Sports

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — First the disclaimer: it’s early November. There is no need to overreact. Well, let’s be serious. The entire purpose of releasing the College Football Playoff rankings 33 days before it counts is to encourage fomenting, handwringing and angst. What else are we supposed to do? Let it play out,

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — When Ali Truwit crossed the finish line at the Copenhagen Marathon in 2023, she couldn’t have imagined how hard it would be to run the 26.2-mile distance again. Just 10 days later, she was bitten by a shark while snorkeling in Turks and Caicos and, although she was lucky

By Veronica Miracle, Kevin Dotson, Norma Galeana, Rory Ward, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Thousands of fans lined the streets of downtown Los Angeles for a second year in a row to celebrate another Dodgers’ World Series victory. The epicenter of Los Angeles effectively shut down for several hours as the parade wove through the

By Coy Wire, CNN (CNN) — It’s not often that an NFL kicker is trending. When they are it’s almost always because they whiffed wide right, or doinked their team’s chances of victory away – making said fans want to doink their heads off of the top of the bar. But the Jaguars’ Cam Little

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Runners already face a daunting challenge when they line up at the start of a marathon, but they might increasingly find themselves with another obstacle to reckon with: global warming. A new study claims that rising temperatures around the world will make it harder for elite athletes to break

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — After Week 8 of the NFL season was marked by blowouts, NFL fans were due some excitement in Week 9. Boy, did they get it. Multiple games went down to the wire, including one finish in Cincinnati that may prove to be the wildest finish of the season. And

Story by the Associated Press (CNN) — India won the Women’s Cricket World Cup for the first time with a 52-run victory over South Africa on Sunday, led by brilliant all-round performances from Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma. Opening batter Verma, who was only called back into the squad as injury cover for the finals,

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The final race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season came down to the wire with Kyle Larson beating out Denny Hamlin to secure his second career Cup Series championship at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona on Sunday. Larson was one of the four drivers including Hamlin, Chase Briscoe