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Monday Special: February 9, 2026.
I didn’t have Idahoan Breezy Johnson winning a gold medal on my bingo card, but I should have. The three-time Olympian from Victor blistered the course at Cortina and took the women’s downhill by four-hundredths of a second. It came one year to the day after Johnson won the downhill at the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Austria. NBC pointed out that she has never won a World Cup race. “Who cares now?” added the crew. “I was telling my mom, you go to your first Olympic Games to have been to the Olympic Games,” Johnson said in The Athletic. “You go to your second Olympic Games to win a medal. And you go to your third Games to win the whole damn thing.”
Johnson is the first American to win the event since Lindsey Vonn at Vancouver in 2010. That was the other big story of Sunday’s race, of course, as the 41-year-old Vonn, skiing on a torn ACL, crashed 13 seconds into her run and had to be airlifted off the course. Johnson paid a heartfelt tribute to Vonn at the press conference. She’ll be the first to tell you she grew up idolizing fellow Idaho native Picabo Street, the 1998 super-G gold medalist out of Sun Valley who has mentored her over the years.
KNIGHT ON THE CUSP OF MORE HISTORY
Sun Valley’s Hilary Knight is one goal away from becoming the leading career scorer in U.S. women’s hockey history. Knight scored her 14th all-time goal in the Winter Games Saturday in a 5-0 win over Finland. She tallied midway through the second period to match the record of 14 shared by Natalie Darwitz and Katie King. Knight’s first chance to break the record comes today against Switzerland.
A SECOND BOISE STATE RING DUO
For only the second time ever, Boise State has a pair of Super Bowl champions in the same season after the Seattle Seahawks smothered the New England Patriots 29-13 last night in Santa Clara. George Holani and DeMarcus Lawrence earned rings—both with minor contributions, but contributions nonetheless. The only other time this has happened was 15 years ago, when former Broncos Daryn Colledge and Korey Hall were champions with the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl 45.
HOLANI WAS PRIME TIME WORTHY
It was cool to see Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak trust former Holani Sunday night in the heat of Super Bowl 60. Holani was used as a third down running back and was even plugged in on other downs as the Seahawks kept manufacturing points. His numbers were modest: two carries for six yards and one catch for seven. But 12 of Holani’s yards from scrimmage came on back-to-back plays, including a five-yard run for a first down as Seattle drove for its third field goal. He hadn’t played for two months before he was activated for the NFC Championship Game. As for Lawrence, it was a relatively quiet night, but he did have a hit on Patriots quarterback Drake Maye that popped the ball into the air. One highlight was his pregame introduction: “DeMarcus Lawrence, BOY-ZEE!”
PEANUT HAD THE POPCORN POPPIN’
The game belonged to Dylan Andrews and Drew Fielder, but Peanut Carmichael did his part in Boise State’s thriller of a 91-90 victory at New Mexico Saturday night. With RJ Keene ill and home in Boise, Carmichael got the starting nod. The Broncos were going to be missing something on defense, but Carmichael could compensate with offense, and that’s what he did. He put up 16 points, including three of the Broncos’ season-high 15 three-pointers, the most at The Pit by a Lobos opponent in more than 20 years. Carmichael also did his best Keene impression, pulling down a career -high eight rebounds.
PUTTING EARLY JANUARY BEHIND HIM
This has been an epic turnaround for Andrews. One month ago we were talking about a seven-game stretch in which Andrews went 11-for-67 from the field—that’s an anemic 16 percent. What was up with the highly-touted transfer from UCLA? Well, in the past two games, Andrews has gone 16-for-26 from the field, 62 percent, while scoring 25 points against Nevada and a career-high 33 in the tense win at New Mexico Saturday night. But where would be Boise State have been in The Pit without Andrews’ free throw shooting? The Broncos didn’t make a bucket in the final 4:50 of the game, yet Andrews kept swishing his freebies, going 10-for-10 from the line. For the season he shooting 89 percent.
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February 9, 1960: In a loss to the Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia Warriors rookie center Wilt Chamberlain scores 41 points to break the NBA single-season scoring record of 2,105 points set by St. Louis Hawks forward Bob Pettit the previous season. Chamberlain ended up with 2,707 points and was the easy choice for NBA Rookie of the Year. The next season Chamberlain would improve on that mark with 3,033, and two years later he would finish with 4,029 points and average 50.4 points per game, two records that may never be broken.
(Tom Scott hosts the Scott Slant segment during the football season on KTVB’s Sunday Sports Extra. He also anchors four sports segments each weekday on 95.3 FM KTIK and one on News/Talk KBOI. His Scott Slant column runs every Wednesday.)
