Winter sports are beginning to hit the postseason as the calendar turns to February. Some local athletes are helping lead their teams to important wins and others are gearing up for league tournaments in several sports. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the ...
MILAN — As talented and deep as the Americans appear to be, coach John Wroblewski wasn't ready to accept his team being considered the favorite a day before the women's hockey tournament opens at the Milan Cortina Games. After initially sidestepping the question following practice on ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — The 2026 Winter Olympics opened competition Wednesday night with the first curling matches on the schedule in Cortina only for the action to come to a brief halt because of a power outage. Officials paused the matches at the historic curling stadium when the ...
Haskell Indian Nations University senior Ona Dauphinais received January’s final offensive player of the week award from the Continental Athletic Conference on Tuesday. Dauphinais averaged 28 points, including 12 3-pointers, across two victories for Haskell (10-15 overall, 4-1 CAC) last ...
GENEVA — Olympic winter sports must be played on snow and ice, according to the Olympic Charter. But could a muddy field of play get its chance at a future Winter Games, even as soon as in the French Alps in 2030 or Salt Lake City in 2034? How about parquet in an indoor hall? Snow ...
Becoming the president of the Omaha Supernovas in 2023, ahead of the professional volleyball team’s debut, required Diane Mendenhall to draw on the sum total of her experiences from more than four decades in and around the sports world. From playing volleyball at Kansas in the late 1970s to ...