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‘6-7’ is not just for the kids

NORMAN, Okla. — LaMelo Ball has never been more popular, and it’s not because Charlotte’s 6-foot-7 star has the Hornets fighting for a playoff spot. They hype is largely about his height. And Charlotte is trying to take advantage. Dictionary.com named the term “6-7” its word of the year for 2025, and the global “6-7” craze is still going strong at pro and college basketball games. Young fans, players and coaches eagerly track when teams near 67 points, and pandemonium ensues when their team hits the mark. The Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans are among NBA teams that ...

US pairs have great hopes for the future

MILAN — Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea did not have the kind of pairs free skate they envisioned at the Olympics. At least the Americans have that team gold medal to console them. No doubt exhausted by performing for the fourth time at the Winter Games, the U.S. team struggled after a strong short program that had put them in seventh place, bringing their Olympic debut to a close with a ninth-place finish in the pairs event on Monday night. Their teammates, Emily Chan and Spencer Howe, finished two spots better in seventh. “We definitely did leave it all out there, just not in ...

Mom, 41, brings home the gold

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor’s two young sons watched her leap into the air, throw her fists skyward, wave the American flag, then fall to her knees and start to cry. In time, they’ll understand what they saw. They saw history. The 41-year-old U.S. bobsledder — a mother of two special-needs children, an athlete whose career was jeopardized by concussions, someone who dealt with plenty of doubt in recent years — is, finally, an Olympic champion. Meyers Taylor won the gold medal in monobob at the Milan Cortina Games on Monday night, her sixth career ...

What to know about the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A glove containing DNA found a couple of miles from the Arizona home of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie 's missing mother appears to match those worn by a masked person outside her house the night she disappeared, the FBI said Sunday. The development comes as law ...

Michael Jordan owns another championship

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Michael Jordan, six-time NBA champion, is now a Daytona 500 winner, too. Tyler Reddick won “The Great American Race” on Sunday with a last-lap pass at Daytona International Speedway that sent Jordan into a frantic celebration. The NBA Hall of Famer bear-hugged Reddick in victory lane and then jointly hoisted the Harley J. Earl trophy with the 23XI Racing driver. Jordan, who turns 63 on Tuesday, will get a Daytona 500 ring for his birthday and made it known in victory lane he wears a size 13. “It feels like I won a championship, but until I get my ...

USA on way to quarterfinals

MILAN — Matthew Tkachuk insists he and his U.S. teammates were only focused on beating Germany in their preliminary round finale and never worried about scoring enough goals to pass Canada for the top seed at the Olympics. “We never talked once about the top seed at all,” Tkachuk said. “None of that seeding stuff. All that handles itself.” It’s handled now, after the U.S. defeated Germany 5-1 on Sunday night behind two goals and an assist from captain Auston Matthews and 23 saves from Connor Hellebuyck. The Americans finished group play unbeaten to clinch the second seed ...