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With little at stake, Packers and Vikings take aim at goals Field Level MediaJanuary 2, 2026 at 3:22 AM 0 Green Bay Packers running back Emanuel Wilson (23) scores a touchdown against Minnesota Vikings linebacker Dallas Turner (15) in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, November 23, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORKWisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images) A pair of division rivals have differing agendas as they prepare for their regularseason finale.

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Green Bay Packers running back Emanuel Wilson (23) scores a touchdown against Minnesota Vikings linebacker Dallas Turner (15) in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, November 23, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

A pair of division rivals have differing agendas as they prepare for their regular-season finale.

The Green Bay Packers want to get healthy heading into the playoffs, where they already have clinched a wild-card berth. This weekend's game will do nothing to change their No. 7 NFC playoff seed.

Meanwhile, the Minnesota Vikings want to put a final stamp on this season as they look toward 2026. They see the final game of this season as an opportunity for players to make a case for prominent roles next season.

So, in the big picture, Sunday's game between Green Bay (9-6-1) and Minnesota (8-8) in Minneapolis means little in the standings but could mean a lot for both teams and their futures, be it short term or long term.

"We're still in that wildly significant time where any and all reps and experience (matter)," said Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell, whose team is on a four-game winning streak. "It's another home game at U.S. Bank Stadium. All those things are important."

Nothing is more important than health for the Packers.

Green Bay has no shot at the NFC North division title after the Chicago Bears claimed that last week. The Packers know they will open the playoffs on the road next weekend, with the opponent and starting time to be determined.

Packers quarterback Jordan Love cleared the league's concussion protocol, but coach Matt LaFleur announced Thursday that third-stringer Clayton Tune will start instead. Backup Malik Willis, who has started with Love out, also is dealing with shoulder and hamstring injuries.

Tune has made 14 appearances in the NFL and is 0-1 as a starter. His lone start came in 2023 as a member of the Arizona Cardinals.

The dual injuries prompted Green Bay to sign quarterback Desmond Ridder to its practice squad on Wednesday. Ridder, 26, has not played this season but has appeared in 25 games with 18 starts across parts of three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and Las Vegas Raiders.

LaFleur said the quarterback plan for Sunday is a work in progress.

"Clayton Tune's going to start, and then as far as the backup, we're kind of working through that process right now," LaFleur said. "Malik's dealing with a hamstring. Obviously just got Desmond Ridder in here. We're kind of taking it a day at a time."

There is far less indecision in Minnesota, where J.J. McCarthy is set to make his 10th start in his first season of NFL action. McCarthy missed all of last season because of a knee injury. An ankle injury cost him five games early in the 2025 campaign, and he sat out another contest while in concussion protocol.

McCarthy was sidelined last week due to a hairline fracture in his throwing hand, but he returned to full practice on Thursday.

The 22-year-old has shown flashes of his ability this season, but he also has struggled with consistency. He has passed for 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his first nine games, and the regular-season finale could help the Vikings determine how much competition they want to bring in to challenge for the starting role in 2026.

McCarthy's top target is Justin Jefferson, who needs 53 receiving yards to reach the 1,000-yard mark for the sixth straight season. Jefferson also is looking for his first touchdown since Nov. 2.

Packers running back Josh Jacobs is 71 rushing yards shy of a 1,000-yard campaign, but he has dealt with a knee injury in recent weeks and could be a candidate to rest. He was a limited participant in practice on Wednesday. Backup running back Emanuel Wilson has 452 rushing yards and three touchdowns on the season.

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LSU football coach Kiffin attends Tigers' women's hoop game as Ole Miss faces Georgia at Sugar Bowl January 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM 0 1 / 2Kentucky LSU BasketballLSU head coach Kim Mulkey, right, brings head football coach Lane Kiffin, left, out onto the court in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Peter Forest) BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin attended the No.

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1 / 2Kentucky LSU BasketballLSU head coach Kim Mulkey, right, brings head football coach Lane Kiffin, left, out onto the court in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Peter Forest)

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin attended the No. 5 Tigers' women's basketball game on Thursday night as his former team — Mississippi — was taking on Georgia in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game at the Sugar Bowl.

Kiffin and women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey emerged from the tunnel holding hands before the Tigers faced No. 11 Kentucky. Kiffin and Mulkey's appearance on the court drew a roar from the crowd, and Mulkey raised her left hand to point at Kiffin while the pair responded by raising their joined hands in the air.

Kiffin's appearance at the LSU game came at just about the same time as his old team, Ole Miss, was kicking off its CFP game.

Kiffin, after accepting the head coaching job at LSU, said that he wanted to lead the Rebels through the CFP. But, Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter denied his request "despite the team also asking him to allow me to keep coaching them so they could better maintain their high level of performance," Kiffin said in a social media post.

Kiffin's annual salary at Ole Miss was $9 million. LSU offered Kiffin a seven-year contract with an average annual salary of around $13 million and pledged to ensure the football program has ample financial backing to pay players.

Kiffin is taking over for Brian Kelly, who was fired midseason after a 49-25 loss to No. 3 Texas A&M dropped the team to 5-3 overall, 2-3 in the Southeastern Conference.

Kelly went 34-14 with the Tigers, even taking LSU to the 2022 SEC title game. But LSU did not qualify for the College Football Playoff in his first three seasons.

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Dylan Guenther has 1st career hat trick to send Mammoth to 72 victory over Isles SCOTT CHARLESJanuary 2, 2026 at 12:03 AM 0 1 / 2Mammoth Islanders HockeyUtah Mammoth right wing Dylan Guenther (11) controls the puck past New York Islanders center Kyle MacLean in the third period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger) NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Guenther had his first career hat trick and added an assist and the Utah Mammoth topped the New York Islanders 72 on Thursday.

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1 / 2Mammoth Islanders HockeyUtah Mammoth right wing Dylan Guenther (11) controls the puck past New York Islanders center Kyle MacLean in the third period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Guenther had his first career hat trick and added an assist and the Utah Mammoth topped the New York Islanders 7-2 on Thursday.

Nick Schmaltz scored twice and added an assist, Clayton Keller and Mikhail Sergachev each had a goal and two assists, while Lawson Crouse and Barrett Hayton each had two assists. Karel Vejmelka returned from a two-game absence and finished with 20 saves as the Mammoth snapped a two-game skid.

Cal Ritchie and Matthew Schaefer scored for New York, and Max Shabanov had two assists. David Rittich made nine saves on 14 shots, but was replaced by Marcus Hogberg 5:41 into the third period.

Guenther scored his second goal of the game when he buried a backhand feed from Crouse to give Utah a 2-1 lead midway through the second period. He also opened the scoring just 36 seconds into the middle period.

The Islanders briefly tied it 1-1 early in the second period when Ritchie fired a wrist shot over the glove of Vejmelka.

Schmaltz beat Rittich with less than four minutes remaining in the second period to extend Utah's lead to two goals.

Mammoth forward Alex Kerfoot took a four-minute high-sticking penalty late in the second, but the Islanders didn't capitalize on the ensuing power play.

Sergachev and Keller scored in the first six minutes of the third period to stretch Utah's lead to 5-1 and prompt the Islanders to change goaltenders.

Guenther completed the hat trick and scored his 20th goal of the season by sliding the puck between the legs of Hogberg with less than seven minutes remaining.

Schaefer scored a power-play goal midway through the third period for his 10th of the season.

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Wembanyama's MRI shows no ligament damage in hyperextended knee; AllStar to miss SpursPacers game January 2, 2026 at 8:05 AM 0 1 / 3Knicks Spurs BasketballSan Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) celebrates a basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs say an MRI showed center Victor Wembanyama sustained no ligament damage in his injured left knee, and their AllStar center will not play Friday in Indiana.

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1 / 3Knicks Spurs BasketballSan Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) celebrates a basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs say an MRI showed center Victor Wembanyama sustained no ligament damage in his injured left knee, and their All-Star center will not play Friday in Indiana.

The Spurs said Thursday that Wembanyama's status is day-to-day. He did not travel with the team to face the NBA-worst Pacers (6-28), and instead will rehabilitate the injury in San Antonio.

Wembanyama hyperextended his left knee with just under 11 minutes remaining in San Antonio's 134-132 victory over the New York Knicks on Wednesday.

Wembanyama said he felt fine after the game and expected to play Friday against the Pacers, but said San Antonio's medical staff could decide otherwise depending on tests.

"It's a good thing it was just a hyperextension," Wembanyama said. "It should be minimal, whatever this thing is."

Wembanyama was injured while leaping to gather an offensive rebound over Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns with 10:32 left in the rematch of the NBA Cup final. Wembanyama lost possession when he landed. Replays showed there was no contact with a defender, but Wembanyama's left foot slid forward.

Wembanyama remained on the court while New York went on offense. Spurs forward Kelly Olynyk intentionally committed a foul so the Spurs could check on Wembanyama. Spurs guards Stephon Castle and De'Aaron Fox helped Wembanyama get up before he hobbled straight to the locker room unassisted.

Wembanyama was heard yelling "I'll be back!" several times to the fans as he ran through the tunnel toward the locker room while emphatically throwing his hands down.

Wembanyama returned to San Antonio's bench with 1:22 remaining in the game without a limp and watched as the Spurs rallied to beat the Knicks.

Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points and 11.7 rebounds for the Southwest Division-leading Spurs (24-9).

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Texas Tech's blowout loss just the latest College Football Playoff humiliation for Brett Yormark, Big 12 Dan WolkenJanuary 2, 2026 at 8:05 AM 0 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — For a fleeting moment early in the Orange Bowl's fourth quarter, Texas Tech's opportunity to salvage one of the most embarrassing performances in the history of the College Football Playoff was at hand. The Red Raiders certainly didn't deserve it. Their offense had spent the first 2½ hours bumbling through the playbook, unable to block, unable to throw, unable to catch.

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — For a fleeting moment early in the Orange Bowl's fourth quarter, Texas Tech's opportunity to salvage one of the most embarrassing performances in the history of the College Football Playoff was at hand.

The Red Raiders certainly didn't deserve it. Their offense had spent the first 2½ hours bumbling through the playbook, unable to block, unable to throw, unable to catch. The only thing they'd done with any proficiency was turn the ball over.

And yet here they were, down just two scores to Oregon, threatening to find the end zone for the first time all day. The Ducks' own mistakes had provided a tourniquet, and Texas Tech stood a mere nine yards away from a touchdown that would have turned up the pressure on a team that hadn't been given any reason to doubt its destiny.

A championship team would have scored there. Instead, what Texas Tech did — a how-can-you-throw-that-ball interception from quarterback Behren Morton — provided another layer of cement on a narrative college football can no longer ignore.

In a moment when administrators, fans and media members are questioning the viability of schools outside the four power conferences, even pushing to exclude them from the CFP, it's time to consider whether the Big 12 is perpetrating a fraud on college football.

Is this collection of schools still worthy of being called a power conference?

"We didn't play good enough," Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said moments after Oregon wrapped up its 23-0 victory. "It really wasn't the patch on anybody's arm."

Texas Tech didn't put up much of a fight against Oregon at the Orange Bowl. (James Gilbert/Getty Images) (James Gilbert via Getty Images)

Perhaps conference affiliation had nothing to do with Texas Tech's measly nine first downs, going 6-for-19 on third/fourth-down conversions, or turning the football over four times.

But Texas Tech was the ninth team to represent the Big 12 since the CFP began a dozen years ago. It's the eighth to have lost. TCU's upset over Michigan in the 2022 semifinals remains the only time a Big 12 team has won a playoff game.

This Texas Tech team was supposed to be different than the undersized gimmickry the Big 12 usually sends to a playoff slaughter. Backed by billionaire former player Cody Campbell, the Red Raiders spent a reported $28 million putting together this roster. They were physically elite on defense. They didn't just win the Big 12, they battered it into submission, beating BYU — clearly the league's second-best team — by scores of 29-7 and 34-7.

And even on a day Oregon struggled with mistakes and offensive execution, Texas Tech wasn't even in their same weight class.

"This shouldn't discredit them," Oregon coach Dan Lanning said. "I remember this feeling last year."

He's right. This shouldn't discredit Texas Tech, which managed to wring more out of this season than any team in program history.

It should, however, discredit the Big 12.

Maybe 30 yards away from where Morton's threw that final interception, in a room just past the tunnel at Hard Rock Stadium, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark met with reporters about an hour before Thursday's kickoff.

"I love our chances [Thursday]," he said, while insisting that the outcome of the game had nothing to do with the influence his conference wields in discussions about the future of the CFP.

"We have a big voice in that room," Yormark said, suggesting on three different occasions that he sits alongside the SEC's Greg Sankey, the Big Ten's Tony Petitti and the ACC's Jim Phillips as equals on the throne.

But Yormark, who worked for NASCAR, the Brooklyn Nets and Jay-Z's Roc Nation agency before finding his way to college sports 3½ years ago, did not offer that same courtesy when the topic turned to Group of Five inclusion.

As conference commissioners consider whether to expand the playoff next year — ESPN has set a Jan. 23 deadline to figure out a new structure or stay with the current 12-team format — the hottest of hot buttons will be whether they establish a new standard for non-power conference teams to make the playoff.

Oregon's defense beat up on Texas Tech all game and forced four turnovers. (David Rosenblum/Getty Images) (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

This year's anomalous inclusion of Tulane and James Madison — both of which were blown out in first-round games — is certainly never going to happen again. But some administrators in leagues like the American Conference, the reconfigured Pac-12 and the Mountain West believe negative commentary around the concept of "inclusion" is part of a coordinated effort to essentially kick them out of the playoff altogether.

Asked whether he believed there was consensus among the power conference commissioners that a Group of Six representative should be guaranteed a spot in the next iteration of the playoff, Yormark's smarmy response practically gave away the game.

"Frankly, that's a great question, and I don't want to speak to that," he said. "I mean, listen, there's 10 commissioners and obviously Notre Dame that are on the management committee, and we all communicate and we're all being very thoughtful about it. I will say that the Power Four commissioners are spending more time together to work through what expansion might look like. But there's a lot of things we have to weigh and consider and we'll see what happens."

Yormark didn't have to say another word to make it clear where he stands.

But the question we should all be asking is whether it's because he doesn't believe the unwashed Group of Six masses belong in the playoff or because he's afraid the Big 12 would be rendered irrelevant if it were forced to earn its keep.

We just watched the team that dominated his conference all year get reduced to ashes by the third-best team in the Big Ten. Who's the charity case now, Brett?

Because even if you believe Texas Tech had an unusually bad day, this was the kind of playoff game we've seen many times before where you could have played it 10 times and gotten a similar result. That's how much of a mismatch it was.

While the bureaucracy of the CFP is what keeps the Big 12 in its privileged position at the table with the SEC and Big Ten, the democratization of the sport through NIL and playoff expansion has exposed it as a lie.

Are we really going to pretend that the Big 12 champion deserves any guarantees in the future CFP while a league with one playoff win in 12 years works to block or raise the threshold for a team like Tulane?

"Today's game has no bearing on it," Yormark said. "I'm all about progress. Would [Texas Tech winning] show progress? One-hundred percent. But it has nothing to do with what goes on in the room."

Maybe it should.

Hey, at least Texas Tech tried. Yes, the amount of money Campbell and other boosters spent on this team was obscene, but they got some bang for their buck. The defense they put together was phenomenal and certainly had something to do with Oregon struggling to get the ball in the end zone.

But it's equally clear that whatever the Red Raiders faced week-in and week-out in the Big 12 prepared them poorly to face a team with elite size and speed on both sides of the ball. Texas Tech had a great season, but one that was almost certainly inflated by lack of worthy competition.

"That's a really good defense," McGuire said. "They did a great job defending us. We've been a big-play offense and they kept the ball in front of them. You can't turn the ball over four times."

In college football, the politics driving the sport and the reality on the field are often misaligned. As the Big 12 tries to ensure playoff access for itself and perhaps make it tougher for would-be competitors, Texas Tech helped make it crystal clear why Yormark wants no part of a meritocracy.

If you're going to continue to call yourself a power conference, it would help to show up to these games once in a while and deliver a little power.

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Chevy Chase says his controversial "Community "exit was a 'misunderstanding,' insists 'I'm not racist' Ryan ColemanJanuary 2, 2026 at 5:56 AM 0 Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Chevy Chase on 'Community' in 2009 Chevy Chase says he's not to blame for his controversial departure from the NBC sitcom Community. The debate over the events that led to Chase's 2012 exit has been reignited ahead of the release of I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, a new CNN documentary about the actor that premieres Thursday night.

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Chevy Chase says he's not to blame for his controversial departure from the NBC sitcom Community.

The debate over the events that led to Chase's 2012 exit has been reignited ahead of the release of I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, a new CNN documentary about the actor that premieres Thursday night. In it, Community director Jay Chandrasekhar confirms reports at the time that Chase used the N-word on set and went into a "full meltdown," with his costar Yvette Nicole Brown distancing herself from the ordeal. But Chase sees things differently.

"It wasn't a bad experience. I just didn't think it was that good, the show," Chase told The New York Times in a joint interview with the documentary's director, Marina Zenovich, published Thursday.

When interviewer Nicole Sperling pushed back on Chase's reaction, reminding him that he had spoken positively about the sitcom during his time on it, he dismissed her remark, saying simply, "Oh, shut up."

However, after several more prods, he offered the fullest version of his side of the story in years.

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When asked why his daughter, Caley Chase, claimed in the documentary that the comedian "loved" the writing on Community, he replied, "My daughter can go to hell." After he was asked how he felt when his turn on the show wrapped, he quipped, "I thought it ended great." Then the SNL vet set aside the snark and got a bit more candid.

"It was too great a misunderstanding of what I was saying and not saying," he said. "I thought that there was at least one person — and another who, for some ungodly reason, didn't get me, didn't know who I was, or didn't realize for one second I'm not racist. They were too young to be aware of my work. Instead, there was some sort of visceral reaction from them."

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According to a new account Chandrasekhar relays in I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, Chase's alleged tirade began with a "blackface hand puppet" storyline written for his character, the ignorant and abrasive Pierce Hawthorne.

Chandrasekhar claims that Chase "said something" to Brown, whom he already had a "history" with regarding race. "She got up and stormed out of there," the director says in the doc. "Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, 'We need Yvette in the scene, right?' I'm like, 'Yeah, she's in the next scene.' And he goes, 'Well, she won't come out unless Chevy apologizes to her.'"

According to Chandrasekhar, Chase then told him that he "didn't say anything" to Brown and proceeded to explain that he "used to call Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to call me the Honky, and we loved each other." The director adds that after the press reported the alleged incident, Chase returned to set complaining, "My career is ruined! I'm ruined!" and never came back.

The comedian's latest response echoes his past comments disparaging Community and his refusing to apologize over former costars and collaborators' negative accounts of working with him.

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Childhood Adventure, Triumph and Tragedy: Inside the Royal Family's Winter Ski Vacations Simon PerryJanuary 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM 0 John Stillwell WPA Pool/Getty Princess Kate and Prince William with Prince George and Princess Charlotte in Courcheval, France in March 2016 Royal minds traditionally switch to skiing once the holidays are behind them Skiing is as associated with royals as polo and horse racing Prince William and Kate Middleton are keeping up a tradition of taking their children skiing, immersing them in the sport from an early age With Christmas in the rearview mirror, the thoughts ...

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Prince William and Kate Middleton are keeping up a tradition of taking their children skiing, immersing them in the sport from an early age

With Christmas in the rear-view mirror, the thoughts of the royals traditionally turn to their favorite winter sport: skiing.

Throughout their childhood, Prince William and Prince Harry would be taken by their father, King Charles, to their favorite resort in the Swiss Alps, Klosters, for several days of sport.

It was a tradition that the then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana encouraged their sons from an early age. Charles had been introduced to Klosters by his friend Patty Palmer-Tomkinson, and he became so enamored with the resort that he would take himself off into the mountains to capture it with his watercolors. (Indeed, Charles first visited with his then-girlfriend Lady Sarah Spencer, the older sister of his eventual bride, Diana.)

Princess Diana, meanwhile, was an ace skier, as she worked as a maid in the Alps when she was a teen. She "was incredibly good at it," her former bodyguard Ken Wharfe has said of her prowess on the slopes.

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Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice and Prince William in Klosters, Switzerland in Jan. 1995

Their sons continued skiing into their adult lives, and William and Kate Middleton have taken their children to the Alps a number of times, including in spring 2025, a vacation that made headlines when the couple successfully took legal action against French magazine Paris Match over the use of photographs of the family during their break.

In 2016, the couple did release an image of themselves with a young Prince George, now 12, and Princess Charlotte, now 10, on what was thought to be their first ski vacation as a foursome.

In the days of Charles' marriage to Diana and in the years afterward, there was an agreement with most of the press that a photocall would take place in exchange for them being left alone for the rest of their vacation, and it would become a regular stop-off for the traveling royal reporters.

In January 1995, the photographers had a bonus: William and Harry posed for a picture with their cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who were in the resort with their parents, the former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

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The then Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Klosters, Switzerland in February 1986

It wasn't long before both Prince William and Prince Harry were impressing with their grasp of the sport — or certainly their daring.

Harry "just wanted to go fast, so he skied solo down a mountain and ended up in some mud and flowers," Wharfe has described some of the younger prince's adventures. "We had to go and dig him out!"

As night fell over the resort in the years, the princes relaxed in one of the few bars, their protection officers keeping an eye from a few yards away. One such night in March 2005, Kate joined William and his group of friends as they were all in the resort celebrating what was dubbed as Charles' bachelor vacation ahead of his marriage the following month to Camilla.

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Prince Harry in Klosters, Switzerland in Feb. 1994

Being away in the mountains hasn't always been associated with happy times. In March 1988, when Diana was on holiday with Charles and a pregnant Sarah, she learned that Charles had been involved in a skiing accident.

An avalanche had caught some of Charles' party as they skied off piste, and his friend Major Hugh Lindsay, a former equerry to Queen Elizabeth, was tragically killed. Palmer-Tomkinson was seriously injured and was reportedly only saved by the swift actions of guide Bruno Sprecher.

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Prince William and Prince Harry, with their late mother Princess Diana, and nanny Olga Powell in Lech, Austria in Mar. 1993

In March 2002, when Charles and his sons were in Klosters, they received news that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, had died at the age of 101. He and the princes rushed back to the U.K. to be with the family.

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The then Prince Charles painting with watercolors in Klosters, Switzerland in 1994

Further family heartbreak happened in March 1992 when Charles and Diana were away in Lech, Austria, and the princess was told that her father, Lord John Spence,r had died following a heart attack.

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