Nancy Armour

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Nancy Armour

Mikaela Shiffrin is taking up a new sport. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and all-time leader in World Cup wins in Alpine skiing is now part of the ownership group for the NWSL's expansion team in Denver. The team, still to be named, begins play next season. "I’m beyond thrilled to join the ownership group of Denver NWSL and support something so meaningful in the community I call home,” Shiffrin, who is from Vail, Colorado, said in a statement.

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Nancy Armour

Good a coach as Gregg Popovich was, and he was one of the best, he’s an even better American. Time and again, Popovich used his platform to demand better of his country and fellow citizens. Gun control. Voting. The fraudsters who once before and are now again shredding the Constitution and the rules of law, caring only about themselves and not the people they were elected to serve.

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Nancy Armour

There’s something uncomfortable going on with Jordon Hudson, Bill Belichick’s girlfriend. Not what you might be thinking, however. Hudson is the latest in a long line of significant others, parents, siblings, friends and hangers on who’ve had outsized roles and influence in the careers of sports figures. Yet the interest in her and her position now borders on the obsessive and, in too many cases, reeks of misogyny. The 24-year-old has been cast as a gold digger and a temptress.

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Nancy Armour

Another week, another new PWHL team. Seattle is getting an expansion team that will begin play in the 2025-26 season, the league announced Wednesday. With last week's announcement of an expansion team in Vancouver, the PWHL will have eight teams next season. "The opportunity to start a new chapter of women's hockey in the Pacific Northwest ... has so much meaning for our league," Amy Scheer, the executive vice president of PWHL business operations, said in a statement.

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Nancy Armour

The PWHL is getting bigger and going west. Vancouver will be the Professional Women's Hockey League's first expansion team, beginning play next season. The still-to-be-named team will join the PWHL's original six franchises in Boston, Minnesota, Montreal, New York, Ottawa and Toronto. It will play at the renovated Pacific Coliseum, the original home of the Vancouver Canucks and a venue during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.