Disappointing to learn this guy is 6’4”

So many of Puerto Rico’s top players had to skip the tournament due to insurance issues, but instead a sub-replacement level guy who plays for the A’s got to play the hero and deliver one of the coolest baseball highlights you’ll ever see

Mid-major conference tournaments are all about stunningly dramatic moments in a bizarre and mostly empty arena

How many athletes attended both Miamis?

Who’s gonna be the one to have to tell the gentleman from Florida what yiffing is?

These guys are learning the hard way that they don’t get to decide when they are and are not used for propaganda. You side with the White House when it’s convenient for you, they continue to use you to launder their image and advance their agenda after it becomes inconvenient.

If @jahimes.bsky.social votes to censure him again I’m gonna keep calling his office until they have to disconnect the phone.

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lol, they did give them to them

Jack Hughes saying "I so proud to be an American today" with his mouth freshly missing a bunch of teeth he lost shortly before scoring a gold medal-winning goal is beyond iconic.

J'ACCUSE

the Jon Bois tweet is inadequate for 3-on-3 playoff overtime

Great angle here showing Faber's shot wasn't actually a double doink. Went off Guentzel's stick, then the pipe.

casual 5-on-3 penalty kill against the greatest roster ever assembled

There are 17 Canadian goalies who have played at least 10 games this season and have a better save percentage than Binnington

I'm being told the United States won a gold medal in men's ice hockey at the 1980 Olympics. First I'm hearing of this.

Jessie Diggins’ Olympic career in one image. She gave it her all in her final race this morning, finishing fifth in the 50km, five seconds off the podium. The most successful cross-country skier in American history goes out with nothing in the tank.

I was wondering why I've heard "Blue" by Eiffel 65 so many times during these Olympics but I just found out they're from northern Italy (Turin), so I suppose that's a forgivable choice by the venue DJs. I never would have guess that. That song has such powerful Scandinavian energy.

is that good

skiing box scores are so funny

Biathlon is easily the most picturesque sport of these Olympics

restrant; Kiribati, Bairiki, キリバス バイリキ https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1.3312443%2C172.9749358&query_place_id=ChIJfXvKRgB9ZGUR4MPb1XEqWk8

Tuned into the Winter Olympics and they were showing sports like Cold Boxing and Wet Basketball

Spectacular

Alysa Liu, walking through a corridor with two IOC officials: "Where are we going, by the way?" Official: "Would you like to go get a medal?"

holy good god what a goal

putting 20 minutes on the clock in a 3-on-3 overtime is ambitious

Doc Emrick with the intro before the USA-Canada gold medal game! Great to hear his voice on a hockey broadcast again.

My official review of skimo: Good.

I would die for skimo, a sport I had not heard of before last month.

If you want a primer on how SKIMO works and what you can expect to see, my podcast cohost @dangartland.bsky.social has you covered: www.si.com/winter-olymp...

the Jon Bois tweet is inadequate for 3-on-3 playoff overtime

Mikaela Shiffrin does it! After her disappointing 2022 Olympics, she wins the slalom to claim her third career gold medal. She was far and away the best skier in the field today, opening up a healthy lead in the first run and doubling it on her second run.

Funny moment on the slalom broadcast just now. Dan Hicks: "Mikaela Shiffrin has gotten into the habit of eating sour gummies before races to calm her nerves. She's just taken the magic gummy. Science tells us it can help reduce anxiety." Ted Ligety: "I've heard it can have that effect."

FYI, while you were sleeping, Mikaela Shiffrin had the fastest time in the first of two women's slalom runs. Second run starts in about five minutes. Shiffrin goes last out of 30 skiers. Times in both runs are combined. Shiffrin currently has a lead of 0.82 seconds.

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

we love a good example of nominative determinism, don't we, folks?

Bopping around on ESPN+ tonight I discovered that Van Chancellor, who coached the Ole Miss women’s basketball team for two decades, won four WNBA championships with the Houston Comets and coached the U.S. women’s team to an Olympic gold medal in 2004, is calling Houston Christian games at 82yo.

What a heartbreaking scene at the end of the men’s slalom. Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath was in first place after the first run, in position for the gold, but missed a gate on the second run. He then walked off the course and went to lie down in the snow.

very funny to me how every Olympic athlete has the same very basic headshot on their profile but then Eileen Gu is like "oohh, but I'm a *model*, I gotta be different"

- The Bay Area and Dallas are on the Atlantic coast - North Dakota and northern Illinois are mountainous - Sacramento is in middle America

long track speed skating is drag racing, short track is NASCAR

watching skeleton

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

I've really been enjoying the comically stereotypical Canadian accent of NBC’s curling color commentator and finally decided to look him up. That's Kevin Martin, a two-time Olympic medalist (gold in 2010). He's from a town of 200 people in rural Alberta.

lol, the U.S. women have more goals than Italy has shots on net

Going headfirst down a sheet of ice at 75mph is the most insane thing a person can do competitively. It makes bull riding seem like golf.

For those who have not been listening to our podcast, my conversation with @dangartland.bsky.social about Ukrainian skeletor racer Vladyslav Heraskevych being disqualified is on YouTube. We usually talk about more fun stuff, but wanted to post this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRo4...

Sturla Holm Lægreid, the cheating biathlete, just won another medal: bronze in the men's 10km sprint