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By Thomas Schlachter, CNN As she breaks records and dominates games, Caitlin Clark is having a season — and a March Madness — to remember. The 21-year-old guard delivered a record-setting performance — 41 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists — in the Iowa Hawkeyes’ Elite Eight match-up against the Louisville Cardinals as she sealed

By Ben Morse, CNN LeBron James said he visited the “LeBron James of feet” to evaluate his injury — and now he’s back on the court. The 38-year-old had missed 13 games and four weeks of action after tearing a tendon in his right foot on February 26 against the Dallas Mavericks. But James returned

By George Ramsay, CNN Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Portugal thrashed Luxembourg 6-0, marking his first goal with a new celebration. After bundling in Nuno Mendes’ headed pass from close range, Ronaldo ran to the corner flag to perform his iconic “Siu” celebration — pirouetting in the air before landing in a power stance. But

By Ben Church and Homero De la Fuente, CNN Tottenham Hotspur says it has parted with manager Antonio Conte “by mutual agreement” less than two years after he took over at the English Premier League club. Tottenham is currently fourth in the Premier League table, two points clear of Newcastle with the top four clubs

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN For the first time since 1970, there will be three schools making their first Final Four appearances at the men’s NCAA Tournament following victories by No. 5 seed San Diego State University and No. 5 seed Miami on Sunday. San Diego State University clinched the program’s first-ever Final Four

By Jacob Lev, CNN No. 9 seed Florida Atlantic stunned No. 3 seed Kansas State 79-76 in the Elite Eight on Saturday to advance to the school’s first Final Four. Both teams got off to a hot start, trading baskets until Owls’ big man Vladislav Goldin made a layup to take the lead 20-18. The

By Hilary Whiteman and George Ramsay, CNN Kangaroos are on Australia’s coat of arms and the tail of the national airline, but every year state authorities allow licensed hunters to kill millions of them. The government and wildlife experts say some species of kangaroos are so plentiful they need to be regularly culled to protect

By Jacob Lev and Zoe Sottile, CNN Players for the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers, Eric and Marc Staal, declined to participate in the team’s Pride Night on Thursday, citing “religious beliefs.” The brothers did not participate in warm-ups where players wore Pride-themed sweaters before the team’s home game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. “After

By Jonathan Hawkins and Patrick Snell, CNN The 2023 MotoGP season gets under way in Portimão, Portugal, this weekend and reigning world champion Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia is steeling himself for a grueling defense of his hard-won crown. This year’s championship will be the longest in MotoGP history with 21 races on the calendar, as well

By Duarte Mendonca, CNN Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet was ordered to pay a fine of nearly $1 million (five million reais) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments aimed at Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a court ruling published on Friday said. “The Substitute Judge of the 20th Civil Court of Brasilia sentenced

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) gets underway this weekend. Earlier this year, NWSL Players Association President Tori Huster said that a “new NWSL” was beginning as she expressed optimism about the future of the sport after the league banned a number of former coaches following years of alleged systemic abuse.

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN For four games only, the Eugene Emeralds will re-brand and become the Eugene Exploding Whales. Yes, you read that correctly. During April and May, the minor league baseball team said it will take on an “alternate identity” and sell jerseys bearing a whale clutching a stick of dynamite for good measure.

By Ben Church, CNN It may be thousands of miles from the frontline, but the Ukrainian soccer team is never far from the horrors of war. While the squad has assembled in the leafy suburbs of London ahead of its Euro 2024 qualifying match against England, Russian forces continue to bombard Ukraine — with deadly

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN For the first time ever in NCAA men’s basketball tournament history, all four No. 1 seeds have failed to reach the Elite Eight after the top-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide and Houston Cougars were eliminated in the Sweet 16 on Friday. Top overall seed Alabama was stunned by No. 5

By Ben Morse, CNN New Zealand runner Zane Robertson says he “made some bad decisions in a really dark place” which led to his lengthy ban from the sport for doping, disclosing that the verdict has left him feeling suicidal. Olympic distance runner Robertson was banned for a total of eight years — four years

By Thomas Schlachter and Homero De la Fuente, CNN Sweet 16 action got underway in the NCAA tournament and just like in the previous rounds of March Madness, there was drama flowing through the first set of games. The Florida Atlantic Owls (FAU) upset No. 4-seeded Tennessee, 62-55; Markquis Nowell made NCAA history as the

By George Ramsay, CNN It’s a few days since he dragged his battered, sleep-deprived body to the finish line of the Barkley Marathons — one of only 17 people ever to do so — and Aurélien Sanchez is still being haunted by visions of the infamously punishing race. Held deep in a forest in eastern

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady has acquired an ownership stake in the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, team owner Mark Davis announced Thursday. “I am very excited to be part of the Las Vegas Aces organization,” said Brady in a statement on Thursday. “I have always been a huge

By Matt Foster, CNN Several National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) players expressed their discontent at the accuracy of their likenesses on Electronic Arts’ (EA) FIFA video game franchise. EA, the NWSL and the league’s players union (NWSLPA) announced a partnership earlier in March making the stars and teams of the league playable in the 2023

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN The Golden State Warriors made it two wins in a row with a 127-125 road victory over the Dallas Mavericks, though the game wasn’t without a bit of controversy. With the Warriors leading 88-87 towards the end of the third quarter, the ball went out of bounds and a timeout was

By Jill Martin and Thomas Schlachter, CNN US skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin hadn’t anticipated moving into the greatest-of-all-time conversation. Instead, the record-breaking skier thought that fellow American Lindsey Vonn would have been the athlete to challenge Ingemar Stenmark’s landmark of 86 World Cup wins. “Lindsey was the one who got the closest and that we

By Jacob Lev and George Ramsay, CNN Foster Moreau, an NFL free agent and former Las Vegas Raiders tight end, has announced he will step away from football having been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. The 25-year-old Moreau said the diagnosis came during a routine physical with the New Orleans Saints. “Through somewhat of a miraculous

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN An investigative journalist who detailed allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against the former Haitian Football Federation (FHF) president is now facing a defamation lawsuit designed to gag him, his lawyer tells CNN Sport. French journalist Romain Molina — who wrote news stories detailing the allegations against former FHF president Yves

By Matias Grez, CNN Argentine goalkeeper Leandro Requena scored one of the most outrageous goals you are ever likely to see during his Cobresal side’s 3-1 win over Colo-Colo in Chile’s top soccer league. With his team already leading 2-0 in the 77th minute, Requena took what initially looked like a fairly innocuous goal kick.

By Wayne Sterling, CNN University of Virginia fifth-year running back Mike Hollins said Tuesday it’s a “miracle” that he’s able to return to the practice field, four months after surviving a shooting that killed three of his football teammates. “It’s literally a miracle that I’m here today and just living that out,” Hollins told reporters

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN Talk regarding an Aaron Rodgers trade has dominated the NFL off-season, but the Green Bay Packers president has remained coy on the future of the quarterback. Packers President Mark Murphy was speaking at the annual Wisconsin Tech Summit at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on Monday and was asked about free

By Matias Grez, CNN Dutch football club PSV Eindhoven has imposed a 40-year stadium ban on a fan who invaded the pitch and attacked an opposition player. During PSV’s Europa League home leg against Sevilla in February, a spectator ran on the field and punched the Spanish club’s goalkeeper Marko Dmitrović. Footage showed the supporter

By Matias Grez, CNN It was another sobering Formula One weekend for Mercedes as Lewis Hamilton cut a frustrated figure after his team’s deficiencies were laid bare once again in Saudi Arabia. Red Bull completed its second one-two of the season, with Sergio Pérez this time winning from pole position and Max Verstappen flying through

By Issy Ronald, CNN Zlatan Ibrahimović‘s Instagram profile says he’s a writer and on Saturday the Swede penned a new page in his remarkable career when he became the oldest ever goalscorer in Italy’s Serie A. As scripts go there was drama and pathos as the AC Milan forward achieved the landmark — at the

By Wayne Sterling, CNN Citing his Christian faith, San Jose Sharks goaltender James Reimer said he chose not to wear a pregame warmup jersey in support of the LGBTQIA+ community on Saturday, as part of the team’s weeklong “Pride Night” festivities. “For all 13 years of my NHL career, I have been a Christian —

By John Sinnott, CNN Tottenham Hotspur was involved in a dramatic 3-3 draw with Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday. However, the drama didn’t end after the final whistle as Tottenham manager Antonio Conte proceeded to deliver a damning analysis of his team’s performance — Spurs threw away a 3-1 lead — and the

By Jacob Lev and Issy Ronald, CNN Following Friday night’s historic upset which saw No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson upset No. 1 Purdue, the madness continued on the first day of the second round. Another No. 1 seed was sent packing on Saturday after No. 8 Arkansas stunned top seed and defending national champion Kansas

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN Fifteenth-seeded Princeton will continue its Cinderella run in the Sweet 16 at the 2023 NCAA men’s basketball tournament after a 78-63 victory over No. 7 seed Missouri on Saturday. The Princeton Tigers are only the fourth 15-seed to reach the Sweet 16 in men’s March Madness history. Making their

By Issy Ronald, CNN Every edition of El Clásico is loaded with its own storylines, each strand adding another layer to the historic rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona. Described by La Liga as a “true cultural phenomenon, drawing the attention of millions of fans worldwide,” Sunday’s match at Barça’s Camp Nou stadium will be

By Wayne Sterling, CNN Brown University Bears freshman utility player Olivia Pichardo became the first woman to play in a Division I baseball game on Friday. Pichardo pinch-hit in the bottom of the ninth inning, grounding out to first base as the Bears went on to lose to the Bryant University Bulldogs 10-1 at Murray

By Jack Bantock, CNN The R&A and United States Golf Association (USGA) held a press conference Tuesday to announce their proposals to roll back the distances that golf balls can fly at elite tournaments. In response, several of golf’s elite let fly. Speaking ahead of the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship, world No. 15 Sam Burns

By Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Ghana soccer star Christian Atsu has been laid to rest in a state-assisted funeral in Accra. Atsu had been playing for Hatayspor in Turkey’s Süper Lig when he went missing after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Despite earlier conflicting reports about his whereabouts, his body

By Thomas Schlachter, Jacob Lev, Aya Elamroussi and Issy Ronald, CNN Only the first round has concluded, and already March Madness has delivered some major upsets. So far, No.1 seed Purdue University, No.2 seed Arizona Wildcats and No.4 seed Virginia Cavaliers have been unceremoniously dumped out of the tournament, succumbing to 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson, No.15

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN When the bright lights of Hollywood come calling, it’s hard to say no and so there’s a long line of Australian actors — Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie to name a few — who have made the journey to California. Another pipeline of talent from Australia to the US

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN The world’s top men’s tennis player Novak Djokovic will miss the Miami Open next week, after being denied entry to the United States because he is unvaccinated against Covid-19, tournament director James Blake announced on Friday. The United States still requires international visitors to be vaccinated against Covid-19, and

By Jacob Lev and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Fairleigh Dickinson University achieved a feat on Friday that has only been done once before. The Knights, who are a 16-seed, upset No. 1 seed Purdue University 63-58 to advance to the second round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Down three points with less than ten seconds

By Sammy Mngqosini, CNN The prize money for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup will increase by 300% to $150 million, FIFA President Gianni Infantino told delegates at the 73rd FIFA Congress in Kigali, Rwanda on Thursday. While the Women’s World Cup prize money is now three times the 2019 figure and 10 times more

By Matias Grez, CNN The Champions League has been whittled down to just eight contestants as the remaining teams found out their quarterfinal fate in Friday’s draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. After comfortably dispatching Liverpool in the previous round, holder Real Madrid was drawn against another English club in Chelsea. Real will be

By Ben Church, CNN Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz has big ambitions — and one of those is to be able to emulate some of the game’s greats such as Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal by winning titles immediately after coming back from injury. The 19-year-old didn’t play a competitive match for more than three

By Ben Morse, CNN Seeing surprise guests at sporting events is not uncommon. You often catch a glimpse of a movie star at a grand slam tennis event or a musician at a golf major. Soccer is no different. On Thursday, reality TV star Kim Kardashian sprinkled celebrity gold dust over Arsenal’s Europa League game

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN The photos, taken earlier this month, have now been viewed thousands of times: a soccer stadium, packed to the rafters, is overlooked by a rocky escarpment, the luscious green pitch providing a vivid contrast to an azure sky. The scene is the dusty, windswept town of Seiyun in Yemen, where according

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN A quick dip in the surf can be refreshing at any time of the day, but one Sydney man has taken it to the extreme, setting a new world record in the process. Surfing coach Blake Johnston smashed the previous world record of 30 hours and 11 minutes early Friday morning,

By Melissa Alonso and Ray Sanchez, CNN Former University of Georgia football standout Jalen Carter was sentenced to probation on Thursday for his role in the January crash that killed his teammate and a team staffer. The crash happened hours after the Bulldogs’ national championship victory parade. Carter entered pleas of no contest Thursday to