🗓 This Past Weekend in Sports & Entertainment

☝️🏅 Olympic recap… This weekend’s action featured medals given out in moguls, cross-country skiing, short track, speed skating, ski jumping, and biathlon. Here’s what you may have missed:

• Viewership for Friday’s opening ceremony was down 43% from 2018. Its 14 million TV viewers made it one of the least-viewed opening ceremonies in Olympic history.
• The U.S. women's hockey team shut out both Russia and Switzerland, setting up a final preliminary round matchup with fellow gold medal hopeful Canada tonight at 11:10 pm ET.
• Legendary snowboarder Shaun White, a three-time Olympic Gold medalist, announced he’ll retire after competing in his fifth and final Games at 35 years old.
• Chinese authorities made headlines by interrupting a Dutch journalist’s live report on Friday and dragging him off-camera. The reporter later tweeted that, “When asked, they couldn’t say what we had done wrong.”

"Noodles from the sky": Due to Covid, China is leaving much of the Olympic meal prep and cooking for journalists and athletes up to machines, including intricate robotic roadways that deliver food from the ceiling. (Watch them in action.)

🏈 Inside the NFL: The AFC defeated the NFC in Sunday’s Pro Bowl by a score of 41-35.

• A Houston business owner known as “Mattress Mack” is betting big. He traveled across the border to Louisiana on Friday to place the largest legal mobile sports bet in history, wagering $4.5+ million on the Bengals to win the Super Bowl straight-up on Sunday. 
• Mack stands to walk away with more than $12 million if correct.

🍿 Box office roundup: Paramount’s Jackass Forever beat out Lionsgate’s Moonfall as the no. 1 movie at the domestic box office, earning $23.5 million on a mere $10 million budget. Spiderman: No Way Home clocked in at third with $9.6 million, inching closer to eclipsing Avatar as the third-biggest North American movie ever (not counting for inflation).