CLEVELAND (AP) — Bernie Kosar is scheduled to receive a liver transplant Monday morning.
The former University of Miami and Cleveland Browns star quarterback shared the good news in a social media post Sunday night.
“Thank you all for the thoughts, prayers, and support — it truly means the world to me,” Kosar said in the post from his hospital bed.
The 61-year-old Kosar was set to receive a liver transplant last weekend, but said that it was delayed because the donor’s organ was infected.
During the past week, he has undergone five procedures to stop internal bleeding.
Kosar told Cleveland Magazine last year that he had been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson’s disease.
The Youngstown, Ohio, native recalled being bothered by liver-related issues for years but brushed them off because he wasn’t sure of the source. A diagnosis of cirrhosis in late 2023 confirmed the specificity and severity of his condition.
Kosar played in the NFL for 12 seasons after leading the University of Miami to its first national championship during the 1983 season. He grew up rooting for the Browns, who selected him in the 1985 NFL supplemental draft.
Kosar played for the Browns from 1985-93, leading the franchise to three AFC championship game appearances (1986, ’87 and ’89), losing each time to the Denver Broncos. Kosar is third all-time in franchise history with 21,904 passing yards.
After being released by the Browns, Kosar joined the Dallas Cowboys for the remainder of the 1993 season and got a Super Bowl ring. He then played for the Miami Dolphins in 1994-96.
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FILE - Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar waves during a Browns' Alumni event before an NFL football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
ÅRE, Sweden (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin had a costly mistake near the end of what might have been the fastest run by far in the opening leg of the penultimate World Cup giant slalom of the season Saturday.
In an all-attacking run, the American star was more than half a second ahead of race leader Camille Rast of Switzerland at the last split time when she came off the course shortly before the finish and had to brake to make the next gate.
Shiffrin finished 2.29 seconds off the lead in 12th, as Rast and Austria’s Julia Scheib stood 1-2 to continue their season-long battle for the GS title.
The mishap could help Shiffrin’s main rivals for the overall title — Rast and Germany’s Emma Aicher — make up ground on the American. Aicher was sixth after the opening run.
“I was just not really expecting to get like a kind of a little bit of a jump on this last roller,” said Shiffrin, who started in the 300th World Cup race of her career, a day after her 31st birthday.
“My goal this run was to be really attacking, then I had more speed than I expected," she added. "For the rest of the run, that was the best run in GS skiing I had in a race this year. I’m so happy with that.”
Shiffrin holds the women’s record for most career GS wins with 22 but hasn’t won a race in the discipline since December 2023.
Following two crashes in a downhill and a GS in 2024, Shiffrin has been working her way back up in the discipline and got her first podium result in two years when she placed third at a race in Czechia in January.
On Saturday, Rast held a slim 0.11-second lead over Scheib, with Shiffrin’s teammate Paula Moltzan 0.56 behind in third.
Alice Robinson of New Zealand had 0.60 seconds to make up in the second run and was the last racer to finish within a second of Rast’s time.
Olympic GS champion Federica Brignone ended her season two weeks ago to continue rehab after the Italian returned from a broken leg just weeks before the Games.
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United States' Paula Moltzan speeds down the course during a women's World Cup giant slalom, in Are, Sweden, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Austria's Julia Scheib speeds down the course during a women's World Cup giant slalom, in Are, Sweden, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Switzerland's Camille Rast speeds down the course during a women's World Cup giant slalom, in Are, Sweden, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during a women's World Cup giant slalom, in Are, Sweden, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during a women's World Cup giant slalom, in Are, Sweden, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
