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By Kevin Dotson, CNN Former NFL player Demaryius Thomas was suffering from stage 2 CTE when he died late last year, according to his parents. Katina Stuckey Smith and Bobby Thomas said the diagnosis came after an examination of their son’s brain following his death in December, according to a news release from the Concussion

By David Close, CNN Mike Grier has been named the San Jose Sharks new general manager. Grier’s hire is historic as he becomes the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first Black general manager, according to the team. The Sharks say Grier, who has spent nearly a lifetime around the game as a player and later as

By George Ramsay, CNN At 8:30 a.m., a few hours before play starts at Wimbledon, Tatjana Maria heads to practice. It’s a daily ritual that has served her well throughout the tournament so far, even though she won’t end up hitting a ball. That’s because her eight-year-old daughter, Charlotte, is a budding tennis star who

By Matias Grez, CNN Euro 2022 looks set to be the crescendo for a record-breaking wave of support for women’s football in Europe this season. Around 450,000 tickets have already been sold for the 16-team tournament — including a sellout 73,200 for England’s opener against Austria at Old Trafford and 87,200 for the Wembley final

By Ben Morse, CNN Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell said that he’s received death threats telling him to “go die” having joined the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour. Golfers have been criticized heavily for joining the breakaway tour, which is backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Mohammed

By Ben Morse, CNN Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has said he supports the cause of environmentalist group Just Stop Oil, but not some of its methods after group members invaded the track during the British Grand Prix. At Sunday’s Grand Prix at Silverstone, a group of protesters wearing orange T-shirts sat on

By George Ramsay, CNN Nick Kyrgios and Stefanos Tsitsipas have both been fined following their fiery third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. World No. 5 Tsitsipas was handed a $10,000 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct — the joint-highest single fine of the tournament so far. After the match, he apologized for hitting a ball into the

By Issy Ronald, CNN As he has done so many times before, Roger Federer stepped onto Centre Court at Wimbledon. But clad in a suit and tie, rather than traditional Wimbledon whites, the 40-year-old was attending the tournament’s Centre Court Centenary Celebration on Sunday. Predictably, he received a raucous welcome from fans. “This court has

By Matias Grez, CNN Formula One driver Zhou Guanyu has credited his car’s halo protection device for saving his life after he was involved in a horrific high-speed crash during the first lap of Sunday’s British Grand Prix. Zhou was one of several drivers involved in the turn one crash, which resulted in his Alfa

By Ben Church, CNN Carlos Sainz secured his first victory in F1 during a dramatic British Grand Prix on Sunday where Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu survived a huge crash on the first lap. The race had to be restarted after Zhou’s car was flipped upside down and crashed into a fence having been clipped shortly

By Ben Church, CNN Stefanos Tsitsipas said Nick Kyrgios has an “evil side” to his character after losing to the Australian in a feisty match at Wimbledon on Saturday. Kyrgios beat Tsitsipas in four sets — 6-7(2) 6-4 6-3 7-6(7) — in an action-packed, controversial game on Court One but the pair continued the feud

By Andrew McNicol, CNN Ukrainian professional footballer Aleks Shliakotin begged his parents to flee the country after Russian bombs went off a kilometer from their Kyiv home. But they were adamant they would be fine hiding out in their old apartment in the leafy suburb of Bucha. That was back in February. Four months on,

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek, ranked world No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association, was defeated by France’s Alizé Cornet at Wimbledon Saturday, ending her 37-match winning streak. Swiatek, who lost to Cornet, 6-4 6-2, in the third round match, started slow in the opening set dropping the first

By Ben Church, CNN Venus Williams said she had “no plans” of playing at Wimbledon this year but that the atmosphere around the grass court grand slam persuaded her to play. The 42-year-old has not played competitively for almost a year but has partnered up with Jamie Murray, brother of three-time grand slam champion Andy

By Amy Woodyatt and Jacob Lev, CNN Mychelle Johnson, wife of Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges, posted a series of photographs showing what appear to be injuries to her face and body on Instagram and a hospital discharge document, two days after her husband was arrested and charged with a felony in Los Angeles. Johnson