Greg Eklund

The game's result was one of only three on the day decided by single digits.

Of the four No.

1 seeds in the women's field, only Texas played on Friday, and the Longhorns defeated Missouri State 87-45.

For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklund.

Skeleton is a sport in which the athlete goes downhill face-first on a sled.

Kurt Thomas Vuch, a two-time medalist in bobsledding, is on hand to oversee the U.S.

athletes in the sliding sports, skeleton and bobsledding.

He says the U.S.

women are, again, medal contenders in the skeleton and bobsledding.

The U.S.

women's team has earned a bobsledding medal in each of the Winter Olympic Games since it started competing in 2002.

For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklund.

When John Beaver took a buyout from Sports Illustrated magazine after his 50th Super Bowl, he thought his streak would end.

But with no desire to stop after 50, he's been credentialed since by the NFL to take photos and eagerly anticipates his 60th big game.

John Beaver was a 15-year-old high school student when he worked Super Bowl I, having learned under his dad, Vern Beaver, the Green Bay Packers team photographer at the time.

For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklund.

We have far more important work to do than canceling each other.

We have got to build.

The most outstanding player was Texas A&M sophomore Kendall Stowers.

She didn't play volleyball last year because of four concussions within a year, but credits her teammates with helping her through the season.