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Remarkable Lindsey Vonn wins World Cup downhill at age 41 to start her Olympic season

The queen of downhill skiing is well and truly back. At age 41, Lindsey Vonn is still faster than the rest and on Friday became the oldest winner of a World Cup race since the circuit started in 1967. Vonn raced to a stunningly fast win in a downhill at St. Moritz on Friday to earn her first victory in nearly eight years — and the first in her comeback with titanium implants in her right knee after a five-year retirement. The United States ski great seized the lead by an astonishing 1.16 seconds ahead of Mirjam Puchner of Austria. Even wilder was that Vonn trailed by 0.61 after ...

Kirk Cousins leads Falcons to 29-28 comeback victory over the reeling Buccaneers

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Maybe Kirk Cousins should've been starting the entire season. Cousins threw three touchdown passes to Kyle Pitts Sr., and Zane Gonzalez kicked a 43-yard field goal as time expired to complete the Atlanta Falcons' rally for a 29-28 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night. Facing a third-and-28 on the Falcons' final drive, Cousins completed passes of 14 yards to Pitts and 20 yards on fourth-and-14 to David Sills V to set up Gonzalez. The Falcons (5-9) overcame a franchise-record 19 penalties and a 28-14 fourth-quarter deficit to damage Tampa Bay's ...

Predators center Steven Stamkos scores 4 goals in win over Blues

NASHVILLE, Tenn (AP) — Steven Stamkos rediscovered his scoring touch with a four-goal outing on Thursday night, and it’s no coincidence that the Nashville Predators’ trajectory is suddenly pointing up. After a slow start to the season, Stamkos now has eight goals in his past eight outings, which coincides with the Predators going 6-2 over that stretch following a 7-2 win over the St. Louis Blues. “I’m going to have to remember what I ate for breakfast. When you get to my age sometimes you forget,” said the 35-year-old, who opened the season with four goals in his first 22 ...

Huskies men’s basketball excited to be back home

HOUGHTON — Now ranked No. 11 in the country, the Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team won their two opening games of GLIAC play last weekend by defeating Roosevelt Thursday and following that effort up with a win over Wisconsin-Parkside Saturday. The Huskies are now 8-1 overall and ...

Huskies women’s basketball hits the road for another nonconference matchup

HOUGHTON — With nearly a month between last weekend’s opening games of GLIAC play until the next two in January, the Michigan Tech Huskies women’s basketball team wanted to start off on the right foot with a pair of wins, if possible, over Roosevelt and Wisconsin-Parkside. They were also ...

Lakes boys sail past Jets, 49-33

PAINESDALE — After a loss to the Houghton Gremlins on Monday, the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes boys basketball team (3-1 overall) got back on the winning track Wednesday with a 49-33 victory on the road against the Jeffers Jets (1-3). “It was a much better performance tonight,” said ...