Sports

Charlie Russo describes how he shot home movie footage of Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run in 1974 during an interview at his home March 26, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. AP PHOTO / JOHN BAZEMORE

Dr. Frank Jobe, right, known for the development of the historic elbow procedure known as “Tommy John Surgery,” speaks as he and Tommy John, left, are honored during a ceremony at Doubleday Field at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., July 27, 2013. AP PHOTO / MIKE GROLL

LinkedIn Denver-based hybrid journalist Thomas Peipert captured the rip-roaring sport of skijoring that took readers into a place they may never visit in person. Peipert had wanted to do an all-formats story for years about the extreme sport in the Colorado mountain town of Leadville. The timing worked out this year. While the package highlight was a video featuring GoPro footage from a skier and a horse, Peipert also captured beautiful still photographs of the event and wrote a lively and fun text story. A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning "ski driving." It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today's sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that's cut in half. AP PHOTO / THOMAS PEIPERT

Marseille‘s head coach Gennaro Gattuso gestures to his players during the Europa League League play-off first leg soccer match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Olympique Marseille at Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, Feb. 15, 2024. Gattuso has been fired by the French league club, a person with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press Feb. 19, 2024. AP PHOTO / MARTIN MEISSNER