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By David Close, Holden Perrelli, Kevin Dotson and Amir Vera, CNN The Houston Texans announced Monday the hiring of defensive coordinator Lovie Smith as the franchise’s next head coach. Smith has previously served as a head coach twice in the NFL for 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He joined the

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN UK broadcaster Channel 4 has announced that its coverage of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games will be fronted by a team consisting entirely of disabled anchors and pundits. In what it described as a “global first” for a world-class sporting event, the network’s line-up will include former champions presenting on

By Jack Bantock. CNN Marc Overmars will leave his position as Ajax’s Director of Football Affairs after sending inappropriate messages to female colleagues, the Dutch football club announced on Sunday. The 48-year-old former Dutch international — who played for Ajax, Arsenal, and Barcelona, among others, during his playing career — had held the role since

By Joe Sutton, CNN New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was arrested Sunday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and charged with “battery resulting in substantial bodily harm,” a news release from the department said. The investigation began when officers were dispatched to a hospital Saturday around 5:50 p.m. “where a person was reporting a

By David Close, CNN The Miami Dolphins announced Sunday night the hiring of Mike McDaniel as the team’s head coach, replacing Brian Flores, who was fired after the regular season wrapped and later initiated a class-action lawsuit against the league alleging racial discrimination in its hiring practices. McDaniel, 38, was most recently the offensive coordinator

By Kevin Dotson, CNN Senegal defeated Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations championship match on Sunday, winning the continental championship for the first time on penalty kicks at Olembe Stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Neither Senegal nor Egypt — which had previously won the Africa Cup of Nations seven times, the most in the tournament’s

By Ben Morse, CNN Harold Varner III drained a huge eagle putt on the 18th hole of the final round to snatch victory at the 2022 Saudi International on Sunday. A shot behind Bubba Watson and off the front edge of the 18th, Varner’s hopes had looked to have slipped away. Undeterred, the US golfer

By Jack Bantock, CNN Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wasn’t even born when New Zealand ended its 40-year wait for a Winter Olympics medal in 1992. On Sunday, she soared through the air at Beijing’s Genting Snow Park to claim her country’s first ever gold at a Winter Games. The 20-year-old put in a remarkable final run to

By Nectar Gan, CNN Making her Olympic debut for Team China, California-born figure skater Zhu Yi was eager to prove herself to the Chinese public. Instead, the 19-year-old is facing a firestorm on Chinese social media after she fell flat on the ice and finished last in the women’s short program team event Sunday. On