Sports

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN Kirsten Neuschäfer has become the first woman to win the Golden Globe Race. Neuschäfer and 15 other competitors, who were all men, set off from Les Sables-d’Olonne, France on September 4, 2022, with the aim of making it around the world via the five Great Capes before returning to the coastal

By Ben Morse, CNN We’ve seen it before. Those cutaways during the NFL Draft to hopefuls waiting for their names to be picked as other players are chosen ahead of them. Expressions range from confusion and disbelief to awkwardness and anger. Some eventually iconic names have had to run the NFL Draft greenroom gauntlet in

By George Ramsay, CNN Simona Halep says she has been under huge stress as the two-time grand slam winner bids to clear her name and return to tennis following a positive drug test. Halep tested positive for Roxadustat, a banned substance listed on the 2022 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list, at last year’s US

By Ben Morse, CNN Barcelona reached its third straight Women’s Champions League final with a 1-1 draw against Chelsea on Thursday, ensuring the Spanish club advanced 2-1 on aggregate. Caroline Graham Hansen — who scored the only goal in the first leg — once again struck midway through the second half to give the Spanish

By Matias Grez, CNN Any Time, Any Place — just not in Atlanta on Thursday. Boston star Jayson Tatum apologized to Janet Jackson after the Celtics’ 128-120 Game 6 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Jackson had been scheduled to perform a concert at the Hawks’ State Farm Arena on Thursday, but — in a turn

By Matt Foster, CNN USA Boxing, the national governing body for the sport in the country, terminated its membership of the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA) on Wednesday as a result of the organization’s failure to address issues which saw the IBA’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition suspended in 2019. USA Boxing, which had been

By Steve Almasy and Jacob Lev, CNN The Carolina Panthers have selected University of Alabama quarterback and 2021 Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young with the first pick of the NFL Draft. “It’s surreal. It’s a dream come true,” Young told the ESPN broadcast. “As amazing of a moment this is, I’m going to try to

CNN, KPHO, KTVK By Ben Morse and Jill Martin, CNN Brittney Griner said during a news conference on Thursday that she’ll “never go overseas again” to play basketball, unless it’s for the Olympics after being detained in Russia. The two-time Olympic gold-medalist spent nearly 300 days in Russian custody following her detention in February 2022

By George Ramsay, CNN Should you ever need a reminder of how good Pelé was at football, just look up his name in a Portuguese dictionary. The Brazilian football legend, who passed away in December, has been added to the Portuguese edition of the Michaelis dictionary as an adjective to describe someone or something “out