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Russia’s Petrosian brings big jumps, bigger unknowns to Olympic debut
Adeliia Petrosian at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 21, 2025. MILAN — Russian teenager Adeliia Petrosian heads into her Olympic debut on Tuesday as an untested but technically loaded Olympic wild card, with former skaters saying her quad jumps and triple Axel firepower could put her on the podium if she delivers.
She is largely untested on the global stage due to the International Skating Union’s ban on Russian athletes following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The 18-year-old booked her spot for the Milan Cortina Games by winning a qualifying event in Beijing in September.
“It’s going to be a very interesting event for her because she’s never really been on the international scene with these competitors,” 1998 Olympic champion Tara Lipinski told Reuters.
“Imagine just showing up at the Olympics and it’s go time. But she does have a (triple) Axel, she does have a quad. So she definitely puts herself in the mix.
“I don’t think that it’s likely she’s going to steal away a gold medal here, but she definitely could be on the podium.”
Johnny Weir, a two-time Olympian who works with Lipinski as an NBC commentator, agreed that Petrosian is a threat to medal in the wide-open women’s event.
“I think she could definitely be on the podium with her technical skills, but artistically, she falls behind many of the star skaters that we’ve seen over the last (Olympic cycle),” he said.
In the background is another storyline following Petrosian in Milan — her coaching setup involving Eteri Tutberidze, who is linked to the controversy that engulfed the women’s event at the Beijing Games four years ago.
Tutberidze had previously coached Kamila Valieva. The then 15-year-old tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine at the Russian national championships in December 2021, just weeks before she competed at the 2022 Olympics, triggering a global firestorm.
While Valieva was handed a four-year ban and the Russian Olympic Committee were stripped of their 2022 Olympics gold medal in the team event, Tutberidze was cleared after an investigation and never faced any sanctions.
Tutberidze was present at Petrosian’s practice on Monday, and the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency earlier this month said he felt uncomfortable with her presence at the Games.
“This is the same coaching team of the 15-year-old that was doping in Beijing,” former Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon told Reuters.
He said she will skate first in Tuesday’s short program due to her lack of international ranking points.
“From her perspective, I can’t imagine the pressure that she must be putting herself under,” he said of Petrosian, who has the chance to become the fourth consecutive Russian woman to win the title.
“This is why the Olympics are so exciting.”
–Reuters, special to Field Level Media
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Oilers not saying if Tristan Jarry or Connor Ingram will man net in Game 4
Apr 7, 2026; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Edmonton Oilers goaltender Tristan Jarry (35) blocks a shot by the Utah Mammoth during the third period at Delta Center. Mandatory Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn Images Connor Ingram served as the Edmonton Oilers’ goaltender for the first three games of their Stanley Cup first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.
But with the higher-seeded Oilers trailing 2-1 in this best-of-seven set heading into Game 4 in Anaheim, Calif., on Sunday night, might head coach Kris Knoblauch change goalies? Backup Tristan Jarry spent practice on Saturday in the net typically used by the next game’s starter, but Knoblauch said Saturday that wasn’t necessarily a tell.
“We haven’t decided,” Knoblauch said. “I think going in (to this series), we were pretty sure (about our No. 1). And it was the same thing last year, and maybe the year before. Today in the NHL, very rarely do you have one goalie play all the games in the playoffs.”
He continued: “Twenty years ago and before that, it was unheard-of to be swapping goalies. But we’ve got two good goalies. We feel confident they can both play. And going into the playoffs, we felt there was going to be a time where we’re going to have to make a switch at some time. Whether that’s for Game 4 or Game 5 or whatever it is, we have confidence in both of them.”
Ingram, 29, who posted a 16-10-3 record with a 2.60 goals-against average and .899 save percentage in 32 regular-season games, has been less effective during the postseason. In the wake of Friday’s 7-4 win by the Ducks, Ingram has surrendered a league-high 14 goals and enters Game 4 with a 4.70 GAA and .849 save percentage.
Jarry, who turns 31 this week, was acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Dec. 12. He fashioned a 9-6-2 record with a 3.86 GAA and .858 save percentage in 19 appearances for the Oilers. He has not started a game since April 7 — a 6-5 overtime loss at Utah — and has not played since handling the final 20 minutes on April 8 in a 5-2 win against San Jose.
If Jarry gets the Game 4 nod, it will mark his first Stanley Cup playoff appearance since a 4-3 overtime loss by the Pittsburgh Penguins against the New York Rangers on May 15, 2022.
Jarry started eight postseason games for the Penguins from 2020-22 and produced a 2-6 record with a 3.00 GAA and .891 save percentage.
–Field Level Media
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Three Teams That Screwed Up 2026 NFL Draft
Not every team can take home a prized draft pick, especially if they are throwing darts nowhere near the top of the board.
We can’t say enough great things about the Cleveland Browns and Las Vegas Raiders, Dallas Cowboys and New York Jets and their stadium co-tenants, the Giants. From top to bottom, there’s a lot to love about the Panthers’ draft, too.
But we have no worldly idea what a few other teams were thinking over the three-day NFL draft completed Saturday in Pittsburgh.
Jacksonville Jaguars
From all splash and sizzle in 2025 to … what-was-that vibes in 2026, maybe this is life with a 30-something general manager. We can’t say Travis Hunter, which cost Jacksonville a 2026 first-round pick in the deal with the Browns on draft night ’25, was a home run. Or even an infield single. And now we can’t say much at all about what the Jaguars did in this draft. The franchise is drafting “culture” and we’re anxious to find out how that computes year over year.
San Francisco 49ers
A jumbo receiver who would’ve been on the board 20 picks later De’Zhaun Stribling (Ole Miss) wasn’t entirely unexpected. But the 49ers signed Mike Evans and 2025 first-rounder Ricky Pearsall is being panned as a lead receiver. If these things compute internally, what’s the reward with Stribling? This isn’t a division where drafting depth over difference-makers can be a survival mode. Indiana RB Kaelon Black also would’ve been on the board later and he’s a niche player at best as long as the 49ers have the McCaffrey guy. So two of the top three picks are bit players in a division where everyone north of Arizona will be hyper competitive.
Atlanta Falcons
Clemson cornerback Avieon Terrell brings immediate value and it’s fair to wonder if the Falcons are having buyer’s remorse over the trade of a first-round pick for James Pearce Jr. in 2025 given his off-field issues. The draft wasn’t deep enough to find high-end pass rushers or offensive tackles in the late rounds. Using their third draft pick this year on Kendal Daniels (Oklahoma) at No. 134 is evidence the Falcons are hoping to hit the lottery on upside. Where Daniels fits in this defense is nowhere near clear at the moment.
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Red Sox bats come alive in rout of Orioles
Apr 25, 2026; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Boston Red Sox center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela (3) hits an RBI single during the second inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images Garrett Crochet pitched six shutout innings and Andruw Monasterio drilled a late-game grand slam as the Boston Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak with a 17-1 victory against the host Baltimore Orioles on Saturday afternoon.
Caleb Durbin and Willson Contreras joined Monasterio with ninth-inning home runs as part of Boston’s 10-run blitz in the final inning.
Contreras provided a sacrifice before batting twice in the ninth with a run-scoring single and a three-run homer to finish with five runs batted in. Connor Wong drilled a three-run double in the fifth inning. Monasterio and Ceddanne Rafaela had three hits apiece.
The Orioles, who racked up 20 hits Friday night, had one hit through five innings Saturday. Taylor Ward had two of Baltimore’s six hits.
Crochet (3-3), who had a couple of rough outings during a personal two-game losing skid, limited the Orioles to three hits and two walks while striking out seven batters. He allowed Coby Mayo’s double and two sixth-inning singles.
Baltimore starter Trevor Rogers (2-3) didn’t make it through the second inning. He was charged with three runs on four hits and two walks in 1 2/3 innings. He threw 48 pitches in the second.
Even with the seven runs through five innings, Boston’s run total was one more than the team’s total in its previous four games combined.
The Red Sox produced a three-run second inning with two outs, beginning with Durbin’s run-scoring double. Isiah Kiner-Falefa drove in a run with a single two batters later before Rafaela followed with a run-producing single.
Contreras delivered a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning. Wong came through with a two-out bases-clearing double in the fifth.
Boston’s four runs across the fourth and fifth innings off reliever Albert Suarez were unearned.
The Red Sox lost the shutout bid in the seventh when Tyler O’Neill, in his first game back from the concussion injury list, singled and later scored on Leody Taveras’ groundout. That run was unearned off Greg Weissert.
Rafaela led off the ninth with a triple and scored on Contreras’ single before Baltimore turned to utility player Weston Wilson on the mound.
The start of the game was moved up four hours because of weather-related concerns later in the day.
–Field Level Media
