There are five players in their 40s taking the ice for the Olympic hockey tournament. The New York Times says these current and former NHL stars to some degree are surprised to still be playing at such a high level at their age. Sandis Ozolinsh of Latvia left the NHL in 2008. When asked if he looked forward to seeing players he used to play with he said, he doesn’t know any of them anymore.

Wall Street Journal relationship columnist Elizabeth Bernstein says the question she gets most often from male readers is some variation of “how can we have sex more often? ” She says the first step is to talk about it with your spouse. Then, try something new, such as a new restaurant, vacation spot or a hobby.

The Denver Post tells the story of Dean Schultz, an avid exerciser who almost ignored a twinge of chest pain. It turned out to be a clogged artery that, left untreated, would have killed him. Doctors say genetics trumps all our fitness efforts. Even if you don’t fit the profile of someone at risk for a heart attack, a family history of heart disease means you’re at risk.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says the National Weather Service on Monday did something highly unusual: It predicted a snow total for a storm three days away. The agency says it wanted to counteract wild rumors swirling on social media of a 30-inch storm. Meteorologists say some weather-related Facebook pages use suspect computer models to drum up foreboding forecasts that nearly always prove to be wrong, but not before they’ve caused panic.

The New York Post introduces us to Freddy, an 18-month-old, 7-foot-4 Great Dane who dwarfs his owner, 5-foot-4 Claire Stoneman. He’s still growing and is poised to become the world’s tallest dog. Stoneman says living with Freddy requires some compromises, such as early walks, because if he wants to run after a dog, she says she wouldn’t be able to stop him.

I saw the Lego movie over the weekend - and it was a home run with me and my 9 and 12-year-old daughters who weren’t particularly interested in seeing it. The LA Times says the animated film took in nearly $70 million at the box office over the weekend. Warner Bros. executives say the strong opening all but guarantees a sequel.

Dr. Darryl D’Lima and his colleagues say they’ve basically figured out how to “bioprint” living cartilage. The San Diego Union-Tribune says the bioprinter is adapted from an old Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer. It sprays out a mixture of cartilage cells and a liquid that congeals under ultraviolet light. The doctor’s aim is to put the technology to use in healing knee injuries.

A mock Starbucks in Los Angeles is a hit - drawing huge crowds for free dumb iced coffees and dumb iced lattes. The LA Times says it’s still unclear if the cafe aims to be a legitimate business or if it’s just a marketing ploy, art installation or even the work of a comedian.  Starbucks says it is aware of the parody and is looking into it.

Developer Dong Nguyen has kept his word - pulling the popular game Flappy Bird from the Apple App Store and Google Play. USA Today says Flappy Bird’s popularity peaked last week and on Saturday, Nguyen sent a tweet saying he planned to remove the game from the marketplaces. During an interview last week, Nguyen said he was making $50,000 a day from ads placed in the game. But other tweets from Nguyen suggested he may have been struggling with all the attention the game was receiving.

Jamie Anderson is the big American story of the Olympics so far, helping the U.S. sweep the first-ever Olympic slopestyle snowboarding competition. The Washington Post says the U.S. dominates these new Olympic sports. Since snowboarding was introduced in 1998, the U.S. has won one-third of the medals awarded in snowboarding events.

All-American defensive lineman Michael Sam from the University of Missouri spoke publicly about his sexual orientation in an interview with the New York Times - putting him on track to become the National Football League’s first openly gay player. He’s projected to be chosen in the early rounds of the N.F.L. draft in May. Sam says he chose to come out now, before the draft, because he sensed rumors were circulating.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak caused quite a stir when while trying to defend the conditions of the hotels in Sochi and complaints of a lack of water, he blurted out, “We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day.” The New York Daily News says the shower spying is reminiscent of an infamous scene from the movie “Porky’s.”

The Charlotte Observer says the blogger whose post prompted Subway to change its bread recipe is looking for her next company to scrutinize. Vani Hari launched a petition on her blog, FoodBabe.com calling on the company to remove a chemical from its bread. Subway said the process of removing the chemical, azodicarbonamide, was already been in the works. Hari says it’s an example of what can happen if people speak up.

LA Times television critic Robert Lloyd says Jay Leno went gently out of that late night. For his final Tonight Show, Lloyd says it was mostly business as usual. Although he was not the most interesting of his peers, Lloyd says Leno’s mass appeal was not a sin, his pleasantness not a crime. Leno made many people happy, and no one’s happiness is less real than anyone else’s.

Our photo of the day comes from the Washington Post. Romania’s Valentin Cretu takes a run on the luge track at the Winter Games in Sochi. The Opening Ceremonies air today.

Matt Farley writes up to 20 songs a day. He earned close to $24,000 last year selling songs online through iTunes and Spotify. The Boston Globe says he’s mastered the art of musical click bait by creating songs that are sneaky enough to show up in your search results, and catchy enough to convince you to buy them. A search For Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” may also lead you to Farley’s “I Want to Dance With Somebody, Anybody!”

The ice-fishing shack is getting an upgrade. The Wall Street Journal says homemade ice-fishing shacks in the northern states are being replaced with custom-built houses filled with amenities including big screen televisions with satellite dishes, kitchens and bathrooms with heated showers. For fishing, they have underwater cameras and sonar systems.

The U.S. luge team may have a secret weapon in its quest for Olympic gold. Dow Chemical has created special sled runners that are lighter and easier to maneuver than typical sled runners. The Detroit News says it’s the first time Dow has undertaken such an effort for a sporting event. Using Dow runners, the U.S. team has already won four World Cup silver medals this season.

Smartphone cameras have improved by leaps and bounds - but the front-facing camera on many phones is still lacking. The New York Times’ Molly Wood wonders why. The main problem is that we want our phones to be thin, and making a better front camera would require a thicker phone. Wood says a “selfie phone” would be a hit with millennials.

A Madison, Wisconsin-based brewery is billing itself as the world’s first completely crowdsourced brewery. MobCraft invites fans to submit their recipes or ideas on their website. Each month, the idea with the most page views, Facebook likes and Twitter mentions gets produced as the brewery’s featured beer.

In the Washington Post, Paul Farhi wonders if NBC will objectively cover what he calls “the most troubled Olympic games in a long history of troubled Olympic games.” Construction issues, security fears and an open hostility to gay people are all among the issues plaguing these games. With the Olympics typically being feel-good events, Farhi says it will be a challenge for NBC to balance its coverage.

Chicago Tribune business columnist Phil Rosenthal says in the future, we’ll look back with disbelief on the idea that pharmacies used to sell cigarettes the same way we can’t believe smoking was once allowed on airplanes. He says as pharmacies position themselves as more a part of the health care system, they’ll have no choice but to stop selling tobacco.

This season’s Biggest Loser Rachel Frederickson’s dramatic weight loss has some people wondering whether she lost too much weight too quickly. Frederickson went from 260 pounds to 105, losing nearly 60% of her body weight. A former competitive swimmer, Frederickson says she rediscovered her athletic body.

Living in the city often means brothers and sisters share a bedroom. But is there a point where it becomes too much? One professor tells the New York Times it’s never really been studied. Experts say most children wouldn’t think anything of sharing a room with a sibling of the opposite sex and it was quite common just a few generations ago.

NBC has finally decided to live stream all 98 Olympic events, so you won’t have to wait hours to watch the NBC broadcast. USA Today tech columnist Edward Baig says you’ll have to be a paid cable subscriber to watch most live events.  Baig says NBC’s free Live Extra app is getting a refresh in time for the Olympics.

The most important kitchen item in your cooking arsenal? It might be the sheet pan. Or the half sheet pan, to be exact. New York Times Dining columnist Melissa Clark says the humble sheet pan is one of the most affordable, versatile items in the kitchen. It can be used to cook an entire meal at the same time. Clark offers her tips for putting the sheet pan to use.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer sat down with Jeopardy! champ Arthur Chu, who has racked up more than $100,000 so far in four days on the show. He’s raising some eyebrows for his unorthodox strategy, his glares at fellow contestants and the fact that he live tweets while the episodes air. Chu hops around the board searching for lucrative Daily Doubles - instead of starting with the easy questions and working down to the harder ones. He says he’s highly focused on the game and admits he wasn’t as personable as he could have been.

Seattle Times technology columnist Brier Dudley says appointing Satya Nadella as the new CEO of Microsoft signals a shift for the company. He says Microsoft has a better chance of winning over developers by replacing its business-oriented boss with an engineer who worked his way up from the trenches. Nadella is an especially good choice, Dudley writes, because he stood out by working on “do-or-die projects” where Microsoft was the underdog.

The Arizona Republic has some top local chefs share their high-end dessert creations made from Girl Scout cookies. The recipes include Samosas Bread Pudding, Do-Si-Dos Apple Pie and a Girl Scout Cookie Roll from a local sushi restaurant.

While New York City tried and failed to land the 2012 Summer Games, the New York Times imagines what it would be like if the city hosted the Winter Games by superimposing various Olympic venues over different parts of Manhattan. The downhill ski slope, for example, would start at twice the height of the Empire State Building, covering two miles of Central Park.