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Hawks beat Pacers in Monday matinee for third straight victory
Jan 26, 2026; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels (5) jumps for a layup against Indiana Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard (2) during the first quarter at State Farm Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images C.J. McCollum came off the bench to lead three Atlanta players with 20-plus points and the Hawks came from behind to defeat the visiting Indiana Pacers 132-116 on Monday afternoon.
McCollum scored 23, Dyson Daniels had 22 and Nickeil Alexander-Walker added 21 to pace Atlanta to its third consecutive victory.
Atlanta has won both contests against the Pacers this season and has beaten Indiana in their last four meetings. The Pacers went 1-4 on their five-game road trip.
The start time for this game was moved up several hours as a result of Sunday’s winter storm.
McCollum and Alexander-Walker both made five 3-pointers and Daniels, who scored 20 for the fourth time this season and first time since Jan. 3, added nine assists. Jalen Johnson scored 15 and Onyeka Okongwu had 12 points and 10 rebounds for his 11th double-double.
Indiana was led by Pascal Siakam with 26 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Aaron Nesmith scored 18 and Bennedict Mathurin and T.J. McConnell each scored 16 off the bench.
With Mathurin scoring 10, Indiana led by as many as nine points and were ahead 38-34 after one quarter. The lead stretched to 10 on Johnny Furphy’s layup at 9:40, but the Hawks went on a 12-2 run and tied the game 46-46 on Johnson’s 3-pointer at 7:36. Indiana responded by outscoring Atlanta 14-3 to go ahead by 11 and led 64-60 at halftime.
The Pacers built a 15-point lead, going up 85-70 on Siakam’s layup, only to have the Hawks outscore them 25-7 the rest of the third quarter. Luke Kennard’s 3-pointer and layup on consecutive possessions gave the Hawks the lead at 1:18, and they carried a 95-92 lead into the fourth.
Atlanta went ahead 102-92 — its biggest lead of the game — with 10:07 remaining. The Pacers got as close as four but Christian Koloko’s dunk and Alexander-Walker’s triple restored the double-digit lead at 112-100 to squash any comeback hopes.
The Hawks played without starters Zaccharie Risacher (left knee bone contusion) and Kristaps Porzingis (left Achilles). The team elevated Risacher’s status to day-to-day and hinted he could play as early as next week. Porzingis will be re-evaluated in another week.
–Field Level Media
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US takes bronze in combined skiing; Mikaela Shiffrin misses podium
Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics – Alpine Skiing – Women’s Team Combined Victory Ceremony – Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre, Belluno, Italy – February 10, 2026. Bronze medalists Jacqueline Wiles of United States and Paula Moltzan of United States celebrate after the Women’s Team Combined CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Austria’s Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won women’s team combined Olympic gold on Tuesday as overwhelming U.S. favorites Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on the podium in a major shock.
Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took the silver, 0.05 behind, and Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan finished third for the United States on a slalom piste set by the Austrian coach.
World and Olympic downhill champion Johnson and dominant slalom skier Shiffrin finished fourth — missing a medal by 0.06 of a second — after looking set to repeat their 2025 world championship win.
Johnson was fastest in the downhill leg but Shiffrin, winner of seven out of eight slaloms this season and the most successful World Cup skier of all time, was only 15th in the slalom run on Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Olimpia delle Tofane piste after losing the advantage early on.
Shiffrin arrived at the 2022 Beijing Games as favorite to win a fistful of medals but left empty-handed. She has two more chances in giant slalom and slalom.
The fourth place also ended Johnson’s hopes of a “double double” — holding both the world downhill and team combined titles and adding Olympic golds in both.
The silver was Aicher’s second of the Games after she finished runner-up in the downhill. Remarkably, the German skied the slalom leg on Tuesday.
–Reuters, special to Field Level Media
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Former Lions DE Tracy Scroggins dies at 56
Detroit LIons Tracy Scroggins exchanges words with Green Bay Packers Marco Rivera after a play during the second quarter of their game Sunday, December 10, 2000 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo by Dale Guldan) Tracy Scroggins, who spent his entire 10-year NFL career with the Detroit Lions, died Monday. He was 56.
The Lions announced the passing of the former defensive end but did not provide a cause of death.
His family issued a statement to TMZ, however, that blamed football, saying they believed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. That can be diagnosed only after death.
Scroggins was among the thousands of former players to sue the NFL over concussion-related symptoms. The case was settled in 2015.
“Playing in the NFL gave Tracy the opportunity to pursue his lifelong dream and to rise from poverty,” the family statement read. “However, unfortunately, the NFL was also ultimately the cause of his untimely demise. Tracy spent every moment of retirement courageously battling the devastating effects of CTE. While our hearts are heavy, we find comfort in knowing that he is finally at peace.”
Scroggins appeared in 142 games (89 starts) with the Lions from 1992-2001. The team selected the Oklahoman in the second round of the 1992 NFL Draft out of Tulsa.
He retired with 60.5 sacks, 321 tackles (23 for loss), eight forced fumbles and seven recoveries, and an interception.
–Field Level Media
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Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin out vs. US
[US, Mexico & Canada customers only] Feb 8, 2026; Milan, Italy; Kristin O’Neill of Canada celebrates scoring their first goal with Marie-Philip Poulin of Canada and Ella Shelton of Canada against Czechia in women’s ice hockey group B play during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena. Mandatory Credit: David W Cerny/Reuters via Imagn Images Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin won’t play in Tuesday’s Group A game against the United States after sustaining a lower-body injury in Monday’s 5-1 win over Czechia, Hockey Canada announced.
A three-time gold medalist who has earned the nickname “Captain Clutch,” Poulin is considered day-to-day after leaving Monday’s win in the first period following a hit into the boards from Czechia’s Kristyna Kaltounkova. The latter was assessed a penalty for an illegal hit.
Poulin, 34, is playing in her fifth Olympics, winning gold in 2010, 2014 and 2022 along with a silver in 2018.
Canada and the U.S. have combined to win all six gold medals in women’s hockey since it was introduced in the 1998 Nagano Olympics — Canada claiming four and the Americans two. They’ve faced off five times in the gold-medal game and are heavy favorites to meet there again in this year’s Games.
Both teams are undefeated entering Tuesday’s Group A game. Canada is 2-0 with a 9-1 goal differential, while the U.S. is 3-0 with a 15-1 differential.
–Field Level Media
US takes bronze in combined skiing; Mikaela Shiffrin misses podium
Former Lions DE Tracy Scroggins dies at 56
