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A CNN review of the Epstein documents identified several examples of people whose identities were blacked out possibly helping to connect him with women, including redacted co-conspirators in a much-anticipateddraft indictmentof Epstein from the 2000s.

A redacted individual wrote in one 2015 email to Epstein: "And this one is (i think) totally your girl."

Inanother 2014 emailin the files, a person wrote to Epstein: "Thank you for a fun night… Your littlest girl was a little naughty." But the name of the individual who wrote that message is redacted.

The Department of Justiceon Friday releasedwhat it said was the last of the Epstein files that it was required to disclose by law, but the documents have prompted widespread outcry about a continued lack of transparency and justice for Epstein's many survivors.

Epstein survivors are up in arms about the mishandled redactions, including blacked out statements that victims made to the FBI.

A DOJ official said in a statement that any fully redacted names are of victims. "In many instances, as it has been well documented publicly, those who were originally victims became participants and co-conspirators," the official said. "We did not redact any names of men, only female victims."

FBI and law enforcement names were also redacted, the DOJ official said.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department has been scrambling to fix the improper disclosure of victim information.

The Justice Department narrowly avoided a hearing in federal court on Wednesday byreaching an agreementlate Tuesday with lawyers for some of the Epstein survivors, who had accused DOJ of releasing information about nearly 100 Epstein victims in the files.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche acknowledged Monday that "mistakes were made" but argued that DOJ has moved expeditiously to correct any information unintentionally released.

For Epstein survivors, the DOJ's response is unacceptable.

"To have pieces of my life be out there on display in that way, was really troublesome," said Dani Bensky, who told CNNin a roundtable with Epstein survivorsthat her name, address and phone number were all initially in the files.

"And I know that I'm public now, yes, it hurts me — but it really hurts our survivor sisters who are still 'Jane Does' even more," she added.

The furor over what is and isn't included in the Epstein documents highlights how the department'srelease of more than 3 million documentson Friday is hardly the end of the fight over the Epstein files — even as both Blanche and President Donald Trump have said they think it's time to move on.

Congress forced the disclosure of the Epstein documentsafter passingthe Epstein Files Transparency Act last November over Trump's initial objections. But the bipartisan group of lawmakers who pushed for the law's passage say there are still millions of files that have not been released, which the DOJ argued fell within exceptions to the law not requiring their disclosure.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who led the effort to release the files, have asked to view the unredacted files — and are still threatening Attorney General Pam Bondi with impeachment or contempt for failing to comply with the law if more are not disclosed.

"The DOJ has protected the Epstein class with blanket redactions in some areas while failing to protect the identities of survivors in other areas," Khanna said in a statement to CNN. "Congress cannot properly assess DOJ's handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record."

'There's no reason to redact it'

The documents released on Friday include the names of numerous high-profile men who interacted with Epstein — who died by suicide in 2019 awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — a list that includedTrump, former PresidentBill Clinton,Bill Gates,Elon Muskand theformer Prince Andrew, among many others. All have denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and have never been charged by law enforcement with any crimes.

But Epstein survivors say the files appear to shield those who specifically enabled the convicted sex offender's abuse, as well as other men who may have been named in the survivors' statements that were completely redacted.

One Epstein survivor pointed to another FBI form contained in the files where full pages were blacked out.

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"It basically outlines everything that this person experienced and shared with the FBI. It was seven pages long and four of them looked like this," Jess Michaelstold CNNin an interview. "What happened to her and who did it is also reacted. So you cannot say in the same sentence: 'There were no men, there was no list' and redact this much of a statement. Because if there's no men, then there's no reason to redact it. There's no other reason."

One of the most anticipated documents in the files was the controversialdraft indictmentfrom the Southern District of Florida from the 2000s, which would have charged Epstein, along with three others, who were described as having been "employed" by Epstein.

The individuals are all described as having conspired to "persuade, induce, and entice individuals who had not attained the age of 18 years to engage in prostitution." But their names are redacted.

The files also include numerous email exchanges with Epstein that appear to describe the procurement of women.

A redacted individual from a Paris modeling agency wrote ina 2013 emailto Epstein: "New Brazilian just arrived, sexy and cute, 19yo ."

The email appears in the files twice: In one version, the modeling agency's nameis redacted, but in another, the agency is not redacted from the sender's email signature.

Ina 2018 emailto Epstein, another redacted individual wrote: "I found at least 3 very good young poor."

"Meet this one," the person continued. "Not the beauty queen but we both likes her a lot."

In aletter to Congresson Friday, the Justice Department detailed how it made redactions, saying it complied with the law by redacting victim information, child sex abuse materials and anything that would jeopardize an active investigation.

DOJ also withheld 200,000 pages "covered by various privileges, including deliberative process privilege, the work-product doctrine, and attorney-client privilege," according to the letter.

At his press conference last Friday announcing the release of the files, Blanche said they did not contain information about evidence that would lead to the prosecution of any men who abused women.

"I said this earlier, there's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about that we're covering up or that we're choosing not to prosecute. That is not the case," Blanche said. "I don't know whether there are men out there that abuse these women."

Scrambling to scrub files

In the hours after Friday's DOJ release, CNN reported that multiple survivors, including anonymous "Jane Doe" victims, wereseeing their names and informationthroughout the documents that were published.

Attorneys for some of the survivors sent a letter saying the DOJ's failure to properly redact victims' information had trigged an "unfolding emergency," asking two federal judges in New York for an "immediate judicial intervention."

Sunday's letter included testimony from various anonymous "Jane Doe" victims who described receiving death threats and harassment from the media since the publication of the files.

"When DOJ believed it was ready to publish, it needed only to type each victim's name into its own search function. Any resulting hit should have been redacted before publication. Had DOJ done that, the harm would have been avoided," the lawyers wrote.

DOJ said in a response filed to the judges that it had removed all documents that victims or their lawyers identified, and a Justice Department spokesperson had said it had 500 reviewers looking at the files "for this very reason."

"Mistakes were made by – you have really hard-working lawyers that worked for the past 60 days. Think about this though: you're talking about pieces of paper that stack from the ground to two Eiffel Towers," Blanche said Monday on Fox News. "The minute that a victim or their lawyer reached out to us since Friday, we immediately dealt with it and pulled it down."

Epstein's survivors say the release of names, even if corrected, is yet another example of how the Justice Department failed them.

"Publishing images of victims while shielding predators is just a failure of complete justice," Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard told CNN. "There's this deep sense of betrayal when the systems meant to protect you becomes the one causing all of this harm."

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Astensions deepen between Cuba and the U.S.after it attacked Venezuela and disrupted oil shipments, so have the woes of Santa Cruz del Norte.

People in this town east of Havana are plunged into darkness daily and forced tocook with coal and firewood, but not everyone can afford this new reality.

Kenia Montoya said she recently ripped the wooden door off her bathroom in the crumbling cinderblock home that she shares with her children because she needed firewood, and they needed to eat.

"Things are getting worse for us now," she said. "They don't supply us with petroleum. They don't supply us with food. Where does that leave us, then?"

A faded purple sheet now hangs over their bathroom. Nearby, only a handful of coal remains in a small bag.

The 50-year-old mother doesn't know how she'll cook once the coal runs out because supplies in the region have dwindled.

It's one of many uncertainties gripping towns like this one across Cuba after U.S. President Donald Trumpthreatened to impose tariffson any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba.

"Well, it's a failed nation now," Trump said this week. "And they're not getting any money from Venezuela, and they're not getting any money from anywhere."

'How are we going to live?'

Near the main entrance to Santa Cruz del Norte, a sprawling mural is emblazoned with the following message in all caps: "NO ONE GIVES UP HERE. LONG LIVE A FREE CUBA."

But people wonder how long they can hold out.

The island's crisis is deepening: severe blackouts, soaring prices and a shortage of basic goods.

Meanwhile, the Cuban government remains mum over its oil reserves, offering no word on whether Russia or anyone else would increase their shipments after oil supplies from Venezuela were disrupted when theU.S. attacked and arrested its president.

On Thursday, Cuban PresidentMiguel Díaz-Caneldescribed the situation as "complex" as he called the U.S. stance "aggressive and criminal," saying it's affecting things like transportation, hospitals, schools, tourism and the production of food.

He said that in a week, he would provide details about how Cuba will deal with the crisis.

Cuban officials recently lauded a phone call they had with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, although they did not share details. Meanwhile,Mexico has pledged to send humanitarian aid, including food, after Trump said he asked that it suspend oil shipments to the island.

Many in Santa Cruz del Norte feel the worst is yet to come.

"With all those tariffs they're going to impose on countries, no oil will come in, and how are we going to live?" said Gladys Delgado.

The 67-year-old had cracked open her front door on a recent chilly afternoon to get some fresh air as she sewed small, colorful rugs made of clothing scraps to make extra cash because her pension is only $6 a month.

A couple of houses down, Minorkys Hoyos dropped a handful of cassava cubes into an old pot she filled with water from a barrel and placed it over a tiny, makeshift grill inside her home.

"You live with what you have," she said, noting she had no other food available at that moment.

The few rechargeable items that used to light her small, disheveled home have broken down, and she began to bump into things until a neighbor gifted her an improvised lantern made with fuel and a reused baby food jar.

"When it's dark, I don't see," said the 53-year-old diabetic.

It was late afternoon as she cooked, but her home was already dark.

Outside, two children sat on a dusty sidewalk. They stacked dominoes one atop the other to see how high they could go before the whole thing tumbled down.

'If only we could do something'

For the past three months, Santa Cruz del Norte had electricity while most of Cuba was hit withconstant outagesstemming from aging infrastructure and fuel shortages at power plants.

People like Iván Amores were wary of rejoicing, fearful they would be plunged into the dark again like most of last year. Their fears materialized a week ago, when the outages hit again.

"This used to be wonderful," he recalled of his town when it had electricity. "Now, it's truly torture."

He uses a tiny, makeshift barbecue pit to cook for himself, his daughter and young granddaughter, buying pricier coal at $3 a bag because it generates less smoke inside their tidy home.

Amores also invested in a single tube light that a Cuban man in another town builds and sells; it can be charged and even comes with a USB port.

But even those kind ofbrilliant inventions Cubans are known forare out of reach for people like 67-year-old Mariela Viel; she and her husband still cannot afford to add a bathroom to their cinderblock home with a dirt floor.

Growing up, Viel said she never knew what a blackout was: "We were living well. We had food, money."

She worked more than 40 years at the cafeteria of Cuba's power company and now receives $8 a month in pension.

"What can I afford? Nothing. Not even a package of chicken," she said.

When there's power, she cooks rice and beans and listens to her favorite music: Cuban big bands.

Viel sat outside one recent afternoon, watching a couple neighbors walk briskly with buckets of warmed up water so their families could take showers during a cold snap that began in late January, with a record low of 32 degrees (0 degrees) recorded in a town southeast of Santa Cruz del Norte.

Celebrations also start earlier now, with one family organizing a boy's 15th birthday — a milestone age across Latin America — mid-afternoon before he and his friends opted to finish partying outdoors under a big yellow moon.

It glowed on a group of people nearby who danced and sang outside next to a scooter blasting music from its speakers to celebrate the birthday of Olga Lilia Laurenti, now 61.

"I'm telling you, whatever's meant to be, let it be, because we can't stop it," she said as she paused dancing.

"You're not going to waste part of your life on something that's out of your control. If only we could do something, but what are we going to do? We can't suffer. You need laughter, you need joy."

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Catherine Vautrin wrote on X that4.24 tons of cocainewas seized in the Pacific and a boat carrying678 kilograms of cocainewas intercepted in the Caribbean and handed over to the Barbadian authorities.

The vessel in the Pacific, from Central America and believed bound for South Africa, was intercepted in French Polynesia, the country's high commission in the island territory said in astatement.

Its cargo was destroyed at sea, away from the Polynesian economic zone and marine protected area, officials told AFP.

Vautrin and the high commissionreleased imagesfrom the operation on social media, showing an aerial view of the interception as well as packages of the purported drugs on board a naval vessel. Vautrintoutedthe armed forces' "vigilance and professionalism to thwart a globalized trafficking network."

The prosecutor's office did not bring charges so as not to burden the local court with a case of drug trafficking not destined for French Polynesia itself.

The high commission said the vessel and its crew were freed under international law.

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Last month, the navyseized almost five tons of cocaine, believed headed for Australia, from a fishing vessel near French Polynesia.

The United Nations has said in recent years that organized crime groups trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine have expanded their presence in the Pacific.

Large amounts of drugs are transported from North and South America for Australian and New Zealand markets, according to the United Nations.

French Polynesia lies along these maritime routes and is itself affected by significant methamphetamine use.

Its small population of 280,000, however, spares it from being a prime target for large-scale drug trafficking.

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It took the Warriors far too long to reach this stage, but now the youngster will get a chance to flourish elsewhere.

Let's get into some trade grades.

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Golden State: B-

Oh boy did this team need a center so very, very badly. Of course, you have to wonder if the timing makes sense now that Jimmy Butler is out for the season with an ACL tear.

What does Porziņģis offer Golden State in terms of a raised ceiling if the team can't offer up the best version of itself? Even setting aside his substantial injury pattern, the Warriors don't have much hope of making a real run this season, and who knows how this aging team looks in a year?

Porziņģis is a free agent this summer, so there is some hope that he'll re-sign and offer them a consistent floor-spacing presence throughout next season, and perhaps beyond with Butler back in action.

All in all, this deal is worth it if he stays healthy and is open to staying with the Warriors after the conclusion of this season.

Atlanta: B+

This is a pure upside swing, but one that doesn't cost the Hawks a lot. Kuminga is cost-controlled this season, and the organization has a team option on him for next season, after which it's free of any obligation should he fail to pop in Atlanta.

Hield is also easy to cut loose, as he's on the hook for just $3 million in guaranteed money next year, which is peanuts under this CBA.

While Kuminga will have to defer to Jalen Johnson, he should be higher on the offensive totem pole in Atlanta, providing him with the opportunity to make some noise and some progress under these new circumstances.

Tigres coach Pedro Losa did not specify what kind of harassment Farmer dealt with, but said at a news conference on Wednesday that it was the reason the defender left Mexico.

"There was a red line in her process. She didn't feel safe in the face of harassment that occurred and she let us know," Losa said. "As a club, our obligation was to support her."

"I want to speak out," Losa added. "Every day there are female players and women in society who feel this way, both on social media and in other areas. No woman should feel intimidated, abused, or harassed."

Farmer isn't the first player to leave Liga MX Femenil in the face of harassment. In 2023, Scarlett Camberos left Club América to join Angel City after dealing with online harassment and stalking from a male fan. She has since returned to Club América.The Starsannounced this weekthat they had signed Farmer to a three-year contract after Tigres granted her release.

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The 22-year-old had a breakout year in 2025, her first as a pro. After playing four seasons at the University of Southern California, Farmer signed with Tigres and immediately became a regular for one of the top clubs in Mexico.

Farmer played a key role for Tigres as they won the 2025 Apertura title. Her performances led to her first international call-up for Mexico in May. The California native has appeared in eight matches so far forEl Tri.

"Aaliyah has a unique defensive prowess, strong aerial ability and the versatility to contribute in multiple defensive roles, which we're excited to add to our group," Stars general manager Richard Feuz said.

"Her promising career is just getting started. We look forward to having Chicago be part of it."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Aaliyah Farmer left Tigres due to harassment, coach says

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🏀 NBA trades:The Maverickstraded Anthony Davis to the Wizardsin an eight-player blockbuster. Plus: The Warriorssent Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Hawksfor Kristaps Porziņģis, the Thunderacquired Jared McCainfrom the 76ers in exchange for picks, and the Bulls sent Coby White and Mike Conley Jr.to the Hornets.

⚾️ Tigers sign Valdez:Framber Valdez isheading to Detroiton a three-year, $115 million deal, giving the Tigers a durable lefty and two-time All-Star who compiled a 3.36 ERA across eight seasons with the Astros. The $38.3 million average annual value sets a record for left-handed pitchers.

🏒 Panarin to the Kings:The Rangersdealt Artemi Panarin to the Kingson Wednesday ahead of the NHL's Olympic roster freeze. The four-time All-Star then agreed to a two-year, $22 million extension with Los Angeles.

📰 Farewell to an institution:The Washington Posteliminated its sports departmenton Wednesday as part of a widespread purge that saw one-third of the paper's staff laid off.

🏒 Top prospect facing charges:Penn State forward Gavin McKenna, the projected No. 1 pick in June's NHL Draft,has been charged with felony aggravated assaultand other counts following an alleged altercation in downtown State College.

🏀 This is what dominance looks like

The top brass in men's college basketball has been remarkably dominant so far this season. How dominant, you ask?

Well, consider this:Three years ago, the AP Top 10 had a combined 36 losses in the first February poll. Two years ago? 40 losses. Last year? 34 losses. This year?Just 18 losses. And nine of those losses came against each other!

(As fate would have it, two top-10 teams lost last night, which was just phenomenal timing for this story. Ugh. But the point still very much stands.)

1. Arizona (22-0)

2. Michigan (20-1)

3. UConn (22-1)

4. Duke (21-1)

5. Illinois (20-3)

6. Gonzaga (22-2)

7. Iowa State (20-2)

8. Houston (20-2)

9. Nebraska (20-2)

10. Michigan State (19-4)

Wild stat:This past Tuesday marked the third time this season that at least four D-I teams with a 19-1 record or betterwere in action on the same day. Prior to this season, that had happened three timesthis century.

The big picture:There are multiple factors at play here, and we'll dive deeper into the sport's current landscape at a later date. For now, all I'll say is this: Clear your calendars in late March and early April. You're not going to want to miss this year's tournament.

💯 Big numbers

🏀 88th meeting

This Saturday's game between No. 4 Duke and No. 14 North Carolina will be the 88th meeting in which both teams are ranked. That's47 morethan any other matchup (Syracuse vs. Georgetown).

Head-to-head:The Tobacco Road rivals have split those first 87 matches almost exactly, with the Tar Heels holding the slightest of edges in wins (44-43) and points per game (77.9-77.4).

🏈 60 Super Bowls

Just four people on Earth have attended all 59 Super Bowls to date, and all four are set to extend that streak to 60 this weekend.

Who are they?Three are fans — Tom Henschel, 84, Gregory Eaton, 86 and Don Crisman, 89, of the "Never Miss a Super Bowl Club" — and one is photographer John Biever, 74,who's shot every Super Bowl.

🏒 1.80 ppg

Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov has been on an absolute heater since the calendar flipped to 2026, scoring 39 points (11 G, 28 A) in just 15 games to push his season total to 90 in 50 games. If he keeps up that pace, he'd be just the12th player in NHL historyto eclipse 1.80 points per game in a season.

Who would he join?Wayne Gretzky (11x), Mario Lemieux (6x), Phil Esposito (2x), Connor McDavid (2x), Jaromir Jagr, Mike Bossy, Steve Yzerman, Bernie Nicholls, Adam Oates, Bill Cowley and Jari Kurri.

⚾️ 31 runs

The Dominican Republic's Leones del Escogidowon a 16-15 slugfestover Panama's Federales de Chiriquí on Wednesday in the Caribbean Series, breaking the tournament record for most runs scored in a single game.

Where it stands:The defending champion Leones are 3-0 entering the final day of round-robin play, after whichthe top four teams(out of five) will advance to tomorrow's semifinals. As it stands, the Federales are the odd man out behind two teams from Mexico (Charros de Jalisco, Tomateros de Culiacán) and one from Puerto Rico (Cangrejeros de Santurce).

📈 Vandy AD: This is the moment to invest in women's sports

This is a guest post from Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Storey Lee, published on National Women and Girls in Sports Day.

From Candice Storey Lee:

Long before women were formally recognized, funded or celebrated by their institutions, they were already competing — playing, organizing and building teams with little more than determination and belief.

The absence of institutional support never erased their talent or ambition. It only delayed acknowledgment of what was already true.

That history matters because it reminds us of a persistent pattern: opportunity often exists before institutions are willing to name it, fund it or lead it. And progress depends on leaders who are willing to close that gap — not with symbolic gestures, but with sustained investment.

Today, on National Women and Girls in Sports Day, we are at one of those moments. Women's sports are experiencing unprecedented visibility, competitive excellence and fan engagement.

Yet the infrastructure that supports them — scholarships, facilities, staffing and long-term resources — too often lags the reality on the field and court. If we believe in excellence, we must be willing to invest accordingly.

A recent report by McKinsey found that between 2022 and 2024, revenue from women's sports grew 4.5 times faster than men's. And yet, even with that growth, revenues generated by women's sports represent less than 2 percent of the total U.S. sports market.

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"The next frontier of growth for women's sports," the report concluded, "will be closing this monetization gap and realizing women's sports' full potential as a high-revenue market."

But supporting girls and women in their athletic endeavors goes well beyond the idea of increasing revenues — and it aligns with what we know sports can do for any young person.

It's also about developing leaders who will help build a better society. Whether a girl or young woman plays competitively in high school or college, goes on to the Olympics or simply plays at the recreational level for the pure enjoyment of the game, sports can teach us so much.

It's no surprise that studies consistently show that more than 90 percent of women in C-suite positions have a background in playing sports. Studies also show that 85 percent of women who played sports attribute their career success to the skills learned through athletic participation. Count me among them.

Keep reading.

🌎 The world in photos

🇮🇹 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy —The Milan Cortina Olympicskicked off on Wednesday, with Canada, Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland all winning their openers in mixed doubles curling. And while you were sleeping,Team USA won its opener, too.

Working out the kinks: The pre-Opening Ceremony event felt a bit like a dress rehearsal whenthe power went outjust five minutes into the competition, causing a brief delay. Here's hoping similar issues don't befall the hockey arena,which remains under construction.

🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon —Portland stunned No. 6 Gonzaga,87-80, on Wednesday to snap the Bulldogs' 15-game winning streak and notch one of the biggest upsets of the season. The Pilots, 21.5-point underdogs, hadneverbeaten a top-10 team in the 73-year history of their program.

Historic night: Unranked Minnesota also upset No. 10 Michigan State,76-73, marking thefirst time in 36 yearsthat two teams with losing records beat top-10 ranked opponents on the same day.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester, England —Manchester City beat Newcastle United, 5-1 on aggregate, toadvance to their first EFL Cup finalsince winning four straight titles from 2018-21.

What's next: City will face Arsenal in the final on March 22 at London's Wembley Stadium in a clash of the top two teams in the Premier League standings.

🇸🇦Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —The fifth LIV Golf season opened at Riyadh Golf Club, where all 72 holes (up from 54 in previous seasons) will be played under the lights.

Meanwhile, in Arizona: The PGA Tour's Phoenix Open held its Pro-Am on Wednesday, and Travis Kelcecame a few feet from acingthe par-3 16th in front of a raucous stadium crowd.

📺 Watchlist: Thursday, Feb. 5

🏒 Women's Olympic Hockey

The 10-team tournament begins today, headlined by two-time gold medalist USA vs. Czechia(10:40am ET, USA)and five-time gold medalist Canada vs. Finland(3:10pm, Peacock).

More Olympics:The USA's mixed doubles curling team takes the ice against Switzerland(8:30am, USA)and Norway(re-airing at 5pm, CNBC), while qualifiers get underway for men's snowboard big air(1:30pm, USA).

⛳️ Phoenix Open

The loudest weekend in golf has arrived(9:20am, ESPN+; 3:30pm, Golf), as TPC Scottsdale and its famed "Party Hole" host a field of 123 golfers, led by two-time champion Scottie Scheffler.

Betting favorite:Calling Scottie the favorite does a disservice to the word. He's +240 to win at BetMGM. The next-best odds? Xander Schauffele, at +2000!

In the Phoenix area? Use Gametime to grab tickets for today'sopening round at TPC Scottsdalefor as little as $88.

More to watch:

• 🏀 NCAAW: No. 17 Duke at No. 6 Louisville (7pm, ESPN); No. 5 LSU at No. 4 Texas (9pm, ESPN) … The Tigers handed the Longhorns their first loss of the season last month.

• 🏀 NBA: Bulls at Raptors (7:30pm, Prime); Warriors at Suns (10pm, Prime) … All four teams are in playoff (or play-in) position entering deadline day.

• ⛳️ LIV Golf: Riyadh (10am, FS1) … Thomas Detry and Peter Uihlein (-7) lead after Round 1.

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🏈 Super Bowl trivia

The Seahawks are one of two franchises this century to send three different QB-head coach combinations to the Super Bowl, with Sam Darnold & Mike Macdonald joining Russell Wilson & Pete Carroll (2014-15) and Matt Hasselbeck & Mike Holmgren (2006).

Question:Can you name the other franchise, and their three QB-HC combos?

Hint:Two Nicks.

Answer at the bottom.

🏀 Deadline day

The NBA trade deadline is today at 3pm ET, and plenty of high-profile names could still be moved.Follow along for live updates.

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Trivia answer:Eagles: Donovan McNabb & Andy Reid (2005), Nick Foles & Doug Pederson (2017), Jalen Hurts & Nick Sirianni (2023, 2025)

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A Ranger helicopter crew responded to assist the Flagstaff Police Department and other law enforcement agencies on Wednesday night, Sgt. Kameron Lee of the department said in a statement.

"Tragically, during the incident, the helicopter crashed, killing both the pilot and the trooper/paramedic on board," Lee said.

The names of the trooper and pilot have not been released.

The Bell 407 helicopter crashed near Flagstaff about 10:15 p.m. and there was a fire afterward, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. A search of the registration number showed the helicopter was manufactured in 2004.

KTVK-TV showed a map indicating that the crash happened northeast of the shooting scene.

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The FAA said it will assist the National Transportation Safety Board in the crash investigation. An email seeking information was sent to the NTSB early Thursday.

The state Department of Public Safety's Air Rescue Unit is trained for various high-risk situations, including mountain and water rescues.

Members of Arizona's congressional delegation posted comments about the crash online.

"Tragic news. Please pray for their families and everyone involved," said U.S. Rep. Eli Crane, whose district includes Flagstaff.

"Heartbreaking news out of northern Arizona this morning, and a grim reminder of the dangers law enforcement face," U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton wrote. "Praying for these officers' loved ones and the entire Arizona Department of Public Safety."

The suspect in the shooting suffered non-fatal gunshot wounds and was taken into custody, Lee said. No one else was injured.