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LeBron James will not play on Tuesday night against the San Antonio Spurs. The Los Angeles Lakers officially ruled James out on the second night of a back-to-back due to left foot arthritis. Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves and Marcus Smart were all ruled out, too.

With James now out due to the injury, he will officially hit 18 games missed on the season, making it impossible for him to reach the 65 appearances he needs to be awards eligible due to the current collective bargaining agreement. That means for the first time since 2004, the All-NBA teams will not include James.

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James missed the first 14 games of the season due to sciatica, making 65 games a long shot for the 41-year-old. It was pretty much an inevitability with him skipping legs of back-to-backs, and he was open about how difficult it was to play both legs at his age.

The development ends an unprecedented 21-year All-NBA streak for James. To get a sense of how abnormal that is, keep in mind that Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are tied for second all time in All-NBA selections with 15 each. Not a streak, total.

James is also the all-time leader in first-team selections with 13, two ahead of Bryant and Karl Malone.

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For more perspective on how far James’ streak goes back, here are the All-NBA teams from the 2003-04 season, his first year in the NBA. That was the only time in James’ career he didn’t make an All-NBA team, though he did win Rookie of the Year.

First Team

• F – Kevin Garnett, Minnesota Timberwolves

• F – Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs

• C – Shaquille O’Neal, Los Angeles Lakers

• G – Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers

• G – Jason Kidd, New Jersey Nets

Second Team

• F – Peja Stojaković, Sacramento Kings

• F – Jermaine O’Neal, Indiana Pacers

• C – Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons

• G – Tracy McGrady, Orlando Magic

• G – Sam Cassell, Minnesota Timberwolves

Third Team

• F – Ron Artest, Indiana Pacers

• F – Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks

• C – Yao Ming, Houston Rockets

• G – Michael Redd, Milwaukee Bucks

• G – Baron Davis, New Orleans Hornets

The streak means that James has not only maintained a high level of play for more than two decades, but he’s also stayed healthy enough to play something resembling a full season. He did, however, have some close calls.

James failed to reach 65 games in four of the full seasons in that streak. There was some mild controversy when he made it in after playing 55 games in 2018-19, thanks to his exceptional stats, and he was the last one on the third-team boat in 2022-23. Whether anyone got snubbed in that voting due to James’ name recognition is up to you.

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This is the third unprecedented streak to end for James this season. On Dec. 4, he posted eight points in a win against the Toronto Raptors, ending a 19-year-old 1,297-game streak of scoring at least 10 points. He also missed out on All-Star starting honors, ending an unmatched 21-year streak of being in the star-studded starting five. His playing a 23rd season alone remains unmatched in NBA history.

You can take all of that for what you will in the NBA GOAT arguments. It’s just hard to think of a single athlete in all of sports who has performed like this from ages 19 to 41.

The bowl landscape appears to be quickly consolidating.

According to On3, the GameAbove Sports Bowl has been canceled. The Detroit-based game was played at Ford Field and had existed in its current form since 2014 when the then-Quick Lane Bowl succeeded the Little Caesar’s Bowl.

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Northwestern won this season’s GameAbove Sports Bowl 34-7 over Central Michigan. The game was the first of three bowls held on Friday, Dec. 26. Two years ago, the bowl was one of the most entertaining of bowl season as Toledo beat Pitt 48-46 in six overtimes.

The bowl had recently featured Big Ten and MAC teams after ACC teams regularly made appearances in the 2010s. Quick Lane was the sponsor from 2014-23.

The reported disappearance of the GameAbove Sports Bowl would be the third cancellation of a bowl game in the last 12 months. The Bahamas Bowl was not played at the end of the 2025 season and replaced by the Xbox Bowl in Frisco, Texas. The LA Bowl recently announced that it would no longer be played after it existed for five seasons.

Bowl games continue to get strong television ratings; ESPN had one of its best seasons for non-playoff bowls viewership. There will always be a market for bowl games outside the College Football Playoff. But it’s also fair to wonder if the bowl market was too saturated, especially given what happened at the end of the 2025 season with the need to fill 36 non-playoff bowl games.

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Teams like Notre Dame, Iowa State and Kansas State turned down bowl bids after either missing the playoff (in the case of the Fighting Irish) or losing a coach to another team. That led bowls to scramble for 5-7 teams as replacements, and many 5-7 teams turned down the opportunity to play in one more game given the roster turnover that’s now prevalent with the NCAA’s current transfer rules.

Will more games get canceled before the start of the 2026 season? We wouldn’t be surprised if one or two more were discontinued.

Maxx Crosby wasn’t happy with how this past season ended. Not only did his Las Vegas Raiders finish 3-14, but they also shut him down for their final two games.

To Crosby’s dismay, the Raiders placed the five-time Pro Bowl defensive end on injured reserve because of a knee injury that ultimately required surgery. He went on to post a video of him playing basketball and photos of him on a trampoline, as the Raiders’ spiral toward the No. 1 pick, which he notably didn’t care for, continued.

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That whole situation strained the relationship between Crosby and the Raiders, according to The Athletic’s Dianna Russini, who reported on Jan. 3 that Las Vegas was expected to be open to trading Crosby this offseason. It was reported last week that Crosby told minority owner Tom Brady he won’t be playing for the Raiders again. The star edge rusher is expected to attract a massive amount of interest in the trade market if that’s the case.

But perhaps Crosby and the Raiders have ironed some things out.

After the Las Vegas Raiders fired Pete Carroll last month, Crosby shared plenty of kind words about the head coach. And now he’s already met his new one, Klint Kubiak.

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Coming off a dominant win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, the former Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator was introduced as the Raiders’ frontman on Tuesday.

Kubiak told reporters that he got a cup of coffee with Crosby that morning.

“Love talking ball with him and look forward to continuing those conversations,” Kubiak said. “I think he was the first one in here this morning working out, so that fired me up.”

Kubiak was then asked about how important it’s going to be for Crosby to quickly buy into Kubiak’s head-coaching vision, given how much credibility the defensive stalwart has in the Vegas locker room.

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“We want him to be a part of our success going forward,” Kubiak said. “There’s no doubt about that. He’s one of the best players in the NFL. So that’s a no-brainer to get to work with Maxx and to see him continue to have success with this organization.”

Last year, the Raiders signed Crosby to three-year extension reportedly worth $106.5 million, a deal that, at the time, made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history.

That title has since been passed multiple times.

Crosby has been with the organization for seven seasons. The Raiders selected him out of Eastern Michigan in the fourth round of the 2019 draft. They were still in Oakland back then.

He’s finished with at least 10 sacks four times, including during the 2025 campaign, despite its premature end.

MILAN — The U.S. women’s hockey team made an emphatic statement Tuesday night.

The Americans cemented themselves as the team to beat at these Olympics with a 5-0 blowout of Canada in a highly anticipated rivalry game that likely doubled as a preview of next week’s gold-medal match.

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After the U.S. outscored its first three group-stage opponents by a combined score of 15-1, Canada was supposed to provide a tougher challenge. Instead, the Americans scored in the opening four minutes of the game, built a two-goal lead by the end of the first period and soon turned a showdown into a blowout.

“We’re playing a good brand of hockey and we’re sticking to it,” U.S. defender Laila Edwards said. “We’ve got a great group that is playing really well together.”

The outcome of Tuesday’s game clinched the No. 1 seed in the knockout round for the U.S. and set up a quarterfinal matchup with host Italy. That game has the potential to get ugly in a hurry considering the U.S. clobbered its four group-stage opponents by a combined score of 20-1 and Italy trails well behind each of those teams in the International Ice Hockey Federation’s world rankings.

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The glaring difference between the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday was the disparity in team speed and firepower. With captain Marie-Philip Poulin out with a lower-body injury, Canada struggled to generate many threatening scoring chances and lacked a quarterback on the power play. Conversely, the Americans showcased their attacking depth, finding the back of the net five times despite stars Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Alex Carpenter going goal-less.

The player whose fingerprints were all over this win was Abbey Murphy. The dynamic young American star assisted on three of the U.S.’s five goals, none more impressive than the no-look, behind-the-back pass that set up Hannah Bilka near the end of the first period. Murphy also repeatedly got under the skin of the Canadians and drew penalties that led to four American power-play opportunities.

“She’s an unbelievable player,” U.S. defender Caroline Harvey said. “She can fill any role. Obviously she drew four penalties and she got us on the board getting those assists. She really does it all for us.”

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The outcome of Tuesday’s game clinched the No. 1 seed in the knockout round for the U.S. and set up a quarterfinal matchup with host Italy. That game has the potential to get ugly in a hurry considering the U.S. clobbered its four group-stage opponents by a combined score of 20-1 and Italy trails well behind each of those teams in the International Ice Hockey Federation’s world rankings.

For decades, the hierarchy at the top of women’s hockey has been Canada, the U.S. and then everyone else. One of the North American powers has captured gold at all seven Olympics to feature women’s hockey and all 24 world championships. With few exceptions, the rest of the world has essentially battled it out for third place.

Nothing that has happened so far in Milan would suggest that the gulf is closing. The U.S. blitzed its three non-Canada group-stage opponents by a combined score of 15-1. Canada outscored its first two non-U.S. opponents by a combined score of 9-1 with a game against Finland left to play.

Canada has won five of seven Olympic golds and narrowly leads the all-time series, but the U.S. has enjoyed the upper hand in the rivalry recently. The Americans edged the Canadians in overtime in the gold-medal match at last year’s world championships and then convincingly swept four Rivalry Series matchups earlier this winter by a combined score of 24-7.

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If anything, that made Tuesday’s matchup more urgent for Canada. And yet the Canadians weren’t competitive.

Maybe Poulin returning in time for a potential gold-medal match would be a difference maker for Canada, but the gap between the two teams Tuesday night looked like it was bigger than any one player.

Spring training, at least officially, has arrived. Games don’t start for another few weeks, but pitchers and catchers are descending in droves on the sunny environs of Arizona and Florida, if they haven’t done so already.

The six-week baseball preseason is typically an elongated slog of injury news and grainy bullpen videos. But amid the humdrum monotony are a handful of players clouded by an air of desperation. These characters, entering so-called “put up or shut up” seasons, cannot simply go through the motions. For them, the stakes are too high, their futures too uncertain.

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Here are five names faced with make-or-break years that I’m monitoring as spring training begins.

Adley Rutschman, Orioles catcher

Since being taken first overall in the 2019 MLB Draft, Rutschman has carried the aspirations of a franchise on his cartoonishly broad shoulders. In 2023 and ‘24, the switch-hitting catcher made good on those expectations, guiding the O’s to consecutive postseason appearances for the first time since the late-1990s. But last year, things went sideways. Really sideways.

Hampered by injuries to both of his obliques, Rutschman smashed just nine home runs, hit .220 and finished the season with a subpar .673 OPS. Since the 2024 All-Star break, his .693 OPS ranks 22nd among catchers with at least 500 plate appearances.

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How much of those struggles were injury related? That’s the multi-million dollar question. Rutschman, 28, is a free agent after next season, and Baltimore just gave an eight-year extension to 21-year-old backstop Samuel Basallo. The two will split time in 2026, with president of baseball operations Mike Elias dubbing Rutschman the “frontline guy.” But another lackluster season from the former can’t-miss prospect will only amplify questions about his future in Charm City.

Jasson Domínguez, Yankees outfielder

Even though he’s younger than all the “Stranger Things” kids, Domínguez, 23, has already played parts of three seasons in the bigs. Unfortunately, the character nicknamed “The Martian” for his freakish array of supernatural talents has been downright terrestrial across 529 MLB plate appearances. Last year, Domínguez failed to capitalize on regular playing time early in the season and was supplanted by a fast-rising Trent Grisham; Domínguez started just four games in September.

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So when the Yanks decided to run things back with their outfield for 2026, re-signing Grisham and Cody Bellinger, it left Domínguez as the odd man out. How the Yankees handle their former top prospect moving forward will be fascinating to watch. Unless an injury opens up an outfield spot, Domínguez will be relegated to pinch-hitting opportunities and the occasional fill-in start. It’s tough to envision him capitalizing on all that talent without regular playing time.

So do the Yankees trade him? Does it make sense to do so with his value at an all-time low? Another wasted year for Domínguez, and the man formerly destined to be the next Yankees superstar might be continuing his career in a different uniform.

Sandy Alcantara, Marlins starting pitcher

An entire World Cup cycle has flown by since Alcantara’s magnificent 2022 Cy Young campaign. In the interim, the 30-year-old Dominican struggled through an injury-marred 2023, lost all of 2024 while recovering from Tommy John surgery and returned to deliver a statistically abysmal 2025. Somehow, Alcantara has survived the rebuilding Marlins’ never-ending roster churn, and he looks to be in line for the 2026 Opening Day start.

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But is this guy still any good? Despite having the fourth-highest average fastball velocity among qualified starters, Alcantara finished 2025 with the third-worst starter ERA in baseball. Lefties filled Alcantara’s nightmares, as his once-magical changeup turned into batting-practice fodder. The elements of a frontline starter remain, and the Marlins sure know how to develop pitching, but this franchise cornerstone needs to turn the clock back sooner rather than later.

Miami holds a $21 million option on Alcantara’s contract for 2027, an option that once looked like a no-brainer. That’s no longer the case. If the righty is to be on the next great Marlins team, he needs to prove his worth. Otherwise he might become yet another tragic case of an ace derailed.

Tanner Scott, Dodgers relief pitcher

Just over a year ago, Scott lit the baseball world ablaze by signing a massive, four-year deal with the Dodgers. His addition to an already stacked roster was, for many fans and prognosticators, the moment Los Angeles’ spending reached a problematic level, one that threatened the competitive balance of the sport.

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While that debate rages on, Scott is no longer at the center of it. That’s because his first year in Chavez Ravine was an unmitigated disaster. Scott led the league in blown saves and posted a 4.74 ERA, his worst single-season tally since 2021. His four-seam fastball, lethal in 2024, was peppered to the tune of a .520 slugging percentage. Things got so ugly that the Dodgers, desperate for competent relief pitching, didn’t call on Scott a single time in the postseason. L.A. followed that by signing Edwin Díaz, this winter’s top free-agent closer, to a lucrative, three-year deal, even though Scott remains under contract for three more seasons.

The Dodgers, with their mountains of cash, could release Scott tomorrow and not feel a thing. That, perhaps, would be an even grander indication of their financial might than his signing. A bounce-back for Scott is certainly in the cards, but relievers, famously, can be volatile from year to year. There’s a chance his story ends uncomfortably for everyone if he can’t right the ship.

Jordan Walker, Cardinals outfielder

Entering the 2023 season, Walker was a consensus top-five prospect in the sport, trailing only Gunnar Henderson, Corbin Carroll and Francisco Alvarez in aggregate rankings across the major prospect sites. In the time since, across 1,039 big-league plate appearances, the hulking slugger has compiled an unthinkably putrid -2.7 bWAR. Much of that negative value has to do with his abysmal outfield defense, but it’s not like Walker has set the batter’s box on fire, either. His .584 OPS last season was the fifth-lowest mark in baseball among hitters with at least 300 plate appearances.

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But with the Cardinals embracing a full-scale reset, Walker will get yet another opportunity to figure things out this season. Turning his light-tower raw power and 99th-percentile bat speed into actual production remains a task taller than Walker himself (6-foot-6). But the new Cardinals leadership group under president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom and assistant general manager of player development Rob Cerfolio might have a better shot at unlocking Walker’s immense potential. If they don’t, it’s tough to envision him surviving the rebuild.

There will be a new face in the FBS for the 2026 season as FCS powerhouse North Dakota State is making the leap. The 10-time FCS National Champions will be joining the Mountain West Conference. Andy Staples and Steven Godfrey discuss if they think this is the right move for the Bison. The guys chat about what exactly the team is giving up to make this move, what they have to gain, and if they think North Dakota State can be successful. Plus, they also discuss the latest in the Charles Bediako case. He is no longer eligible to play for Alabama after a judge denied his most recent injunction request. Andy and Godfrey discuss what this means going forward.

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Then, the guys take a quick look at the NFL in comparison to college football. Sam Darnold culminated his redemption story with a Super Bowl ring this season. Once the third pick in the NFL Draft for the New York Jets, Darnold struggled for much of his career. After being a back-up in San Francisco, he found success as a starter for the Minnesota Vikings and now is a Super Bowl champion with the Seattle Seahawks. Andy and Godfrey look at the college landscape and discuss if there are any transfer quarterbacks that may have a similar redemption story in 2026.

Later, the guys continue to look at the transfer quarterbacks, but through a different lens. Last episode, Godfrey compared Fernando Mendoza to a certified, pre-owned Honda. This was meant as a compliment. Now, they look at the transfer quarterbacks for 2026 and compare seven QBs to used cars. Find out what the comparisons are for Rocco Becht, Kenny Minchey, Drew Mestemaker, Austin Simmons, DJ Lagway, Darian Mensah and Byrum Brown.

Get your college football news here with College Football Enquirer.

0:00:00 – North Dakota State heads to the FBS

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26:12 – Charles Bediako no longer eligible

34:17 – What transfer QB can have a Darnold-like redemption season

49:30 – Comparing transfer QBs to used cars

49:45 – Rocco Becht comparison

52:24 – Kenny Minchey comparison

54:10 – Drew Mestemaker comparison

55:43 – Austin Simmons comparison

56:51 – DJ Lagway comparison

58:58 – Darian Mensah comparison

1:00:06 – Byrum Brown comparison

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MILAN — It’s reckless and exhilarating, daring and unnecessary, thrilling and chaotic all at once. The mid-routine backflip is one of skating’s most controversial moves, and Ilia Malinin — for the third time this Olympic Games — broke it out during his short program on Tuesday night, to absolute mayhem at the Assago Ice Skating Arena.

The flip doesn’t add to his technical score, but it sure does rally the crowd. Malinin earned a 108.16 on the night to lead the field heading into Friday’s medal round. Yuma Kagiyama, who bested Malinin in the team short program skate, ended the day second with 103.07, and France’s Adam Siao Him Fa currently ranks third with a score of 102.55.

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The evening was a marked improvement over his short program in the team event, when Malinin looked ill at ease and, by his standards, rocky. After Tuesday night’s skate, he admitted that he had indeed been feeling what he called “Olympic pressure.”

“Going out there the first time hitting that Olympic ice and feeling the atmosphere, it was like, I didn’t expect it to be so much,” Malinin said. “It took me a little while to understand what really happened, but now that I understand it, I took a different approach today.”

Malinin backed off of doing a planned quad axel, which would have been the first such jump in Olympic history. But he stuck with his traditional backflip, and as expected, the move improved his routine from the exceptional to the sublime. And he knew exactly what he was doing as. he did it.

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“Having that attention, all those eyes on you — that pressure shows you who you truly are on the ice,” Malinin said. “It’s one thing to do everything in practice, but it’s another skill to be able to perform it under pressure. That’s something I really enjoy.”

The backflip’s appeal as performance art is obvious. The necessary elite-level athletic ability, combined with the sheer lunatic danger of flipping upside down while ice skating, is guaranteed to send an already-hyped crowd into a frenzy. Malinin is a leading individual gold medal threat and one of the greatest skaters on the planet because he combines showmanship, athleticism and fearlessness, and the backflip is his ultimate manifestation.

The legacy of the backflip is one of brief flourishes followed by blanket shutdowns. Terry Kubicka, an American skater and the first to land a triple lutz, performed the first Olympic backflip at the Winter Games in 1976, landing on both feet. The International Skating Union was apparently so horrified by the move — and aghast that Kubicka landed on two skates — that it immediately banned it from any skating performance.

Twenty-two years later, Surya Bonaly, a three-time French Olympian, landed a one-skate backflip at the Nagano Olympics in 1998 as a protest against what she deemed unfair judging practices. Bonaly had been backflipping for years; she may be the first female ever to land the backflip, and at age 12 she set a Guinness record for the youngest female to backflip.

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Banned in ISU-sanctioned events like the Olympics, backflipping remained a mainstay on the performance and professional circuit, where daring skaters like Scott Hamilton would throw themselves skates-over-head to the delight of crowds.

Until last year, the International Skating Union would deduct points from any skater who attempted one. In 2024, though, as part of its ongoing attempts to shed the sport’s stodgier image, the ISU permitted backflips.

But there’s a catch: they don’t go to a skater’s technical score, but to their components score, which includes artistic presentation. In other words, you don’t get any extra points for landing a backflip, but you can get a small bump for the sheer artfulness of the effort. That distinction makes it a high-risk, low-reward endeavor for most skaters. Most, but not all.

Malinin has been backflipping for several years, but was only able to begin using it legally in competition starting in 2024. Every time he unleashes one, the crowd erupts. And on Sunday night, as part of his gold medal-winning performance, he threw in a backflip … and then saw none other than Novak Djokovic cheering him.

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“He was standing there, hands on his head,” Malinin said afterward, his gold medal around his neck. “I was like, Oh, my God, you know,?’ That’s incredible. That’s like a once-in-a-lifetime moment, just seeing a famous tennis player watching my performance. I’m absolutely blown away.”

Fair enough. Malinin’s been blowing away the skating world with his backflips for the last year; about time someone did the same to him.

The men’s event continues on Friday night with the free skate program, where the top 24 scorers from Tuesday’s short program will face off with the podium at stake. Malinin will be leading the field … and he might just flip over it, too. The technical scores and the ambition in Malinin’s program are so high that he would seem to be a gold medal favorite, but he’s trying to avoid falling into that trap of assumption.

“Being the favorite is one thing, but actually getting it done, and doing it under pressure, and really just having the skate of your life to earn that medal is another thing,” Malinin said. “I don’t want to get too ahead of myself and say that, you know, it’s guaranteed that I’m getting that gold medal … I still have to put in that work for that long program, so I’m not going to take that for granted.”

Longtime Rams offensive lineman Rob Havenstein has announced his retirement from the NFL after 11 seasons with the franchise.

Havenstein was a holdover from St. Louis after being selected by the Rams in the second round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He was drafted during the Jeff Fisher regime and became a mainstay under Sean McVay and played a major role in the franchise’s success over the past decade.

In 2021, Havenstein helped the Rams win the organization’s second Lombardi trophy, winning Super Bowl LVI over the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20. Due to an ankle injury, Havenstein was limited to just seven games in 2025. The news of Havenstein’s retirement comes just days after Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford’s announcement that he’ll be back for another season in 2026.

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The Rams will look to replace Havenstein along the offensive line as we approach the start of the new league season in March. With the scouting combine, free agency and the NFL Draft taking place within the next few months, this Rams’ front office will certainly have its hands full. Havenstein’s presence will undoubtedly be missed in Los Angeles, as he proved to be a reliable anchor at right tackle.

During 10 of Havenstein’s 11 seasons in the NFL, he played at least 97% of the snaps he was available for. In 2016, Havenstein’s second year in the league, he played in all 16 games and was present for all 1,100 offensive snaps. He accomplished the same feat in 2022, but this time on a 17-game schedule, and was on the field for all 1,018 Rams offensive snaps.

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That level of consistency will be missed and hard to replace.

Super-G skiing — which stands for super giant slalom — combines the speed of downhill racing with the precision of giant slalom, and Olympic courses feature a minimum vertical drop of 400m. This week at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, the men’s super-G final will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 11, and you can catch the live feed bright and early at 5:30 a.m. ET on Peacock and USA.

Here’s a complete schedule of all Team USA Alpine Skiing events at this year’s games, along with a rundown of who is competing. While every event will stream on Peacock, you can also find most on USA and NBC, too. (To see specific air times, check out the official NBC Olympics broadcast schedule, and toggle your search to “TV Only.”).

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If you want to learn even more about every event at this year’s Winter Games, here’s a guide to everything you need to know about the Milan Cortina Games.

How to watch men’s super-G skiing final at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 11

Time: 5:30 a.m. ET

Location: Livigno Snow Park

TV channels: USA, NBC

Streaming: Peacock, DirecTV, and more

Where can I stream the men’s super-G skiing final at the 2026 Winter Olympics?

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Where to watch the men’s super-G skiing final on TV:

The men’s super-G skiing final will be broadcast live on USA at 5:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Portions of the competition will also be broadcast as part of NBC’s Primetime in MIlan coverage at 8 p.m. ET. (To see specific air times, check out the official NBC Olympics broadcast schedule, and toggle your search to “TV Only.”). You can stream these channels on DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV and more.

How to watch Olympic Skiing free without cable:

Who is on the Team USA Alpine ski team?

These are the athletes on Team USA’s Alpine ski team:

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• Bryce Bennett, 33, Palisades Tahoe, Calif.

• Mary Bocock, 22, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Keely Cashman, 26, Strawberry, Calif.

• Ryan Cochran-Siegle, 33, Starksboro, VT.

• Katie Hensien, 26, Redmond, Wash.

• Amelia Hurt, 25, Carnelian Bay, Calif.

• Breezy Johnson, 30, Jackson Hole, Wyo.

• Paula Moltzan, 31, Lakeville, Minn.

• Sam Morse, 29, Carrabassett Valley, Maine

• Kyle Negomir, 27, Littleton, Colo.

• Nina O’Brien, 28, San Francisco, Calif.

• River Radamus, 27, Edwards, Colo.

• Ryan Sarchett, 22, Ketchum, Idaho

• Mikaela Shiffrin, 30, Edwards, Colo.

• Lindsey Vonn, 41, Vail, Colo.

• Jackie Wiles, 33, Aurora, Ore.

• Isabella Wright, 28, Salt Lake City, Utah

2026 Team USA Olympic Alpine skiing schedule

All times ET. Streaming on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.

Downhill (Medal Events)

Sat, Feb. 7

• 5:30–7:40 a.m. — Men’s Downhill

Sun, Feb. 8

• 5:30–7:40 a.m. — Women’s Downhill

Team Combined

Mon, Feb. 9

• 4:30–6:15 a.m. — Men’s Team Combined: Downhill

• 8:00–9:25 a.m. — Men’s Team Combined: Slalom

Tue, Feb. 10

• 4:30–6:15 a.m. — Women’s Team Combined: Downhill

• 8:00–9:15 a.m. — Women’s Team Combined: Slalom

Super-G

Wed, Feb. 11

• 5:30–7:40 a.m. — Men’s Super-G

Thu, Feb. 12

• 5:30–7:40 a.m. — Women’s Super-G

Giant Slalom

Sat, Feb. 14

• 4:00–6:00 a.m. — Men’s Giant Slalom: Run 1

• 7:30–9:10 a.m. — Men’s Giant Slalom: Run 2

Sun, Feb. 15

• 4:00–6:00 a.m. — Women’s Giant Slalom: Run 1

• 7:30–9:10 a.m. — Women’s Giant Slalom: Run 2

Slalom

Mon, Feb. 16

• 4:00–6:00 a.m. — Men’s Slalom: Run 1

• 7:30–9:10 a.m. — Men’s Slalom: Run 2

Wed, Feb. 18

• 4:00–6:00 a.m. — Women’s Slalom: Run 1

• 7:30–9:10 a.m. — Women’s Slalom: Run 2

February 22, 2026

It didn’t quite set a record, but almost 125 million people tuned in to watch the Seattle Seahawks defeat the New England Patriots on Sunday in Super Bowl LX.

NBC announced on Tuesday night that this year’s Super Bowl averaged 124.9 million viewers on their network, which made it the second-most-watched Super Bowl ever. That trails only last year’s Super Bowl — when the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs — which averaged 127.7 million viewers on Fox.

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The halftime show caused a slight surge in viewership, too. NBC said Bad Bunny’s performance at Levi’s Stadium averaged 128.2 million viewers over the 15 minute window. That’s down slightly from the more than 133 million that tuned in for Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at the Super Bowl last year in New Orleans.

By comparison, Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show” drew about 6.1 million concurrent viewers on YouTube on Sunday, according to The Athletic. That alternative halftime show, which was pre-recorded, featured Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett.

While the game didn’t set a viewership record in total, the game did set an all-time record for its peak viewership. About 137.8 million viewers tuned in during the second quarter of the contest. Telemundo also averaged 3.3 million viewers for its broadcast of the game in Spanish, which made it the most-watched Super Bowl in Spanish-language history. Telemundo’s audience also peaked during Bad Bunny’s halftime show with about 4.8 million viewers, which also set a Spanish-language viewership record.

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The Seahawks rolled to a dominant 29-13 win over the Patriots, marking the franchise’s first championship since the 2013 campaign. Kenneth Walker III was named the game’s MVP, which made him the first running back to win that award in 28 years.

Next year’s Super Bowl will take place Feb. 14, 2027, from SoFi Stadium in Southern California.