This is the on-line version of our new free e-newsletter centered on the greatest gamers, moments and narratives of each sports activities season.
The trade is present process main shifts as individuals deal with sports activities extra like leisure: Athletes have gotten the new celebrities. Games and the hype round them are enormous cultural touchpoints. Fans are wagering on the motion like by no means earlier than. Our veteran NBC News sports activities reporters and editors will break this all down, with out worrying about the play-by-play.
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Live from Milan Cortina
Our protection kicks off at a massive second. “Legendary February,” as we name it right here, is upon us, that includes the Milan Cortina Olympics, the Super Bowl and the NBA All-Star Game. It’s all on NBC.
NBC News could have about a dozen correspondents and reporters throughout northern Italy at the Olympics, and also you’ll get their recaps, evaluation and behind-the-scenes reviews from the slopes and ice day-after-day. Here’s who you’ll see on this e-newsletter, on our broadcasts on the NBC News app and on Peacock— your hub for streaming each second of the Games.
- Peter Alexander, Shaquille Brewster, Stephanie Gosk, Andrew Greif, Claudio Lavagna, Rohan Nadkarni, Greg Rosenstein and Anne Thompson might be in Milan, the place determine skating, hockey and speedskating will happen.
- Molly Hunter, Gadi Schwartz and Savannah Sellers might be in Cortina, dwelling to ladies’s Alpine snowboarding, curling and sliding sports activities, like luge and bobsled.
- Sam Brock might be in Livigno, internet hosting snowboarding and freestyle snowboarding.
- Steve Kornacki’s subscriber-first collection, “Keeping Score with Kornacki,” will make it easier to perceive the guidelines of a lot of the occasions.
We’ll additionally offer you a every day viewing information, so that you’ll know when the finest occasions are occurring and the place to look at. And we’ll profile the day’s principal character, whether or not that’s an athlete who received gold or the viral star everyone seems to be speaking about.
The opening ceremony is subsequent Friday. Let the Games start.
Athletes to Know
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