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By Aimee Lewis and Patrick Sung, CNN Video by Jarrod Williams, CNN Two months had passed since Virginia Torrecilla’s last chemotherapy session and the Spanish footballer felt hopeful again. She was fragile, weighed a few kilos less than she did when she was first diagnosed with a brain tumor but, in many ways, she was

By Ben Church, CNN It was all looking so promising at Paris Saint-Germain at the start of this season. Kylian Mbappé decided to stay at the club amid interest from Real Madrid and the French international, Lionel Messi and Neymar had started to click together on the pitch. Fast forward to autumn, though, and things

By Kevin Dotson, CNN Hockey Canada, the national governing body for the sport, announced drastic changes to the organization’s leadership Tuesday as CEO Scott Smith will leave immediately and the board of directors also will be stepping down. An interim management committee will be put in place until a new board appoints a replacement CEO,

By Ben Church, CNN Miami Dolphins quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Teddy Bridgewater are both still sidelined by NFL’s concussion protocols and neither have a definitive return date, head coach Mike McDaniel said. Tagovailoa suffered a concussion on September 30 after being sacked by Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Josh Tupou in the second quarter. The 24-year-old

By Issy Ronald, CNN At first glance, winning seems impossibly easy for Diede de Groot; an almost nonchalant habit of 69 consecutive victories, yielding a Golden Slam — all four grand slams and a Paralympic gold medal — in 2021, followed by a calendar grand slam in 2022. Together, these achievements amounted to a back-to-back

By Ben Morse, CNN Another game in the NFL, another questionable roughing-the-passer penalty call by an officiating crew. Just a day after referees in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 21-15 win over the Atlanta Falcons were criticized for penalizing Grady Jarrett’s sack on Tom Brady, similar questions were being asked after Monday Night Football and the

By Steve Almasy Lizete Dos Santos, CNN Dustin Johnson has enough points to secure the inaugural season-long LIV Golf individual championship and the series’ $18 million prize, LIV officials announced Monday. The two-time major winner secured five top-10 finishes in the opening six events and was the winner last month of the LIV Golf Invitational

By George Ramsay, CNN A former pizza shop worker is now earning his dough in the NFL after being signed by the New England Patriots. Last week, the Patriots announced that offensive lineman Sebastian Gutierrez had joined the team’s practice squad — quite the change of scene from his job at Uncle Maddio’s Pizza in

By Jack Bantock, CNN Records tumbled in Tiger Woods’ wake when the prodigious amateur turned professional in 1996 in one of the most breakneck accelerations to the summit that golf has ever seen. So when, 26 years on, a 20-year-old is matching the early feats of the 15-time major winner, it’s probably worth taking notice.

By CNN Sport staff Pitcher Joe Musgrove was subjected to an ear probe by umpires during the San Diego Padres’ dominant 6-0 win against the New York Mets as they moved onto the National League Division Series. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Mets manager Buck Showalter asked the umps to pause the game