National Sports

By Hannah Keyser, CNN New York (CNN) — Before hiring a manager for his mid-market franchise, a general manager and five other team stakeholders sat in a room with a whiteboard to brainstorm what they believed to be the attributes of a championship skipper. The last manager had been fired at the end of a

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — They say three things are certain in life. Scottie Scheffler being among the frontrunners at a major championship is definitely one of them. With favorites falling to the wayside all over the undulating greens at Aronimink Golf Club, the ever-unflappable Scheffler sits atop the leaderboard after the opening day’s

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (CNN) — After signing his scorecard to make official a round of golf he’d largely like to forget, Bryson DeChambeau cut through the player’s parking lot and kept going, directly to the driving range. He plopped two buckets next to him and started swinging, stopping only to either

By Patrick Snell, CNN (CNN) — The famed Wanamaker Trophy is the largest and heaviest in golf, but don’t think for one minute it can’t ever be lost. A star-studded field is converging on Pennsylvania this week for the PGA Championship at Aronimink Country Club to battle it out for the coveted title, but it

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a week to remember for Real Madrid, but for all the wrong reasons. From player fights to bizarre news conferences, arguably the world’s biggest soccer team has been buffeted from one attention-grabbing revelation to another. So what is happening at the club? And what can we expect

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Not since the littlest piggy cried “wee, wee, wee all the way home” will a pinky toe face so much scrutiny. Less than 48 hours before his assigned tee time to start the PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy stood on the side of the fairway at No.

By Patrick Snell, CNN Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (CNN) — With the PGA Championship taking place just a few miles outside of the City of Brotherly Love this week, it’s certainly appropriate that two English siblings find themselves in contention for a major title. Last month, Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick teamed up to share an emotional

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — University of Missouri running back Ahmad Hardy is in stable condition after being shot early Sunday morning in Mississippi, the school’s football team announced Monday morning. “Ahmad underwent surgery Sunday in Mississippi and is in stable condition,” the statement read. “Ahmad is deeply loved by his teammates, coaches, friends,

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — It was over four minutes of pure, unadulterated cinema. A total of 266 seconds that put soccer fans across the world through the entire spectrum of emotions. If you missed it live, you’ve likely seen the fallout debated across your social media platforms over the last 24 hours. We

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — It’s now just one month until the first game of this summer’s FIFA World Cup kicks off, and there is plenty to talk about already. From diplomatic tensions to ticket pricing and travel costs, the tournament has been creating headlines before a ball has even been kicked, and that

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Back before they had a name, before a generation crowned such things as “vision boards” and started talking about “manifesting” their dreams, Cherie DeVaux wrote down her goals and pinned the notes to her bedroom walls. Sports, grades, life – whatever it was that the self-described Type A personality

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will skip the Preakness, Cherie DeVaux Racing announced on Wednesday. “The horse just ran the race of his life,’’ trainer Cherie DeVaux told CNN Sports about the decision minutes before it was announced publicly. “Asking him to race again, we just want to give

By Hannah Keyser, CNN Pittsburgh (CNN) — Pittsburgh baseball first broke Don Kelly’s heart in the early ‘90s. And those were in the good years. Born months after the team’s last World Series win in 1979, Kelly was 10, 11, and 12 years old when the Pirates won three consecutive division titles, only to fall

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — In the moments before the Kentucky Derby began, two incredible women – one stepping off the grandest stage in horse racing and another about to step onto it – strode together to Churchill Downs’ paddock. Donna Brothers, a former jockey with 1,130 career wins, was working her final race

CNN By Glen Levy, Elizabeth Pérez, CNN Miami, Florida (CNN) — For Kimi Antonelli, time is of the essence. The Italian driver, who competes in Formula One for Mercedes – replacing no less a legend than Lewis Hamilton at the Silver Arrows – is still just 19 years old, but he isn’t biding his time,

By Glen Levy, Elizabeth Pérez, CNN Miami, Florida (CNN) — For Kimi Antonelli, time is of the essence. The Italian driver, who competes in Formula One for Mercedes – replacing no less a legend than Lewis Hamilton at the Silver Arrows – is still just 19 years old, but he isn’t biding his time, fully

CNN By Max Feliu, CNN (CNN) — For nearly five years, dozens of Afghanistan’s women soccer players have lived in exile — scattered across Australia, the United States and Europe — unable to officially represent their country’s national team. A landmark amendment to the regulations of soccer’s worldwide governing body is set to change that.