without its biggest star, Shaun White? He’s won the superpipe gold medal the last…
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Pat McQuaid, President of the International Cycling Union, has been replaced on an the IOC panel that will decide the host city for the 2020 Games, apparently because he’s too busy for the task. “It’s quite simple,” McQuaid told The AP. “I have too much going on and I can’t afford to be spending two…
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Never one to miss an opportunity to employ his famous catch-phrase, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he’ll return to Sochi for the Olympics next February. Wait, not return… “I’ll be back here for the Olympics, for the Winter Olympics. I think Russia and Sochi is going to do an extraordinary job. I think the world is going…
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Joining Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer and the Williams sisters and maybe all of tennis, American gold medalists and 12 time doubles Grand Slam twins Mike and Bob Bryan added their names to the list of stars who will likely end their careers in Rio. “I think that’s where we see the finish line,” Mike…
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Apparently it wasn’t enough for Vannesa-Mae to be a world-renowned violinist; now she hopes to add Olympian to her list of career accomplishments. Mae, likely the world’s only techno-pop-violinist-slash-alpine-skier, is aiming to be only the second Thai athlete to compete in any Winter Games. She needs to ski in five internationally recognized events in order…
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Estimated ticket prices for the Sochi Olympics will range from $33 for the women’s team luge event to $1,320 per seat for the men’s hockey final. Figure skating prices will reach upwards of $650 for the best seats, but a statement from the Sochi organizers says that “most” tickets will fall into pricing categories including…
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Just a heads up: If anyone out there is looking for a 12,000 seat basketball arena, the London Olympics organizers have one they’re not using anymore. And they’d like to unload it for a decent price. Or you can probably just buy it for parts. The arena was temporarily erected in Olympic Park to house…
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Mustachioed Baltimore swim legend Michael Phelps was excited to see the Ravens heading back to the Super Bowl after avenging last year’s AFC Championship loss to the Patriots, and told Yahoo!Sports that linebacker Ray Lewis was at least partly responsible for Phelps returning to the pool for the London Games. “I think he’s probably the…
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Seven of Turkey’s largest companies are offering to sponsor the country in its bid to host the 2020 Summer Games in Istanbul with upwards of $20 million in funding, the largest private backing of a sporting event in the country’s history. Istanbul is going up against Madrid and Tokyo, the presumed favorite to host the…
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American teen Arielle Gold lived up to her name at the snowboarding worlds in Stoneham, Quebec over the weekend, taking home first place in the halfpipe in her first year on the senior circuit. “We were all kind of struggling to stay smooth and keep our amplitude up,” Gold told the AP. “I tried a…
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Lindsey Vonn won her first downhill race of the new year in Italy Saturday, and her first race of any kind in more than five weeks, beating World Cup points leader Tina Maze by roughly a half-second. “I’m excited to be racing and I have that fire again and I trust that my body is…
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In sport dominated by tiny, if not fierce, teenagers, British gymnast Lisa Mason is aiming to make a comeback at 31 after twelve years away from the sport. She’ll hope to qualify for Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next summer. “I know it’s a little bit crazy. Not a lot of people can do it, but…
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Track cycling gold medalist Anna Meares of Australia is mad as hell and she’s not gonna take it anymore. The London champ posted a rebuttal to former IOC and World Anti-Doping official Dick Pound’s thoughts on expelling the sport on her personal website, saying that removing the sport would be punishing every cyclist for the actions…
