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By Ben Morse, CNN And so, there were 14. After a wild Week 18 of regular season NFL action, the playoff picture was confirmed with the lucky 14 teams learning their match-ups as the day developed. There were twists and turns, with surprise losses and overtime wins, before a classic between the Las Vegas Raiders

By Helen Regan and Jessie Yeung, CNN World tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic should be allowed to defend his men’s singles title at the Australian Open in Melbourne this month, after a judge quashed the government’s decision to cancel his visa and ordered him to be freed. Following hours of deliberations, technical glitches and arguments

By Wayne Sterling, CNN History was made in Australia Friday as Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to pitch in the Australian Baseball League (ABL). The 17-year-old left-hander took the mound in the sixth inning for the Melbourne Aces in the team’s Melbourne Challenge Series game against the Adelaide Giants. She pitched a scoreless inning

By George Ramsay, CNN Figure skater Nathan Chen broke his own US scoring record in the men’s short program at the US Figure Skating Championships in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday. Performing to music from “La Boheme,” Chen scored 115.39 points — breaking the record of 114.13 he had set in 2020 — to take the

By Ben Morse, CNN And so, it all comes down to this: the Los Angeles Chargers at the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday Night Football. The winner qualifies for the NFL playoffs. The loser has a long off-season ahead, filled with questions to be answered. And although there is a scenario where both teams can

By Hannah Ritchie, Ally Barnard and George Ramsay, CNN An Australian government request to delay Novak Djokovic’s visa hearing by two days has been rejected, according to court documents published on Sunday. Djokovic is confined to a temporary detention facility in Melbourne as he mounts a legal challenge against the cancellation of his visa ahead

By Ben Morse, CNN The NFL season has never been bigger. For the first time in its history, the 2021 season saw teams play 17 regular season games, adding one game from the 16 games played in recent years. There have been two Week 18’s before — one in 1993 and one in 2001 —

By Matthew Foster, CNN Away from questions about whether the upcoming African Cup of Nations (AFCON) would take place amid the pandemic, the tiny archipelago nation of Comoros has been preparing for its debut on the continent’s biggest stage. The achievement of qualifying for Africa’s biennial football tournament is difficult to overstate given the size

By Hannah Ritchie, CNN Novak Djokovic was granted a medical exemption to compete in the Australian Open as he had recently recovered from Covid-19, documents published on Saturday by Australia’s Federal Circuit Court show. The development comes as the tennis World No. 1 is confined to a temporary detention facility in Melbourne as he mounts

By Seán Federico-O’Murchú, CNN It’s been a long wait for 25-year-old Mariah Bell. For the first time in the nine years she’s been a senior competitor, Bell has won the US women’s figure skating national title following the conclusion of the women’s free skate on Friday night — making her the oldest US women’s figure

By Aleks Klosok, Ben Church and Amy Cassidy, CNN The Australian Border Force (ABF) have detained top-flight tennis player Renata Voráčová over visa disputes, as the fallout from the Novak Djokovic turmoil continues to cause controversy ahead of the Australian Open. “We can confirm that the Czech tennis player Renata Voráčová is in the same

By Ben Morse, CNN Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians and star quarterback Tom Brady addressed Antonio Brown’s departure from the team following Sunday’s incident in which Brown dramatically walked off the field mid-game against the New York Jets. The team released Brown on Thursday, not long after the wide receiver said in a