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By Issy Ronald, CNN Roger Federer has announced that he will retire from the ATP Tour and grand slams following the Laver Cup next week in London. “I am 41 years old. I have played more than 1500 matches over 24 years. Tennis has treated me more generously than I ever would have dreamt, and

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Ahead of kick-off, all eyes were on Norwegian star Erling Haaland as he lined up against the team he had only left a few months ago. And the Manchester City striker did not disappoint, scoring an acrobatic volley with the outside of his boot late on against Borussia Dortmund to win

By CNN Sport staff LeBron James and Chris Paul have criticized the NBA for the punishment handed down to Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, who this week was fined $10 million and suspended for a year after an independent investigation found he engaged in hostile, racially insensitive and inappropriate behavior. The report, commissioned by the

By George Ramsay, CNN Little more than two weeks after she was knocked out of the US Open — a moment many thought would be the last act of her tennis career — Serena Williams has teased her potential return to the sport. Williams announced ahead of the US Open that she would “evolve away

By Matias Grez, CNN Liverpool secured a much-needed victory as Joel Matip’s late header against Ajax earned Jurgen Klopp’s side a 2-1 win and its first three points of the Champions League campaign. So accustomed to being one of the dominant forces in world football in recent years, Liverpool has so far failed to click

By George Ramsay, CNN The Las Vegas Aces moved one win away from securing the franchise’s first WNBA title with a 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday in Nevada. 2022 WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson ended the night with 26 points and 10 rebounds, while Kelsey Plum — after a disappointing performance in Game

By Issy Ronald, CNN Fenway Park is one of the US’ most historic ballparks, and it witnessed even more history on Tuesday as Aaron Judge hit his 56th and 57th homers of the 2022 season, guiding the New York Yankees to a 7-6 win against their bitter rivals, the Boston Red Sox. With these latest

By Ben Morse and Matt Foster, CNN Tom Brady remarked on his latest podcast appearance that he is “close to the end” of his NFL career as he continued to hint at his retirement. Brady, now 45 years old, has had a tumultuous offseason, retiring in February only to later reverse that decision. In the

By Matt Foster, CNN Oleksandr Usyk has shared photos of himself at his family home in Ukraine — the first time the boxing world champion has explicitly posted from Vorzel, near Bucha, since the house was taken by Russian forces earlier this year. Usyk posted photos of himself in front of the house on his

By Matias Grez, CNN For eight seasons, Bayern Munich fans had become accustomed to watching Robert Lewandowski find the back of the net on almost a weekly basis. The Polish striker, one of the greatest forwards in the club’s history, returned to the Allianz Arena on Tuesday for the first time since swapping Bavaria for

By Michelle Watson, CNN The 127th Boston Marathon is allowing non-binary athletes to register within their own division for next year’s race for the first time. “The Boston Athletic Association (BAA) is currently working on expanding opportunities for non-binary athletes at our events, including the upcoming 2023 Boston Marathon,” race organizers said on their registration

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Ten-time Major League Baseball All-Star Mike Trout hit his seventh homer in seven games with a two-run drive in the fifth inning, but it wasn’t enough as the Los Angeles Angels fell to the Cleveland Guardians 5-4. If Trout goes the distance against the Guardians later on Tuesday, he will join

By Ben Morse, CNN He might’ve brought the Seattle Seahawks their first Super Bowl title, but upon his return to the Pacific Northwest with his new team on Monday, Russell Wilson certainly didn’t get a hero’s welcome. Wilson — now the quarterback of the Denver Broncos after having been traded from the Seahawks following a

By George Ramsay, CNN Video by Amy Li, CNN Tamara Walcott can still remember the first time she set foot in a powerlifting gym: the chalked hands, the strapped wrists, the yells and screams as lifters heaved weights off the floor. As she took in the scene, Walcott’s competitive spirit willed her to try for

By Aimee Lewis, CNN Liverpool faces Ajax in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, but the standout question to Reds manager Jurgen Klopp ahead of this match was not about his team’s poor form, it was whether fans would respect a minute’s silence for Queen Elizabeth II. Asked about the club requesting a minute’s silence

By CNN Sport staff Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has apologized for a recent social media post in which he used homophobic language. On his Instagram story, which was recorded and shared by others before it was deleted, a person is apparently inside a car with the window partially rolled down and records a small

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Albert Pujols hit his 697th home run, moving him ahead of Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez on the all-time list, to power the St. Louis Cardinals past the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3. The Dominican slugger’s two-run drive at the top of the ninth moved him to fourth on the list, and he’s now only

By Ben Morse, CNN It wasn’t just the one-sided nature of the team’s 19-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers which would have troubled Dallas Cowboys fans on Sunday night; the sight of their star quarterback leaving with a hand injury was enough to give nightmares. In the Cowboys’ season-opening game in front of a

By Issy Ronald, CNN Holding a seven-point lead with 1:24 left, the Las Vegas Aces seemed to be coasting to a victory until Alyssa Thomas sunk back-to-back shots to pull the Connecticut Sun back within three. But the Aces’ defense ultimately held firm, thwarting DeWanna Bonners’ desperate attempt to tie the game with a three

By Jack Bantock, CNN Shane Lowry ended his three-year wait for a win with a dramatic victory at the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday. The Irishman pipped close friend Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm by a single stroke at Wentworth to claim his first title since The Open Championship in July 2019. His sixth win

By Carolyn Manno and Matias Grez, CNN To many on the outside, Carlos Alcaraz lifting the US Open trophy looked like the culmination of years of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. To Alcaraz himself, however, his first grand slam triumph is only the beginning. It’s telling of the 19-year-old’s determined character and competitive nature that

By Amir Vera and Jacob Lev, CNN Carlos Alcaraz is now the youngest world No. 1 in the history of the ATP rankings after defeating Casper Ruud in the US Open Final on Sunday. Alcaraz, 19, defeated 23-year-old Ruud 6-4 2-6 7-6(7-1) 6-3 in a match that took over three hours in New York. He

By Bobby Kent and Coy Wire, CNN From not knowing any English to becoming a starter, Younghoe Koo is one of the most improbable National Football League success stories. Now, Koo is the second-highest paid kicker in the league having signed a five-year contract extension with the Atlanta Falcons earlier this year. But it hasn’t

By AJ Willingham, CNN If you’re a football fan, the first few blasts of an NFL broadcast theme can make you feel like running through a brick wall. It’s superheroes! It’s action! It’s the entire percussion session wailing away for dear life! As the season descends upon us, enjoy a breakdown of the most iconic

By Aimee Lewis, CNN Barcelona’s La Liga match against Cadiz on Saturday was temporarily halted with less than 10 minutes remaining after a fan suffered a cardiac arrest in the stands. Cadiz goalkeeper Jeremias Ledesma has been praised on social media after he ran across the pitch with a medical kit and threw it into

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN When Serena Williams announced that she would “evolve away from tennis,” she was pictured with her five-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. The 23-time grand slam winner was photographed on a sunset beach wearing a Balenciaga gown, with Olympia’s face peeking behind the train of her powder blue dress. “Believe

By Matias Grez and Kevin Dotson, CNN Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek defeated Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in straight sets in the US Open women’s singles final at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, New York. This marks Swiatek’s third career grand slam, and her first outside of the French Open, which she won in 2020 and

By Kevin Dotson, CNN Major League Baseball announced Friday three rules changes to take effect in the 2023 season, after receiving a majority vote from the Competition Committee. The players union has expressed disapproval of two of the new rules. A pitch timer will limit the amount of time a pitcher can take between pitches.

By Ben Morse, CNN If there was any doubt about the Buffalo Bills’ aspirations this season, they laid out an early marker on Thursday night in Los Angeles. The Bills emphatically beat the reigning Super Bowl champions, the LA Rams, 31-10 in their home stadium in the season opener to set out their stall —

By Issy Ronald, CNN Video by Amy Li, CNN Many sounds reverberate around the Kampala field where a large crowd has gathered to watch a football match: the hubbub of a PA system as the players warm up, the muffled murmurs of hundreds of intertwined conversations, and — once the match has begun — the

By George Ramsay, CNN World No. 1 Iga Swiatek will contest her first US Open final on Saturday after coming from behind to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-1 6-4. Swiatek will face another first-time New York finalist in Ons Jabeur, who secured a more comfortable 6-1 6-3 victory in her semifinal against Caroline Garcia. It

By Matias Grez, CNN From a Liverpool perspective, the biggest positive to take from the team’s humiliating 4-1 defeat to Napoli is at least it was only four. The red shirts were carved open time and time again, particularly in the first half, and only some wayward finishing — including a missed penalty from Napoli

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Aaron Judge might be chasing a record, but he knows it’s important to keep pace. The Yankees slugger hit his 55th home run in the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium. The fourth-inning homer carried the Yankees to a 5-4 win and keeps Judge on

By Ben Morse, CNN Barcelona began its 2022/23 Champions League campaign in perfect fashion on Wednesday night with Robert Lewandowski scoring an historic hat-trick on the way to a 5-1 victory over Viktoria Plzen. New summer signing Franck Kessié headed home to open the scoring, before Lewandowski — who joined the Spanish giants from Bayern

By George Ramsay, CNN At 2:50 a.m. local time in New York, Carlos Alcaraz triumphed in a captivating, five-set encounter against Jannik Sinner at the US Open to reach his first grand slam semifinal. It was, by almost half an hour, the latest ever finish in the tournament’s history. The 19-year-old Alcaraz dropped to the

By Ben Morse, CNN Surprises, schemes and supreme skill — the NFL is back. The US’ most popular sport returns on Thursday as the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Los Angeles Rams, host the Buffalo Bills at SoFi Stadium. Heading into the season as reigning champions, the Rams will see their championship banner lifted into

By Ben Morse and David Close, CNN On the eve of his 23rd NFL season, Tom Brady has been reflecting on how his life has changed as he’s grown older. Brady, now 45 years old, has had a tumultuous offseason, retiring in February only to later reverse that decision. In the midst of August’s training

By Issy Ronald, CNN This US Open seemed like a golden opportunity for Nick Kyrgios to win his first-ever grand slam. He defeated the defending champion Daniil Medvedev in impressive fashion in the fourth round, Frances Tiafoe had knocked out Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic was unable to compete, leaving the men’s draw wide open.

By Matias Grez, CNN Paris Saint-Germain manager Christophe Galtier has responded to criticism around comments he made when answering a question about the club’s use of private jets. Galtier had sarcastically said PSG was looking into traveling to away matches by “sand yacht” after a reporter asked whether it was appropriate, given the climate crisis,

By Ben Church, CNN Chelsea has sacked manager Thomas Tuchel after a run of disappointing results this season. The decision was made by the club’s new owners and follows a 1-0 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League on Tuesday. In a short statement posted to the club’s official website, Chelsea thanked Tuchel for

By Ben Church, CNN After stunning 22-time grand slam champion Rafael Nadal to reach the US Open quarterfinal on Monday, Frances Tiafoe threw his racket on the floor and covered his face in amazement. It felt like a seminal moment in the 24-year-old American’s career; a culmination of hard work and raw talent which has

By George Ramsay, CNN Erling Haaland scored his 11th and 12th goals of the season on Tuesday as Manchester City recorded a convincing 4-0 win against Sevilla in the UEFA Champions League. Phil Foden and Rúben Dias also scored for City against a Sevilla side enduring a miserable start to the season with five defeats

By Seán Federico-O’Murchú, CNN Legendary basketball player Sue Bird bid farewell to the sport Tuesday night when her Seattle Storm lost to the Las Vegas Aces, who advanced to the WNBA Finals. “It’s sad,” she said in an interview with ESPN after the game. “Obviously, so thankful for 20 years here. I’m going to miss

By David Close, CNN Almost four decades after he left Temple University to pursue his professional football dream, Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles fulfilled a promise he made to his late mother by earning his bachelor’s degree last week. Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland announced Tuesday that Bowles earned a Bachelor of

By Ben Morse, CNN As Mondays go, Aaron Judge had a pretty special one. First, the 30-year-old superstar hit his 54th home run on the season during the New York Yankees’ 5-2 win over the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium. His 404-foot, two-run shot flew to the second deck of left field off Twins reliever

By George Ramsay, CNN The US Open men’s draw is guaranteed to have a first-time grand slam champion after Marin Cilic, the 2014 champion in New York, was beaten in five sets by Carlos Alcaraz. The 19-year-old Alcaraz triumphed 6-4 3-6 6-4 4-6 6-3 in a match that finished at 2:23 a.m. local time —

By Matias Grez, CNN The Las Vegas Aces beat the Seattle Storm in a dramatic 110-98 overtime victory to win Game 3 and take a 2-1 lead in their WNBA playoff series. But it was a remarkable, record-breaking ending to regulation time that will make this contest go down as an all-time great in league

By Issy Ronald, CNN There’s an exclusive club reserved for those who have scored 700 career home runs which just three players belong to — Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth. And now, another man is closing in on that iconic group. Albert Pujols smashed his 695th career home run on Sunday and edged

By George Ramsay, CNN Defending champion Daniil Medvedev was knocked out of the US Open after losing 6-7 6-3 3-6 2-6 against Nick Kyrgios in the fourth round. Medvedev won his first grand slam title in New York last year, but on Sunday was bettered by Kyrgios, who is enjoying the best run of results

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN The Turkish national team is threatening to pull out of EuroBasket 2022 after it says one of its team members, NBA player Furkan Korkmaz of the Philadelphia 76ers, was attacked Sunday after being ejected from a game. The Turkish team is demanding security footage from the corridor where it

By Matias Grez, CNN Max Verstappen claimed victory on home soil at an action-packed Dutch Grand Prix to further extend his lead at the top of Formula One’s drivers’ championship. Verstappen stormed past Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages after some safety car drama to send the 100,000 Dutch fans into a frenzy at Zandvoort.

By Amanda Davies and Ben Morse, CNN Sebastian Vettel has never been afraid to speak his mind. But his mindset and approach to issues away from the track have developed with age and experience. Vettel — who announced he will retire from Formula One at the end of the season following a stellar career —

By Alaa Elassar and Jacob Lev, CNN The Houston Texans will honor the victims of the Uvalde massacre at Robb Elementary School by wearing an “Uvalde Strong” decal on their helmets during the team’s opening game of the NFL regular season on September 11. The announcement comes after Texans head coach Lovie Smith and linebackers

By Ben Church, CNN Twenty-seven years on the professional tour, 23 grand slam singles titles and a plethora of records; Serena Williams is leaving tennis as one of the greatest players to ever grace the court. After losing to Ajla Tomljanovic at this year’s US Open, the American gave an emotional farewell to the sport

By Jacob Lev and Steve Almasy, CNN The College Football Playoff Board of Managers has unanimously approved expanding the current four-team playoff format to include 12 schools, the board announced Friday. The new format is set to begin in 2026 but the board has tasked the College Football Management Committee to try to implement the

By CNN Sport staff Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with Belarusian opponent Victoria Azarenka after their US Open match on Thursday. Kostyuk had told Azarenka via text before the second-round match that she intended to decline the usual post-match handshake given Belarus’ role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The pair instead

By Ben Church, CNN Russell Wilson has signed a five-year extension to his current contract with the Denver Broncos and says he wants to finish his career at the franchise. After signing the extension, which is reportedly worth $245 million, the 33-year-old quarterback is contracted to the Broncos through to 2028. “It’s not really about

By Jacob Lev and Issy Ronald, CNN The Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired three-time NBA All-Star Donovan Mitchell from the Utah Jazz, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Mitchell later tweeted a picture of himself as a child wearing Cleveland gear and shared his excitement about playing with new teammate Darius Garland,

By George Ramsay, CNN The race may have happened half a century ago, but Dave Wottle can still feel every emotion he experienced that day in Munich — from the dejection of the first 100 meters to the charge of adrenaline when he saw his name flash up on the stadium screen two minutes later.

By Ben Morse, CNN Rafael Nadal overcame accidentally hitting himself in the face with his own racket to beat Fabio Fognini in the US Open second round. The 36-year-old had to battle back from a slow start to beat Fognini over four sets 2-6 6-4 6-2 6-1 on Thursday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium. But

By George Ramsay, CNN It was a performance that had Tiger Woods on his feet and pumping his fist — a sight usually witnessed on the 18th hole of a golf course, rather than the stands of Arthur Ashe Stadium. Serena Williams progressed to the third round of the US Open in what could be

By Issy Ronald, CNN At every stage of this year’s US Open, Wu Yibing has made history. No Chinese man had ever reached the main draw of the US Open in the Open Era until Wu and his compatriot Zhang Zhizhen both qualified for this year’s tournament last week. Wu then became the first Chinese

By Ben Church, CNN Nick Kyrgios was left frustrated by the smell of marijuana coming from the stands in his second round win at the US Open on Wednesday. The Australian, who battled past France’s Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 4-6 6-4, was his vocal self during the match, including when he complained to the

By Ben Morse, CNN Famed for being a tough league to adapt to, Erling Haaland is taking to the Premier League like a duck to water. After scoring his first hat-trick for Manchester City at the weekend — in its 4-2 win over Crystal Palace — having joined from Borussia Dortmund in the summer, Haaland

By CNN Sport staff Aaron Judge continued his scintillating form as he blasted his 51st home run of the season in the New York Yankees’ 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. Judge’s fourth-inning homer on Tuesday was his fifth in the last eight games and takes him within 10 of Roger Maris’ 61-year-old American

By George Ramsay, CNN Rafael Nadal dropped his opening set at the US Open but recovered to defeat Australian wildcard Rinky Hijikata 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-3. It means Nadal remains unbeaten in his 20 grand slams matches this year having triumphed at the Australian Open and French Open before withdrawing from the Wimbledon semifinals due

By Ben Church, CNN It was a night to forget for two of tennis’ biggest names as Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu both crashed out of the US Open first round on Tuesday. On a rainy night in New York, Osaka was beaten by American Danielle Collins in straight sets — 7-6(5) 6-3 — while

By Andrew McNicol and Heather Chen, CNN Singapore’s first and only Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling has apologized for consuming cannabis while training and competing in Vietnam. Schooling, a swimmer, confessed on Tuesday to having used the drug in May during a period when he was competing in the Southeast Asian Games, at which he

By Matt Foster, CNN The Saudi-backed LIV Golf series announced Tuesday that Open Championship winner and world No. 2 Cameron Smith has joined the rebel professional golf tour along with five other players. The 29-year-old Australian becomes the highest ranked player to join LIV Golf. He will compete in the series’ next event, the LIV

By George Ramsay, CNN Atlético Madrid recorded a second win of the season with a hard-fought 1-0 victory against Valencia at the Mestalla. Substitute Antoine Griezmann scored the game’s only goal midway through the second half when his deflected shot bobbled past Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili. Griezmann and Yannick Carrasco both had chances to extend

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN It was a Greek tragedy unfolding before everyone’s eyes as Colombian Daniel Galán stunned fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas in the first round of the US Open 6-0 6-1 3-6 7-5. Tsitsipas lost out on the chance to claim the title of world No. 1 after an epic showdown in Louis Armstrong Stadium,

By Matias Grez, CNN The curtain will soon come down on one of the greatest careers the world of sport has ever seen and Flushing Meadows, the home of the US Open, will provide a fitting stage for Serena Williams’ final act. Williams announced earlier this month that she would “evolve away from tennis” after

By Steve Almasy, CNN A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player when he ordered Super Bowl rings with the name “Brady” engraved on them has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Scott V. Spina Jr., 25, who is from Roseland, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February to