CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — The Swiss ski resort Crans-Montana is back in the spotlight this week — for international sports. Four weeks after the fatal fire in a bar at a New Year's Eve party, the World Cup in Alpine skiing has brought the best downhill racers led by Lindsey Vonn and ...
Kelly Pannek has spent the past decade enjoying a front-row view of U.S. teammate Hilary Knight and Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin one-upping the other in a fierce, friendly rivalry involving two of the most accomplished players in the history of women's hockey. Playful and easygoing as the two ...
ST. LOUIS — Maxim Naumov sat silently on a chair deep inside the Enterprise Center, away from the packed crowd in the arena, the prying eyes of the TV cameras, the friends, family and strangers who had been showering him well-wishes for the better part of a year. Naumov stared at a ...
NEWELL, Iowa — The streets of Newell and Fonda are quiet. Rural decline has taken a toll on these northwest Iowa towns with main street storefronts shuttered and vacant houses scattered here and there. Yet the heart of these communities separated by 9 miles isn't hard to find. It still ...
HOUGHTON — Playing in his seventh game in Orange and Black, sophomore forward Gunner Gullstrand scored two goals and two assists as the Houghton Gremlins hockey team earned a 5-1 victory Monday night over the visiting Calumet Copper Kings at Dee Stadium. Gullstrand, who plays on a line with ...
The Copper Country Snowsports Club, presented by UPWard Coffee & Orthodontics of Houghton, had an impressive weekend of racing on Jan. 17 and 18 with numerous podium finishes, including two first-place places. The team left the Copper Country and spread out to two former iron districts, ...