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By Jacob Lev, CNN The Instagram account set up to provide updates on injured Little Leaguer Easton Oliverson posted Friday that Easton was out of surgery and that doctors were “happy with the outcome.” “We couldn’t be more thrilled to let everyone know that his surgery went perfect,” the post said. The 12-year-old had surgery

By Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN It felt almost like a family reunion at Barcelona’s Camp Nou as Xavi Hernández and Pep Guardiola faced each other for the first time as managers this week. Guardiola, a former Barça player and manager, always receives a reverent welcome from the club’s supporters, and Wednesday was no exception as his

By Issy Ronald, CNN When Emma Raducanu won the US Open last year, she dropped her racket, sank to the floor and covered her face in her hands. It was a familiar scene, one repeated throughout the years by first-time grand slam winners; Daniil Medvedev also fell to the floor as he won his maiden

By Jacob Lev, CNN Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Chet Holmgren will miss the upcoming season with a foot injury, the team announced on Thursday. Holmgren, who was selected second overall in this year’s draft out of Gonzaga University, was diagnosed with a Lisfranc injury in his right foot — affecting the area between the mid

By Jacob Lev, CNN Los Angeles Rams star Aaron Donald appeared to swing a Cincinnati Bengals player’s helmet during a brawl in a joint practice on Thursday, prompting both teams to end the session. A video posted on Twitter shows Donald holding a Bengals helmet and swinging it before getting knocked to the ground and

By Ramin Mostaghim, Adam Pourahmadi and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Hundreds of Iranian women attended a professional domestic football match in Tehran for the first time in over 40 years, following a ban on women attending sports stadiums. Five hundred women were granted access into Tehran’s Azadi stadium to watch a league match between Tehran-based Esteghlal

By Rishabh Pratap, CNN Indian kickboxer Yora Tade died at a government hospital in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Tuesday after collapsing in the ring during a national championship final match. Tade, 24, was taken to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai on Sunday after suffering a “hard knock on his

By Ben Morse and Matt Foster, CNN Twenty-one time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic has announced his absence from the upcoming US Open via a Twitter post on Thursday. Djokovic has remained unvaccinated against Covid-19 throughout the pandemic, and current US rules stipulate that any non-US citizen must be fully vaccinated against the virus in

By Ben Morse and Matt Foster, CNN A Ukrainian Premier League (UPL) football match in Lviv was halted four times on Wednesday as a result of multiple air raid sirens at Skif Stadium in Lviv, according to the UPL. Air raid sirens are one of the many safety measures implemented by the league in an

By Issy Ronald and Carolyn Manno, CNN Nobody quite knows why pickleball is called pickleball. Some stories say that it was named after the founders’ family dog, Pickles, who kept running off with the ball. Others that Pickles was born two years after the game’s inception and that the name is instead a reference to

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Shaquem Griffin — who the NFL called “a true inspiration” — officially announced his retirement from the NFL on Wednesday. Griffin is the only one-handed player in NFL history, having lost his left hand at the age of four due to a prenatal condition, according to

By CNN Sport staff On Wednesday, the US Open held its ‘Tennis Plays for Peace’ event for Ukraine relief ahead of the start of the year’s final grand slam event, raising $1.2 million, according to the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Participating in the event held in New York were Rafael Nadal, Iga Swiatek, John

By Kevin Dotson, Sammy Mngqosini and Issy Ronald, CNN Thirty-one years ago, the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union was issued, an occasion traditionally marked with celebrations and military parades in the streets of Kyiv. Ukraine’s Independence Day this year marks six months exactly since Russia invaded and began a bloody war which

By Ben Church, CNN It’s turning out to be quite the season for Aaron Judge. The New York Yankees star has now totaled 48 home runs after hitting his second in as many games against the New York Mets this week in the Subway Series. His MLB-leading 48th homer came as he launched a drive

By Wayne Sterling, CNN Brooklyn Nets All-Star forward Kevin Durant will remain with the franchise, general manager Sean Marks said on Tuesday. After Durant reportedly requested a trade from the Nets less than two months ago, Marks announced the news on social media. “Steve Nash and I, together with Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai,

By Ben Church, CNN The woman who​m Nick Kyrgios accused of having had “700 drinks” and being “drunk out of her mind” during this year’s Wimbledon final in early July says she is suing the Australian tennis player for defamation. In a statement sent to CNN by her lawyers on Tuesday, Anna Palus accused Kyrgios