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However, this isn't a normal February for Tirico.

On Sunday, Tirico will call his firstSuper Bowl. Immediately following the conclusion of theSeattle-New Englandgame, Tirico will transition to his role as NBC's primetime host for Olympic coverage. That will make Tirico the first to call a Super Bowl and serve as the mainOlympichost in the same year.

"Nothing can match this winter. You don't even think about dreaming of doing something like this because it's stupid to think that this is reality. But I'm so excited for it and very blessed to be a part of it," Tirico said.

Tirico's unique February began Sunday, when he called a Los Angeles Lakers-New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden to launch NBC's "Sunday Night Basketball" package. The NBA returned to NBC this season for the first time since 2022.

It is the third time NBC has had the Winter Games and the Super Bowl in the same year, but only the second time both have overlapped on the same Sunday.

When the Patriots faced the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 52, the opening ceremony for the PyeongChang Games was five days away. Tirico did a remote hit from South Korea during the Super Bowl pregame show.

Tirico was the Super Bowl pregame host in 2022 when the game was in Los Angeles. After the presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the Rams, he did the Olympic primetime show from a set outside the stadium.

"For him to have this moment in time where he's going to do the Super Bowl, he's going to be the lead voice in the Olympics, he's going to be the lead voice in the NBA — I can barely keep these two teams straight in my mind. How he keeps all of that inside that computer brain of his, I have no idea, but there's nobody like him," said Cris Collinsworth, who will be doing his sixth Super Bowl as an analyst.

Super Sunday milestone

Tirico becomes the 13th announcer to handle play-by-play duties for a Super Bowl, and the fourth to do it for NBC. Dick Enberg called eight of NBC's 20 previous Super Bowls, while Curt Gowdy did seven, and Al Michaels called the last five.

One reason Tirico left ESPN for NBC in 2016 was the chance to eventually do a Super Bowl. Tirico was the voice of "Monday Night Football" from 2006 through '15, but it wasn't until the NFL's current broadcast contracts began in 2023 that ESPN joined the rotation of Super Bowl broadcasters. ESPN will have next year's game.

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Sunday will be Tirico's 290th NFL game, excluding preseason, according to NBC.

"I think if you call one (NFL game), you hope that this is one that you get to call eventually, and that opportunity is not lost on me. I'm extraordinarily grateful to all the people who've helped me get to this point," he said. "We all work towards things in life, and maybe once we get there, we don't appreciate the view. So just try to be part of this in a different, more magnetic way to make sure that these images, these days, stick. Just to enjoy it."

Even with extra time to prepare, Tirico has used the same approach as always. As soon as Seattle defeated San Francisco in the NFC championship game on Jan. 25, he was in his office, getting his game charts together and analyzing the backup quarterbacks.

Tirico will have plenty of storylines for Sunday, from Mike Vrabel turning around the Patriots in his first year as coach to quarterback Sam Darnold leading Seattle to the Super Bowl after signing as a free agent from Minnesota.

No matter how the game goes, producer Rob Hyland is confident Tirico will paint the perfect picture. Hyland pointed to Tirico telling the story of Baltimore rookie kicker Tyler Loop leading into a last-minute kick during the regular-season finale at Pittsburgh, without videotape, as evidence of Tirico's performance.

"I think Mike has become, in my opinion, the best storyteller in live television. He told that kicker story in 25 seconds, and you really understood a lot about him, a lot about the Ravens organization, why they moved on from Justin Tucker," Hyland said. "I think Mike's ability to tell stories has only gotten better every single year since he's been a part of NBC, and I think that's an area where he is the best at what he does."

Off to Milan

As soon as Sunday night's Olympic show ends, Tirico will join a group of NBC personnel on a plane from Northern California to Italy. He is expected to begin reporting from Milan during Tuesday's daytime coverage.

Besides Tirico, Gowdy, Greg Gumbel, and Jim Nantz have also done the Super Bowl and served as Olympic primetime hosts. The other three, though, didn't do it the same year.

This will be Tirico's fifth Olympics as primetime host and his third for a Winter Games. Before joining NBC, he covered the FIFA World Cups and UEFA European Championships for ESPN. Those month-long events helped shape how he approaches the hectic pace of the 16 days of the Olympics.

"Usually when I get to Olympics or World Cups, I've found myself on a really good schedule, getting your daily routine dialed in and just maintaining that because I think it maintains your sanity. Your sleep isn't too long, but it's quality sleep, you get a workout, and you get good meals, and you find the comforts that you need, and you make your way through it."

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Point, 29, has not played since suffering a lower-body injury on Jan. 12 in Tampa Bay's 5-1 win at Philadelphia. He scored a power-play goal in the second period and Flyers defenseman Cam York fell on Point's right leg on the play. Point had to be helped off the ice by teammates and did not return.

The Lightning placed him on injured reserve Jan. 16 and long-term IR this week. He participated in the team's optional morning skate before Thursday's game against Florida but will miss his 10th consecutive game.

Point has 30 points (11 goals, 19 assists), a plus-4 rating, eight penalty minutes, 13 blocks and four hits in 37 games this season.

For his career, Point owns 665 points (317 goals, 348 assists), a plus-81 rating, 157 penalty minutes, 345 blocks and 301 hits in 694 regular-season games in 10 seasons in Tampa Bay. He was an All-Star in 2018.

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He also has 89 points (44 goals, 45 assists) in 92 playoff games, including Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021.

Jarvis, who turned 24 on Sunday, has 43 points (25 goals, 18 assists), a plus-10 rating, six penalty minutes, 21 blocks and 69 hits in 48 games for Carolina.

The fifth-year pro has collected 256 career points (121 goals, 135 assists), a plus-66 rating, 66 penalty minutes, 193 blocks and 419 hits in 352 regular-season games. Jarvis also has 43 points (19 goals, 24 assists) in 55 postseason games. Jarvis and Point both earned a gold medal with Team Canada in last year's 4 Nations Face-off.

The NHL's break for the Winter Games begins Friday. Team Canada, whose head coach is Lightning coach Jon Cooper, plays its first game against Czechia on Thursday, Feb. 12.

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NEED TO KNOW

• Jaxson Hayes will not play when the Lakers face the Philadelphia 76ers on Feb. 5

• The league suspended the backup center for one game after he was seen shoving the Washington Wizards mascot

• In video from the incident, G-Wiz collided with a Wizards dancer after being pushed

The Los Angeles Lakers will be withoutJaxson Hayeson Thursday, Feb. 5, after the backup center was suspended without pay for one game for pushing another team's mascot.

The incident occurred before the Lakers-Washington Wizards matchup on Friday, Jan. 30, at Capital One Arena when Hayes, 25, was seen pushing the Wizards mascot during pregame introductions,according to the league.

In a video from the interaction, G-Wiz was seen running with a massive Wizards flag near the baseline when Hayes shoved him.

The mascot then collided with a Wizards dancer who was running onto the floor.

Hayes will miss the Lakers game on Thursday when they return to Crypto.com Arena following the team's annual extended Grammys trip.

Currently in the sixth spot in the Western Conference with a 30-19 record,Luka,LeBron& Co. will likely have their hands full when a resurgent Joel Embiid, first-time All-Star starter Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers come to town.

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On Wednesday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder experienced a similar — but more extreme — feeling of being shorthanded when10 of their players sat out due to injuries.

As the Thunder took on the San Antonio Spurs, only eight of OKC's players dressed,leaving their bench looking depletedwhen the players took the court.

Among the injured Thunder players were All-StarShai Gilgeous Alexander,Jalen Williams, Isaiah Hartenstein,Chet Holmgrenand Alex Caruso.

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Yet the Thunder still made a game of it, eventually losing 116-106.

"Obviously great effort by everybody, we tried to gut that one out, had some guys play some high minutes outside of the first quarter," Thunder coach Mark Daigneaultsaid after the game. "After the first quarter, it was really pretty competitive on our part."

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United States District Judge Paul Engelmayer also instructed DOJ to address whether "all such materials" have since been blacked out in the 3.5 million Epstein-related emails, photos, videos and other data from its investigative files that it made public Jan. 30.

Engelmayer's Feb. 3 order came in response to a legal filing by two lawyers representing Epstein survivors "regarding an unfolding emergency that requires immediate judicial intervention" – including an immediate takedown of the Justice Department website hosting the Epstein files until they can be purged of everything identifying his accusers.

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Lawyers Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson, who said they represent dozens of Epstein accusers, also asked the court to appoint an independent special master to oversee redaction and republication of the DOJ files, and to keep open the chance for judicial sanctions, "including contempt and monetary relief."

"For the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, every hour matters. The harm is ongoing and irreversible," the lawyers wrote in a detail-filled seven page filing. "This Court is the last line of defense for victims who were promised protection and instead were exposed. Judicial intervention is not merely appropriate – it is essential."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in announcing the new release Jan. 30 that images of all women in the files – with the exception of convicted Epstein associateGhislaine Maxwell– would be redacted in an effort to ensure that no personal details would be made public.

But in the first 48 hours since the files' Jan. 30 release, Edwards and Henderson said they reported to DOJ "thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors whose lives have been turned upside down by DOJ's latest release."

Besides receiving death threats, some Epstein accusers overseas who had wanted to remain anonymous have had to contend with media reports publishing their identities and photos, the lawyers said.

Other victims have also gone public with similar accusations about how DOJ made their identities public after promising not to, while keeping secret the identities of potential Epstein accomplices.

"There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred," Edwards and Henderson wrote, "particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication."

All the Justice Department needed to do, they told Engelmayer, was to type each victim's name into its own search function and then redact it before making the files public in itsonline "Epstein Library"database.

"Had DOJ done that," they said, "the harm would have been avoided."

Instead, the DOJ on Jan. 30 "committed what may be the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history," Edwards and Henderson wrote.

DOJ acknowledges failures. Survivors say that's not enough.

A department spokesman did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment Feb. 5 on whether DOJ would meet the judge's deadline.

In a statement to USA TODAY, the Justice Department said it "takes victim protection very seriously and has redacted thousands of victim names in the millions of published pages to protect the innocent."

"When a victim's name is alleged to be unredacted," DOJ said, "our team is working around the clock to fix the issue and republish appropriately redacted pages as soon as possible."

'Immediate judicial intervention' needed to protect accusers

The seven-page filing by Edwards and Henderson is full of examples of what they say are DOJ's failure to redact information pertaining to women dating to back to an earlier release of files released Dec. 19, 2025, as required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act that went into effect a month earlier.

The next day, Dec. 20, they said, they immediately notified DOJ of "hundreds of redaction failures" that required urgent attention, including unredacted names and dates of birth.

One document alone identified more than 30 victims according to their motion for "immediate judicial intervention."

That failure, the lawyers said, forced the Epstein survivors to stay up "all night using DOJ's search bar to identify and read every single document that was posted publicly identifying them despite being promised by your office that this would never happen."

In all, Epstein is believed to have victimized girls and young women over potentially several decades, forcing them into sex acts at his estates in New York, Florida, New Mexico and on his private Caribbean island.

Many of Epstein's estimated 1,000 to 1,200 victims cooperated with FBI agents and federal prosecutors over the years, and have insisted that their identities − and their involvement in investigations − remain anonymous. Some of the Epstein survivors were minors at the time of the alleged abuse.

But when some Epstein survivors or their lawyers contacted DOJ to request redactions, DOJ often blacked out some identifying information while leaving other data in the files, the lawyers said.

Many victims' concerns were compounded dramatically by the Jan. 30 release of exponentially more DOJ files – and more sensitive information about them and the nature of their allegations. Democratic lawmakers and other critics have called on the Justice Department to act immediately to protect them from further harm.

Maxwell was convicted of related crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison that she is currently serving. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 after his arrest on similar charges while in a New York jail awaiting prosecution.

One DOJ document listing the names of 32 minor child victims

In their legal filing, the lawyers ticked off a litany of alleged DOJ failures, including one minor victim who had her name revealed 20 times in a single document.

"After reporting the violation," the lawyers said, "DOJ redacted her name three additional times—leaving 17 instances still unredacted as of this filing."

Another email listed 32 minor child victims, with only one name redacted and 31 left visible—despite DOJ's possession of those names, the lawyers said.

Their demand for immediate injunctive relief also contends that:

• FBI victim statements known as "302 reports" contained the full and unredacted first and last names of minor victims.

• Handwritten FBI interview notes included minor victims' full names unredacted at the top and throughout.

• Documents containing victims' names alongside dates of birth, bank information, driver's license numbers, email addresses or home addresses.

• Documents where victims' names are redacted in some places but not others within the same document.

• Documents where redactions are "pencil-thin," revealing the complete name and email address beneath.

• Documents where photographs are properly redacted in one instance and appear fully unredacted nearby.

• Hundreds of documents exposing the names of four women who have been in "near-constant communication with DOJ since December requesting protection."

As a result of those redaction failures, 20 clients who say they are Epstein survivors agreed to issue statements as part of the emergency appeal to the judge, the lawyers said.

'My life is in imminent danger,' one survivor tells DOJ

"It is so wrong on so many levels," said one, identified as Jane Doe 3. "Not only it (sic) exposes victims to potential abuse or blackmail, but it can ruin families or damage our careers. I am horrified."

Some said they are overseas, where newspapers and websites are publishing all of the details that were not supposed to be linked to them, including photos.

"How is this possible?" asked Jane Doe 4. "In [my home country], as in the entire EU, there is a strict privacy law. I'm shocked, I didn't expect such violation of our privacy."

Some noted that while dozens of Epstein accusers went public with their allegations, they had insisted on anonymity to protect their privacy – and said that has now been shattered and placed them and their families at risk.

"Please, I'm begging you to delete my name!!!" said Jane Doe 5. "I can only imagine the devastation your errors are causing to so many other victims of Jeffrey Epstein."

Jane Doe 7 said the release of her name and photo have resulted in unwanted publicity and threats in her home country where she currently lives.

"The press makes up crazy stories and shows me as a legitimate target for others to attack me physically and in the press," Jane Doe 7 said. "My life is in imminent danger as long as you keep on releasing more files and info about me and not remove and redact the ones already released."

She added: "This is a life-threatening situation for me. Please take my plea seriously."

Jane Doe 8 said she also received death threats in the 24 hours following the Jan. 30 DOJ release, which she said included 51 entries mentioning her.

"You even had the audacity to release my private banking info and [I] am now trying to shut down cards and accounts," Jane Doe 8 said. "This kind of vicious attack on a victim at the hands of the 'Department of Justice' is an abomination."

In their filing, the lawyers said the Justice Department needs to do more to ensure that all names and identifying information are redacted immediately to prevent further harm.

Besides an immediate takedown of the files, they asked the court to appoint an independent special master to oversee redaction and republication, and to keep open the chance for judicial sanctions, "including contempt and monetary relief."

"For the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, every hour matters. The harm is ongoing and irreversible," the lawyers said. "This Court is the last line of defense for victims who were promised protection and instead were exposed. Judicial intervention is not merely appropriate – it is essential."

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The Los Angeles Fire Department reported the crash at 12:11 p.m. at Rochester Avenue and Westwood Boulevard, located by a 99 Ranch Market.

LAFD reported that a bicyclist and other people were possibly struck before the structure collision. Officials did not immediately identify any of the victims.

In a later update just before 2 p.m., LAFD said two patients were in serious condition, two had minor injuries and another two signed out against medical advice at the scene.

"The driver of the silver sedan has preliminarily been identified as an elderly female," stated the LAFD update. "A bicyclist was confirmed struck approximately one block away from the incident address before the vehicle collided with the structure; upon fire department arrival, the vehicle was moved to access multiple patients who were trapped."

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A massive fire and law enforcement response were seen in the area when Sky5 arrived overhead, and an investigation is underway.

LAFD spokesperson Lindsey Lantz joined KTLA live on air after 1:35 p.m Thursday and said early reports suggest the crash was not intentional.

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"We're still working on the cause," said Lantz. "We do not have confirmation yet if this was a mechanical issue, a medical issue, but LAPD is telling us they don't suspect any terrorist intent."

Lantz said the bicyclist who was struck survived and decided not to go to the hospital via ambulance. She also said road closures can be expected for hours.

In addition, Lantz said she could not yet confirm whether the victims were inside or outside the store at the time of the crash.

Councilwoman Yaroslavsky, who represents the Westwood neighborhood, issued the following statement after the deadly crash: "I spoke with LAFD Chief Moore earlier regarding the incident at the 99 Ranch Market in Westwood this afternoon, and my team is closely monitoring the situation. My heart is with those injured and with the families of those who lost their lives. Thank you to the first responders on scene for their swift action."

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