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By George Ramsay, CNN Steph Curry scored 50 points for the 11th time in his NBA career, but his efforts weren’t enough for the struggling Golden State Warriors against the Phoenix Suns as the defending champions went down 130-119. The Warriors are now 6-9 on the season and winless from eight games on the road

By Aimee Lewis, Pramod Acharya and Sugam Pokharel Kamal was standing outside a shop with other migrant workers, having finished yet another grueling working day, when he and — he says — a few others were arrested this August. Without explanation, the 24-year-old says he was put into a vehicle and, for the next week,

By Martin Goillandeau, CNN “Sport should not be politicized,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, three days before the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. “These questions must be asked whenever the events are awarded,” Macron said. “It should be when hosting the event is decided, whether it is the World Cup

By Jacob Lev, CNN A Florida judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former NFL kicker Josh Lambo against the Jacksonville Jaguars in which he sought back pay and damages for emotional distress allegedly inflicted by the team’s former head coach Urban Meyer, whom he accused of creating a “hostile work environment.” The lawsuit, filed

By Eoin McSweeney, CNN There’s a biblical saying that no one is a prophet in their own land; but Didier Drogba likely hasn’t read that verse. Welcomed by hordes of adoring fans wherever he goes in his native Ivory Coast, Drogba is no stranger to glory nights. Champions League final success in Munich in 2012,

By Jack Bantock, CNN It remains to be seen whether football will come home for England at the World Cup in Qatar next month, but for neighboring Scotland, golf has officially — and finally — returned to its motherland. Having hosted the game for almost six centuries, “the home of golf” — as Scotland is

By George Ramsay, CNN Carlos Alcaraz is set to become the youngest year-end No. 1 in the history of men’s tennis after Rafael Nadal was knocked out of the ATP Finals. At the age of 19 years and 214 days, US Open champion Alcaraz surpasses Lleyton Hewitt’s record of ending the year as world No.

By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Luka Doncić scored 35 points, including a clutch three-pointer with less than 30 seconds remaining, to give the Dallas Mavericks a 103-101 win over the LA Clippers despite blowing a 25-point lead. The Slovenian star was so hyped up after dropping the game-winning bucket that he accidentally celebrated by putting his

By Ben Church and Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo says he keeps his son’s ashes with him at his home and describes his death as the “worst” moment of his life. The Portugal star had announced in October 2021 that he and his partner, Georgina Rodríguez, were expecting twins. In December, they

By Matt Foster, CNN The manager of the Iranian men’s soccer team said his players are allowed to protest while they participate at the World Cup in Qatar, as long as those protests do not break FIFA rules. Carlos Queiroz made the comments at a press conference in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday. According to Reuters,

By Amanda Davies and George Ramsay, CNN As he begins to discuss his sexuality, Isaac Humphries says he is able to lift 25 years of weight off his shoulders. Humphries, who plays for Melbourne United in Australia’s National Basketball League, had never previously spoken publicly about his sexuality out of fear it would negatively impact

By Mostafa Salem, CNN Iran’s record international goalscorer Ali Daei said on Monday that he refused an invitation to attend the World Cup in Qatar next week to stand in solidarity with Iranian protesters. “I rejected the official invitation of FIFA and Qatar Football Federation to attend the World Cup with my wife and daughters,”

By Marcela Mora y Araujo, for CNN Video by Patrick Sung, CNN If the history of film was once described as before and after “Gone with the Wind,” it could be argued that the history of the World Cup can be defined as before and after the game between England and Argentina in 1986 —

By Ben Morse, CNN And then there were none. After the Philadelphia Eagles were defeated 32-21 by the Washington Commanders on Monday night, no undefeated teams remain in the NFL. It was the first defeat of the season for the unusually sloppy Eagles as they slipped to 8-1 on an evening when they were continuously

By Ben Church, CNN No one seems safe from Cristiano Ronaldo’s wrath at the moment. The superstar has been on a war-path against his current club and is clearly uninspired by Manchester United’s owners, the Glazer family. In an explosive interview with Piers Morgan for TalkTV, Ronaldo says the owners “don’t care about the club.”