Sports

By Matt Foster and Heather Chen, CNN English cricketer Sam Curran has become the most expensive auction buy in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL) — after being sold to the Punjab Kings for 18.5 crore rupees ($2.22 million). Friday’s auction, which took place in the Indian city of Kochi, saw multiple records

By Jacob Lev, CNN A review into New England Patriots wide receiver DeVante Parker’s head injury found no violations of the National Football League’s concussion protocol, the NFL and NFL Players Association announced Friday in a joint statement. In the first quarter of the Patriots’ game against the Arizona Cardinals on December 12, Parker received

By Jill Martin and Zoe Sottile, CNN Major League Baseball announced Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, who had been suspended for violating the league’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse policy, has been reinstated. An arbitrator reduced his suspension from 324 games to 194, effective immediately. Bauer has not played

By Matt Foster, CNN George Cohen, England’s right-back for their 1966 World Cup triumph, has died aged 83. The news was announced by his former club Fulham on Friday. No cause of death was given. “Everyone associated with Fulham Football Club is desperately saddened to learn of the passing of one of our greatest ever

By Matt Foster and Zayn Nabbi, CNN Italian rugby team Benetton Treviso announced Thursday that they have suspended a member of their team after Guinea-born Italian international Cherif Traore received a “rotten banana in a wet bag” as a gift during a Christmas dinner. In a statement posted to its official website, Benetton, along with

By Ben Church, CNN Quarterback Zach Wilson endured a torrid night before eventually being benched as the New York ​​Jets were beaten 19-3 by the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday. Wilson was booed at different points throughout the game before being replaced by Chris Streveler in the third quarter after completing just nine of 18 passes

By David J. Lopez, CNN Fifty years after the “Immaculate Reception” and just hours before his death, Franco Harris said it “blows my mind” how he pulled off arguably the most memorable play in NFL history. In a live interview Tuesday on “Mad Dog Unleashed” on SiriusXM radio, Harris recalled December 23, 1972, when he

By George Ramsay, CNN An athlete, former jockey AP McCoy said earlier this year, is the only person who dies twice, such is the pain of walking away from the intoxicating, all-consuming nature of professional sport. McCoy retired from his long, decorated racing career in 2015, and since then has had to learn, in his

By Matt Foster, CNN Male athletes will be allowed to compete in Olympic Artistic Swimming events for the first time at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the aquatic sports’ global governing body FINA said on Thursday. The news comes after the International Olympic Committee approved World Aquatics’ request to permit the inclusion of men at

By Matt Foster, CNN Ronnie Hillman, a Super Bowl-winning running back for the Denver Broncos, passed away aged 31 on Wednesday, according to a post from his family on his Instagram page. Hillman was in August diagnosed with renal medullary carcinoma, a rare form of cancer, according to a statement posted to his social media

By Matias Grez, CNN The Brooklyn Nets put up a franchise record 91 points in the first half — the third highest total in NBA history — in Wednesday’s 143-113 blowout win over reigning champion the Golden State Warriors. The Phoenix Suns hold the first half points record with 107 scored against Denver in 1990,

CNN By George Ramsay, CNN It’s believed to be a sport that started with a siesta. The intense heat in Acapulco, Mexico meant businessman Enrique Corcuera would take a nap at his family home each afternoon. His daughter Viviana, meanwhile, would irritate him by hitting tennis balls against the walls of the house. That prompted

By George Ramsay, CNN It’s believed to be a sport that started with a siesta. The intense heat in Acapulco, Mexico meant businessman Enrique Corcuera would take a nap at his family home each afternoon. His daughter Viviana, meanwhile, would irritate him by hitting tennis balls against the walls of the house. That prompted Corcuera

By Angela Reyes and Jill Martin, CNN Pelé’s health has worsened and the Brazilian soccer great now requires greater care due to the progression of his cancer, according to a statement by the Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital in São Paulo on Wednesday. Pelé was admitted to the hospital on November 29 for a respiratory infection

By Jack Bantock, CNN A coalition of families and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks says it will protest at the “front door” of Augusta National Golf Club if the institution doesn’t reconsider its decision to invite golfers who have played in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series to the Masters in April. A number of

By Matias Grez, CNN Lionel Messi sits on Sergio Aguero’s shoulders, both hands clasped firmly on the World Cup trophy as he holds it aloft. A broad smile is etched across his face, his eyes alight; it is a moment of pure, raw joy, the culmination of a lifelong dream after years of World Cup