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Jul 16, 2025, 10:18 AM ET OSLO, Norway — Olympic ski cross medalist Audun Groenvold has died after being struck by lightning, the Norwegian ski federation announced Wednesday. He was 49. Groenvold won bronze at the 2010 Vancouver Games. “It is with great sadness that we have received the news of Audun Groenvold’s untimely passing,” the federation said. “The former …

LAS VEGAS — LeBron James shook hands with Rob Pelinka, joked with JJ Redick, talked golf with Austin Reaves and posed for pictures with his team’s newest players, Jake LaRavia and Deandre Ayton. At the Thomas & Mack Center on Monday night, James did everything you would expect a member of the Los Angeles Lakers to do. In the sections …

Craig Jones is retiring from competition, and he hopes that means his beef with Gordon Ryan is put to bed as well. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars have butted heads for years, trading shots on social media and in interviews, and going hold-for-hold on the mats. Ryan has submitted Jones multiple times, but their rivalry persists to this day. When Jones …

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Tadej Pogačar crashed in the closing moments of stage 11 of the Tour de France on Wednesday, but is “quite ok” and did not lose time in the general classification. The world champion fell at speed with around 4km to go to the finish in Toulouse, after touching wheels with a rider in front of him. As the incident happened …

Darbon, who is overseeing his first Open Championship, said there were 1.2m applications for tickets for this week’s championship and the R&A is “keen to service that demand where we can”. “But it’s not about just being bigger,” he added. “It’s about being better. So it’s not about just simply the volume of people.” Darbon acknowledged that the UK Government …

Mya Lesnar has made a name for herself beyond the fact that she happens to be the daughter of former WWE star Brock Lesnar — she’s a track and field star who just won a national indoor championship in the shot put for Colorado State and then in the outdoor events last month. Now? She’s making headlines with her relationship, …

The Buffalo Sabres will begin the 2025-26 regular season at KeyBank Center, facing the New York Rangers on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. The NHL will announce the full 2025-26 schedule at 1 p.m. **Fill out this form** to gain access to the single-game ticket presale before the general public. While you wait for the full schedule, check out …

The back and forth between New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick continued this week with the legendary head coach responding to comments from his former boss. In a statement to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr., Belichick said he took a “big risk” by taking the Patriots job when he was hired in 2000. “As I told Robert …

Caitlin Clark is injured once again, and the Fever star’s brother is blaming the officiating.  “Make no mistake, this is on the reffing,” Caitlin’s younger brother Colin wrote in a since-deleted post on X. Late in Tuesday night’s game against the Sun at Boston’s TD Garden, Clark appeared to hurt her right groin, marking her fourth injury in the last …