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Team USA's 5-0 win in preliminary round action was the 11th time the two squads battled in the Olympics. Nobody will be surprised if that number increases to 12 next week, on Feb. 19, when the gold medal is up for grabs in Milan.

The United States won the inaugural women's Olympic hockey event in 1998, their first of two gold medals. No prizes for guessing who those unforgettable victories came against.

Let's recap the best five performances by Team USA's women's hockey team against Canada at the Olympics.

Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) of Canada gives up a goal to Caroline Harvey (not pictured) of the United States in women's ice hockey group a play during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.

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Rival powers battle as USA faces Canada at Winter Games

Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) of Canada gives up a goal to Caroline Harvey (not pictured) of the United States in women's ice hockey group a play during theMilano Cortina 2026Olympic Winter Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.

5. Sochi 2014 final (3-2 overtime loss)

As Team USA has only won four Olympic games against Canada, No. 5 on the list must be the heartbreaking 3-2 overtime loss in the Sochi 2014 final.

There was a ton to like about Team USA's performance until the 56:34 mark of the third period.

The United States were up 2-0 late in the third period. Canada began the comeback, and a failed empty-net goal attempt for the Americans led to the Canadians getting the equalizer and winning in overtime.

4. Nagano 1998 round-robin (7-4 win)

With both teams having already qualified for a gold-medal showdown, Team USA enjoyed a standout third period in the round-robin dress rehearsal.

The United States overcame a 4-1 third-period deficit, scoring six straight to win 7-4. The astounding turnaround came immediately on the back of a timeout called by USA coach Ben Smith.

Laurie Baker scored 72 seconds after the timeout to spearhead the improbable comeback.

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3. Nagano 1998 final (3-1 win)

The Nagano 1998 final was the first of two American victories against Canada in a gold medal game.

It came three days after the 7-3 round-robin win, with Team USA taking a 2-0 lead in the third period. Canada got one back with four minutes remaining, but Sandra Whyte scored an empty-net goal to secure Team USA's first Olympic gold medal in women's hockey.

The entire 1998 team was inducted into the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2019.

2. Milano Cortina 2026 preliminary round (5-0 win)

Tuesday's5-0 walloping of Canadamarked the first time Team USA shut out its bitter rivals in 11 attempts at the Olympics.

The signs were clear leading up to the game, with the United States winning all four recent Rivalry Series contests by a combined 24-7 score.

A dominant performance saw Team USA outshoot Canada 33-20. Every American will hope the history-making performance was a precursor of what's likely to come.

1. Pyeongchang 2018 final (3-2 shootout win)

Thanks to a tying goal by Monique Lamoureux-Morando with 6:21 remaining in the third period, the Pyeongchang final required a shootout after a scoreless 20-minute overtime session to decide the winner.

The game had a bit of everything, including two of the Olympics' greatest all-time scorers, Team USA's Hilary Knight and Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin, lighting the lamp.

The United States outshot Canada 42-31 en route to their second Olympic gold medal.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Olympic women's hockey: Top 5 USA performances vs. Canada

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Yankees Schlitter Baseball

Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed the injury Thursday and made it seem minor, as did the right-hander, who turned 25 last week. Schlittler said his concern was "zero."

"I've been dealing with it for a little bit so I just want to make sure I'm on top of it and get ready for opening day," Schlittler said.

He made his major league debut on July 9 and went 4-3 with a 2.96 ERA in 14 starts. With a fastball that averaged 98 mph, Schlittler struck out 84 and walked 31 in 73 innings. He pitched eight shutout innings against Boston in the Wild Card Series, then allowed four runs — two earned — over 6 1/3 innings in the Division Series vs. Toronto.

"Obviously we're very excited about him and expect him to be a key part of our rotation and still expect," Boone said.

Schlittler underwent a test that Boone said "kind of came back good news."

"Probably keep him off the mound for the next few days at least," Boone said. "He's continuing with his throwing program."

New York already projects to start the season on March 25 without ace Gerrit Cole, who isrecovering from Tommy John surgery last March 11, and Carlos Rodón, regaining arm strength following an operation on Oct. 15 to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur.

Rodón is not likely to return to the Yankees before May and Cole is expected back sometime during the first half of the season. In addition, Clarke Schmidt will miss much of the season followingUCL repair surgery on July 11.

Schlittler said he first felt the issue a few weeks ago and described it as minor inflammation and "maybe more lat, as well." He hopes to pitch off a mound next week.

Asked whether he had dealt with the issue in the past, Schlittler said "last year, some on-and-off stuff."

"For now, it's just good to take care of it and make sure it doesn't really turn into something that you start to worry about," he said.

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New York's projected rotation for the season's start includes Max Fried, Schlittler, Luis Gil, Will Warren, and Ryan Weathers. Gil, the 2024 AL Rookie of the Year, injured a lat during spring training last year and didn't make his season debut until Aug. 3.

Schlittler pitched 164 innings last year, including the postseason, well above his previous professional high of 120 2/3 in 2024. He took four weeks off after the playoffs, then started his offseason throwing program.

"There's no really off time," he said. "When it comes to baseball, you're always working on all that."

Schlittler attended big league spring training last year, started the season at Double-A Somerset, then was promoted to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on June 3. He was called up after just five starts with the RailRiders.

"I came in here last spring training kind of as a no one, a prospect, whatever it was, but I was really trying to learn things, coming here and get my work in. It was more an experience last year," he said. "I feel like being over here now it's like, 'Hey, I've earned that role. I'm going to go out there. I know exactly what I need to do.'"

Yankees announce Goldschmidt return

Paul Goldschmidt's $4 million, one-year contract was finalized.

He can earn $2 million in performance bonuses for plate appearances: $500,000 each for 400, 450, 500 and 550.

A seven-time All-Star and the 2022 NL MVP, the 38-year-old hit .274 with 10 homers, 45 RBIs and a .731 OPS with the Yankees last year after signing a$12.5 million, one-year contract as a free agent. He had 534 plate appearances but just 155 after the All-Star break as he slumped and lost playing time to Ben Rice.

With his return, the Yankees have brought back 24 of the 26 players on their Division Series roster last October. Only relievers Devin Williams and Luke Weaver departed.

Schmidt was placed on the 60-day injured list to open a roster spot.

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Guatemala Zamora

Zamora, the 69-year-old founder of El Periodico newspaper, had spent more than two years behind bars awaiting trial before a judge granted him house arrest in October 2024. Prosecutors immediately appealed and won rulings thatsent him back to jail in March 2025.

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Zamora had been imprisoned since July 2022, when he was charged with money laundering, amounting to around $38,000, and in June 2023 he was sentenced to six years in prison. The sentence was overturned by an appeals court because of errors in the process.

The journalist and free press advocates maintain that the prosecution is revenge for the investigative work of his newspaper against the administration of ex-President Alejandro Giammattei.

Current President Bernardo Arévalo last year called the prosecution "absolutely spurious" and said it was another example of the Attorney General's office prosecuting people who reported corruption.

Trump Climate Science

Again and again, research has found increasing disease and deaths — thousands every year — in a warming world.

The Environmental Protection Agency finding in 2009, under the Obama administration, has been the legalunderpinning of nearly all regulations fighting global warming.

"It boggles the mind that the administration is rescinding the endangerment finding; it's akin to insisting that the world is flat or denying that gravity is a thing," said Dr. Howard Frumkin, a physician and professor emeritus of public health at the University of Washington.

Thousands of scientific studies have looked at climate change and its effects on human health in the past five years and they predominantly show climate change is increasingly dangerous to people.

Many conclude that in the United States, thousands of people have died and even more were sickened because of climate change in the past few decades.

For example, a study on"Trends in heat-related deaths in the U.S., 1999-2023" in the prestigious JAMA journal shows the yearly heat-related death count and rate have more than doubled in the past quarter century from 1,069 in 1999 toa record high2,325 in 2023.

A 2021 study inNature Climate Changelooked at 732 locations in 43 countries — including 210 in the United States — and determined that more than a third of heat deaths are due to human-caused climate change. That means more than 9,700 global deaths a year attributed to warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Anew study published this weekfound that 2.2% of summer deaths in Texas from 2010 to 2023 were heat related "as climate change brings more frequent and intense heat to Texas."

Research is booming on the topic

In the more than 15 years, since the government first determined climate change to be a public health danger, there have been more than 29,000 peer-reviewed studies that looked at the intersection of climate and health, with more than 5,000 looking specifically at the United States, according to the National Library of Medicine'sPubMed research database.

More than 60% of those studies have been published in the past five years.

"Study after study documents that climate change endangers health, for one simple reason: It's true," said Frumkin, a former director of the National Center for Environmental Health appointed by President George W. Bush.

In a Thursday event at the White House, Trump disagreed, saying: "It has nothing to do with public health. This is all a scam, a giant scam."

Experts strongly disagree.

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"Health risks are increasing because human-cause climate change is already upon us. Take the2021 heat domefor example, that killed (more than) 600 people in the Northwest,'' said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a physician who directs the Center for Health, Energy and Environmental Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The newclimate attribution studiesshow that event was made150-fold more likely dueto climate change."

Patz and Frumkin both said the "vast majority" of peer-reviewed studies show health harms from climate change. Peer-reviewed studies are considered the gold standard of science because other experts pore over the data, evidence and methods, requiring changes, questioning techniques and conclusions.

More than just heat and deaths

The various studies look at different parts of health. Some looked at deaths that wouldn't have happened without climate change. Others looked at illnesses and injuries that didn't kill people. Because researchers used different time periods, calculation methods and specific aspects of health, the final numbers of their conclusions don't completely match.

Studies also examineddisparities among different peoplesandlocations.A growing field in the research are attribution studies that calculate what proportion of deaths or illness can be blamed on human-caused climate change by comparing real-world mortality and illness to what computer simulations show would happen in a world without a spike in greenhouse gases.

Last year an international team of researchers looked at past studies to try to come up with ayearly health cost of climate change.

While many studies just look at heat deaths, this team tried to bring in a variety of types of climate change deaths — heat waves, extreme weather disasters such as 2017's Hurricane Harvey, wildfires, air pollution, diseases spread by mosquitos such as malaria — and found hundreds of thousands of climate change deaths globally.

They then used the EPA's own statistic that puts a dollar value on human life — $11.5 million in 2014 dollars — and calculated a global annual cost "on the order of at least $10 billion."

Studies also connect climate change towaterborne infections that cause diarrhea,mental health issuesandeven nutrition problems, Frumkin said.

"Public health is not only about prevention of diseases, death and disability but also well-being. We are increasingly seeing people displaced by rising seas, intensifying storms and fires," said Dr. Lynn Goldman, a physician and dean emeritus at the George Washington University School of Public Health.

"We have only begun to understand the full consequences of a changing climate in terms of health."

Cold also kills and that's decreasing

The issue gets complicated when cold-related deaths are factored in. Those deaths are decreasing, yet in the United States there are still13 times more deaths from cold exposure than heat exposure,studies show.

Another studyconcludes that until the world warms another 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) from now, the number of temperature-related deaths won't change much "due to offsetting decreases in cold-related mortality and increases in heat-related deaths."

But that study said that after temperatures rise beyond that threshold, and if society doesn't adapt to the increased heat, "total mortality rises rapidly."

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