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The Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl LX last night, beating the New England Patriots 29-13 in a smothering defensive performance. The victory marks the second championship in franchise history and avenges a title game loss to the Patriots in 2015.
The title caps a yearslong redemption arc for quarterback Sam Darnold, once considered a potential draft bust. Taken third overall in 2018 by the New York Jets, he spent time in Carolina, San Francisco, and Minnesota before joining the Seahawks this season. Darnold threw for 202 yards and one touchdown, while kicker Jason Myers set a Super Bowl record with five field goals. Running back Kenneth Walker III picked up MVP honors after notching more than 160 total yards.
Darnold had significant help on the other side of the ball, with the regular season’s top-ranked scoring defense holding New England to 331 yards, while sacking Patriots quarterback Drake Maye six times and forcing three turnovers. See celebration photos here.
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Three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn crashed yesterday during the downhill event, less than 14 seconds into her first race at the 2026 Olympics. The 41-year-old is considered one of the world's most successful skiers.
Vonn had returned to the sport in late 2024 after six years of retirement and a partial knee replacement earlier that year. Despite being the oldest skier in team history, Vonn was a favorite to win gold in downhill after two World Cup victories and three podium finishes this season. Yesterday’s crash came days after Vonn ruptured her left anterior cruciate ligament in the final World Cup event; she nonetheless pledged to race in the 2026 Olympics wearing a knee brace. Yesterday's crash occurred when Vonn's right arm tagged the fourth gate in the women’s downhill, sending her tumbling (see video). American Breezy Johnson took gold.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time Friday. The surge—1,207 points, or a 2.5% jump from Thursday—was driven by gains in Goldman Sachs and Caterpillar, which jumped 4.3% and 7.1%, respectively.
The Dow was launched in 1896 by Wall Street Journal founding editor Charles Dow and statistician Edward Jones. The index originally tracked 12 companies from industries like cotton, sugar, tobacco, and oil. Since 1928, it has tracked 30 blue-chip stocks—large, established US industry leaders. Unlike the S&P 500, the Dow is price-weighted, as opposed to weighted by market capitalization, with companies selected by a committee including senior representatives from the Journal. The Dow price is calculated by adding stock prices for each company and dividing the number by a Dow divisor (see 101).
The Dow skews toward industrial and financial sectors, and has outpaced the tech-heavy Nasdaq and S&P 500 in recent weeks. All three indexes rose Friday (S&P 500 +2.0%, Nasdaq +2.2%). |
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Historybook: Volleyball is invented, initially known as mintonette (1895); World's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7 Semyorka, becomes operational (1959); NFL star Saquon Barkley is born (1997); "Crime and Punishment" author Fyodor Dostoyevsky dies (1881). |
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