VONN SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO THE SLOPES NEXT WEEK
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Vonn’s rescheduled return to World Cup racing is set for Friday next week in Italy.
The International Ski Federation says a downhill canceled this week by heavy snowfall in St. Anton, Austria, will be raced on Jan. 18 in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The Italian venue also stages its traditional downhill on the Saturday and a super-G on Sunday.
Vonn is joining the World Cup circuit for the first time this season after a Nov. 19 crash in training in Colorado. She hyperextended her knee and sprained a ligament.
The new schedule in Cortina calls for two downhill training sessions next Thursday.
Vonn has nine of her women’s record 82 World Cup race wins at the picturesque Italian course, including both downhill and super-G in 2010, ‘15, and ‘16.
Tebow off the market. Dog shoots man.
Tim Tebow is engaged.
The Heisman Trophy winner announced his engagement on Instagram Thursday to Demi-Leigh NelPeters, a South Africa native and the 2017 Miss Universe.
The 31-year-old Tebow posted photos of himself down on one knee and 23-year-old Nel-Peters wearing an engagement ring.
Tebow quarterbacked Florida to national championships during the 2006 and 2008 seasons. He was drafted in 2010 by the Denver Broncos, where he played two seasons. He also played for the New York Jets in 2012.
Tebow currently plays professional baseball in the New York Mets organization. He also is a college football analyst for the SEC Network. » A former Louisiana State University
. lineman was shot while duck hunting in Mississippi and lost his leg, according to his friend, who says the dog did it.
Micah Heckford tells The Clarion Ledger that he and several others were on a duck hunting trip near Eagle Lake when Matt Branch was accidentally hit by a blast from his shotgun, which he had left loaded in the bed of his pickup truck.
Heckford says a Labrador named Tito then jumped onto the truck bed, “stepped on the safety of Branch’s shotgun and pulled the trigger.” He says the 12-gauge shotgun shell fired through the side of the truck and hit Branch’s left thigh. He says Branch has since had the leg amputated and is expected to recover.
End could be near for tennis star.
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Andy Murray says the Australian Open could be his last tournament because of a hip injury that has hampered him for almost two years.
The three-time Grand Slam champion says he plans to start his opening match against No. 22-ranked Roberto Bautista Agut at the Australian Open, where he has reached the final five times but never won the title.
He says he can no longer play at the elite level because of the pain, and is considering another operation on his hip.
Murray held a news conference Friday at Melbourne Park, and had to leave the room for a while soon after it started to compose himself as he fronted the media.
The Australian Open starts Monday.
Greening selected in NWSL draft.
GO» Colorado’s Erin Greening CHIC A was selected in the third round and 25th overall by the Orlando Pride in Thursday’s NWSL Draft.
She is the fourth CU player to be drafted in the NWSL and the third in the past three seasons. She will join former Buffalo Danica Evans, who was drafted by the Pride in 2017.
Greening, a defender from Piedmont, Calif., started all 12 matches she appeared in this season. She recorded three assists in 911 minutes, missing eight matches to injury. Greening was a part of CU’s backline that recorded eight shutouts on the season. — Denver Post staff and wire reports