This weekend, England faces the ultimate road game at this World Cup.

Don’t expect to see Jannik Sinner’s parents in the Royal Box at Wimbledon anytime soon, even though they’re more than welcome.

Russian skaters can return to world championships and Grand Prix events next season as neutral athletes for the first time since the full military invasion of Ukraine.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner is feeling optimistic about his Wimbledon title defense after sweating through an exhibition match in a heat wave and confirming he underwent testing following his physical meltdown at the French Open.

Giorgio Armani’s legacy continues to shine at his historic Milan headquarters.

Milan Fashion Week has embraced simplicity amid economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.

The state of New York is forming an exploratory committee to consider whether Lake Placid and New York City should bid to co-host a future Winter Games.

Pope Leo XIV holding up America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today because of her care for migrants in need.

Swiss goaltender Andrea Brändli became the first player to ever be drafted by Detroit’s PWHL franchise, marking the beginning of a new chapter of hockey at Little Caesars Arena.

The Uffizi Gallery has repositioned Sandro Botticelli’s masterpieces “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.”.

Hilary is officially headed to Hockeytown.

Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu and world champion Ilia Malinin are set to make their returns to top-level competition at Skate America next season.

Dubbed "Leonardo's Ferry," a cable-guided vessel offers commuters a peaceful five-minute ride across northern Italy's Adda River.

Kimi Antonelli’s rise to the top of Formula 1 continued in bizarre circumstances as the 19-year-old Mercedes driver won a much-delayed Monaco Grand Prix.

Dozens of artists at this year’s Venice Biennale are threatening legal action if their names aren't removed from a visitor voting ballot.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner appears to be struggling with the heat during his second-round match at the French Open against 56th-ranked Argentine opponent Juan Manuel Cerundolo.

Berlin’s state parliament has given the go-ahead for the city’s bid to rehost the Olympic Games on or after the 100th anniversary of the 1936 Games staged by the Nazis.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury.

Formula 1 leaders have agreed to an engine design change for 2027 that will slightly increase internal combustion output.

The top tennis players are already upset that they are not receiving a bigger share of tournament revenues at the French Open.

Hockey star Kirsten Simms believes Detroit’s new Professional Women’s Hockey League franchise is more than just an expansion team; it’s a milestone moment for girls’ hockey in one of America’s most passionate hockey markets.

Lindsey Vonn is still recovering physically and emotionally from her frightening crash at the Winter Olympics.

Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Inter Milan has moved a step closer to a 21st Serie A title after beating Cagliari 3-0.

Jannik Sinner beats defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (5), 6-3 to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the first time and reclaim the No. 1 ranking from his biggest tennis rival.

Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa was the fastest of nearly 60,000 runners in the Paris Marathon while Shure Demise of Ethiopia smashed a course record to win the women’s race.

The mother of an freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq says she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades.

Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso has left his role by mutual consent after the national team failed to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup.

One of soccer’s historic powers has reached a once-unfathomable low.

Nestlé says thieves have stolen a huge shipment of KitKat bars from a truck heading from Italy to Poland.

Italy finally won a match in the World Cup playoffs.

Fans now have a rare opportunity to own a piece of Olympic history: game-worn jerseys from the 2026 U.S. women’s ice hockey team are up for auction.

Italy’s conservative premier, Giorgia Meloni, faces a pivotal political test in a two-day referendum on judicial reform.

The Hockey Hall of Fame says the pucks used to score the gold medal-winning goals at the Milan Cortina Olympics are part of its permanent collection after being donated by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Italy’s remarkable 2026 World Baseball Classic run is over after losing to Venezuela in the semifinals.

A closing ceremony boycotted by Ukraine signaled the end of the Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics.

Lindsey Vonn hasn’t completely shut the door on ski racing again.

Michael Lorenzen will start for Italy and Keider Montero for Venezuela when the teams meet Monday night in a World Baseball Classic semifinal.

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The United States is heading to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic after a “different level of focus” helped this All-Star-studded team rebound from a shocking loss.

It was one of those days for Para snowboarding veteran Cécile Hernandez — one of those Friday the 13th kind of days.

Manager Mark DeRosa says his premature comment about the United States having already punched its ticket to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals before facing Italy was just an “overly confident statement” and reiterated Thursday he knew nothing was guaranteed at that point.

Local organizers at the Milan Cortina Paralympics have defended their actions after Ukraine’s Paralympic committee accused them and the International Paralympic Committee of subjecting Ukraine athletes and coaches to “systematic pressure.”.

A day later than expected, the United States has punched its ticket to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic.

Vinnie Pasquantino had the World Baseball Classic’s first three-homer game, leading Italy over Mexico 9-1 to win Pool B and advance the United States to the quarterfinals as group’s second-place team.

Ukraine’s Paralympic committee has accused the International Paralympic Committee and Milan Cortina organizers of subjecting Ukraine’s athletes and coaches to “systematic pressure.”.

The Russian national anthem has played again at the Paralympics a day after Germany athletes appeared to stage a protest in the podium ceremony at Milan Cortina.

The medal count is now at 22 for Oksana Masters, the most decorated American Winter Paralympian.

The surprising loss by the United States to Italy in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night means that the Americans need help to advance to the quarterfinals.

Oksana Masters has won her 11th Paralympic gold medal and she calls it redemption after missing the top spot four years ago.

Kyle Teel, Sam Antonacci and Jac Caglianone homered as Italy built a big lead and held on to stun the United States 8-6 in the World Baseball Classic.

Russia’s national anthem rings out at the Paralympics for the first time in more than a decade after Para alpine skier Varvara Voronchikhina won gold.

As the French national anthem played, the 51-year-old Para snowboard great Cécile Hernandez cried at the top of the podium.

Olympic champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world figure skating championships, and the U.S. team is replacing her with Sarah Everhardt for the competition beginning March 24 in Prague.

Lindsey Vonn finally lost her lead in the World Cup downhill standings when Laura Pirovano won by 0.01 seconds on back-to-back days at Val di Fassa.

In the absence of injured Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, Emma Aicher seized her chance at a World Cup downhill on Friday to cut the American superstars’ leads in the season-long standings.

Women’s hockey players have taken the next major step to strengthen their voice in shaping the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s future by affiliating with the AFL-CIO.

The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics is the first global sports event since the war in the Middle East began last week and athletes have been trying to block out the news of the conflicts and focus on their preparations for the Games that officially start on Friday.

The Winter Paralympics come to Milan Cortina to celebrate their 50th anniversary, with China looking to extend its dominance as a Paralympic powerhouse and Ukraine and other nations boycotting the opening ceremony over the return of the Russian flag and anthem.

Vegas Golden Knights captain Mark Stone left his team's game at the Pittsburgh Penguins because of an undisclosed injury.

Silvana Armani has presented her first signature Giorgio Armani collection without the iconic designer's input to close Milan Fashion Week.

Madonna made a star appearance at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan Fashion Week runway show — which felt like a conversation with the Material Girl herself.

Olympians Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Erin Ambrose have all been placed on long-term injured reserve by their PWHL clubs after sustaining injuries during the Milan Cortina Games.

Troy Ryan is grateful and honored to have had the opportunity oversee the Canadian women’s hockey team at two Olympics, and told The Associated Press that he believes it’s time he stepped down as coach.

Detroit keeps showing up for pro women’s hockey -- and the PWHL is returning the favor. On March 28, the New York Sirens and Montreal Victoire will bring a neutral-site matchup to Little Caesars Arena.

Bodø/Glimt’s stunning run through the Champions League now brings Sporting Lisbon to its Arctic Circle home in the round of 16 next month.

The Vegas Golden Knights were without five players from the Olympic gold medal-game Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL’s return from a three-week break.

Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper is stepping away for two games after his father Robert died.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will have to begin their playoff push without Sidney Crosby.

Jack Hughes’ overtime goal delivered a huge audience for U.S. hockey and NBC.

The Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5 million viewers in the United States, making it the most-watched Winter Games since 2014 with a 96% larger audience than the Beijing Games four years ago.

The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

The return of NHL players to the Olympics after a 12-year absence lived up to the hype.

With 116 medal events over 19 days in five different clusters, what a spectacle the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics were.

The Americans are bringing men's hockey gold home for the first time in nearly half a century.

Johnny Gaudreau’s No. 13 jersey was hanging in the U.S. locker room throughout the Olympics, and Dylan Larkin and Matthew Tkachuk carried it around the ice after the U.S. beat Canada in overtime to win the country’s first gold medal at the Games since 1980.

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Jack Hughes lost some teeth before he won Olympic gold for the U.S. The forward who put the puck in the net in overtime to give the Americans a 2-1 victory over Canada in the men’s hockey final Sunday did so with a bloody mouth and less of a bite than he began the game with.

Ebba Andersson has won the women’s 50-kilometer mass start in cross-country skiing as she turns a painful Olympic moment into redemption.

The women’s Olympic freeski halfpipe final at the Milan Cortina Games will be held on Sunday, a day later than originally scheduled because of heavy snow in the Italian Alps.

The U.S. team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Olympics when the trio of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took the title in mixed aerials.

Team USA men’s hockey is one win away from gold. The Americans beat Slovakia in the semifinals, 6-2, to advance to Sunday’s gold medal game against Canada. A convincing win for the U.S.A., led by several Michiganders.

The much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for gold in men’s hockey at the Olympics is on.

Polish short-track skater Kamila Sellier suffered a scary cut above her left eye after another skater’s blade hit her in the 1,500 meters at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong of the Netherlands has won her first Olympic gold and sixth career medal by finishing first in speedskating’s 1,500 meters at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Canada’s controversial men’s team will have the curling power’s last chance at Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Games.

Nathan MacKinnon scored the go-ahead goal with 35.2 seconds left to help Canada survive another scare at the Olympics, rallying to beat Finland 3-2 in the semifinals and advance to the men’s gold-medal game.

His voice guides viewers through the biggest moments of the Winter Olympics.

It’s day fourteen of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and the lineup is packed with must-see events. Here’s the Olympic schedule for Thursday, Feb. 19, on Local 4:

The sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing with.

It’s day thirteen of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and the lineup is packed with must-see events. Here’s the Olympic schedule for Thursday, Feb. 19, on Local 4:

Slovakia is back in the men's hockey semifinals at the Olympics in Milan four years after the small central European country won its first medal in the sport with bronze in Beijing.

At the Michigan Winter House in Milan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer met with Team USA athletes with ties to Metro Detroit, including ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik, and Christina Carreira with Anthony Ponomarenko.

American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin has put in two dominant runs to win the women’s slalom by a massive 1.50 seconds.

A surprise participant in Wednesday’s action at the Milan Cortina Olympics had four legs and zero concern for race times.

Julia Simon didn’t need to shoot fast when she entered the range on the last leg of the women's 4x6-kilometer biathlon relay race at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

It’s day twelve of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and the lineup is packed with must-see events. Here’s the Olympic schedule for Wednesday, Feb. 18, on Local 4:

Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has won a 10th gold medal in cross country skiing at the Milan Cortina Olympics, setting another Winter Games record.

Curling, which piques viewers’ curiosity every four years at the Winter Olympics, is expanding its audience even more at the Milan Cortina Games.

Team USA skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, along with Italy’s Federica Brignone, are among the many skiers who have expressed concern during these Olympic Games about the accelerating melt of the world’s glaciers.