Olympians Liu and Gu travel different paths
Olympics, Sports
March 11, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — It is as captivating as it is divisive: the tale of two Chinese American athletic geniuses who have so much in common but make such different choices. Eileen Gu, a 22-year-old freest...
Victory lap for America’s hockey champions shed politics
Olympics, Sports
March 5, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — It took until noon on Saturday, less than 12 hours before showtime, for the script to arrive. The opening monologue for “Saturday Night Live,” of all things, was about to become a turn...
Brady Tkachuk slames TikTok video as ‘clearly fake’
Olympics, Sports
February 28, 2026
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — American hockey player Brady Tkachuk said Thursday that he did not appreciate a doctored TikTok video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadia...
Hughes keeps waiting for life to return to normal
Olympics, Sports
February 28, 2026
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jack Hughes knows that at some point, the chaos that has been his life since his gold-medal winning overtime goal for the United States at the Milan Cortina Olympics will end. The Ne...
Tkachuk, Matthews celebrate with ceremonial puck drop
Olympics, Sports
February 28, 2026
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk grabbed an American flag, skated down the ice and presented a game puck to 101-year-old U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Jim Sileno. That’s how the Florida Panthers cap...
U.S. women have date in Vegas with Flavor Flav
Olympics, Sports
By By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer 
February 28, 2026
The United States women’s hockey team has a date with Flavor Flav in Las Vegas in July to celebrate winning the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The rapper reposted a note on his X account on...
Malekovich, EF medley relay earn silver medals
Olympics, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
February 27, 2026
A number of local swimmers had standout performances and improved personal marks on the first day of the WPIAL swimming championships at Pitt’s Trees Hall Thursday. Top finishers from the Valley broug...
Men’s hockey team honored, Hellebuyck to get Medal of Freedom
Olympics, Sports
February 25, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Olympic gold medal- winning U.S. men’s hockey team visited President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and later received about a two-minute bipartisan standin...
Milan bet on big events to become next global city
Olympics, Sports
February 25, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Milan has added the title of Olympic city to its long-held monikers as Italy’s fashion and finance capital, a legacy that crowns two decades of growth that reshaped the skyline and booste...
What the Olympics meant for Pens and the U.S.
NHL, Olympics, Pittsburgh, ...
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 24, 2026
Things were fairly ordinary on a dreary, cloudy Sunday at UMPC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. As members of the Pittsburgh Penguins gathered to refine their skills for practice, fans watched fro...
Crosby’s decision not to play not a surprise for teammates
Olympics, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 24, 2026
Sidney Crosby has done this plenty of times. Accepting a prized silver award after a fiercely competitive hockey game is something he has done repeatedly throughout his dazzling 21 years in the NHL. A...
NHL’s return to Olympics lived up to the hype
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 24, 2026
MILAN (AP) — The long wait for the best hockey players in the world taking the ice in an international tournament lived up to the hype. Four of the seven games in the knockout round at the Milan Corti...
Cauldrons extinguished, signaling end of Winter Games
Olympics, Sports
February 23, 2026
France will serve as the next host in 2030. VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo were extinguished during a clo...
Americans capture gold without ‘miracle’
Olympics, Sports
February 23, 2026
Members of the 1980 team are happy for their 2026 counterparts. MILAN (AP) — Dave Christian got emotional throughout the Winter Olympics watching nephew Brock Nelson play for the U.S., just like he di...
Gaudreau’s children join medal celebration
Olympics, Sports
February 23, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Johnny Gaudreau’s No. 13 jersey was hanging in the U.S. locker room throughout the Olympics, and Dylan Larkin and Matthew Tkachuk carried it around the ice after the U.S. beat Canada in o...
U.S. will face Canada for Olympic gold
Olympics, Sports
February 21, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Zach Werenski and his U.S. teammates tried not to look ahead at a potential gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics. After each went unbeaten in group play, there was no way the No...
Fresh outlook helped Liu win Olympic figure skating gold
Olympics, Sports
February 21, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Alysa Liu probably cared the least of all the women in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics about winning the gold medal. Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the st...
Stoddard gets U.S. bronze in speedskating
Olympics, Sports
February 21, 2026
MILAN (AP) — South Korean speedskater Kim Gilli thought it funny earlier in the Milan Cortina Olympics when someone referred to her as Lambor- Gilli, an homage to the famous Italian sports car known f...
American Ferreira captures freeski halfpipe gold
Olympics, Sports
February 21, 2026
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — American freeskier Alex Ferreira won the men’s halfpipe final at the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Friday, completing the 31-year-old’s collection of Olympic medals. Ferreira won...