MILLER QUITS U.S. TEAM DAY AFTER COUSIN MURDERS COP: It has been a strange and very sad last few days for Bode Miller. Saturday the U.S. skier announced he was quitting the U.S. national team, for reasons we can all surmise.

The day before, Miller’s cousin Liko Kenney brutally murdered a police officer in New Hampshire, and was then subsequently shot and killed at the scene by a passerby after he refused to surrender his weapon.

The NEW YORK TIMES is all over the story, reporting that the officer murdered had a long-running feud with Kenney. Miller has refused comment about the tragic outcome.