Sports

By Jacob Lev and Issy Ronald, CNN Brittney Griner’s name has been called countless times by stadium announcers throughout her career, including before WNBA All-Star games, Olympic finals, and WNBA finals. But this time was different, even though it was a preseason game, for it marked her first competitive game since she spent nearly 300

CNN By Thomas Schlachter and Amanda Davies, CNN On June 12, 2021, Denmark’s Christian Eriksen collapsed in the corner of the pitch during a European Championship match against Finland. As his teammates surrounded him, arm-in-arm, shielding him from the eyes of the world, doctors began working to save the midfielder’s life. “Well, what should I

By Thomas Schlachter and Amanda Davies, CNN On June 12, 2021, Denmark’s Christian Eriksen collapsed in the corner of the pitch during a European Championship match against Finland. As his teammates surrounded him, arm-in-arm, shielding him from the eyes of the world, doctors began working to save the midfielder’s life. “Well, what should I say?

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN Dogs taking over a front office, Josh Allen becoming a paperboy, and Angela from “The Office” starring alongside Peyton Manning can only mean one thing — the NFL schedule has just been released. The entire NFL 2023 season schedule was released on Thursday, and once again teams from across the league

By Ben Church, CNN José Mourinho, who in 2004 famously referred to himself as the ‘The Special One‘ as he was introduced to the media as the new Chelsea manager, is having quite a week. Under the 60-year-old’s watchful gaze, Italian club Roma is well placed to reach this season’s Europa League final having beaten

By George Ramsay, CNN Another parent’s attempts to “psych her out” spurred Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to compete in her son’s sports day, the Olympic sprinter said in an interview with The Guardian this week. Fraser-Pryce, a two-time Olympic champion in the 100 meters, inevitably ended up winning the parents race with ease and footage of her

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN For the second year running, the Phoenix Suns have been blown out of the Western Conference semifinals as they fell to a 125-100 defeat against Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets. In a series which many predicted would contain the eventual winner of the Western Conference, only one team showed up

By George Ramsay, CNN Erling Haaland’s arrival at Manchester City last summer was met with equal measures of excitement and curiosity. At the age of 22, the Norwegian forward had already established himself as one of the best goalscorers in European football — first at Red Bull Salzburg, then with two prolific seasons at Borussia

By Matias Grez, CNN New York City FC has released a first look at the renderings for its plans to build a new 25,000-seat stadium complex in Queens, the first soccer-specific stadium in the city. In addition to the $780 million stadium, the project plans are set to include 40,000 square feet of public open

By Matias Grez, CNN The organizers of the Madrid Open have apologized to four leading tennis players following widespread criticism of their treatment after the women’s doubles final on Sunday. Neither the winners — Beatriz Haddad Maia and Victoria Azarenka — or the losers — US pair Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff — gave acceptance

By Ben Church, CNN Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel had a tough day at the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday after the world champion and pre-race favorite was involved in two crashes, the first involving a dog. Video footage shows the dog walking on the other side of the road before running directly at the peloton as

By Ben Morse, CNN The Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 121-106 in Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinals playoff series to keep their season alive. Steph Curry spearheaded the reigning champions with 27 points and eight assists as the Warriors moved to within a game of the Lakers in their best-of-seven