2014 olympics

The Rio 2016 Olympic Games are set to kick off Friday evening, but if you're planning on tuning into the opening ceremony, you'll have to wait a bit longer to see it. In an announcement made last month by NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus,…

The National Women's Hockey League is just a third of the way into its inaugural season, and already it's made history by being the first women's hockey organization to pay its players. Women's sports are unfortunately overlooked as a whole, and the…

Long before I had even filled out a single college application, I told my parents that I needed to go to an out-of-state school if I wanted to reach any of my life goals. “If you believe in me so much," I'd tell them, "then you need to understand…

After the lights dimmed on the Olympics Closing Ceremonies Sunday, many marveled over the incident-free Sochi games. (Well, that is, if those people didn't count the attack on Pussy Riot near Sochi as an incident.) Unfortunately, the Olympic…

Apparently, the Olympic ceremonies are really boring for the world's leaders. Everyone remembers Queen Elizabeth II and her not-impressed face during the 2012 London Olympic Opening Ceremony, and, well, Russia's Vladimir Putin attempted to steal the…

Charlie White is messing with our heads and we don't like it. First he was shunning his real relationship with former ice skater Tanith Belbin to promote his faux-romance with ice dancing partner Meryl Davis to win favor with the judges. (How very…

Well, the 2014 Winter Olympics have come to a close. Now it's time to look ahead: when are the next Winter Olympics? Where will they be? How much will they cost? Will we get to enjoy encores of the many Olympics-preparation disasters that Sochi…

No one could call the Sochi Olympics boring. A bit strange, maybe. Surreal, definitely. But dull? Not a chance. And in case that point needed driving home, as the competitors walked into the stadium during the closing ceremony, electronic dance…