Sports

By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — In 1938, the Owls Club, a group of talented Black women in Seattle, Washington, won the first-ever Black women’s professional softball championship. The next year, behind left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown’s dominant performance — where she struck out 12 Manette batters — the team, then renamed the Brown Bombers, won

By Aleks Klosok, Amanda Davies, CNN London (CNN) — Arsenal star Bukayo Saka has exclusively told CNN Sports that his side has “the opportunity to make history” after the 24-year-old committed his long-term future to the current Premier League leaders. The forward, who joined the club’s academy at the age of eight, recently signed a

By Mia Fishman, CNN (CNN) — United States Olympic women’s hockey team captain Hilary Knight called President Trump’s invitation to the White House “a distasteful joke” on Wednesday during an appearance on ESPN’s SportsCenter. The invite came after Trump extended a welcome to the men’s team via a phone call on Sunday, as celebration ensued

By Mia Fishman, CNN (CNN) — Lindsey Vonn credited her doctor with saving her leg from amputation in an Instagram video posted Monday, going in-depth on the severity of the injury she suffered in her devastating crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics. In the video, Vonn explained the details of the leg injury she sustained

By Andy Scholes, CNN (CNN) — Growing up in Houston, Texas, I would beg my parents all the time to take me to my local card shop. If I got birthday money from an aunt, “Please, can we go to the card shop? I’ll do extra chores if we can go Friday.” Opening packs of

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Milan (CNN) — Outside the arena here, it felt like all of Canada had arrived, not so much for a hockey game but for a statement. This, this sport played on ice, belongs to us. You Americans may keep your football; we get hockey. And so, they sipped their beer, using

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Norway’s director of elite sport sounded a little hoarse when he answered the phone to CNN Sports. Tore Øvebrø said he had just caught a cold, but he admitted that his raspy voice might also have something to do with his cheering over the last two weeks. “It didn’t

By Patrick Snell, CNN (CNN) — If Team USA is looking for inspiration ahead of the men’s Olympic hockey final Sunday against fierce rivals Canada, it need look no further than the iconic exploits of the “Miracle on Ice” heroes from 1980. It’s been 46 years since the last time the United States won gold