The United States women’s volleyball team surged to 4-0, with very few hiccups in a 3-1 against winless Italy.
The Americans took the first two sets with twin 25-22 score lines, allowing the Italians to take the third 25-23.
A 25-20 win in the fourth round has the U.S. primed for a Pool B win.
The U.S. has 2-2 China in its final pool match, and will begin the knockout rounds on Tuesday. That’ll likely be against the fourth-placed team in Pool A.
Every race of the world Alpine skiing championships airs live on Peacock from Feb. 6-19.
France hosts the biennial worlds in Meribel and Courchevel — six women’s races, six men’s races and one mixed-gender team event.
Mikaela Shiffrin is the headliner, in the midst of her most successful season in four years with a tour-leading 11 World Cup wins in 23 starts. Shiffrin is up to 85 career World Cup victories, one shy of Ingemar Stenmark‘s record accumulated over the 1970s and ’80s.
World championships races do not count in the World Cup tally.
Shiffrin is expected to race at least four times at worlds, starting with Monday’s combined. She earned a medal in 11 of her 13 career world championships races, including each of the last 10 dating to 2015.
Shiffrin won at least one race at each of the last five world championships (nobody has gold from six different worlds). Her six total golds and 11 total medals are American records. At this edition, she can become the most decorated skier in modern world championships history from any nation.
She enters one medal shy of the record for most individual world championships medals since World War II (Norway’s Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and four medals shy of the all-time record. (Worlds were held annually in the 1930s, albeit with fewer races.)
She is also one gold medal shy of the post-World War II individual record shared by Austrian Toni Sailer, Frenchwoman Marielle Goitschel and Swede Anja Pärson.
The other favorites at these worlds include Italian Sofia Goggia, the world’s top female downhiller this season, and the two leading men: Swiss Marco Odermatt (No. 1 in super-G and giant slalom) and Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (No. 1 in downhill).
2023 World Alpine Skiing Championships Broadcast Schedule
| Date | Event | Time (ET) | Platform |
| Mon., Feb. 6 | Women’s Combined Super-G Run | 5 a.m. | Peacock |
| Women’s Combined Slalom Run | 8:30 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Tues., Feb. 7 | Men’s Combined Super-G Run | 5 a.m. | Peacock |
| Men’s Combined Slalom Run | 8:30 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Wed., Feb. 8 | Women’s Super-G | 5:30 a.m. | Peacock |
| Thu., Feb. 9 | Men’s Super-G | 5:30 a.m. | Peacock |
| Sat., Feb. 11 | Women’s Downhill | 5 a.m. | Peacock |
| Highlights | 2:30 p.m.* | NBC, Peacock | |
| Sun., Feb. 12 | Men’s Downhill | 5 a.m | Peacock |
| Highlights | 3 p.m.* | NBC, Peacock | |
| Tue., Feb. 14 | Team Parallel | 6:15 a.m. | Peacock |
| Men’s/Women’s Parallel Qualifying | 11 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Wed., Feb. 15 | Men’s/Women’s Parallel | 6 a.m. | Peacock |
| Thu., Feb. 16 | Women’s Giant Slalom Run 1 | 4 a.m. | Peacock |
| Women’s Giant Slalom Run 2 | 7:30 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Fri., Feb. 17 | Men’s Giant Slalom Run 1 | 4 a.m. | Peacock |
| Men’s Giant Slalom Run 2 | 7:30 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Sat., Feb. 18 | Women’s Slalom Run 1 | 4 a.m. | Peacock |
| Women’s Slalom Run 2 | 7:30 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Highlights | 2:30 p.m.* | NBC, Peacock | |
| Sun., Feb. 19 | Men’s Slalom Run 1 | 4 a.m. | Peacock |
| Men’s Slalom Run 2 | 7:30 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Highlights | 3 p.m.* | NBC, Peacock |
*Delayed broadcast
*All NBC coverage streams on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app for subscribers.
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Teri McKeever, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Olympic swimming head coach, was fired by the University of California at Berkeley after an investigation into alleged verbal and emotional abuse of swimmers that she denied.
McKeever was put on paid administrative leave from her job as head women’s swimming coach in May after an Orange County Register report that 20 current or former Cal swimmers said McKeever verbally and emotionally bullied her swimmers.
Cal athletics director Jim Knowlton wrote in a letter to the Cal team and staff that a resulting independent law firm report detailed “verbally abusive conduct that is antithetical to our most important values.”
“I strongly believe this is in the best interests of our student-athletes, our swimming program and Cal Athletics as a whole,” Knowlton said of McKeever’s firing in a press release. “The report details numerous violations of university policies that prohibit race, national origin and disability discrimination.”
The Orange County Register first published what it says is the full independent report here with redactions.
“I deny and unequivocally refute all conclusions that I abused or bullied any athlete and deny any suggestion I discriminated against any athlete on the basis of race, disability or sexual orientation,” McKeever said in a statement Tuesday confirming her firing and expressing disappointment in how the investigation was conducted. “While I am disappointed in the way my CAL Career will conclude, I wish to thank and celebrate the many student-athletes and staff that made my time in Berkeley a true blessing and gift.”
McKeever’s lawyer wrote that McKeever “will be filing suit to expose the manner in which gender has affected not only the evaluation of her coaching but harmed and continues to harm both female and male athletes.”
McKeever led Cal women’s swimming and diving for nearly 30 years, winning four NCAA team titles and coaching Olympic champions including Missy Franklin, Natalie Coughlin and Dana Vollmer.
In 2004, she became the first woman to be on a U.S. Olympic swim team coaching staff, as an assistant. In 2012, she became the first woman to be head coach of a U.S. Olympic swim team. She was an assistant again for the Tokyo Games.
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