National Sports

By Andy Scholes, CNN (CNN) — The NFL season’s getting real in Week 8. A legend faces his former team, bye weeks are piling up and teams are one loss away from trading playbooks for tickets to Cancun. Here are five things to know about Week 8. Big bye week bonanza Week 8 is the

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Portland Trail Blazers head coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former NBA journeyman Damon Jones are among 34 people indicted in connection with two separate federal gambling investigations announced by the Eastern District of New York on Thursday. At a lengthy

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Emma Pooley may have retired from professional cycling around a decade ago, but she believes that the effects of under-fueling – what she describes as her “weird” relationship with food – are still with her. Those scars, Pooley says, are “permanent” and include having a bone density which is

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 NBA season kicked off in earnest on Wednesday with 12 games taking place across the league. It comes after the traditional curtain-raiser of last year’s champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, receiving their championship rings and opening the new season on Tuesday. The Thunder then beat the Houston

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — The Pro Bowl is moving to Super Bowl week. The NFL announced Wednesday the 2026 Pro Bowl Games will be held during Super Bowl LX week in the Bay Area. The main event will still be a flag football game, pitting the NFC against the AFC, and that now

By Frank Nunns OConnell, CNN (CNN) — Giants quarterback Russell Wilson called his former head coach Sean Payton “classless” following comments he made after the Denver Broncos’ 33-32 victory over New York on Sunday. “Classless… but not surprised… Didn’t realize you’re still bounty hunting 15+ years later through the media,” Wilson wrote on X followed

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — For the Seattle Mariners, the wait goes on. One game away from reaching a first World Series in franchise history, Seattle fell heartbreakingly short in Monday’s 4-3 defeat against the Toronto Blue Jays. The gut-wrenching loss ensures that the Mariners’ unwanted record as the only team in Major League

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has said that WNBA players will get “a big increase” in pay from the league’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday before the start of the new NBA season, Silver was asked whether players in the WNBA should be

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The NBA is back for another intriguing season and it began in emphatic fashion on Tuesday night. On an evening which began with the celebration of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s title victory – with players receiving their championship rings and a banner being raised to the rafters of Paycom

By Amy Woodyatt, Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Maccabi Tel Aviv has said it will not accept any prospective ticket allocation from Aston Villa following a ban on the Israeli soccer club’s fans from attending a Europa League game in Birmingham next month due to security concerns. The ban was put into place by local

By Jamie Barton, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — In a small Swedish fishing village, there is a tiny soccer stadium tucked away beside a campsite and the shores of the Baltic Sea. It is the type of place where the land is so flat that the horizon sits just above the trees and the sky

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — For the final time this NFL season, there was a double-header on Monday Night Football. Week 7’s two Monday games saw the Detroit Lions comfortably handle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seahawks outlast the Houston Texans to provide a small salve to Seattle sports fans. There were plenty

By Frank Nunns O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — The NBA is being hit by an international storm, attracting athletes from all corners of the world. At the start of the 2024-25 season, the league announced that a record-tying 125 international players were on opening night rosters. Those 125 players came from 43 countries, including Australia, Germany,

By Frank Nunns O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his sixth home run of the 2025 postseason as the Toronto Blue Jays dominated the Seattle Mariners 6-2 on Sunday to force Game 7 in the American League Championship Series (ALCS). The only major league team without a pennant, Seattle will play a Game

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The Tel Aviv soccer derby between Hapoel and Maccabi was canceled on Sunday after what police described as “public disorder and violent riots.” The Israeli Premier League match was due to be played at Bloomfield Stadium, which is shared by the two Tel Aviv rivals, but videos on social

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The theme of the NFL season so far has been the uncertainty of results, with late comebacks or collapses happening more and more. And Week 7 was no different, with teams overturning seemingly insurmountable leads to somehow rescue results from the most unlikely of situations. Through the first seven