National Sports

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — The women’s NCAA basketball tournament has been full of star power, with Iowa’s Caitlin Clark front and center. But there wasn’t a team as loaded as South Carolina’s. For the third time, the Gamecocks are national champions, defeating Iowa 87-75, completing a perfect 38-0 season and preventing Clark from

By Cassidy Hettesheimer, CNN (CNN) — When Jaedyn Shaw played youth soccer at FC Dallas, she would put her hair into a high ponytail, straightened, with a black prewrap. “A Mal Pugh ponytail,” Shaw called it, in honor of Mallory Swanson, née Pugh, the US national team forward who wore her hair the same way.

By Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — With one game remaining in the storied college career of Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, the national player of the year is focused on the task at hand but expects a “wave of emotion” no matter the outcome in Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament final. “I don’t have many emotions of,

By Jacob Lev and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Sixty-eight teams began March Madness, and now we know who is going to the NCAA men’s championship game on Monday. Defending champion UConn stepped closer to making history with an 86-72 Final Four win over Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday. The No. 1 seed is

By Issy Ronald and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The controversial late foul call that proved pivotal in Iowa’s 71-69 victory over UConn in the women’s Final Four sparked some outrage on social media with stars like LeBron James and Angel Reese weighing in. However, UConn players voiced their frustration but refused to use it

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Jasmin Paris, the first woman ever to finish the 100-plus-mile Barkley Marathons, has a lengthy injury list: tendonitis in one knee, swelling in her feet, and a series of itchy cuts criss-crossed over her arms and legs, now starting to scab over. “And, obviously, blisters and the toenails are

By Jill Martin and Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — The Oakland Athletics plan to play in the city of West Sacramento, California, starting in 2025 while the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise waits for a stadium to be built in Las Vegas, Nevada. The A’s made the announcement Thursday, saying the team will play home

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard is in hospital after suffering a horror crash during stage four of the Tour of the Basque Country on Thursday. His cycling team, Team Visma, said that Vingegaard suffered a broken collarbone, several broken ribs, a pulmonary contusion and pneumothorax, or collapsed

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — A “clearly audible” racial slur was directed at the Utah women’s basketball team ahead of the NCAA tournament, police said on Wednesday. Utah was staying at a hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho ahead of their opening March Madness game when the incidents took place last month and left the

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Caitlin Clark’s final game in an Iowa uniform will be with a national championship on the line. And it’s going to come against a team potentially on the verge of a dynasty. No. 1 Iowa narrowly advanced to the women’s NCAA tournament national championship game after surviving a scare

By Ben Morse and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The New York Yankees announced on Thursday that it will push back its MLB game on April 8 because of the solar eclipse taking place that day. The home game against the Miami Marlins was originally scheduled to start at 2.05 p.m. E.T. but now has

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — This was a late show and then some from Cole Palmer as the 21-year-old forward guided Chelsea to a dramatic 4-3 Premier League victory over Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Thursday. With United holding a goal advantage heading into the 10th minute of additional time, Chelsea was awarded

By Thomas Schlachter and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The disgraced former head of Spanish soccer has denied he sexually assaulted a star player on the women’s national team with an unwanted kiss following their World Cup victory last year – suggesting he is only being questioned because he is a man. Speaking in a television interview aired on Wednesday,

By Sarah Dewberry and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was driving the speeding Lamborghini involved in a six-car crash in Dallas on Saturday in which two people were hospitalized with minor injuries, his attorney Royce West said Thursday. Rice is fully cooperating with police and answered all the

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — If you were to think of the best ways to prepare for the Final Four, this certainly wouldn’t be it. The University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team experienced a nightmare journey to the NCAA tournament semifinals in Glendale, Arizona, one that involved lengthy delays and mechanical problems with