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By Ben Church, CNN Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo put on a show as they came head to head in Paris Saint-Germain’s 5-4 win over a Riyadh All-Star XI on Thursday. The exhibition match was played in Saudi Arabia’s capital and saw the two superstars renew their storied rivalry for possibly the last time. Despite

By Coy Wire and Tina Burnside, CNN More than two weeks after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during a game, a representative for Hamilin says the defensive player has a long road ahead of him. Hamlin’s longtime friend and business partner Jordon Rooney said to CNN: “Despite being out of the

By Ben Morse, CNN Andy Murray was left fuming after he was denied a chance to go to the toilet in the middle of his five-set marathon against Thanasi Kokkinakis at the Australian Open. The former world No. 1 had battled back from a two-set deficit against Kokkinakis to leave a deciding fifth set between

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN For many, the new year offers a chance to strive to be better — at work, in relationships or to achieve one’s wildest dreams. America’s top-ranked female tennis player Jessica Pegula looks to have received the memo. The 28-year-old is off to a flying start in 2023, securing her first career

By Matt Foster, CNN LIV Golf announced a multi-year TV deal with the CW Network after what it describes as a “competitive bidding process” on Thursday. The agreement includes coverage of all 14 scheduled LIV Golf events on the 2023 calendar, marking the Saudi-backed tour’s first US broadcast deal. “This is a momentous day for

By Matias Grez, CNN Anton Walkes, a defender for Major League Soccer team Charlotte FC, has died from injuries suffered in a boating accident at age 25, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a statement. The FWC said that, around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, FWC officers attended a two-vessel accident near

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Tennis legends Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Andy Roddick and Michael Chang will go head-to-head later this year in pursuit of a $1 million prize — playing pickleball. The decorated tennis greats are to contest the Inaugural Pickleball Slam, which will take place on April 2 at the Hard Rock Live at

By Amy Woodyatt and Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Anti-racism groups and England’s Football Association (FA) are denouncing an independent panel’s finding that a British soccer manager who used “offensive, racist and Islamophobic” language is “not a conscious racist.” Former Crawley Town FC manager John Yems was accused of making at least 16 offensive comments between 2019

By Ben Morse, CNN The Dallas Cowboys signed Tristan Vizcaino to their practice squad after starting kicker Brett Maher endured a historically inaccurate playoff performance on Monday. Maher missed an NFL-record four extra point attempts in the Cowboys’ blowout 31-14 victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. The

By George Ramsay, CNN The days are short, the snow heavy, and the cold biting during a Norwegian winter. For British endurance athlete Jon Albon, who has lived in Norway for the past seven years, that means finding refuge on the treadmill in his cellar when the trails around his home in Romsdalen become blanketed

By Jill Martin and Alasdair Howorth, CNN As the Buffalo Bills prepare to play the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in the AFC playoffs divisional round, Bills head coach Sean McDermott has told reporters that safety Damar Hamlin is at the team facility almost daily. “It’s limited, just overall, but he comes in and — it

By Ben Morse, CNN We’ve all been there. You’re in the midst of competition and in the furor of battle, you lose track of the moment and score of the match. Unfortunately for American Danielle Collins, her moment where she slipped up came during her second round match at the Australian Open in a crucial

By Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Iceland captain Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir on Tuesday revealed details of a maternity pay victory in a landmark ruling against her former club, Olympique Lyonnais. In a first-person account published in The Player’s Tribune, Gunnarsdóttir detailed publicly for the first time how she had taken Olympique Lyonnais to the FIFA Tribunal and

By Matias Grez, CNN A Saudi Arabian businessman has won an auction for a golden ticket to watch Cristiano Ronaldo take on Lionel Messi with a bid of 10 million Saudi riyals ($2.6 million). The chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Entertainment (GEA), Turki Al Sheikh, said Tuesday that businessman Mushref Al-Ghamdi, the general

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Professional wrestler Jay Briscoe has died at age 38. The Ring of Honor (ROH) star, whose real name was Jamin Pugh, died in a head-on collision with another vehicle, whose driver also died at the scene on Tuesday in Laurel, Delaware, according to Delaware State Police. The wrestler’s two daughters were