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1 week agoPWHL Arrives in San Jose
PWHL will play in San Jose next season, promising elite competition, frequent overtime, and inclusive fan traditions at SAP Center.
“There's a lot of great fighters from this gym, and all around Oakland,” McElroy Jr. tells me. At 19 years old, he's fully aware of the legacy of this soil. Retired Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward and current World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Devin Haney both started in the Town. Notable fighters like Bilal Mahasin, Amari Jones and Anthony Garnica learned the ropes here, as did Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and Juaquin “Killer” Gallardo, a 1996 U.S. Olympic team alternate.
Most Olympians and athletic champions retire from their sport by their mid-30s, searching for passion in a different line of work. Fortunately for elite athletes on the job hunt, the famously selective bank is looking to tap into the same talent that rowing stars, competitive swimmers, and Super Bowl champions bring to the table. And apparently, there's much more in common between athletics and banking than what meets the eye.
The 2025-26 NHL season is a special one, as players will be competing in the Olympic Games for the first time since 2014. Eleven of 12 teams in the tournament have revealed their rosters -- what's the holdup, Italy? -- featuring a mix of current, former and future NHLers. As part of this week's ESPN NHL Power Rankings -- led again by the Colorado Avalanche -- we've identified the players from each team who will be representing their respective countries in Milan Cortina in February.
Eleven Olympians will feature in a field of roughly 8,500 runners at the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile on Sunday, the New York Road Runners (NYRR) announced. The race's 44th edition will span 20 blocks down one of Manhattan's most iconic roads, providing a fast-paced, competitive event that brings some of the world's top runners to the Big Apple. Defending champion Karissa Schweizer is returning for a second time, hoping to improve on her debut race in which she tied the women's event record.
We decided that the best way to celebrate Michael Phelps' Olympic victory visit to Disneyland was to build him an Olympic size swimming pool right on Main Street U.S.A., a pool that had to be constructed and filled in a mere 36 hours.
The parents of Olympic medal-winner Annalise Murphy have successfully contested a preliminary judgment against them regarding unauthorized structures on their property.