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By Thomas Schlachter, Patrick Sung Cuadrado, Aleks Klosok, CNN (CNN) — Manchester City has been found guilty of all but one of the many charges it faced in regards to breaching Premier League financial rules, according to multiple reports and first reported by David Ornstein at The Athletic. According to reports, City has been found

By Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN (CNN) — Note: This story first appeared in The Beautiful Game by CNN Sports, our biweekly newsletter on all things global soccer – men’s and women’s. To subscribe, click here. Hello everyone, Spanish Editor Patrick here. Ben is enjoying a well-earned mini-vacation on the Emerald Isle, hence I am taking

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — It’s the third week of the NFL season and some issues are becoming blatantly apparent as teams start to figure out their identities. In some places, injuries are piling up and threatening to derail teams before the season gets out of its first month. In others, there are clear

By Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN (CNN) — Major League Soccer (MLS) team Columbus Crew fired Federico Higuaín, the head coach of its reserve team, following an incident in a game that a referees’ association deemed “physical abuse and sexism” toward a female referee. Higuaín – who was appointed head coach of the franchise’s reserves squad,

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The second week of the NFL season proved to be a brutal one for three young quarterbacks who were expected to take major leaps this season. Caleb Williams of the Chicago Bears, Jayden Daniels of the Washington Commanders and Jaxson Dart of the New York Giants were all knocked

By Ben Church, Amanda Davies, Aleks Klosok, CNN (CNN) — Soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé says there is no “frustration” over not yet winning a Ballon d’Or – an annual award given to the world’s best player – but tells CNN Sports that this “could be a good year for me.” Mbappé did not win any

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Oxford, Mississippi (CNN) — They crafted a poster that turned him into a corndog, a deadbeat on a stick if you will. They printed T-shirts and made buttons that called him a “heaux,” hoe, or ho, depending on the preferred spelling. They cussed him for leaving but then insisted they were

By Andy Scholes, CNN (CNN) — Week 2 is one of the most fascinating weeks of the entire NFL season. This is when fans find out if they completely overreacted to what happened in Week 1 – or if that reaction was actually justified. So, what was real and what was just a one-week mirage?

By Dana O’Neil, Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The two football players at the center of the debate over former professional players returning to the college game remain in limbo after the NFL notified teams they are ineligible to play this season. In a memo sent to top front-office staff and head coaches around the

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Female athletes have reacted with anger and incredulity to a “hypersexualized” advertising campaign featuring a nude or minimally clad Sydney Sweeney posing with sports equipment. The campaign, for US sports-prediction market Novig, is “very damaging” for female athletes and young girls looking to get into sport, Australian surfer Felicity

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Oxford, Mississippi (CNN) — The Library Sports Bar is everything a college bar should be. Old, battered stools stand alongside a weathered wood bar. Stickers celebrating bygone 21st birthdays cover the walls outside the bathrooms. The barroom gives way to the Boom Boom room (for bands), which leads to the patio,

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Men’s top seed Alexander Zverev won a thrilling four-set, three-hour and 33 minute showdown with No. 8 seed Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 to win his first career US Open title on Sunday. It is the second career grand slam win for the 29-year-old from Germany, with

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The start of the new NFL season always brings a few things that take getting used to. Perhaps one of the most head-turning sights will be walking the sidelines of MetLife Stadium during the first game on Sunday. John Harbaugh will be making his regular-season debut with the New

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Women’s No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina will have a lot to celebrate come Monday after defeating top seed Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in the US Open women’s singles final at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday. Rybakina not only won her first career title at Flushing Meadows, but will

By Jacob Lev, Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — Sunday’s clash for the US Open men’s singles title is now set as American Ben Shelton will face top-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany. Ben Shelton prevails over Frances Tiafoe in an all-American duel A historic all-American men’s semifinal between No. 8 seed Ben Shelton and No. 11

By Eryn Mathewson, CNN (CNN) — The word “historic” has been thrown around a few times at this year’s US Open. But when Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe step onto Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday, they’ll make a kind of history American men’s tennis hasn’t seen in more than half a century. For the first

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Arch Manning was talking about his golf game, replying to a throwaway question at Texas’ SEC football media day about how he blows off steam in the offseason. The Longhorns quarterback said he’d been hitting the links regularly on the weekends, tagging along most recently with a buddy who

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Just when Coco Gauff thought she was back in control of her semifinal bout with Elena Rybakina, she wasn’t. In front of a fired-up, sold-out crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the second of two US Open women’s semifinals saw the No. 2 seed Rybakina defeat the No. 4 seed

CNN By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — After Ben Shelton’s time-zone-spanning quarterfinal against Carlos Alcaraz finished at 3:33 a.m. in New York Wednesday morning, the annual conversation of match scheduling at the US Open has kicked back up again. Despite how bizarre it was to see the two players still battling it out in the