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The International Olympic Committee has banned Olympians from wearing stickers on their helmets to honor Sarah Burke, the late Canadian freestyle skier and pioneer who was responsible for getting the superpipe event into the Olympics. Burke died in 2012 at

The Russian woman who lit the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the Sochi Games now claims that her Twitter account tweeted a racist photo of the Obamas because it was hacked. She also apologized for how she handled

The cost per athlete at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games is nearly $19 million.  As Global Post noted (see infographic below), the Sochi Games ($51 billion) are seven times more expensive than the last 2010 Winter Games ($7.4 billion) in Vancouver

A journalist in Sochi found a message on his bed warning him that his hotel would charge him for the use of a second bed if he put any of his belongings on it.  Sochi: The hotels strike back: http://t.co/Uht6vzBWb9

Russian President Vladmir Putin brought one of his dogs when he visited with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this weekend amid the outrage over the company that Sochi officials hire to kill stray dogs before the Winter Olympics.  Putin’s dog

The U.S. Ambassador to Russia refused to deny on Sunday whether hosting the Winter Olympics in Sochi was a mistake.  Appearing on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday, Mike McFaul was asked whether it was “a mistake to hold the games

Johnny Quinn, the U.S. bobsledder who gained instant fame when he tweeted a photo was what was left of his bathroom door in Sochi after he had smashed it to escape it when the door would not unlock, has now gotten

On Sunday, Russian speedskater Olga Graf nearly flashed the crowd–and the television audience–after she forgot that she was not wearing anything underneath her skin-tight swimsuit.  Graf, 30, was not expected to medal in the women’s 3,000 meters event but she ended

After Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev put his cellphone number on his helmet during the slopestyle event on Saturday, he got so many naked photos from women around the world that his iPhone crashed.  “Yeaaaaah,” he reportedly said said while pointing

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants the Windy City to host the Super Bowl and the NFL Draft.  “I would say that there are two things in pro football I would love to see in Chicago, either one of them or

Jonathan Martin, who left the Miami Dolphins after he was “bullied” in what he described as a “hostile work environment,” tweeted “hats off” to Michael Sam, the Missouri football star who came out on Sunday and may be the first

Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, who is projected as a mid-round NFL draft pick, came out publicly on Sunday and may be the first openly gay player in the NFL if he is drafted in May and makes a roster.

Jeff Orr, the man that Oklahoma State basketball star Marcus Smart shoved during Saturday’s game against Texas Tech, apologized to Smart for calling him a “piece of crap,” which is why Smart may have gone into the stands to push

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — On Sunday, Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart was suspended 3 games for pushing a Texas Tech fan in Saturday’s loss. “Mr. Smart’s actions were a clear violation of the Big 12 Conference’s Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct

Jamie Anderson traveled to the winter games in Vancouver in 2010 as a spectator. She’s leaving the Sochi winter games as a gold-medal winner. The South Lake Tahoe, California snowboarder won the inaugural women’s slopestyle event at the Olympic Games

The Texas Tech super fan that Oklahoma State star whom Marcus Smart shoved on Saturday night in the waning moments of Oklahoma State’s loss has reportedly denied that he called Smart the “N-word.” Jeff Orr, who has been caught on

Basketball players and coaches at Oregon say Arizona State fans spat on them during and after Saturday’s contest in Tempe, Arizona. Oregon assistant coach Brian Fish told the Oregonian that fans spat on him  and athletic trainer Clay Jamieson while

For Bode Miller, time isn’t on his side. The most decorated male skier in U.S. history missed out on a medal in the men’s downhill event on Sunday despite appearing impressive in several pre-race training runs. Bode led the field

Where’s Shane Stant when you need him? The conspiratorial, cutthroat world of figure skating just added a new chapter to its legend. A report out of France claims a deal between Russian and U.S. figure skating organizations that would all

A French newspaper has accused officials from the United States and Russia of colluding to fix the ice dancing competition at the Sochi Games to squeeze out the Canadians. The deal allegedly would involve a U.S. ice dancing pair winning

AFP — He is used to employing his immense physical strength to push his bobsleigh to top speed in the running starts. But US bobsleigh team member Johnny Quinn on Saturday used his muscle for a different purpose — to

New York Yankees’ slugger Alex Rodriguez may have dropped his lawsuits against Major League Baseball and the players’ union because he one day hopes to own a major league team or become a broadcaster. Seriously. ESPN reported that, according to

After rumors surfaced this week that Indiana Pacers superstar Paul George may have offered a stripper $1 million to abort his unborn child after he had cheated on Doc Rivers’ daughter, whom he had been allegedly dating, George finally addressed