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By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Iowa Hawkeyes superstar guard Caitlin Clark has been rewarded for her historic season by being named the winner of the Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year Award for a second consecutive season. Clark led Division I in scoring with 32.0 points per game and in assists with 9.0

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — LSU basketball star Angel Reese has announced that she is leaving school for the WNBA. Reese posted the announcement Wednesday on Instagram, and her decision was also detailed in a story in Vogue. LSU lost to Iowa in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament Monday, a rematch of last year’s

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — An Irish basketball team says it won’t replay the final 0.3 seconds of a playoff quarterfinal after it ended in controversial fashion, despite being instructed to do so by Basketball Ireland. The Limerick Sport Eagles beat the Portlaoise Panthers 80-78 on March 23, but have yet to play their

By Pau Mosquera, Patrick Sung and Sammy Mncwabe, CNN (CNN) — Disgraced former Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales was detained and released after questioning upon arriving in Madrid from an international flight, according to Spain’s Civil Guard. A Civil Guard spokesperson confirmed to CNN that Rubiales was detained this morning after landing at the Adolfo Suárez

By Amy Woodyatt and Bea Adeleke, CNN (CNN) — Manchester United defender Raphaël Varane has told French sports newspaper L’Équipe that his body has been “damaged” after he believes he sustained a number of concussions throughout his career. The 30-year-old Varane pointed to several times when he played just days after he says he had

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — At the start of her college basketball career, right in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, Caitlin Clark grew accustomed to playing at empty venues. Back then, thousands of cardboard cutouts were brought in to fill the spare seats in stadiums during March Madness, including an oversized image of

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Anthony Kim had forged himself a burgeoning golf career by the time he was 26. He had won multiple times on the PGA Tour, had risen to No. 6 in the world and had featured on a victorious Team USA at the 2008 Ryder Cup and 2009 Presidents Cup.

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Brittney Griner has re-signed with her longtime WNBA team, the Phoenix Mercury, ahead of this year’s Summer Olympic Games in Paris. “Phoenix is home,” Griner said in a Mercury press release Thursday. “The love and support my wife and I have received from the organization, community and X-Factor over

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Joel Embiid said his recent injury “took a toll mentally” as the Philadelphia 76ers big man returned to the court eight weeks after undergoing knee surgery. The reigning MVP posted 24 points, six rebounds, seven assists and three steals in his first game back to help the 76ers to

By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Larry Lucchino, whose Boston Red Sox teams won three World Series while he was president and CEO, died Tuesday morning at age 78, his family said in a news release issued by the team. No cause of death was given. Lucchino was a three-time cancer survivor. Lucchino helped build