The 2018 Winter Olympics have officially begun. Here are the Olympians to keep an eye on.
Hilary Weaver is a staff writer at Vanity Fair and she joins Cheddar to break down the Olympians and events to watch. Despite falling in his first even, ice skater Nathan Chen is still very well positioned to medal at his first ever Olympics.
Weaver also goes over the highlights for women's snowboarding. Chloe Kim is being called the "Shaun White" of women's snowboarding and veteran Kelly Clark is likely completing in her final Olympics.
Shohei Ohtani's jaw-dropping deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers has some similarities to other contracts for the world's biggest sports stars, including soccer icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, along with NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes. But in terms of his marketability, experts point to another name. The real comparison? Try Taylor Swift.
The police department in the remote north woods Minnesota town of Ely faces the same challenges of recruiting and keeping new officers as countless other law enforcement agencies across the country. So it's offering a unique incentive: canoes.
President Joe Biden told a gathering of Native American nations that he would support the bid by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which invented lacrosse, to compete in the sport under its own flag in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
NCAA President Charlie Baker announced Tuesday that he wants the organization to create a new tier of Division I athletics where schools with the most resources can offer unlimited educational benefits, enter into name, image and likeness partnerships with athletes and directly pay them through a trust fund.
A men’s World Cup super-G was called off Sunday due to strong wind as weather led to the cancellation of all three ski races over the weekend in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
