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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By Jacob Lev, CNN The Boston Bruins have rescinded their contract with Mitchell Miller after the National Hockey League deemed him ineligible to join the team due to a bullying incident the player participated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 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 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 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 Issy Ronald and Ben Church, CNN The lawyers for a Wimbledon spectator accused by Nick Kyrgios of being ‘drunk out of her mind,’ have released an apology from the tennis star and say their client’s claim has been resolved. “On 10 July 2022, during the Wimbledon Men’s Final, I told the umpire that a

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