2014 Sochi Games

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — She scrambled to find her camera before the flower ceremony began. Lolo Jones wasn’t going to miss any of it. She wasn’t going to let her American teammates down. Not now. And as Elana Myers, Lauryn Williams, Jamie Greubel and Aja Evans stood on the podium and soaked in the […]

19-year-old American figure skater Jason Brown twirled, danced and dipped to Prince‘s “The Question of U” during his routine at the 2014 Sochi Games. But that’s not it, the Chicago native also rocked the music legend’s favorite color and had his infamous symbol stitched on the back of his garment. Brown earned a score of […]

02/12/14- Comedian Chris Paul runs through the day’s hottest topics including Matt Lauer replacing Bob Costas over his pink-eye, Tamron Hall being snubbed at the Sochi Games and a wacky story about a woman who breastfed a puppy.

Front and center at the winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia are five black athletes who could, individually, make more Olympic black history. Beginning with speed skater Shani Davis, who already made history by becoming the first Black male athlete to win a Winter Games Olympic individual sport medal in 2006. Davis could become the […]

02/07/14- Comedian Chris Paul uses Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Lines” to create a song for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is warning airlines flying to Russia that terrorists may try to smuggle explosives on board hidden in toothpaste tubes. The threat was passed onto airlines that have direct flights to Russia, including some that originate in the United States, according to a law enforcement official speaking Wednesday on […]

02/06/14- Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about all of the problems at the 2014 Sochi Games and the Zimmerman/DMX boxing match.

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Jamaica’s beloved bobsled team had to raise money just to get to Russia. Now they’ve arrived at the Sochi Games — but without their equipment. The carefree Jamaicans were unable to make their first practice runs Wednesday because their luggage, with the runners for their two-man sled as well as […]

The Jamaican bobsled team may be headed to another Olympics. The catch: It needs a lot of money, and it needs it fast. Olympic organizers said Saturday that Jamaica has qualified for the two-man competition at next month’s Sochi Games, though it remains unclear if the fledgling squad will get a chance to race. Funding […]