A montage of images, together with Donovan Dent, an NFL referee, the U.S. males’s Olympic hockey workforce, Manny Pacquiao and Pat Riley. Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photos: Jamie Squire, Melina Pizano, Luiza Moraes, Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images, Robert Hanashiro / Imagn Images
The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics Games are over, and so they seem to have been a large success.
They had been the most-watched Games in the U.S. since 2014, and the lads’s gold medal hockey sport — regardless of beginning at 8 a.m. ET on a Sunday — drew a median of 18.6 million all through the published, together with a peak of 26 million who tuned in to see the successful aim in extra time.
We’ll have extra on that in this week’s quiz, together with some information from the NFL Scouting Combine, a tidbit on the fast-approaching World Baseball Classic and way more.
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Bob Harkins is a deputy managing editor on the Daily Desk at The Athletic. Before becoming a member of The Athletic, Bob held a number of roles at FOX Sports, together with editorial supervisor of stay occasions and senior editor for schools. He additionally spent 13 years at NBC Sports, the place he was senior editor for MLB.