Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter

I love Lindsay Vonn. She's Ayrton Senna levels of nuts. Knee replacement? ACL + Meniscus tear? Don't care.

Absolutely insane. She's an ultimate sports great for that reason.

Yes, and she'll also be skiing the downhill whether Vonn does or not

She is leading the season World Cup standings in the downhill....

This is bonkers, but it’s not without precedent!

www.olympics.com/en/news/sofi...

Related: Vonn was born in Minnesota

Lindsey Vonn says in press conference from Italy that she tore her ACL in a crash Friday — but aims to race in the Olympic downhill Sunday anyway. Said she skied today, and will wear a knee brace.

📣 🍬 In this story by my @wsj.com colleague Jason Gay, some great detail on Mikaela Shiffrin's tricks to calm pre-race nerves: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

Emily Hampshire & Jess Salgueiro Among Leads Of Crave Softball Comedy ‘Slo Pitch’; First-Look Image Released 'Schitt's Creek' star Emily Hampshire and 'Frasier's Jess Salgueiro are among the lead cast of Crave softball comedy series 'Slo Pitch.'

The next series from the creators of "Heated Rivalry"? A comedy series about softball called "Slo Pitch":
deadline.com/2025/10/slo-...

Going to OT

Michigan - Michigan State WBB on FS1 is a banger. Best these teams have ever been at the same time, maybe?

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The Crash That Left Lindsey Vonn in a Race to the Olympic Start Line The 41-year-old U.S. alpine ski star was in the midst of a career revival on a rebuilt knee when she had to be airlifted to hospital from a race in Switzerland.

Surgeons were stunned at the success of Lindsey Vonn’s comeback after a knee replacement. After a Friday crash, she’ll need the biggest comeback of her life to get to the Milan Cortina Olympics.
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The Super Bowl Favorite Seattle Seahawks Are Expected to Be Sold Following the 2018 death of Microsoft co-founder and team owner Paul Allen, people familiar with the matter expect a sale process to begin shortly after the season ends.

Following the 2018 death of Microsoft co-founder and team owner Paul Allen, people familiar with the matter expect a sale process to begin shortly after the season ends. on.wsj.com/4qTOgiS

She’s so skilled that she makes that hard thing look easy

Dunn also made big sacrifices for the good of the team. She played defense, even though she was a scorer, and lined up on the left side even though she's naturally right-footed.

The U.S. medals bonuses come in the form of cash, pretty boring compared with the rewards in some other countries:

The U.S. Government Doesn’t Fund Olympic Athletes. So One Man Is Paying Them $200,000 Each. A $100 million gift from financier Ross Stevens will give American Olympians what many have never had: a retirement nest egg.

The U.S. Government Doesn’t Fund Olympic Athletes. So One Man Is Paying Them $200,000 Each.
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US Soccer might be onto something here. It'll always be case by case, especially with venues—this one required USWNTPA approval—but plenty of markets are yet to ever host a game, and would welcome the opportunity regardless of the opponent and names on (or off) of the US roster.

Thanks to Matt for continuing discussion of this story, which started TV executives squabbling: www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

The Timberwolves-Warriors game in Minneapolis has been postponed by the NBA, sources tell ESPN, in wake of a man shot and killed Saturday in a confrontation with federal agents in the city. It's the second shooting there in a week, third this month, involving a federal officer.

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Valuable perspective from @jasonkirk.fyi on the new era in college football:

'Racial integration was a much bigger deal than the transfer portal, to say the least, and the sport was at least partly segregated until it was more than a century old.'
www.nytimes.com/athletic/new...

SEC Football Isn’t Winning Titles. But There’s One Way It’s Still Crushing the Big Ten. Two years since the two athletic conferences aggressively expanded, the SEC’s TV audiences are surging ahead of the Big Ten’s.

NEW: Big Ten football has a 3-year title streak. But since it and the SEC expanded, the SEC is crushing the Big Ten in TV audiences.

“Right now, based on the differential in viewers, the SEC arguably is the more valuable property.”
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Glad to see @washingtonspirit.com confirm that newspapers aren’t dead 😭

Read the @wsj.com story that started it all: www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

Indiana's Curt Cignetti is the oldest first-time title winner in college football's modern era.
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Indiana's Curt Cignetti is the oldest first-time title winner in college football's modern era.
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Curt Cignetti Is College Football’s Oldest First-Time Champion. He’s Just Getting Started. After toiling for years at smaller programs, the veteran coach led Indiana to the greatest turnaround in the sport’s history. But he already has a plan to keep it going.

Curt Cignetti, at 64 years, 7 months, is the oldest first-time champion in modern college football history.

After leading Indiana to the national title, he's shredded the conventional wisdom about where to find championship coaches:
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There are more candy-stripe pants at Hard Rock Stadium right now than in 28 seasons at Assembly Hall