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With history already made, Jessie Diggins opens her final Olympic chapter with momentum

Win or lose, Jessie Diggins plans to celebrate her last Olympics. More than 40 friends and family are traveling to the Milan Cortina Winter Games to watch America’s most decorated cross-country skier chase Olympic glory one last time. The 34-year-old Minnesota native is retiring at the end of the season, and looking forward to finally

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Uhrich, Southern Utah Thunderbirds to host Reynolds and the UT Arlington Mavericks

UT Arlington Mavericks (8-11, 2-5 WAC) at Southern Utah Thunderbirds (12-7, 5-3 WAC) Cedar City, Utah; Thursday, 8:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Ava Uhrich and Southern Utah host Kira Reynolds and UT Arlington in WAC action. The Thunderbirds have gone 7-1 at home. Southern Utah has a 1-0 record in games decided by less than

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Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina’s forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ during World War II

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now stands. The shooting range for the military patrol event — the precursor to biathlon — was held where a mobile-home Athletes’ Village

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ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say

MILAN (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to sources at the U.S. embassy in Rome. The sources who confirmed ICE participation on Tuesday said that federal ICE agents would support diplomatic security details and not run any immigration enforcement operations.

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College basketball mid-major power rankings: Keep eye on these teams in March

With college football season over and the Super Bowl only two weeks away, many of the country’s sports fans will adopt what has become a familiar routine over the years — digging into men’s college basketball and counting down the days to the start of the NCAA tournament. At least some of the excitement and

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