By Sarah Laskow, Columbia Journalism Review For every Olympics since 1994’s Lillehammer Games, Andy Billings has broken down how much time the primetime broadcast spends covering male athletes and female athletes. Usually, men get significantly more of the clock time. But this year, when Billings, who directs the University of Alabama’s sports communications program, and […]
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By Lauren Steele, Outside When Nike released the FuelBand in January 2012, my boyfriend at the time was certain it would make the perfect gift for me, raising the bar for my fitness-crazed inner athlete—a welcome development, right? On the fateful day he ordered my wrist-worn, nonhuman trainer, little did he know that he was […]
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By David Wharton, Los Angeles Times SOCHI, Russia — Twelve hours wasn’t nearly long enough to ease their pain. The morning after losing in overtime to rival Canada, the U.S. women’s hockey players talked about the anguish of walking away from the Sochi Olympics with silver medals around their necks. “We didn’t train as hard […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews may continue prescribed fire operations in several areas around Lake Tahoe beginning Feb. 24. Prescribed fire activity may take place on Spooner Summit, off Bunker Drive near Tahoe City, on Highway 89 near Tahoma, and in the Luther Pass Campground off of Highway 89. Crews may continue operations through […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Bijou Community Park was formed in 1992 all the potential future amenities could not be imagined. A disc golf has been added. The dog park came in 2008. A roller derby league uses it as its home rink. The most recent addition was a dog agility course last year. However, only […]
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By USSA ROSA KHUTOR, Russia -– John Teller of Mammoth Lakes skied strong in a competitive heat Thursday, but crashed during a pass attempt, finishing 28th in skicross at the Sochi Games. Team USA’s sole skicross athlete was edged out of his heat by Jean Frederic Chapuis and Jonathan Midol of France, who went on […]
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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension will offer a free course for landscape professionals on March 17 from 8am-3pm at the Peppermill in Reno. It will provide information on how landscaping design and materials play a crucial role in reducing the threat of wildfire to homes. The course is part of the Living With Fire Program, […]
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By AP KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — This one was for Sarah. Braid spinning in the chilly mountain air, Maddie Bowman of Meyers soared to the inaugural gold in women’s Olympic halfpipe skiing, edging Marie Martinod of France in the final on a night the sport paid tribute to late Canadian freestyle skiing icon Sarah Burke. […]
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The United States added another gold medal at to its collection at the Sochi Games when Ted Ligety flew down the giant slalom course on Wednesday. In doing so, Ligety became the first U.S. man to win two Olympic gold medals in Alpine skiing. He won with a time of 2:45.29. Tim Jitloff of Reno […]
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By Larry Sidney Some quick Olympic trivia: What is the most talked about sport in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games in terms of social media? Curling. By now you’ve probably seen those 42 pound granite stones sliding down the ice, as two players sweep their way down the ice in front of it. It’s quite […]
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