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Lausanne: The IOC will wait until next June to decide whether to include new sports for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, president Kirsty Coventry said yesterday. “We are going to continue assessing all existing disciplines on the Olympic Winter Games programme, as well as with any potential new additional sports, and the decision will be done in June,” the Zimbabwean said. The International Olympic Committee had initially considered announcing the list of sporting events selected for 2030 at its December 2025 meeting. But this decision runs up against the broad reflection process launched by Coventry since she…

Author Alex Berenson joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss Massachusetts’ push to recriminalize marijuana amid rising daily use and data linking high-potency THC to youth psychiatric emergencies.

The Boston Bruins are expected to be without two of their key players against the Minnesota Wild on Dec. 14.According to The Boston Globe’s Jim McBride, Bruins head coach Marco Sturm shared that forward Viktor Arvidsson and defenseman Jonathan Aspirot are both not expected to be in the lineup for the Original Six club against the Wild. McBride also shared that the Bruins are not expected to make any call-ups in response to Arvidsson and Aspirot both being out.Arvidsson and Aspirot both exited the Bruins’ most recent matchup against the Winnipeg Jets early after suffering their injuries. Arvidsson was acquired by the…

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a multi-year agreement with the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports to bring an expanded slate of US college sports content to fans around the world (excluding the US). Beginning this season, DAZN will stream all regular season football games, as well as the 2025 Discover Big Ten Football Championship game, from the Big Ten Conference. In addition to football, DAZN will offer a slate of men’s and women’s Big Ten basketball games, as well as a round-the-clock feed of the Big Ten Network and a variety of shoulder programming and highlights. The…

In case it wasn’t already clear, Lindsey Vonn is back to claim her thrown as the queen of downhill skiing.On Friday, Vonn picked up her first World Cup win since 2018. Although she trailed after the first two time checks, she found a way to win the women’s downhill in Switzerland. She posted a time of 1:29.63 to defeat runner-up Magdalena Egger and the rest of the field.Advertisement“It was an amazing day, I couldn’t be happier, pretty emotional,” Vonn told Swiss broadcaster RTS. “I felt good this summer but I wasn’t sure how fast I was. I guess I know now…

Oliver Ames star Landon Sarney won the Div. 1 boys championship race at the Meet of Champions in Devens with a time of 15:33.28. Natick’s John Bianchi and Hopkinton’s Sean Finnegan rounded out the top three with times of 15:33.54 and 15:40.59 respectively. Brookline won the team championship (67), with the duo of Theodore Butty and Liam Hartmann leading the way with times of 15:53.91 and 15:55.54, respectively. Natick (87) and Concord-Carlisle (137) finished second and third, respectively. In Div. 2, Falmouth’s Silas Garner ran to the title in 15:43.55. Newburyport’s Michael Mohoric and Walpole’s Luke Zahurak rounded out the top…

The New England Patriots made one final roster change ahead of their showdown with the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at Gillette Stadium. On Saturday afternoon, the team announced running back Terrell Jennings has been placed on IR, while running back D’Ernest Johnson has been signed to the active roster from the practice squad. Jennings has been used as the Patriots’ third running back and in a special teams role since Antonio Gibson tore his ACL in the first matchup of the year against the Bills. Jennings suffered a concussion in the Patriots’ most recent game against the New York Giants,…

During February’s NBA All-Star weekend, much of the chatter in league circles centered on how to improve the product. Or, to put it more bluntly, how to get the players to care about the All-Star Game itself again. All this talk was going on while a large number of viewers at home were drawn to the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-off, which had star players going all out on the ice — even dropping the gloves at points — to represent their nation.Add in the fact that NBC will broadcast next year’s All-Star Game and it falls right in the middle…

article FILE – A man is using a special electric saw to cut a granite counter in a residential kitchen in preparation for installing a new range top. Getty Images A Massachusetts man has been diagnosed with a life-altering lung disease linked to popular kitchen countertops.  The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed this week that its first case of silicosis had been diagnosed in a Hispanic man in his 40s who, for the past 14 years, worked for stone countertop fabrication and installation companies.  What is silicosis?  Big picture view: Silicosis is a serious, incurable lung disease caused by inhalation…

The wait is over. The winter season kicked off Thursday, and these seven high school athletes showed they’re already in midseason form.