Sports

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — New York Yankees ace right-hander Gerrit Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow, the team announced Monday. The 2023 American League Cy Young winner is set to have surgery Tuesday and will likely miss the entire 2025 season. Earlier on Monday, Cole was seen by Dr.

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Bags are being packed and new faces are popping up all over the NFL map: The free agency madness has officially begun, with the New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks taking center stage. The NFL’s free agent negotiation period began on Monday and a flurry of reported moves came

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Jim Best admits that he’s not the best golfer, but he does spend most of his time on some of the world’s best golf courses. He says he struggles to keep his ball on the fairway, and yet he’s made his living from the game. He’s got tremendous feel

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — The Norwegian Ski Federation has suspended three members of staff amid a cheating scandal that has rocked the organization. On Sunday, the federation said that the suits of two ski jumpers, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, had been manipulated ahead of the men’s large hill event at the

By Julia Andersen, CNN (CNN) — Dutch athlete Maureen Koster was hospitalized after being knocked unconscious and suffering a “mild concussion” during the 3,000m final at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on Sunday. Koster, a two-time Olympian, fell after being tripped by other runners around the 1,000m mark of the race. Replays showed

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — In a battle of this NBA season’s two leading MVP candidates, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander got one up on Nikola Jokić with a huge 40-point performance to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a dominant 127-103 win over the Denver Nuggets. The Thunder took a narrow three-point lead into the fourth

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — We may still be two months away from the end of this year’s English Premier League, but it seems like a champion is set to be crowned. Liverpool is now 15 points clear at the top of the table with just nine games left to play and would need

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have landed star wide receiver DK Metcalf from the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for a 2025 second-round pick, according to multiple reports, including ESPN and NFL Network. One week after the wide receiver requested a trade, he’ll now head to Steel City where he

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Have a year Josh Allen. A month after winning his first career NFL Most Valuable Player award, the Buffalo Bills superstar quarterback Josh Allen has secured another accomplishment. The 28-year-old Allen and the Bills agreed to a contract extension that will keep him in Buffalo through 2030, the team

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Alex Ovechkin has inched within single digits of overtaking Wayne Gretzky as the NHL’s all-time goals leader after scoring an empty-net goal in the Washington Capitals’ 4-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Sunday. Late in the third period, with the Kraken having pulled goaltender Joey Daccord,

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Katherine Legge accomplished something no woman has done in seven years. Compete in the NASCAR Cup Series. The 44-year-old English driver made her Cup Series debut on Sunday at the Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway in Arizona, before being involved in a crash that ended her day early.

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Cleveland Browns superstar defensive end Myles Garrett is staying in “The Land” after all. Sunday, the Browns and the four-time All-Pro agreed to a four-year contract extension through the 2030 season, Cleveland announced. The deal is worth $40 million a year, including $123.5 million guaranteed, sources with knowledge of

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — It seems almost every time Mikaela Shiffrin steps out onto the slopes, she makes more skiing history. And on Sunday, the American skier broke yet another record with her 156th podium finish as she finished third in the slalom in Åre, Sweden. With that third-place finish, Shiffrin now has

By Thomas Schlachter and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The most wonderful time of year for college basketball fans is almost upon us and Saturday’s hoops action served as a timely reminder of the March Madness chaos that awaits. In a jam-packed night of basketball, both Alabama and St. John’s took wins in their final

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — There was a time, not so long ago, when Novak Djokovic lost so rarely that it seemed the tennis world wobbled on its axis every time he did, shaking with the shock of it all. But the 37-year-old’s surprise 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 loss on Saturday to Botic van de

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Jon Cooper is still marveling that one of the biggest achievements of his career became a surreal international drama: A long-awaited chance to indulge in the friendly Canada-United States hockey rivalry in the 4 Nations Face-Off was quickly overtaken by geopolitical events that supercharged the already heightened emotions. “A