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By Ben Morse and Darren Lewis, CNN (CNN) — It’s been dubbed soccer’s “richest game,” but for Luton Town and Coventry City, Saturday’s Championship play-off final means much more than just money. The match at Wembley Stadium in London guarantees a place in next season’s Premier League, but also signals a dramatic rise for both

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Borussia Dortmund spurned a golden opportunity to become Bundesliga champion and snap Bayern Munich’s decade-long reign as title holder, falling to a 2-2 draw at home to Mainz as Bayern beat Köln 2-1 in one of the most exciting season finales in recent memory. Going into the final day,

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Less than a week since his stunning performance at the PGA Championship, club pro Michael Block endured a tough first round at the Charles Schwab Challenge, shooting 11-over par. Block earned hero status at last week’s major when he finished tied for 15th, dunking a hole-in-one on Sunday and

By Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said Thursday that the racism suffered by Real Madrid forward Vinícius Jr. in Spain’s La Liga reminds him of his own career experiences of discrimination. “It’s devastating to think that in 2023 we’re still seeing these things and hearing these things,” Hamilton

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Manchester United secured a return to the Champions League next season with an emphatic 4-1 win over Chelsea at Old Trafford. Liverpool had closed the gap with United in fourth place – the final Champions League qualification spot – to just three points after an upturn in form in

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A federal court in Kentucky has rejected the final remaining claim in a lawsuit brought by Hall of Fame horse trainer Bob Baffert against the company that runs the Kentucky Derby, according to court filings. Baffert sued Churchill Downs Inc. in 2022 after it suspended him for two years

By Ben Morse, Matias Grez and Patrick Sung, CNN (CNN) — Embattled LaLiga president Javier Tebas repeated a racist slur used by fans towards Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. when discussing the incident at a press conference on Thursday. Tebas was speaking to the media in the days after Vinícius suffered persistent racist abuse from

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — A little over a year on from being forced out of Ukraine by war, Italian manager Roberto De Zerbi has guided Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion to a historic first. After its 1-1 draw with Manchester City on Wednesday, Brighton mathematically secured its place in the Europa

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Swedish tennis player Mikael Ymer was disqualified from the Lyon Open on Wednesday after smashing his racket against the base of the umpire’s chair. The incident occurred after Ymer had pleaded with umpire Rogerio Santos to check a ball mark on the clay during his round of 16 match

By Thomas Schlachter and Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Nevada governor Joe Lombardo announced a tentative agreement on Wednesday with the Oakland Athletics and local and state leaders to bring a bill to the state legislature that would pave the way for the A’s to play in Las Vegas. “This agreement follows months of negotiations

By Matt Foster (CNN) — The Florida Panthers swept the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday to advance to their second Stanley Cup Final in franchise history and first since 1996. The No. 8 seeded Panthers beat the Hurricanes 4-3 to become the first team in NHL history to enter the postseason as the lowest-seeded club and

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — NBA fans – put the brooms back in the cupboard. Following the Los Angeles Lakers being swept out of the playoffs by the Denver Nuggets, the Boston Celtics were keen to avoid meeting the same fate as their long-time rivals. Led by Jayson Tatum, the Celtics managed to get

By Ben Church and Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka says LeBron James has earned the right to make a decision about his playing career without any interference. The NBA’s all-time leading scorer hinted at possible retirement after the Lakers were swept out of the Western Conference Finals by

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — There have been no shortage of surprises for Michael Block since the 46-year-old club pro authored one of sport’s great surprise stories at the PGA Championship. Before he had even left Oak Hill Country Club, he’d been invited to play two PGA Tour events: Thursday’s Charles Schwab Challenge and

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he wants the financial charges leveled against the club to be settled “as soon as possible.” In February, the Premier League accused Man City of breaching more than 100 financial rules, which includes failing to provide accurate financial information, failing to comply with

By Al Goodman, Matias Grez and Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s football federation has ordered a five-game partial stadium ban at Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium following racist abuse suffered by Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. during the teams’ La Liga match there on Sunday. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) also announced a fine of

By Eryn Mathewson, CNN (CNN) — Sean Elliott knows a lot about miracles. He’s the basketball star behind the “Memorial Day Miracle,” arguably the most famous shot in San Antonio Spurs history. It was Memorial Day 1999, Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals. The Spurs were playing the Portland Trail Blazers on their home

By Chloe Melas and Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Tom Brady has agreed to purchase a minority ownership stake in the Las Vegas Raiders, a source familiar with the deal told CNN on Monday. The agreement was first reported by Sports Illustrated NFL reporter Albert Breer. The sale is still subject to NFL approval. Earlier

By Thomas Schlachter and Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — They say lightning does not strike twice but – for the second time in under a week – a bird has died after meeting the cruel fate of being hit by a flying baseball in an MLB game. Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen mirrored Randy Johnson

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Another week, another set of records sent tumbling in the wake of Rose Zhang. The 19-year-old Californian defended her NCAA National Championship crown in Arizona on Monday to become the first women’s golfer in history to win back-to-back individual national titles. Having begun the final round four shots off

By Thomas Schlachter and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — After 20 incredible years in the NBA, LeBron James has added to speculation that he could finally be hanging up his sneakers for good. This comes after the Los Angeles Lakers were swept out of the Western Conference Finals by Nikola Jokić and the

By Matias Grez and Al Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Seven people were arrested on Tuesday in relation to incidents of racist abuse directed at Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. this season. Spanish police said four young men had been detained for allegedly hanging an effigy of Vinícius off a bridge in Madrid in January, while

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Rick Hoyt, the man who was pushed in a wheelchair by his father in 32 Boston Marathon races, died Monday morning. Hoyt, 61, died due to complications with his respiratory system, according to a family statement posted on The Hoyt Foundation’s Facebook. “It is with profound sadness that the

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Carmelo Anthony, one of the greatest scorers the NBA has ever seen, has announced his retirement from basketball at the age of 38. The third pick in the 2003 NBA Draft, Anthony enjoyed an illustrious 19-year career that included 10 NBA All-Star appearances, six All-NBA selections, a scoring title

By Jacob Lev and Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — After spending more than 300 days in Russian custody last year, Brittney Griner made an emotional return to her WNBA home court in the Phoenix Mercury’s 75-69 defeat by the Chicago Sky. Before tip-off at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on Sunday, the Mercury players were

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Daniil Medvedev revealed one reason behind his incredible form this year after winning the Italian Open: new racket strings. The Russian world No. 2 has been using a different version of Technifbre strings and said the change to his game has been “unbelievable” since making the switch ahead of

By Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The joy of sport is its unpredictability. There are the favorites, the perennial winners, but there is also a place for the underdogs – the dreamers. But for too many years such against-the-odds romance has been absent from Germany’s Bundesliga, with Bayern Munich winning a record 10 consecutive league

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — The Miami Heat are just one win away from the NBA Finals after a crushing 128-102 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday. With Jimmy Butler so far almost single-handedly dragging the Heat to this point, Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals was the night Miami’s role players

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Throughout her storied career, triathlete and Paralympian Marieke Vervoort captured the imagination of her native Belgium and the wider world. But it wasn’t just her stack of sporting achievements that drew attention. Vervoort lived with a degenerative spinal and muscle condition and had long been vocal about how one

By Matt Foster and Patrick Sung, CNN (CNN) — Vinícius Jr., Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward, was subjected to persistent racist abuse during his team’s 1-0 defeat to Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium in Spain’s La Liga. The flashpoint of the game came in the second half, where after a stoppage in play, an animated Vinícius

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a Block party all week at the PGA Championship, and the man at the heart of festivities is not done partying just yet. Michael Block, the 46-year-old club pro who teaches golf lessons at a public course in California, is schooling many of the game’s biggest stars

By Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — There’s breaking world records, and then there’s demolishing them – which is what Maria Perez did at the European Race Walking Team Championships on Sunday. The Spaniard broke the women’s 35km race walk word record by an astonishing 29 seconds, beating the mark set by Peru’s Kimberly Garcia in

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — After tearing his ACL during the 2020/21 season, Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray turned to his head coach with tears in his eyes and asked if he would be traded, Denver head coach Michael Malone recalled on Saturday after his team defeated the LA Lakers 119-108 and took a

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — It has been described as one of the most incredible moments in sports, brothers-in-arms at the end of a grueling triathlon race in Cozumel, Mexico. In September 2016, over what were the last 400 yards of the season, triathlete Alistair Brownlee rounded a bend to find his younger brother

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — When all is said and done, it is looking increasingly likely that this iteration of Manchester City will go down as the greatest team in Premier League history. With Arsenal suffering a shock 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest on Saturday, ending any mathematical probability of the north London team

By Zoe Sottile and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — National Treasure won the 2023 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore Saturday evening. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert picked up the win, just hours after another of his horses was euthanized following an earlier race. The win made Baffert the winningest

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Manchester City sealed the Premier League title on Saturday, as Arsenal’s shock 1-0 loss at Nottingham Forest ended any lingering mathematical probability of the north London team usurping Pep Guardiola’s side in the title race. The Gunners are now four points behind City in the table and cannot catch

By Homero De la Fuente and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris was among those celebrating the return of Brittney Griner to the WNBA on Friday, five months after the Phoenix Mercury star was released from a Russian penal colony. Griner received a standing ovation from the road crowd as she was

By Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian tennis player Anhelina Kalinina refused to shake hands with Veronika Kudermetova, her Russian opponent, following the former’s victory in the semifinals of the Rome Masters in Italy on Friday. Speaking to reporters after the match at Foro Italico, Rome, Kalinina said, “We didn’t shake hands because the girl

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Katie Taylor is one of women’s boxing’s ‘Mount Rushmore’ figures. The undisputed lightweight world champion, Taylor holds 18 gold medals – including an Olympic gold – and sits second in the Ring’s women’s pound-for-pound rankings. Yet, at 36 years old, Taylor has never fought professionally in her native Ireland.

By Matias Grez and Amanda Davies, CNN (CNN) — When Erin Kennedy returns to the boat at the upcoming European Rowing Championships, the occasion will certainly be a joyful one. The first day of competition in the championships, which run from 25-28 May in Slovenia, will be exactly one year to the day since the

By Ben Church and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — One of the horses in an undercard race before today’s Preakness Stakes, the Bob Baffert-trained Havnameltdown, has been euthanized, after suffering a serious injury this afternoon, officials said. The news comes just hours before the running of the second leg of the Triple Crown,

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — LeBron James proved he is human after all as the Los Angeles Lakers fell to a 108-103 Game 2 playoff loss against the Denver Nuggets. With the Lakers up by eight points early in the second, James had a clear run to the basket after being found by Rui

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The phrase “nobody’s perfect” just might not apply to José Mourinho when it comes to European soccer finals. The 60-year-old Mourinho has won all five of the European finals in which the teams he has coached have appeared, and he now has an opportunity to add to his 100%

By Thomas Schlachter and Amanda Davies, CNN (CNN) — At first glance, the idea of a former NFL legend and a former US Women’s National Team star wanting to bring “global eyeballs” to an English soccer club might seem an unusual ambition. Burnley FC will play in the Premier League next season and that the

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — When Manchester City started putting Real Madrid to the sword in the Champions League semifinal second leg on Wednesday, there was a palpable outpouring of emotion inside the Etihad Stadium that could be felt through television screens across the world. City fans were whipped into a frenzy, players pumped

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat have continued their playoff hot streak with an impressive 123-116 road win against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday. Miami had to come through the Play-In tournament as the 8-seed but have not let their underdog

By Amy Woodyatt and Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — For the second (well-publicized) time in MLB history, an Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher has claimed a sad and unusual feat – accidentally taking out and killing a bird with a throw. D-backs pitcher Zac Gallen was throwing a side session in the outfield ahead of Arizona’s game

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Caught your breath from The Masters? Good, because it’s time for the second men’s golf major of the season: The PGA Championship. The 105th edition of the event marks a return to the sprawling fairways of Oak Hill in Rochester, as the New York club plays host to the

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Speaking to reporters a day after the WBNA announced her suspension for violating league and team workplace policies, Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon, said she was disappointed with the league’s findings but is looking forward to “putting the whole thing behind us and playing good basketball.” The

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Manchester City has an opportunity to win its first ever Champions League trophy after delivering a masterful performance against European giant Real Madrid on Wednesday. In a semifinal which was emblematic of the changing of the guard in European football, City tore apart the 14-time winner of Europe’s elite

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The video looks like a gun advertisement – on steroids. Shot in the style of a music video, with quick edits and a pulsating beat, three athletic looking men test fire a variety of machine guns, rocket launchers, assault rifles and handguns. Surrounded by bearded soldiers in military gear,

By Wayne Sterling and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant has been suspended from team activities after an Instagram Live video appearing to show him flashing a gun while in a vehicle with others circulated on social media Sunday, just two months after the athlete was suspended over a similar video.

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon has been suspended for two games without pay for violating league and team workplace policies, the WNBA announced Tuesday. Las Vegas will also lose its 2025 first-round draft selection. Hammon’s suspension follows an WNBA investigation into claims made by former Aces forward

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Inter Milan will contest the Champions League final next month after Lautaro Martínez’s second-half goal ended the challenge of fierce city rival AC Milan. Inter’s 1-0 victory in Tuesday’s second-leg semifinal at a rocking San Siro stadium secured a 3-0 aggregate win and a place in the final on

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin was named the 2023 George Halas Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America on Monday. The annual award is given to an NFL player, coach or staffer “who overcomes the most adversity to succeed.” Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after making a

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — The Oakland Athletics have agreed to a new ballpark on the Las Vegas strip at the Tropicana casino site. The Major League Baseball team reached a binding agreement with Bally’s Corporation, along with Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI), to build a stadium on Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue,

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — It’s not often a player who has yet to feature in the NBA has the sport’s established stars unanimously gushing. “He’s like a [NBA] 2K created player, every point guard that wants to be seven foot. Cheat code type vibes,” said four-time NBA champion Steph Curry, while Kevin Durant

By Matias Grez, CNN Goalkeeper Santiago Ramírez scored an absurd long-range goal to cap off a wild semifinal between his Atlético Morelia team and Celaya in Mexico‘s Liga de Expansión. Trailing 2-1 in the second leg and 3-2 on aggregate, Celaya threw everything forward in a desperate attempt to find an equalizer in stoppage time.

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics put on a masterclass in Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals to earn a 112-88 win against the Philadelphia 76ers. The stakes don’t get much higher in sport than a Game 7 against one of your fiercest rivals, but with legacies on the