National Sports

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The ongoing issues between the Buffalo Bills and Keon Coleman have taken another twist – and the team’s owner has implied it’s on his former head coach. It comes as Bills owner Terry Pegula said the decision to draft the wide receiver in 2024 was one pushed by the

By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Christina Macfarlane, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian soccer pitch in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem has been spared from a planned Israeli demolition order following international pressure, according to sources who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity. The president of global soccer governing body FIFA, Gianni Infantino,

By Patrick Snell, CNN (CNN) — Property, passports and Pokémon! Three things that are very much front and center now for a tennis coach from Sydney who’s just become Australia’s newest millionaire. Life, it turns out, will never be the same again for Jordan Smith. “Just smiles on people’s faces, it’s been awesome. It’s been

CNN By Dana O’Neil, CNN Miami Gardens (CNN) — A piece of red confetti clung to Curt Cignetti’s neck as he shared the secret sauce of his Indiana football team’s success: Good people, hard work, attention to detail, and a processed approach. Indiana kept its circle tight and held its belief tighter, stiff-arming infiltrators and

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Add the Buffalo Bills as yet another NFL team now in search of a head coach. The Bills fired Sean McDermott after nine seasons at the helm. The move comes after the Bills lost in overtime to the Denver Broncos in the divisional round on Saturday. With McDermott’s dismissal,

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final – a game to decide the best soccer team on the continent – ended in utter chaos on Sunday as fans caused a huge commotion and players walked off the pitch in protest on an evening which showed the best and very

CNN By Dana O’Neil, CNN Miami (CNN) — Back in 2023, Jase Richardson sought a more rigorous athletic and academic high school program for his senior year. His younger brother, Jaxon, was attending a Team USA Under 16 training camp out, competing alongside Cameron and Cayden Boozer. They suggested their spot: Christopher Columbus High School.

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Miami (CNN) — Back in 2023, Jase Richardson sought a more rigorous athletic and academic high school program for his senior year. His younger brother, Jaxon, was attending a Team USA Under 16 training camp out, competing alongside Cameron and Cayden Boozer. They suggested their spot: Christopher Columbus High School. Together,

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Nick Saban wanted to change his job description. After three years coaching linebackers, he was eager to take over the secondary, where he’d played in college. He was not, however, so sure he wanted to change jobs. It was 1978, and he’d spent the past season at Syracuse University.

By Hannah Keyser, CNN (CNN) — This postseason has already set an NFL playoff record with 12 fourth-quarter lead changes — and that’s before we even get to the divisional round this weekend. The relative parity in the league paved the way for tightly contested matchups in the wild card round. But ultimately six teams

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Some might say that it’s too early to predict the future of a nine-year-old sporting sensation, and often they would be right to. So much can happen during a young athlete’s development: Bodies change, the risk of burnout increases and simply desire in the sport can simply wane. Yet,

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — There’s not much you can do when you’re watching your clothes spin round and around, waiting for the laundry to wash and dry. But when Lily Zhang was seven years old, she spent that laundry time learning about another kind of spin, and with it she launched a career

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — The governing body for the winter sport of skeleton, the International Bobsled Skeleton Federation (IBSF), has dismissed complaints that the Canadian women’s team and its coach Joe Cecchini engaged in competition manipulation at the North American Cup race in Lake Placid last weekend. American slider Katie Uhlaender won the

By Ben Church, Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Hockey will once again be a flagship sport at next month’s Winter Olympics, not least because of the reintroduction of NHL players which will see some of the world’s best stars compete for a medal. But while anticipation grows for the first puck drop of the Games,

By Aleks Klosok, Amanda Davies, CNN Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — When Portugal begins its World Cup campaign in Houston on June 17, two names will be at the forefront of Seleção midfielder Vitinha’s mind: Diogo Jota and André Silva. Memories of their sudden, tragic passing a mere six months ago remain raw for