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By Jessie Yeung, Wayne Chang and John Mees, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — For 92 minutes on a clear Sunday morning in Taipei, thousands of spectators with jittery nerves stared upwards, while people across the world were glued to their screens, as famed climber Alex Honnold made a death-defying attempt to scale one of the

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Bobby Jones once called golf “assuredly a mystifying game” and time in and time again, it proves to be such that. On Friday, in just his 10th career PGA Tour start, a teenager mystifyingly flew up the leaderboard, finishing the second round of The American Express tied atop alongside

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — NCAA leadership reached out to the National Association of Basketball Coaches to convene for a previously unscheduled call on Friday afternoon to discuss the unprecedented Charles Bediako situation, multiple sources told CNN Sports. The sources were unsure if the call involved all Division I coaches or just select NABC

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, who star as hockey players entangled in a secret romance in the HBO Max smash “Heated Rivalry,” have been named as official torchbearers for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. The duo are among several torchbearers tasked with carrying the Olympic Flame from Rome

By Hannah Keyser (CNN) — Then there were four. A couple more classics decided in overtime (and a couple more, shall we say, uneven games) in the divisional round have brought us to the conference championships. This weekend will determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Sure, that’s the Big Game, but these tilts decide

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — There is a new Mendoza line in sports and unlike the one in baseball, which signifies lousy offense, this one is all about winning: Everyone wants the next Fernando Mendoza. The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback’s stunning success at Indiana has upped the premium on transfer quarterbacks. The inevitable capitalistic evolution

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The ongoing issues between the Buffalo Bills and Keon Coleman have taken another twist – and the team’s owner has implied it’s on his former head coach. It comes as Bills owner Terry Pegula said the decision to draft the wide receiver in 2024 was one pushed by the

By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Christina Macfarlane, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian soccer pitch in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem has been spared from a planned Israeli demolition order following international pressure, according to sources who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity. The president of global soccer governing body FIFA, Gianni Infantino,