BEIJING — Jessie Diggins brought home the United States’ 25th and final medal of the 2022 Olympic Games, winning silver in the grueling 30km mass start cross-country race while fighting off both exhaustion and the after-effects of food poisoning. “That might have been the best race of my entire life, I’m not going to lie,” she said after collapsing at the finish. “It was also maybe the hardest race of my whole life.” The final event in the Games’ Zhangjiakou mountain cluster, the… Source link

Jamahal Hill made quick work of Johnny Walker on Saturday at UFC Vegas 48. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) LAS VEGAS — Jamahal Hill’s nickname is “Sweet Dreams,” but it was Johnny Walker who took a very violent nap on Saturday at UFC Vegas 48 inside the Apex. Hill caught Walker with a crushing right hand to the temple that beat Walker’s jab to the mark. Walker did a dead fall backward, but Hill was so quick, he got to Walker before the referee. Hill landed another right to the chin… Source link

Charley Taylor was an offensive threat wherever he got the ball. (Getty Images) Charley Taylor, the Washington Commanders Hall of Famer who retired as the NFL’s all-time leading receiver, died Saturday, the team announced. He was 80 years old. Taylor played his entire career in Washington, accruing eight Pro Bowl nods, two NFL receptions titles and the 1964 Rookie of the Year Award. He retired with not only 9,110 career receiving yards, most in NFL history at that point, but also 1,488 rushing… Source link

CLEVELAND — Perhaps no player can make a bigger jump in profile over the next three months than Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine. He’s a two-time All-Star and for the first time in his career, on a bona fide playoff team with aspirations on making noise beyond the first round. He and DeMar DeRozan rank as one of the league’s best duos, a deadly perimeter 1-2 punch that will create matchup problems across the board. And he’ll be a free agent in July — an unrestricted free agent. A big… Source link

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III didn’t play a single down in Super Bowl LVI, but he has still managed to pick up a penalty and now a fine from the game. The NFL is docking Hargreaves $5,555 for his now-infamous penalty in which he joined a Bengals interception in street clothes, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Hargreaves, announced as inactive before the game, was called for unsportsmanlike conduct. The penalty was called near the end of of the first half, when Los… Source link

Facebook might be down, but it’s not out yet Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash Facebook stock is down almost 45% from last year’s highs and most people are blaming Apple’s 2021 privacy moves on iPhone. This week Google announced massive and similar changes on Android, prompting another 6% drop this week and ousting Facebook (ok, Meta) from the world’s top 10 biggest companies by market cap. But are Google’s privacy moves as dangerous to Facebook… Source link

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Less than a week after winning a Super Bowl and quickly returning to retirement, Eric Weddle has his next job lined up. Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego announced Saturday that outgoing football head coach Tristan McCoy will be replaced by the longtime NFL safety. The announcement via Facebook: It’s official! The 2022 football season will be coach McCoy’s last as the RBHS head coach. Coach McCoy has led the Broncos’ football program the past 11 seasons, and built a reputation of… Source link

With the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day both in the rearview mirror, that can only mean one thing: the NCAA tournament is almost here. Twenty-two days before Selection Sunday, the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee shared a snapshot of its top 16 teams. Here is the partial bracket that the committee unveiled on Saturday afternoon and four key takeaways. 1. GONZAGA, NOT ARIZONA, IS NO. 1 IN THE WEST Glance at the resumés of Gonzaga and Arizona, and it’s not easy to tell them… Source link

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has responded to Elon Musk’s . In a letter it filed on Friday with a New York federal judge, the SEC said its frequent check-ins with Tesla were consistent with expectations from the court overseeing the company’s 2018 settlement. At the time, Tesla had agreed its lawyers would preclear some of Musk’s tweets after one of his messages drew the attention of the SEC. The specific saw Musk say that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private… Source link