Yu Darvish, the top pitcher on a listless free-agent market, on Saturday agreed to sign with the Chicago Cubs for $126 million over six years, sources told Yahoo Sports.

Darvish, 31, fills a gap in the Cubs rotation left by Jake Arrieta’s free agency. He’ll join Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks and Jose Quintana in a talented and deep Cubs rotation that is hoping to pitch its way back to the World Series in 2018. If Darvish performs well, according to reports, incentives could make his Cubs deal as much as $150 million. He would need to win multiple Cy Youngs for that to happen. The Dodgers, reports say, were also interested in bringing back Darvish and had a similar offer, but he opted to join the Cubs.

In the past three months Darvish had been rumored to be negotiating with more than a half-dozen teams, among them the Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins and Dodgers. He spent part of his offseason working out with Clayton Kershaw near Dallas.

Kershaw recently said he’d spoken only vaguely with Darvish about potential destinations.

“We don’t talk a ton about where he’s at,” Kershaw said. “Obviously, I’ve made my sales pitch. So, we’ll just see what happens. We don’t talk about what offers he’s gotten or anything like that. I don’t want to pressure him too much. But, looks good playing catch, I’ll say that.”

An All-Star in each of his four full seasons (he missed all of 2015 and part of 2016 because of Tommy John surgery), Darvish in 131 career starts is 56-42 with a 3.42 ERA. His 2017 season showed a slight decline from seasons past, both in Texas and then, after a mid-summer trade, in Los Angeles. He was, at times, the pitcher who was second – to Max Scherzer – in the 2013 AL Cy Young balloting, and then oddly vulnerable in the strike zone.

In the 2017 postseason alone, he limited the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs to two runs over two starts and 11 1/3 innings, then, in the World Series, amid suspicions he was tipping his pitches, twice failed to pitch out of the second inning against the Houston Astros. In Game 7 at Dodger Stadium, he was booed from the field, having recorded five outs and allowed five runs.

In three months with the Dodgers, and at the club’s urging, Darvish attempted to adjust his mechanics and slightly alter his approach. In his final three regular-season starts, his ERA was 0.47 with 21 strikeouts and one walk. What lasts in Los Angeles, however, are the two failed World Series starts, two losses that, coupled with a dismal Game 5 start from Clayton Kershaw, doomed the Dodgers.

Six years ago, the Rangers paid more than $110 million to acquire Darvish — $60 million in salary and the rest to Darvish’s team in Japan, the Nippon Ham Fighters, for whom Darvish pitched seven seasons and established himself as the best pitcher in the Pacific League. Darvish made two postseason starts for the Rangers, one each in 2012 and 2016, and lost them both. When it appeared the Rangers would not challenge for a playoff berth, they dealt Darvish at the trade deadline for three minor leaguers, including outfielder Willie Calhoun, one of the Dodgers’ top prospects.

While it has been several years since Darvish carried both the workload and raw results of a true No. 1, the long and elegant right-hander led a starter market that also included Arrieta, Lance Lynn and Alex Cobb, along with Japanese right-hander Shohei Ohtani, who signed with the Los Angeles Angels and has hopes of being a two-way player. In 2017, Darvish did make 31 starts and throw 186 2/3 innings, his highest totals since 2013. Among major league pitchers with at least 180 innings, he ranked 14th in ERA, ninth in WHIP, eighth in strikeouts per nine and 12th in strikeouts per walk.

David Price (seven years, $217 million with the Boston Red Sox), Kershaw (seven years, $215 million with the Dodgers), Scherzer (seven years, $210 million with the Washington Nationals) and Zack Greinke (six years, $206.5 million with the Arizona Diamondbacks) are the highest-paid pitchers.

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During Trump’s briefing, a veteran intelligence official typically describes intelligence highlights contained in a shortened, written version of the PDB. Trump has rarely, if ever, requested that the document be left behind for him to read, according to people familiar with the meetings.

Pompeo has said the president is briefed on current developments, as well as upcoming events – such as visits by foreign leaders – and longer-term strategic issues.

“The president asks hard questions,” he said in public remarks last month. “He’s deeply engaged. We’ll have a rambunctious back-and-forth, all aimed at making sure we’re delivering him the truth as best we understand it.”

Trump’s admirers say he has a unique ability to cut through conventional foreign policy wisdom and ask questions that others have long taken for granted. “Why are we even in Somalia?” or “Why can’t I just pull out of Afghanistan?” he will ask, according to officials.

The president asks “edge” questions, said one senior administration official, meaning that he pushes his staff to question long-held assumptions about U.S. interests in the world.

Another person familiar with the briefing process said that, at times, Trump has been dismissive of his briefers. He has shaken his head, frowned and complained that the briefers were “talking down to him,” this person said.

Trump has at times demonstrated a deep distrust of the intelligence community. He has accused Obama-era intelligence chiefs of rooting against his election and exaggerating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in an effort to delegitimize his presidency.

The Washington Post reported last year that intelligence officials in some cases have included Russia-related intelligence only in the president’s daily written assessment, steering clear of it in the oral briefing in order not to upset Trump.

The last U.S. president who is believed not to have regularly reviewed the PDB was Richard Nixon. The historical record contains no references to him having read the document, although Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, received a copy each day, according to David Priess, a former CIA briefer and author of “The President’s Book of Secrets.”

“It is not unprecedented for someone to get only an oral briefing of the PDB,” Priess said. “But it is the exception rather than the rule. And a rare exception.”

The intelligence community prides itself on tailoring the briefing document and the oral briefing to each president’s style. Obama preferred to receive the PDB on a secure iPad to review before asking questions of his briefers.

President George W. Bush typically read the PDB first thing in the morning, with his briefer present to review the highlights and answer questions, according to former officials who briefed him.

Neither Obama nor Bush reviewed the briefing book every day, and at times they skipped a session, especially when traveling

President Ronald Reagan read the PDB every day but chose not to have a briefing from a CIA officer, said John Poindexter, who served as Reagan’s national security adviser. Reagan often discussed the briefing document in morning Oval Office meetings with his top advisers, Poindexter said.

Trump indicated early on that he had little interest in immersing himself in detailed intelligence documents.

“I like bullets or I like as little as possible. I don’t need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page,” he told Axios shortly before taking office.

During the transition, the CIA offered to give Trump the same daily intelligence briefing that Obama received, a tradition for presidents-elect. But Trump declined a daily update, opting for less frequent briefings.

“You know, I’m, like, a smart person,” Trump said in a “Fox News Sunday” interview in December 2016. “I don’t have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day for the next eight years. It could be eight years – but eight years. I don’t need that.”

At the time, Obama warned it was never wise to skip insights from intelligence professionals.

“If you’re not getting their perspective – their detailed perspective – then you are flying blind,” he said in an interview on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

During the first year of Trump’s presidency, the format of his intelligence briefings changed.

In the early days, he received the traditional briefing sometime between 9 and 10:30 a.m., according to his publicly released schedules. Within a few months, his intelligence advisers began augmenting the sessions with maps, charts, pictures and videos, as well as “killer graphics,” as Pompeo put it at the time.

“That’s our task, right? To deliver the material in a way that he can best understand the information we’re trying to communicate,” Pompeo told The Post in May.

The early briefing sessions had a more freewheeling quality, according to current and former administration officials. Five or more White House aides might join Trump for the briefing, in addition to his briefer and intelligence officials.

The meetings were often dominated by whatever topic most interested the president that day. Trump would discuss the news of the day or a tweet he sent about North Korea or the border wall – or anything else on his mind, two people familiar with the briefings said.

On such days, there would only be a few minutes left – and the briefers would have barely broached the topics they came to discuss, one senior U.S. official said.

“He often goes off on tangents during the briefing and you’d have to rein him back in,” one official said.

After he joined the administration in July, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly slashed the number of people who could attend the intelligence briefings in an effort to exert more discipline over how the president consumes information, current and former officials said.

The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey and Julie Tate contributed to this report.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former reality show star who went to work in the White House and then went back to reality television after being fired, said on CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother” on Thursday that she wouldn’t vote for President Trump again “in a million years, never.” Newman said she found it hard to separate her long-time loyalty for Mr. Trump when she worked in the White House.

“If we become friends, you’ll see how loyal I am, like maybe to a fault,” Newman said. Alluding to Mr. Trump, she added “it’s just been so incredibly hard to shoulder what I shouldered for those two years because I was so loyal to a person. And I didn’t realize that by being loyal to him, it was going mean I was going to lose 100 other friends.”

Newman compared her relationship with Mr. Trump with fellow “Celebrity Big Brother” contestent Keshia Knight Pulliam’s relationship with Bill Cosby. Starting at age 5, Pulliam starred as the youngest Huxtable child on “The Cosby Show.” Pulliam went to court on the first day of Cosby’s sexual assault trial to support him. 

Pulliam pushed back against that comparison because Mr. Trump is “running a whole country of people.”

“We helped Cosby out — his impact on the black community is just as significant,” Newman said. “I mean people looked up to the Cosbys. It’s the same thing. I will stand up to that 100 percent.”

When Pulliam specifically asked her about the “hate the campaign kind of incited,” Newman answered “when you’re in the middle of a hurricane, it’s hard to see the destruction on the outer bands.”

Newman later told contestent Ross Matthews that the “cattiness” on “Celebrity Big Brother” was similar to the atmospheres on “The Apprentice.” Matthews, for his part, said in the confessional that he is doing “investigative journalism” in asking about the White House.

Newman said working in the White House was “100 percent” worse than being on a reality show because “this wasn’t a game show.”

“I made choices, I just have to live with them,” she said tearfully.

Newman said she chose to work at the White House because she saw it as a “call of duty.”

“I felt like I was serving my country, not serving him,” Newman said. “I was haunted by tweets every single day, like what is he going to do?”    

She said she tried to be “that person” who spoke with Mr. Trump, but “it was like, keep her away.” She said she doesn’t know who is advising the president. 

“It’s not my circus, not my monkeys — I’d like to say not my problem, but it’s bad,” Newman said. She said it’s “not going to be okay … it’s so bad.” When asked if she would vote for Mr. Trump again, Newman said “god no. Never. Not in a million years, never.”

Some of Newman’s comments came out earlier Thursday in the show’s promo. In response, White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said they take her claims “not very seriously. Omarosa was fired three times on ‘The Apprentice’ and this was the fourth time we let her go. She had limited contact with the president while here. She has no contact now.”

Newman had a somewhat tumultuous tenure in the White House and was fired by chief of staff John Kelly at the end of 2017. While her firing probably would have made headlines anyway, she exited in a particularly dramatic fashion. According to CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett,  Newman made an appeal to Ivanka Trump after being fired, but Ivanka did not take any action. 

Newman then found her way to the White House residence, where she tripped the alarms. Kelly became angry, and had her escorted from the building, although it is unclear who escorted her from the building. 

A former White House official told CBS News at the time Newman had been a problem since before the inauguration. She had personal access to the president, although there were a number of people who tried to prevent her from being hired. Eventually, she landed at the Office of Public Liaison but was still given an “Assistant to the President” title. Kelly’s predecessor, Reince Priebus, also wanted to fire her. 

After she was fired, Mr. Trump thanked her for her service in a tweet.

Thank you Omarosa for your service! I wish you continued success.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2017

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Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, on Friday. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

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Seven thousand miles away, while America was waking up, the Olympic flame began burning as part of the Opening Ceremonies in PyeongChang.

For those who braved the 14-hour time difference (to Eastern time), NBC live-streamed the event. Despite being a relatively short (by Olympic standards) 2 hours 18 minutes, the pageantry didn’t disappoint. The Ceremonies started with fireworks and ended with the lighting of the Olympic flame. In between came an upbeat performance showcasing South Korea’s technological prowess and, of course, the Parade of Nations.

Flag bearer and luger Erin Hamlin led Team USA to a warm welcome. Another crowd favorite was the shirtless Tongan flag bearer, Pita Taufatofua. The Olympic Athletes from Russia marched in drab uniforms to a much more muted response. Marching last, the unified Korean team stole the show. It was only the fourth time that athletes from North Korea and South Korea have entered the Olympics together.

To avoid too many spoilers (like who lit the Olympic flame), we’ll stop here. For a full recap, keep scrolling to the “What You Missed” section. Also, read Anna Fifield’s report from the Ceremony.

NBC will broadcast the Ceremonies again in prime time tonight, at 8 p.m. Eastern. This version will have commentary from hosts Katie Couric, who was tapped to place Matt Lauer after his firing, and Mike Tirico, who replaced Bob Costas as NBC’s prime-time host after a nearly three-decade run.

Tirico made his prime-time debut Thursday night. The Washington Post’s Rick Maese caught up with him before the Games to learn more about his new high-profile assignment. “I think trying to be Bob would be stupid. And that was one of his bits of advice: Be yourself,” Tirico said.  “So I’m going to try to do that.” For the full QA, scroll down to the “Olympics Corner” section of this newsletter.

One of Tirico’s first acts as anchor was to throw the show to figure skating, which opened last night with the team event. Top contenders Canada, Russia (technically the Olympic Athletes from Russia) and the United States were among the nations that began the night with the men’s short program, followed by the pairs short program.

As far as skating goes, it was a pretty wild night of twists, turns, triumphs and spills. Want to see who came out in the lead? Scroll to the “What You Missed” section. Or check out Liz Clarke’s story.

Look out for the first medals of the Olympics in the wee hours of Saturday morning (Eastern time). Both South Korea (short-track speedskating) and the United States (cross-country, biathlon, speed skating) could find themselves on the podium. The joint North and South Korean women’s hockey team also takes the ice for the first time.

Confused about the rules? Want to know who the top contenders are? The Post has put together a “How to Watch” guide for each of the 15 sports in PyeongChang. Click links below the images to see your favorite sport.

ROW 1: Alpine skiing, Biathlon, Bobsled, Cross-Country Skiing, Curling.
ROW 2:  Figure Skating,  Freestyle Skiing, Ice Hockey, Luge, Nordic combined
ROW 3: Short-Track Speedskating, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, Snowboarding, Long-Track Speedskating

OPENING CEREMONIES: 

Huddled under blankets and fueled by hand warmers, the world gathered in PyeongChang’s 35,000-seat Olympic Stadium to kick off the 23rd Winter Games.

The diplomatic box included Vice President Pence. As his guest, Pence invited the father of American college student Otto Warmbier, who was imprisoned in North Korea, released in a coma and later died. Fred Warmbier reportedly sat with the American team.

Also in attendance was Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong. It’s the first visit to South Korea by any member of the family. Notably absent was Russian President Vladimir Putin, or any other head of that delegation. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned Russia from the Games in the wake of a doping scandal.

The dignitaries watched as South Korea put on a fast-paced show. Featuring children, a mechanical tiger and plenty of fire, the Ceremonies hit many of the usual Olympic notes. But the high-tech displays, pop music (including “Gangnam Style”) and light shows were decidedly modern additions. PyeongChang’s performance was certainly a stark contrast from the stately opening to the Seoul Games 30 years ago.

One thing that doesn’t change much, however, is the Parade of Nations. As per tradition, Greece was first. Using the Korean alphabet, the U.S. came in after Mongolia. Hamlin led the roughly 240-athlete delegation, with Pence waving from his box. Team USA was sporting battery-powered jackets and gloves straight out of the Wild West.

The IOC allowed Russian athletes who can prove that they’re not doping to compete under the neutral Olympic flag. A total of 169 athletes were invited to participate under the exemption (a last-minute petition to add more was denied). Still, some big names are missing, such as speedskater Viktor Ahn, who was the most decorated male athlete in Sochi (three gold medals, one bronze).

As the host country, Korea entered last, to a huge applause (but not from Pence, who sat). North and South Korea entered together, with two flag-bearers (one hockey player from each nation). While their show of unity isn’t going over well with everyone, the crowd in PyeongChang seemed to love it.

The Olympic flame entered the stadium just before 8 a.m. Eastern. Handed off from one South Korean Olympic great to another, it ended up in the hands of figure skater Yuna Kim. The Olympic champion in 2010, and runner-up in 2014, Kim is a superstar in South Korea.

Just after 8 a.m. Eastern, Kim lit the flame and the Olympics were officially underway.

FIGURE SKATING: 
When American Nathan Chen was only 10, he predicted that he would be skating in the 2018 Olympics. Last night, at the age of 18, he made the dream come true. Sort of.

Nicknamed “King Quad” for his pioneering quadruple rotation jumps, Chen started by landing the first quad flip in Olympic competition. Then the usually unflappable Chen faltered. In a 2-minute 40-second span, he committed three major errors and finished fourth in the team event men’s short program. “That’s the worst short program I’ve ever seen from Nathan Chen,” NBC commentator Johnny Weir said.

Fortunately for Chen, both the Canadian and Russian entries also faltered (leaving Israel as the surprise early leader). American duo Chris Knierim and Alexa Scimeca-Knierim also had a strong fourth-place showing in the pairs short program. At the end of the night, that left the U.S. in second place overall (behind Canada).

The team event continues on Saturday night (Eastern).

Moguls, Curling, Weather:
Elsewhere, qualifying for the moguls skiing events got underway last night. Four Americans made it directly to the finals, and four others will have another shot in the second round of qualifying.

America’s mixed doubles curling team has dropped its last two games: 9-4 to Switzerland (on the last shot) and 9-1 to South Korea. That puts the U.S. at 1-3 overall, which pretty much eliminates it from medal contention.

Kim Yo Jung, sister of Kim Jong Un, shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The event might have been unthinkable even a few weeks ago.

(YONHAP/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Early Saturday morning, the first medals of the PyeongChang Games should start rolling in. There are medal events in cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping and short-track speedskating. While the U.S. isn’t necessarily expected to be on any podiums, it’s certainly not outside the realm of possibility. The host nation South Korea also has a shot at a medal.

Also on Saturday morning, Maame Biney will be the first African American woman to participate in speedskating at the Olympics (500-meter short-track qualifying, at around 5:56 a.m.).

Korea’s joint hockey team takes the ice for the first time Saturday morning (starting at around 7 a.m. Eastern, on USA). It’s the first time North and South Korea have fielded a combined team at the Olympics.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the weather continues to be a factor in PyeongChang. High winds are already threatening men’s downhill skiing, which is scheduled for Saturday night (Sunday morning in Korea). “We have some challenging days ahead,” chief race director Markus Waldner told Reuters.

Look who showed up for the Opening Ceremonies …

Trump and Kim Jong Un (impersonators) meet at the Olympics! Hilarious. #VPinASIA pic.twitter.com/jf9rCQUsTK

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) February 9, 2018

Throughout the Games, we’ll occasionally bring someone in to help us better understand the Olympics. Today: Mike Tirico.

For 11 straight Summer and Winter Games — dating back to 1992 — Bob Costas served as the familiar and reliable face of the Olympics. But Costas is sitting out the PyeongChang Games and has passed the torch to Tirico, who will serve as NBC’s prime-time host, starting with Friday’s Opening Ceremonies. Tirico joined the network in 2016 after more than two decades at ESPN and was a daytime host of the Rio Games. He recently spoke with The Washington Post’s Rick Maese about his new high-profile assignment.

Q: It’s not like you’re a newcomer to this broadcasting game, but did you seek out Costas for any advice?

A: There’s been a longtime friendship there. I don’t think that’s overstating it. And I can’t imagine this job changing hands more smoothly. Bob has been unbelievable in making himself available, if I have any questions. I know I can pick up the phone during the Games, and if I have a question, I know I’ll get an honest answer. Bob’s the all-time best. Bob set a standard for the amount of times he did this and the way he did it that likely won’t be matched ever again. So I’m not replacing him; I’m following him. I think trying to be Bob would be stupid. And that was one of his bits of advice: Be yourself. So I’m going to try to do that.

Bob Costas served as NBC’s prime time host for 11 straight Olympics, but has passed the torch to Mike Tirico for the PyeongChang Games. (Courtesy photo/NBC Sports)

Q: He’s so identifiable with the Olympics. Are you worried about the inevitable comparisons?

A: You’re human — of course comparisons matter. But it’s not going to affect what I do or how I do it. Here’s my opinion — nobody will be sitting in Bethesda on the second Tuesday of the Games, saying, ‘I need to watch Mike on the Olympics.’ They say, ‘I’m going to watch to the Olympics.’ Nobody tunes in for the person sitting in Studio A at the International Broadcast Center. They tune in for Mikaela Shiffrin or Nathan Chen or Lindsey Vonn or Chloe Kim. Nobody’s watching the Games because I’m sitting in the chair at 8:05 Eastern time to send you off to Terry Gannon and Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski.

Q: Given your busy fall and winter schedule, how were you able to follow all these different sports and athletes — particularly the ones that for many people only pop up once every four years?

A: The best piece of advice that I got from Bob and from Al [Michaels] before the Rio Games working daytime: You don’t have to know everything about everyone. It’s impossible. The experts at each sport have that covered. In the host role, you just need to have the overriding story lines. I’m trying to get to the top of the surface. It’s like one of those fancy Starbucks drinks — you do want to get some of the coffee, but you want to make sure you get all foam. But how has my life changed? I’m sitting in my office right now. Two years ago, I certainly would be watching a replay of a Big Ten or an NBA game from the night before. And right now I’m watching the women’s skeleton competition from Germany. And it’s the fourth different Olympic event that I’ve watched since I’ve been up this morning.

Q: NBC seems to pride itself in identifying the characters and story lines that move an audience. Who do you think will emerge from these Games and really connect with people back home?

A: I think there’s almost a beginning, middle and end, where you have Chloe Kim and Nathan Chen in snowboard and men’s figure skating. They look like they belong with the best of the world, and now here’s their first opportunity on the Olympic stage to do it. I think those two on the youth side. On the end of the scale a little bit, Lindsey Vonn, who’s kind of pieced herself back together. It’s been eight years and she is doing everything she can to be in the right place physically and mentally to go do it again. So the back end is Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White — can they do it one last time? Chloe and Nathan — can they do it for the first time? And in the middle is Mikaela Shiffrin. If Mikaela takes on a heavy program, we could be looking at a very special Olympic Games. So it’s the new kids, it’s the old guard back for one more shot at it, and in the middle, somebody who’s in the prime of what looks like a great career with a chance to have an Olympics that they’ll talk about for generations.

Q: They’re talking about PyeongChang being one of the coldest Winter Games ever. Are you prepared for the freezing temperatures?

A: I don’t think I’ll be as cold as Heather Cox, who’s going to be at the bottom of the hill doing the interviews in the Alpine mixed zone. I won’t be as cold as Heather will be. But I hope to get out. I’m sure if we can physically walk somewhere during the day, I will. I went to college in Syracuse and I live in Michigan. So cold is just something you deal with. It’s not something that me bothers me at all. It’s cold. I love that. This is the Winter Olympics.

This interview was edited for length.

The 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic Games were the first to be televised live in the United States. Let’s compare them to PyeongChang.

$50,000 – How much CBS paid for the rights to broadcast the Squaw Valley Games.
$963 million — How much NBC paid for the PyeongChang games.

15 — Hours of coverage on CBS for 1960 Games.
1,800+ — Hours of NBC coverage (broadcast or streaming) in PyeongChang.

665 — Number of athletes in Squaw Valley. They competed in eight sports and 27 events.
2,922 — Number of athletes in PyeongChang (1,705 men, 1,217 women)

30 — Countries that competed at the 1960 Games.
92 — Countries competing in PyeongChang (including the Olympic Athletes from Russia).

Below is a TV roundup for the rest of today and tomorrow, taken from The Post’s comprehensive TV guide. All Olympic events can also be streamed live online at NBColympics.com (here’s that schedule). Times are Eastern.

Friday, Feb. 9
NBC 
8-11 p.m. Opening Ceremonies
Saturday, Feb. 10
NBC
3-6 p.m. Men’s snowboarding, slopestyle; short-track speedskating, men’s 1,500-meter gold; men’s ski jumping normal hill gold; men’s luge, singles
8-11 p.m. Figure skating, team event, ice dancing and women’s short programs (LIVE); men’s downhill gold
11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Figure skating, team event, pairs free skate (LIVE)

NBCSN
2-5 a.m. Women’s cross-country, skiathlon gold (LIVE); mixed doubles curling, U.S.-China
5-7:35 a.m. Men’s short-track speedskating, 1,500 gold (LIVE)
7:35-11:30 a.m. Men’s ski jumping, normal hill gold (LIVE); men’s snowboarding, slopestyle
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Men’s luge, singles
1-5 p.m. Women’s speedskating, 3,000 gold; women’s biathlon, 7.5km sprint gold; mixed doubles curling, U.S.-Norway
7-9:45 p.m. Men’s snowboarding, slopestyle gold (LIVE)
9:45 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Mixed doubles curling, U.S.-Finland; women’s snowboarding, slopestyle (LIVE)
1:30-2:40 a.m. Mixed doubles curling, Canada-South Korea

USA
7-9:30 a.m. Women’s hockey, Switzerland-Koreas (LIVE)