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By John Sinnott, CNN Real Madrid drew Liverpool in the Champions League round-of-16 stage on Monday in a rematch of last season’s final. Los Blancos beat Liverpool 1-0 in Paris in May to win their 14th European Cup. The 2022 final was overshadowed by chaos outside the stadium and there was widespread criticism towards the

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Just a week after Halloween, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers continued their scary start to the season, losing 114-100 to a hot Cleveland Cavaliers team and falling to 2-7 on the year. Thanks to a dominant backcourt performance led by Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland — who combined for

By Ben Morse, CNN Tom Brady is synonymous with making history. And on Sunday, he became the first player in NFL history to reach 100,000 passing yards in his career, combining regular season and playoffs, in a 16-13 comeback win for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers over the Los Angeles Rams. The 43-year-old completed a pass

By Jacob Lev, CNN The Boston Bruins have rescinded their contract with Mitchell Miller after the National Hockey League deemed him ineligible to join the team due to a bullying incident the player participated in when he was a young teenager. The decision, announced Sunday, is effective immediately, just days after the Bruins on Friday

By Emma Tucker and Jacob Lev, CNN Joey Logano won the NASCAR Cup Series championship Sunday, claiming the trophy after 312 laps at the Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. The win gives Logano his second career championship, the first coming in 2018 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Las Vegas. Before his first win, Logano had been

By Kevin Dotson, CNN Coy Gibbs, co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, son of team patriarch Joe Gibbs and father of NASCAR driver Ty Gibbs, has died at the age of 49, the racing team announced. “It is with great sorrow that Joe Gibbs Racing confirms that Coy Gibbs (co-owner) went to be with the Lord

By Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia fired his Ducati to an historic MotoGP title on Sunday, in front of 170,380 fans at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain. He becomes the first Italian to win the premier class since the great Valentino Rossi in 2009, the first Ducati rider to take the crown

By Ben Morse and George Ramsay, CNN “Mattress Mack” had reason to celebrate the Houston Astros’ World Series win on Saturday — and not just because he’s an Astros superfan. Houston furniture store owner Jim McIngvale, known as “Mattress Mack,” made a series of bets amounting to $10 million on the Astros to win the

By Issy Ronald, CNN Lionel Messi has already said that the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be his last chance to add a World Cup winner’s medal to his otherwise complete, glittering trophy cabinet. It adds a certain amount of tension to the Argentine’s World Cup build-up, one that became a little tauter on Saturday

By Issy Ronald, CNN A week after she obliterated the 1500m short-course record, Katie Ledecky broke another — this time in the 800m as she stormed to victory at the FINA World Cup in Indianapolis. The American shaved almost two seconds off Mireia Belmonte’s previous record of 7:59.34, setting a new best time of 7:57.42.

By Hannah Brewitt, CNN The two most recent Super Bowl winners face off on Sunday when the Los Angeles Rams (3-4) travel south to face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-5). This will be just the eighth time in the past 20 seasons that the two most recent Super Bowl champions will meet in the regular

By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the NASCAR Cup Series making its final stop of the 2022 season at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday, four drivers will compete to be crowned champion. The format is simple: whoever takes the checkered flag ahead of the others takes home the title. Here’s what to know about Sunday’s season finale

By Kevin Dotson, CNN In what was being advertised as the game of the year in college football, the defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs knocked off the Tennessee Volunteers at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday. The Volunteers had debuted at No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season but

By Jacob Lev, CNN Gareth Bale’s dramatic, late goal helped Los Angeles Football Club win the Major League Soccer Cup for the first time in a thrilling, frantic final against Philadelphia Union at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. Jack Elliott looked to have won the game for Philadelphia when he scored in stoppage

By Kevin Dotson, CNN NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday said Mitchell Miller, who was previously involved in a bullying scandal, is not currently eligible to play in the league, and added league officials were not consulted by the Boston Bruins before the team signed Miller. “He’s not coming into the NHL, he’s not eligible

By Sammy Mngqosini and Issy Ronald, CNN West Ham defender Kurt Zouma has said that he is “very, very sorry” after kicking and slapping a cat in February, as he reflected on a “difficult spell for me and my family” in an interview with his club website. He was later ordered to complete 180 hours

By Homero De La Fuente and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James says former teammate Kyrie Irving “caused some harm to a lot of people.” Irving missed the first of several Brooklyn Nets games Friday after he was suspended for comments regarding his tweet linking to an antisemitic documentary. Speaking to reporters

By Issy Ronald, CNN Both the Georgia Bulldogs and the Tennessee Volunteers boast 8-0 records this season, but one of their undefeated streaks must crumble on Saturday. The Bulldogs enter the game ranked No.1 in the AP Poll with the Vols tied for second, marking only the third regular season meeting in SEC history between

By Jacob Lev and Ben Church, CNN The Houston Astros won the franchise’s second World Series title on Saturday after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in Game 6 at Minute Maid Park. It was the Phillies who got the scoring started in the top of the sixth inning with a Kyle Schwarber solo home run

By Ben Church, CNN It’s all looking very positive at Arsenal football club this season. Heading into the World Cup break, the men’s team sits atop the English Premier League, with a manager full of ideas and a fearless new generation breaking through into the first team. In the first part of this split season,

By Kevin Dotson, CNN The NHL’s Boston Bruins announced Friday that the team had signed Mitchell Miller to an entry-level contract. The signing comes two years after the Arizona Coyotes renounced their rights to Miller, who the Coyotes drafted in the 4th round of the 2020 NHL draft, after a report in the Arizona Republic

By Rebekah Riess and David Close, CNN A sports psychologist, who was under contract with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs, has filed a civil lawsuit against the organization and 19-year-old former Spurs player Joshua Primo. The psychologist alleges the player exposed himself to her during therapy sessions and claimed the organization’s leadership failed to act

By Ben Church, CNN Nikola Jokic broke new ground on Thursday as he recorded yet another triple-double in the Denver Nuggets’ 122-110 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The back-to-back MVP scored 15 points with 13 rebounds and 13 assists to overtake Wilt Chamberlain for the most triple-doubles ever recorded by a center. Now on

By Ben Morse, CNN Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué has announced his retirement from football, saying Saturday’s game against Almería will be his last. In a heartfelt video posted on his social media on Thursday, the 35-year-old Piqué said “it is the moment to end this stage of my life” after a legendary career at both

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Premier League clubs Manchester United and Fulham are among the organizations that are partnering with rapper Stormzy’s Merky FC to improve diversity and representation at all levels of the football industry. The program was announced following a report commissioned by Adidas and the FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) Network which