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Day 3 news & notes for USA at the World Indoor Championships
 
Anna Hall wins silver in the women's pentathlon with a SB! Allie Jones DNF. Jasmine Moore & Monae Nichols finished 7th & 8th in the women's long jump. Jordan Geist grabbed silver & Roger Steen took bronze in men's shot put! Josh Awotunde finished 6th. Jessica Mercier finished 9th & Chloe Timberg finished 12th in women's pole vault. Nathan Green finished 6th in the men's 1500m final. In the men's long jump, Jeremiah Davis finished just off the podium in 5th while Steffin McCarter finished in 12th. Nikki Hiltz won bronze in the women's 1500m! Gracie Morris finished 7th. Youngster Cooper Lutkenhaus won GOLD in the men's 1500m! He is somebody to watch for LA28.  Addison Wiley took bronze in the women's 1500m final! In the women's 60m hurdles, Alia Armstrong finished 6th in the final. Danae Dyer was eliminated in the semifinals. Team USA won gold in both the men's 4x400m relay and women's 4x400m relay!  
Team USA won more gold medals (7) and total medals (20) than any other nation at the World Indoor Championships!

Cooper Lutkenhaus is the youngest ever world indoor champion and he turned 17 just three months ago.

Here is the latest version of the visual calendar I made (with help from AI/Python).
 
Features:
Tab 1 - Use Cell A1 to select the sport(s) you want to see and it will appear.  Helpful if you only want certain sports.
Other Tabs - See each day at a glance.
 
Errors?  Thoughts?  Just let me know.
la28scheddetailed.xlsx

Here is the latest version of the visual calendar I made (with help from AI/Python).
 
Features:
Tab 1 - Use Cell A1 to select the sport(s) you want to see and it will appear.  Helpful if you only want certain sports.
Other Tabs - See each day at a glance.
 
Errors?  Thoughts?  Just let me know.
la28scheddetailed.xlsx

Here is the latest version of the visual calendar I made (with help from AI/Python).
 
Features:
Tab 1 - Use Cell A1 to select the sport(s) you want to see and it will appear.  Helpful if you only want certain sports.
Other Tabs - See each day at a glance.
 
Errors?  Thoughts?  Just let me know.
la28scheddetailed.xlsx

Here is the latest version of the visual calendar I made (with help from AI/Python).
 
Features:
Tab 1 - Use Cell A1 to select the sport(s) you want to see and it will appear.  Helpful if you only want certain sports.
Other Tabs - See each day at a glance.
 
Errors?  Thoughts?  Just let me know.
la28scheddetailed.xlsx

Yeah we should be the favorites obviously. I know we are only one game in, but this event is telling me that we need to send Team USA to have the best chance at winning gold. 
 
A team full of NFL stars would generate a lot of buzz, but I doubt they will end up performing better than Team USA.

Day 2 news & notes for USA at the World Indoor Championships
 
Heath Baldwin wins silver & Kyle Garland takes bronze in the men's heptathlon! Baldwin set a PB. Garland set a SB. Both Americans made it all the way to the men's 60m Hurdles final. Trey Cunningham won bronze while Dylan Beard finished 6th. Jacious Sears wins silver in the women's 60m! The other American, Jaslyn Gardner was eliminated in round 1. USA took 5th place out of 6 teams in the Mixed 4x400m Relay. In the women's 800m, Addison Wiley advanced to the final after finishing 2nd in her semifinal race. Cooper Lutkenhaus is through to the men's 800m final, but Sean Dolan missed out on advancing. Zechery Bradford finished 5th in the men's pole vault (5.95m) & Christopher Nilsen finished 9th (5.70m). Duplantis had 6.25m and finished 1st of course lol. Khaleb McRae wins silver in the men's 400m! Chris Robinson finished just off the podium in 4th. Emily Mackay wins silver in the women's 3000m! Margot Appleton finished 14th. Cole Hocker takes home silver in the men's 3000m! Yared Nuguse finished just off the podium in 5th. Jasmine Moore finished 7th & Ryann Porter finished 16th in the women's triple jump. 

Today's news in Road Racing:
 
Down in Colombia at the PanAms: Emily Ehrlich finished just off the podium (top 10)...Faulkner unfortunately crashed with a lot of other riders in the last 1km.
 
Milano-San Remo: Brandon McNulty was in the pack just 4 seconds back (28th place).  Matteo Jorgenson was 42 seconds back (42nd place).  Luke Lamperti was farther back (3:45, 91st place).
 
For the Women's race, we had Caroline Wreszin at 47th place (40 secs back) and Heidi Franz in 86th place (7:34 back).

We've got a few of our top dogs over in China right now.
 
Yu Zidi, the 13-yr-old from China, beat Regan Smith in the 200m fly.
Kate Douglass scored bronze in the 100m free.
Jack Alexy finished 2nd in the 50m free (behind Cameron McEvoy  and his new WR)
Kate Douglass scored another bronze in the 50m free. (only .03 difference between gold and bronze) Gretchen Walsh was in 4th.
Regan Smith won gold in the 200m back.
Kate Douglass scored gold in the 200m breast.
 
One more day tomorrow.  I think it was just the four of them, and I think they only landed a couple of days ahead of time...Regan referred to it as 'a business trip'.

Big weekend for flag football. The Fanatics Flag Football Classic will be from 4 p.m. ET to 8:30 p.m. ET on FOX. It will be at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, the stadium that will host Olympic flag football.
 
There will be three teams
- Team USA Flag Football
- Founders FFC
- Wildcats FFC
 
Founders FFC is captained by Tom Brady and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts with Sean Payton of the Broncos as the head coach.
 
Wildcats FFC is captained by Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels with Kyle Shanahan of the 49ers as the head coach.
 
Both the Founders & Wildcats will feature a roster full of NFL stars, and Logan Paul and IShowSpeed are playing for some reason (eye roll).
 
The teams will play a round robin with the championship game at 7 p.m. ET.
 
The games will be in Olympic format, so it will be a nice peak as to what flag football will look like at LA28.
 
This also could have big implications when it comes to which players will be on the team in LA28. Will it be Team USA flag football? A roster of NFL stars that are relatively unfamiliar with the sport? A mix of both? We shall see!

Day 1 news & notes for USA at the World Indoor Championships
 
Kyle Garland & Heath Baldwin in 2nd & 3rd respectively after 4/7 events in the men's heptathlon Both Americans made the men's 60m final: Trayvon Bromell & Jordan Anthony. Anthony won gold with a time of 6.41. Bromell took bronze with 6.45. The two Americans in the women's 400m failed to reach the final. Bailey Lear got eliminated in the semifinals. Rosey Effiong got eliminated in Round 1. One American in the women's high jump - Charity Hufnagel. She finished 9th of 11 athletes. The two Americans in the men's 400m made the final: Chris Robinson & Khaleb McRae. In the women's 800m, Addison Wiley advanced to the semifinals, but Valery Tobias was disqualified. Sean Dolan and Cooper Lutkenhaus both advanced to the semifinals in the men's 800m. Chase Jackson won gold in the women's shot put with a throw of 20.14m. Abria Smith finished 7th. Nikki Hiltz & Gracie Morris advanced to the women's 1500m final. Nathan Green is through to the men's 1500m final. Luke Houser just missed out on advancing. Russell Robinson finished 11th out of 16 athletes in the men's triple jump.

Speaking of things that Europeans are good at...we beat Team Germany today in a Dressage team competition today down in Wellington.  (And...that team included someone who was on their Gold medal team from 2024.)  
 
https://dressage-news.com/2026/03/19/usa-wins-wellington-nations-cup-ends-germanys-5-year-streak/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W213mbvssp4
 
Realized that our Men went to Germany for a Team competition (DTB Pokal Team Challenge).  We had a couple of our guys (Danila and Yul) that were just at the America Cup in Vegas.  We came out on top, ahead of  and .  
 

Fencing in Lima this weekend.
 
Foil is strong for M and W.  We have 2 M ranked in the top 20 that we sent to Lima (Nick Itkin is 4, Gerek Meinhardt is 16).  We also have 3 W in top 20 (already mentioned Lee Kiefer, who is 1 and married to Gerek, and Lauren Scruggs, who is 13...Jaelyn Liu is 2).
 
Best of luck to our team!  

Shooting has been changed from 11 days to 10 days.

My wife is a big Women's Basketball fan, and it helps that USC (the one here in South Carolina  ) has a killer team. She gets more into it than I do. She kids me for liking all the 'weird' sports. 

lost to  the other day, and  ends up qualifying.

Just saw on FB that there won't be any live streaming available for us here with the Golden League (but they will be shown on Scandinavian TV, and the US team said they'd post live updates on Instagram, etc.).

Love it.  Reminds me of when I was in Spain in 2010 when they won the World Cup. 
 
 (I fell asleep when it was still 2-0, then just saw the highlights...glad it was a good game. Congrats  .) 

Oh well. Congrats to . They deserved to win. Happy for them that they won in their biggest sport.
 
Our hitting wasn’t good all tournament and it finally bit us.

Venezuelan broadcast of the final out
 
 
Reaction from Caracas
 
 
 
 

Of course will be rooting for  tonight, but so much love and heart for .  I know it would mean a lot to all of you and for your country.  (This Spanish teacher has a soft spot for mis hermanos americanos. )  Hope it's a good game, and may the best team win. 

actually, in a short span like in this tournament, it's a lot better to play in 2 consecutive days and keep the daily routine than having a day off
the only issue might be the rules about pitching, but this time they don 't have any influence since no Venezuelan pitcher threw more than 39 pitches last night and therefore they are all available tonight 
remember that baseball sometimes also plays doubleheaders (with only 30/60 min break between 2 matches)
playing in consecutive days is the rule, not an exception for those players

I do find it odd that USA had a day off, but Venezuela didn't.