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

Along with his gold-medal winning teammates, Dallas Stars goalie Jake Oettinger was unknowingly thrust into America’s last national political point of outrage, because we can’t have nice things.

Three days after celebrating with his teammates following Team USA’s 2-1 overtime win over Canada in the gold medal game of the 2026 Winter ...Read more

We love the 12 gold medals — 33 in total — our athletes are bringing home, but it’s the stories that keep us hooked on the Olympic Games, and Milan did not disappoint, ending with a crescendo on the ice where our men’s hockey team secured a 2-1 victory with a bloody, broken smile.

Before scoring the winning goal in overtime, 24-year-old...Read more

The majority of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men’s hockey team marched in during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to chants of “USA! USA!” on Tuesday night.

Trump commended the team early in his speech in House chambers at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as he talked about how the country keeps ...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday awarded Team USA’s hockey goalie Connor Hellebuyck the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

The American team won the Olympic gold medal on Sunday, the first time in 46 years, occurring on the anniversary of the team’s legendary triumph over the USSR known as the “Miracle on Ice....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Behind the debate over whether Casey Wasserman should resign as the 2028 Olympics chief over 20-year-old correspondences unearthed in the Epstein files is a fraught question that has long haunted the L.A. Games: Will there be enough money?

A growing number of California politicians are calling on Wasserman to step down over ...Read more

Mike Sullivan has his name on the Stanley Cup twice as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, but he didn’t get a gold medal as coach of Team USA.

The U.S. men beat Canada, 2-1, Sunday at the 2026 Winter Olympics, winning on Jack Hughes’ goal less than two minutes into overtime.

But, as is custom, Sullivan and the coaching staff did not receive...Read more

While President Donald Trump invited the men’s and women’s hockey teams to his State of the Union speech following gold medal victories against Canada, only one received a presidential phone call.

The men.

In a call to the boisterous men’s locker room Sunday, Trump praised the athletes for their dramatic 2-1 overtime victory over Canada....Read more

A niche sport that is mostly beloved by the hard core rather than the casual fan unified a nation at 9 a.m. on Sunday, something that America’s most popular game — football — can never achieve.

Hockey, a sport that most Americans don’t completely understand and only a few have actually played, bonded a nation because for all of our ...Read more

The face of American hockey has a bloody lip, missing teeth and disheveled hair.

Jack Hughes represents the best of us. Grit, toughness, pride, the willingness to sacrifice for others, no matter how messy or irrational.

Forty-six years to the day of "The Miracle on Ice," the Americans transformed hockey into a three-hour anthem in Italy.

No ...Read more

MIAMI — They walked into the international arrivals area of Miami International Airport on Monday afternoon in various Team USA gear — some in gray or blue hoodies or jackets, others in red T-shirts.

The one piece of their outfits in common: The gold medal draped out their necks.

Just more than 24 hours after winning those gold medals at ...Read more

Milan-Cortina Olympics hero Jack Hughes is likely looking at a dental implant to replace teeth knocked from his mouth in the third period of the men's hockey final between the United States and Canada on Sunday.

Once the euphoria of scoring the winning goal in overtime subsides and celebrations cease, Hughes will undergo a surgical procedure ...Read more

Lindsey Vonn’s horrific leg injury was even more serious than originally realized.

The American skier said surgery saved her left leg from being amputated after she crashed during her downhill race on Feb. 8 at the Milano Cortina Olympics.

The complicated injury left Vonn with compartment syndrome in her leg, she said Monday in a four-minute...Read more

It is totally acceptable to be emotional, Minnesota.

We should be.

Especially when I drive around town and see, hear and talk hockey in the winter. Especially when I fly into Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during the snowy times, look down during the approach and see backyard hockey rinks dotting the landscape. From 24-hour rinks ...Read more

The Cincinnati Reds earned the name “The Big Red Machine” in the 1970s, and particularly with back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and ’76. A favored quip a few years later — as the Soviet Union was readying its hockey team to seek a fifth consecutive Olympic gold in the 1980 Games — was, “This is the ‘real’ Big Red Machine.�...Read more

MILAN — Arena di Verona, the ancient amphitheater built in the first century, has survived the Roman and Austrian empires, floods, earthquakes and World War II. Bull fights were staged at the arena for the entertainment of Napoleon Bonaparte, who later used the venue as a detention center for Austrian prisoners. The arena has seen gladiator ...Read more

VERONA, Italy — In fair Verona, L.A., unofficially, takes the torch.

While the Olympic flag passed from Italy to France at Sunday’s closing ceremony, handing off the Winter Games from Milan-Cortina to the French Alps, the flame will burn next in L.A.

In just over two years, the United States will host the country’s first Summer Games ...Read more

The dramatic Olympic gold medal win by the United States men’s hockey team on Sunday, which snapped a 46-year drought for the Americans, will be remembered forever.

But amid the celebrations and flowing tears of joy in Milan after Jack Hughes’ overtime goal against the Canadians, Team USA’s players had one of their fallen teammates at the...Read more

MILAN — Talk about a closing ceremony.

The final medals of the Milan-Cortina Games were handed out Sunday and these Olympics truly saved the best for last, with the U.S. men's hockey game grabbing the last gold with an epic 2-1 overtime win over Canada.

Of course it went to overtime. How else should a U.S.-Canada final end?

Jack Hughes, ...Read more