Sports

By Hanako Montgomery, Chris Lau, Minori Konishi and Fred He, CNN (CNN) — Standing at just five feet, eight inches tall, Yuki Kawamura is perhaps an unlikely basketball star. “It’s not like I can do any dunk shots,” says the NBA’s current shortest player, who is almost a foot below the average height in the

By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — New York Yankees ace right-hander Gerrit Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow, the team announced Monday. The 2023 American League Cy Young winner is set to have surgery Tuesday and will likely miss the entire 2025 season. Earlier on Monday, Cole was seen by Dr.

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Bags are being packed and new faces are popping up all over the NFL map: The free agency madness has officially begun, with the New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks taking center stage. The NFL’s free agent negotiation period began on Monday and a flurry of reported moves came

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Jim Best admits that he’s not the best golfer, but he does spend most of his time on some of the world’s best golf courses. He says he struggles to keep his ball on the fairway, and yet he’s made his living from the game. He’s got tremendous feel

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — The Norwegian Ski Federation has suspended three members of staff amid a cheating scandal that has rocked the organization. On Sunday, the federation said that the suits of two ski jumpers, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, had been manipulated ahead of the men’s large hill event at the

By Julia Andersen, CNN (CNN) — Dutch athlete Maureen Koster was hospitalized after being knocked unconscious and suffering a “mild concussion” during the 3,000m final at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on Sunday. Koster, a two-time Olympian, fell after being tripped by other runners around the 1,000m mark of the race. Replays showed

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — In a battle of this NBA season’s two leading MVP candidates, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander got one up on Nikola Jokić with a huge 40-point performance to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a dominant 127-103 win over the Denver Nuggets. The Thunder took a narrow three-point lead into the fourth

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — We may still be two months away from the end of this year’s English Premier League, but it seems like a champion is set to be crowned. Liverpool is now 15 points clear at the top of the table with just nine games left to play and would need

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have landed star wide receiver DK Metcalf from the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for a 2025 second-round pick, according to multiple reports, including ESPN and NFL Network. One week after the wide receiver requested a trade, he’ll now head to Steel City where he

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Have a year Josh Allen. A month after winning his first career NFL Most Valuable Player award, the Buffalo Bills superstar quarterback Josh Allen has secured another accomplishment. The 28-year-old Allen and the Bills agreed to a contract extension that will keep him in Buffalo through 2030, the team

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Alex Ovechkin has inched within single digits of overtaking Wayne Gretzky as the NHL’s all-time goals leader after scoring an empty-net goal in the Washington Capitals’ 4-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Sunday. Late in the third period, with the Kraken having pulled goaltender Joey Daccord,

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Katherine Legge accomplished something no woman has done in seven years. Compete in the NASCAR Cup Series. The 44-year-old English driver made her Cup Series debut on Sunday at the Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway in Arizona, before being involved in a crash that ended her day early.