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By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Shiva Amini says that the lives of Iranian athletes can change with the snap of a finger. Amini was a soccer player on Iran’s national futsal team until 2017, when she was pictured casually playing soccer with some male friends in Switzerland – a crime, she was told by

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Team USA and Venezuela are set to meet Tuesday night in the final of the World Baseball Classic, a fitting showdown between two of the top teams on the field from nations that have a long and tense history off it. Venezuela booked its trip to the final with

By CNN Staff (CNN) — In too many bracket pools to count? Trying to keep on top of how you’re doing in brackets across three or four different apps? Just like the feeling of crossing out incorrect picks on your busted bracket with a pen instead of watching a computer tell you how wrong you

CNN By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Just as the CBS music is the call to gather for all basketball worshipers on the high holy day of Selection Sunday, the wounded are required to wail about the unrighteous committee members who wronged them. Or this year, let Bruce Pearl do it for them. Let’s just

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Just as the CBS music is the call to gather for all basketball worshipers on the high holy day of Selection Sunday, the wounded are required to wail about the unrighteous committee members who wronged them. Or this year, let Bruce Pearl do it for them. Let’s just not,

By Dana O’Neil, CNN New York (CNN) — “Dormant.’’ That’s the word Steve Masiello used to describe the St. John’s program he walked into three seasons ago as Rick Pitino’s associate head coach. He said this while, behind him, the Red Storm players picked their way through the confetti strewn across the Madison Square Garden

By Associated Press Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (AP) — A man shot and killed two people in a drug store parking lot near the TPC Sawgrass and then escaped by going onto TPC Sawgrass, leading The Players Championship to delay opening gates as a precaution before the third round Saturday morning, authorities said. St. Johns

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Sam Hoiberg sat at the far end of the Nebraska bench and watched one dismal loss beget the next. Between December 1, 2021, and February 5, 2022, the Cornhuskers lost 15 of 16, only claiming victory against lowly Kennesaw State. The Huskers took a brief pause from their doldrums

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — The blaring alarm startled Malik Hall out of his sleep in the early morning of February 28. Months earlier, when he first arrived to play for Ironi Kiryat Ata B.C., a team in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, the former Michigan State basketball player was told to download an