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A sneaker company is suing Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and quarterback Patrick Mahomes for trademark infringement, according to a Friday report from ESPN, which cited court records.

The company, 1587 Sneakers, reportedly alleges in the suit that the name of the Kansas City steakhouse Kelce and Mahomes own, 1587 Prime, infringes its usage of the identical number combination and, as a result, is causing damage.

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Along with business partner Noble 33, Kelce and Mahomes opened the restaurant last year. Its name derives from the stars’ jersey numbers — Mahomes’ No. 15 and Kelce’s No. 87 — whereas the sneaker company’s name is inspired by the year 1587, per its website, which explains that the year marks the first recorded presence of Asians in America. At that time, Filipino sailors initially arrived in what became the United States, it says.

“We are the first sneaker brand in the U.S. that is owned, designed and inspired by Asian American culture — empowering Asian Americans to be unapologetically themselves,” the site reads.

The sneaker company, which appeared on “Shark Tank” and was founded by Adam King and Sam Hyun, started selling its shoes in April 2023, per the suit, ESPN reported.

That’s before Kelce and Mahomes announced their plans to open their steakhouse, according to The Kansas City Star.

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Trademark attorney Josh Gerben of Gerben IP, who doesn’t represent either company, told ESPN that the suit boils down to the unregistered rights that the sneaker company claimed before it filed its trademark applications in 2025.

More specifically, that application didn’t come until October of last year. It’s still being reviewed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, per ESPN.

Yet because the sneaker company launched its business before the steakhouse, the suit reportedly alleges the sneaker company has first use of “1587.” It’s important to note, though, that Kelce’s and Mahomes’ restaurant applied for the trademark “1587 Prime” in December 2023, according to ESPN, which also reported that the “1587 Prime” trademark is in the bar and restaurant category, whereas the sneaker company’s “1587” trademark application is in the clothing category.

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“I think it’s a tough case for the sneaker company,” Gerben told ESPN. “Trademarks can coexist in different industries. … Given that the marks are essentially identical here, is a restaurant and a shoe company too close? Are consumers likely to be confused in thinking they are affiliated with one another?”

The sneaker company is alleging that confusion is in fact happening and is requesting Kelce and Mahomes’ restaurant no longer use the name “1587 Prime,” in addition to stop selling apparel merchandise with the name on it. The steakhouse currently sells caps and a shirt on its website.

“The company was understandably concerned that such a high-profile project choosing a brand name virtually identical to that of its own would overshadow it and cause irreparable damage,” the suit reads, according to The Kansas City Star.

“It did. And continues to do so up to this very present day, forcing the AAPI-company towards the cliff of collapse.”

King said in a written statement that 1587 Sneakers continues “to hope to resolve this matter amicably,” per ESPN.

That said, the sneaker company is reportedly seeking unspecified damages.

Austrian bobsledder Jakob Mandlbauer was hospitalized following his team’s crash during the second heat of Saturday’s 4-man bobsled competition.

Mandlbauer, 27, was the driver of the Austrian bobsled, making a left turn on Curve 7 when the sled tipped onto its side and lost control on the track. Teammates Daniel Bertschler, Sebastian Mitterer and Daiyehan Nichols-Bardi ducked into the bobsled to protect their heads.

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Unfortunately, Mandlbauer didn’t avoid injury and was quickly attended to by medical personnel as the race was delayed by 20 minutes. The driver was feeling neck pain, according to the Austrian team.

Mandlbauer was taken from the course on a stretcher and rushed to a hospital. However, he is apparently OK after being checked as a precaution, according to Austrian officials.

“Jakob is on his way to hospital,” Austrian team press attaché Christoph Iglhauser told The Athletic. “He’s not so bad. It’s just a check. Everyone else is fine.”

Austrian news outlet Krone reported that Mandlbauer showed movement in his legs, arms and head.

The Austrian team was not the only one to tip over during the race. Bobsleds for France and Trinidad and Tobago also tipped over as they attempted to navigate Curve 7, a U-shaped turn on the course.

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U.S. bobsledder Frank Del Duca crashed during a training run, though his accident occurred at Curve 4, The Athletic reported. Teammate Charlie Volker suffered a concussion in that crash and subsequently retired from competition.

Neither the French team nor the Trinidad and Tobago team suffered any apparent injuries, with their athletes able to walk away from their respective accidents. But all three teams that crashed were not able to cross the finish line and were thus listed as “Did Not Finish” in the final results. Germany took all three top spots in Heat 2.

The Canadian women’s curling team scored three in the sixth and eighth ends and held on to win 10-7 in the 10th during the bronze-medal game against the United States on Saturday during the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The American women fell just short of their first medal in the event.

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Team USA staked itself to a 1-0 lead in the first end, but Canada answered right back to start what became a back-and-forth affair in Cortina.

The U.S. recorded singles in the first, third and fifth ends, entering a pivotal sixth with a 3-2 advantage.

But that’s when Canada capitalized on a pair of costly American mistakes. Tara Peterson sent a shot through the house, and her sister, Tabitha, didn’t create enough momentum to take a Canadian stone out of the paint, enabling the Canadians to score three in the end and take a 5-3 lead.

Fortunately for the U.S., it bounced back in the seventh end to tie the game.

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After Canada’s Rachel Homan threw a great freeze, Tabitha, the Americans’ skip, split a pair of stones with a draw that ultimately tapped off a Canadian rock and rested in the button, awarding the Americans a much-needed multiple.

Any relief the U.S. felt was short-lived, though. The Americans left Team Canada another chance for three in the eighth end, and Homan — a three-time world champion who was in search of her first Olympic medal — seized the opportunity, making it an 8-5 game.

Team USA wasn’t going away lightly. It made the most of the ensuing hammer, as Peterson’s final throw of the ninth end knocked a Canadian stone out of the four foot and nestled next to another American rock for two.

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Down 8-7, the Americans needed a steal in the 10th end. They couldn’t conjure a last bit of Olympic magic to make it happen.

Peterson’s final throw didn’t squeak past Canada’s guard, and the Canadians rejoiced to the tune of their 10-7 victory.

After going 6-3 in round-robin play, the U.S. women made the Olympic playoffs for the first time since 2002.

As was the case in Salt Lake City 24 years ago, the Americans fell to Switzerland in the semifinals. Also like the 2002 Games, Canada defeated the U.S. in the bronze-medal game.

Team Canada got off to an uncharacteristically rough start to this year’s Games, winning just one of its first four games in round-robin competition. During that span, the American women notched their first Olympic win over a Canadian team that previously had their number in a sport that was introduced to the Games in 1998.

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Led by Homan, though, the Canadians still found their way into the four-team playoff field.

After winning five consecutive medals upon women’s curling’s Olympic debut, notably two golds, Canada finished just sixth in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and fifth in the 2022 Beijing Games, missing the playoffs both times, including once with Homan as skip.

In this year’s Games, however, Homan and Team Canada persevered for bronze.

Still, the United States’ run to the semifinals is encouraging. Earlier in this year’s Games, Cory Thiesse became the first American woman curler to win a medal, earning silver in the mixed doubles.

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On Saturday, Thiesse eclipsed 190 ends played in these Games, the most anyone has ever played in one Olympics. Taylor Anderson-Heide swept her heart out, and the Peterson sisters gave it their all.

The Americans just fell short.

MILAN — Mia Manganello narrowly missed the 2010 Olympics. She won bronze eight years later in Pyeongchang. And in her final Olympic race, she’s a bronze medalist again.

It came in the women’s mass start — the most chaotic, unpredictable race in speedskating.

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“It means everything. It means a journey for my parents, sacrificing everything, my loved ones, relationships, friends, coaches, teammates,” she said. “This is the ultimate goal. Any color, honestly.”

Manganello is one of the handful of U.S. speedskaters who got their start inline skating before finding her way to the ice. But after coming up short of qualifying for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Manganello hung up her skates, hopped on a bike and became a professional cyclist.

In 2016, she returned to the skates, qualified for the 2018 Games, where she took bronze in team pursuit. Four years ago in Beijing, she took fourth in the mass start — missing the podium by a little more than a second.

Saturday, in the final race of her Olympic career, the 36-year-old won her first individual medal.

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For most of the 16-lap race, where 16 racers are on the ice at the same time, the pack remained in tact, unlike in the men’s race moments earlier. It wasn’t until the bell lap that the race really began.

Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands and Manganello were first to sprint out, followed tightly by Canada’s Ivanie Blondin. From there, it was a three-woman race for gold. Groenewoud pulled ahead of Manganello, then Blondin caught the American — beating Manganello to the line by .30.

Groenewoud took gold with a time of 8:34.70, just ahead of Blondin (8:35.09) and Manganello (8:35.39).

After crossing the line, Manganello raised her arms in triumph. Sixteen years after her first attempt at the Olympics ended before she ever got there, she’s won a second bronze on her way out.

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“Did you see me cross the line? I screamed so loud. I started bawling; there was no other emotion but disbelief. It’s the most surreal moment of my life. It’s something that I envisioned every single day since I’ve been here.

“It seemed so far-fetched. We discussed impostor syndrome a bit (before), not quite believing that I could be there. So to cross the line was a little bit of disbelief, even on the back stretch when I was in second, thinking to myself, ‘Hold it together, hold it together’.

“To cross the line, the emotion just escaped me.”

MILAN — The final race of Jordan Stolz’s Olympics did not play out the way he hoped it would.

It wasn’t even just that Stolz came up empty in his bid for a fourth medal at these Olympics. The American speedskating phenom never even really had the chance to race for gold in the mass start — the most chaotic, unpredictable race in speed skating.

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Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands took gold and Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark grabbed silver after they broke away from the rest of the pack early in the 16-lap race. They extended their lead to as much as 20 seconds, taking advantage of the other skaters trying to conserve energy for a furious finish.

By the time Stolz attacked with less than three laps to go, the gap between him and the leaders was so massive that he was essentially racing for third place. Bergsma clocked a winning time of 7:55.50, nearly five seconds ahead of Thorup. Italy’s Andrea Giovannini outsprinted Stolz for third, both of them finishing about nine seconds after Bergsma.

When asked why he didn’t attack sooner, Stolz explained, “If I would have done that, I would have had no legs left at the end of the race.”

Stolz spent much of the middle third of the race idling near the front of the chase group, waiting for others to help pursue the leaders. When other medal contenders didn’t take the initiative to accelerate and pass him, he felt as though they were trying to neutralize his explosive finishing kick and were unwilling to share in the work.

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“I actually didn’t expect this to happen,” Stolz said. “I felt like the gold-medal favorites in the mass start were going to be more hungry to get a medal, but they all were just expecting me to go for it.

“If they’re all sitting behind me at four laps to go and I’m not really building the pace and the two guys in front just keep getting further and further ahead, that’s clear to me that they were just kind of settling for third.”

Had he won Saturday’s mass start event, Stolz would have become the first man since Norway’s Johann Olav Koss 32 years ago to leave an Olympics with three long-track speedskating gold medals. Entering the mass start, Stolz had already taken gold in the 500 and 1,000 meters before settling for silver in the 1,500.

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Whereas long-track speedskaters are accustomed to racing against the clock, unencumbered by other competitors in their lane, the mass start is the outlier. The 16 athletes who qualified for Sunday’s men’s final started shoulder-to-shoulder and raced head-to-head for 16 laps around Milan’s 400-meter oval.

Race strategy during the mass start is most similar to a cycling track or road race. Athletes conserve energy early in the race and draft off each other to reduce wind resistance, but they must be prepared to unleash a lethal finishing sprint over the final lap or two to have any hope of winning a medal.

When asked to look ahead to the mass start earlier this week, Stolz acknowledged the threat of getting taken out by another competitor jockeying for position around a turn. He said he hoped to “try and defend myself in the group” because “there will be a lot of shoving.”

Winning three medals on an Olympic stage is Stolz’s most remarkable accomplishment yet on a journey that began with watching the charismatic Apolo Anton Ohno at the Vancouver Games 16 years ago. Stolz has chased Olympic glory ever since, going from learning to skate on his family’s backyard pond at age 5, to winning his first U.S. title at 16, to snapping at the heels of the world’s fastest speedskaters soon after that.

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Is Stolz happy with his Olympics despite falling short of his goal of four medals? He considers it to be “pretty successful.”

“There’s things that could have gone better,” Stolz said, “but two golds and a silver? You’ve gotta be pretty happy with that.”

LIVIGNO, Italy — The freeski women’s halfpipe, which was set for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Eastern, has been postponed until Sunday after a continuous snowstorm extended into the evening, making the halfpipe unsafe for competition.

The event is now slated to take place Sunday at 4:40 a.m. ET.

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The event is the last chance for Eileen Gu, the American-born freeskier who represents China, to leave the Milan Cortina Olympics with a gold medal. She won silver in both slopestyle and big air, but the halfpipe — where she won gold in Beijing for years ago — is her favorite event.

The 12-person field for the finals includes two Americans, Kate Gray and Svea Irving, but ironically one of the top contenders to beat Gu is another American-born athlete who represents another country.

Zoe Atkin, who was born in Massachusetts while her parents (one from Malaysia, one from England) were working in the U.S., competes for Great Britain. She won the gold medal at the world championships last year and, like Gu, attends Stanford.

Saturday’s matchup between No. 1 Michigan and No. 3 Duke in men’s college basketball carries even more significance with the Wolverines and Blue Devils named as the top two seeds among the 16 teams in the bracket preview released by the NCAA men’s tournament selection committee.

Houston and Arizona also face each other on Saturday in a clash that could affect the top tournament seeds.

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The teams with the largest objection to these preliminary rankings might be UConn and Houston, but this week’s results surely played a factor in the rankings. The Cougars were the No. 2 team in this week’s AP Top 25, but they lost to No. 6 Iowa State on Monday. Meanwhile, No. 5 UConn was upset by Creighton on Wednesday.

Committee chair (and Sun Belt commissioner) Keith Gill acknowledged on CBS’s bracket preview show that the Huskies’ loss knocked them out of the top four. Yet in his view, “UConn’s three best wins are better than Houston’s best three wins.”

Before losing to Creighton, Gill said UConn was under consideration for the No. 1 seed, along with Iowa State and Houston.

Arizona getting the third No. 1 seed after losing to Kansas and Texas Tech might also raise some eyebrows. Star freshman Koa Peat will also miss time with a muscle strain in his lower left leg. However, the fourth-ranked Wildcats rebounded with a win over No. 23 BYU this week.

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Texas Tech dropped to the No. 19 overall seed — or the fourth line — when star forward JT Toppin suffered a season-ending torn ACL injury on Tuesday, according to Gill.

The top 16 seeds in the NCAA tournament selection committee’s bracket preview line up as follows:

1. Michigan (25-1)
2. Duke (23-3)
3. Arizona (24-2)
4. Iowa State (23-3)
5. UConn (24-3)
6. Houston (23-3)
7. Illinois (22-5)
8, Purdue (22-5)
9. Florida (20-6)
10. Kansas (20-6)
11. Nebraska (22-4)
12. Gonzaga (26-2)
13. Texas Tech (19-7)
14. Michigan State (21-5)
15. Vanderbilt (21-5)
16. Virginia (22-3)

Saturday’s bracket preview will be the last reveal from the selection committee until the official NCAA tournament seedings are announced on Selection Sunday, March 15.

UCLA’s flirtation with SoFi Stadium isn’t resulting in a move in 2026.

The school told the California Post in a statement that it was going to play this season at the Rose Bowl. The school has been exploring the possibility of leaving the iconic stadium to play its home games at the home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers.

“UCLA will play the upcoming football season at the Rose Bowl,” Mary Osako, UCLA’s vice chancellor of strategic communications, said in a statement provided to the California Post. “We know how much game day means to Bruins — to our students, alumni and fans who plan their autumn around Saturdays together.

“Our priority is delivering a strong season experience for our student-athletes and our community, and we have great momentum in our football program. During this unprecedented time in college athletics, UCLA will always be guided by what’s best for our student-athletes and the Bruin community.”

That exploration led to a lawsuit from the city of Pasadena and the Rose Bowl against the school. UCLA’s lease with the stadium stretches into the 2040s. A court date is set for Friday regarding that suit.

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The suit was filed in October and said that the school was “unequivocally expressing its intent to abandon the Rose Bowl Stadium” to relocate to the NFL stadium. The Rose Bowl has been UCLA’s home for 44 seasons since the school moved from the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Given the length of the lease remaining at the Rose Bowl, it’s likely that UCLA will have to pay a hefty sum to move to SoFi Stadium in the near future. And remember, UCLA has an athletic department that hasn’t exactly been flush with cash in recent seasons.

UCLA has seven home games at the Rose Bowl in new coach Bob Chesney’s first season. The Bruins host USC to end the season, and teams like Illinois and Wisconsin also come to the Rose Bowl.

Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert will serve a one-game suspension for Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers, the NBA announced on Saturday.

The All-Star center picked up a flagrant foul at the end of the second quarter Friday against the Dallas Mavericks, triggering an automatic one-game suspension. The play, in which Gobert struck Marvin Bagley III in the face with his forearm while fighting for a rebound, was initially called a common foul, but officials ruled it a Flagrant 1 after review.

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Gobert finished the game, a 122-111 Minnesota win, with 22 points on 9-of-11 shooting with 17 rebounds (a season-high 10 on offense) and three blocks.

Gobert has already missed a game due to his flagrant foul total, as he served a suspension during a Jan. 13 game against the Milwaukee Bucks after a flagrant on Victor Wembanyama. No other NBA player has more than four flagrant fouls on the season.

The Frenchman has now been called for six flagrants on the season, with seven total points (in which a Flagrant 1 equals one point and a Flagrant 2 equals two points). Players with five or six flagrant points in a season receive a one-game suspension if they’re hit with a Flagrant 1 and a two-game suspension in the event of a Flagrant 2.

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But with Gobert now at seven points, he faces a two-game suspension if he commits any sort of flagrant foul for the rest of the season. The T-Wolves will be hoping it doesn’t come to that for the four-time Defensive Player of the Year.

The Dallas Cowboys reportedly agreed to terms with running back Javonte Williams on a 3-year, $24 million deal, according to the team. Williams will reportedly have $16 million in guaranteed money. His $8 million annual salary ties him with D’Andre Swift as the 16th-highest-paid running back in the NFL.

The Cowboys signed Williams to a 1-year, $3 million contract last offseason. Williams is the first running back the Cowboys have extended since re-signing Ezekiel Elliott in 2019.

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Williams broke out in his first season with the Cowboys, quickly outperforming his contract. He came into the season healthy, rushing for a career-high 1,201 yards and 11 touchdowns. The 25-year-old running back also provided a spark to the Cowboys’ overall rushing offense. The Cowboys were ninth in rushing yards last season after finishing 27th in 2024.

He also added 35 catches for 137 yards and 2 receiving touchdowns. He played in 16 games last season after missing Week 18 with shoulder and neck injuries. Despite suffering injuries late in the year, he still performed well.

Williams spent his first four seasons with the Denver Broncos after being drafted in the second round out of the University of North Carolina in 2021. His role decreased in his last two years with the Broncos. Williams was part of a running back committee under Broncos head coach Sean Payton and was still trying to return to form after suffering an ACL, LCL and posterolateral corner injury in his right knee in 2022.

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The Cowboys will now turn their attention to deciding on free-agent wide receiver George Pickens, while the free-agent running back class takes a hit after the loss of Williams.