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By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Upon arriving at the James Madison University campus in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in 1999, Jeff Bourne spied a 12,500-seat football stadium on a campus that only started playing the sport a little more than 25 years earlier. He somehow saw a future. He ignored the lackluster three-win season

By Andy Scholes, CNN (CNN) — As the calendar flips toward Christmas, the NFL kicks the pressure up another notch. Saturday games are back, playoff math is everywhere, and for many teams it’s simple: Win now or start planning January vacations. Here are five things to know heading into a pivotal Week 16. Packers-Bears: A

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Jake Paul facing Anthony Joshua in a professional boxing match is a scenario that no one could have ever seen coming even five years ago. Back in 2020, Joshua was still flying high at the top of the heavyweight division having won his world titles back off Andy Ruiz

By Starre Vartan, CNN (CNN) — When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she felt something she hadn’t expected at the height of her athletic career: embarrassment. The compression tank top and short, snug skort were meant to be performance wear. Instead, the top

By Frank Nunns O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh Steelers eased past the Miami Dolphins 28-15 to extend their Monday Night Football home win streak to 23 and remain top of the AFC North with just three games remaining in the NFL regular season. In freezing 17-degree conditions in Steel City’s Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh quarterback

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Summer Olympics have promised that there will be affordable tickets for the Games that start in less than three years time. On Monday, LA28 announced fans would be able to register for tickets from January 14, 2026 and that at least one

By Aditi Sangal, CNN (CNN) — Multiple human rights organizations are petitioning the National Basketball Association (NBA) to drop Dubai’s government-owned Emirates airline as a sponsor of the league’s in-season tournament, the Emirates NBA Cup, due to allegations of sportswashing. “The NBA is letting itself be used as a pawn to distract people from what

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler may have achieved a lot in his golf career already, but the American just keeps picking up more titles and awards. On Monday, Scheffler was named the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year after a string of impressive performances in 2025. The 29-year-old claimed

By Frank Nunns O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — The theme of the 2025 NFL regular season has been one of extreme unpredictability: Super Bowl favorites performing below usual standards, unexpected comebacks and breakout teams taking the league by storm. Those themes took center stage once again on Sunday as there were some thrilling matchups in the