Cleveland Browns star running back Nick Chubb is believed to have suffered only a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee, which is an injury that should not be career-threatening
September 23, 2023
Runaway series leader Max Verstappen has returned to dominant form by winning the Japanese Grand Prix and moving a step closer to securing his third consecutive Formula One drivers’ championship
September 24, 2023
Tigst Assefa has broken the women’s world record by more than two minutes at the Berlin Marathon
September 24, 2023
Mike Trout’s season ended because of a wrist injury that limited him to one game after July 3
September 24, 2023
The Atlanta Braves took another blow to their injury-plagued rotation, placing right-hander Charlie Morton on the 15-day injured list
September 24, 2023
Team World has claimed its second straight Laver Cup title
September 24, 2023
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ charter flight home following a Sunday night win in Las Vegas made an emergency landing in Kansas City early Monday
September 25, 2023
A’ja Wilson scored a playoff career-high 38 points to help the defending-champion Las Vegas Aces finish off a first-round sweep of the Chicago Sky with a 92-70
September 17, 2023
Chelsea Gray had 20 points and seven assists, Jackie Young added 18 points and the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces beat the Chicago Sky 87-59 to begin a WNBA playoff series
September 14, 2023
Texas Rangers right-hander Max Scherzer will miss the rest of the regular season because of a strained muscle in his shoulder
September 13, 2023Matt Olson has tied the Braves’ single-season home run record with 51
September 12, 2023
David Stearns has agreed to become president of baseball operations for the underperforming New York Mets, according to several reports
September 12, 2023
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been suspended from professional tennis for four years for doping violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday. The 31-year-old Romanian had been accused of two doping offenses — failing a drug test during the 2022 U.S. Open and for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport, the ITIA said. A panel concluded that Halep “had committed intentional anti-doping rule violations.” Halep had been provisionally suspended since October 2022. The four-year ban will run to Oct. 6, 2026. Halep reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings in 2017. She won Wimbledon
September 12, 2023
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been suspended from professional tennis for four years for doping violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday. The 31-year-old Romanian had been accused of two doping offenses — failing a drug test during the 2022 U.S. Open and for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport, the ITIA said. A panel concluded that Halep “had committed intentional anti-doping rule violations.” Halep had been provisionally suspended since October 2022. The four-year ban will run to Oct. 6, 2026. Halep reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings in 2017. She won Wimbledon
September 12, 2023
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been suspended from professional tennis for four years for doping violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday. The 31-year-old Romanian had been accused of two doping offenses — failing a drug test during the 2022 U.S. Open and for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport, the ITIA said. A panel concluded that Halep “had committed intentional anti-doping rule violations.” Halep had been provisionally suspended since October 2022. The four-year ban will run to Oct. 6, 2026. Halep reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings in 2017. She won Wimbledon
September 12, 2023
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been suspended from professional tennis for four years for doping violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday. The 31-year-old Romanian had been accused of two doping offenses — failing a drug test during the 2022 U.S. Open and for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport, the ITIA said. A panel concluded that Halep “had committed intentional anti-doping rule violations.” Halep had been provisionally suspended since October 2022. The four-year ban will run to Oct. 6, 2026. Halep reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings in 2017. She won Wimbledon
September 12, 2023
Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday and charged with assault and strangulation after allegedly attacking his girlfriend at a New York City hotel. Porter, 23, is accused of hitting the woman several times and putting his hands around her neck, police said. The woman, 26, was taken to a hospital with a cut to the right side of her face. The incident happened around 6:45 a.m. at the Millennium Hilton near the United Nations in Manhattan, police said. Porter remained in police custody as of Monday afternoon. It wasn’t immediately known if he
September 11, 2023
Ravens running back J.K. Dobbins will miss the rest of the season with a torn Achilles tendon, coach John Harbaugh said after Baltimore’s season-opening 25-9 win over Houston on Sunday. Dobbins left in the third quarter after catching a pass from Lamar Jackson that went for 5 yards to the Houston 2. He was tackled near the sideline by M.J. Stewart and trotted gingerly immediately to the sideline. The former Ohio State star had eight carries for 22 yards and a touchdown, along with two catches for 15 yards. Dobbins missed all of Baltimore’s summer workouts and
September 10, 2023
Suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales has resigned from his post after kissing a player on the lips without her consent in a scandal which overshadowed Spain winning the Women’s World Cup for the first time. Rubiales announced his resignation Sunday in a message posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “After my swift suspension by FIFA, and the rest of the cases building against me, it is clear that I cannot return to the post,” Rubiales said in his statement. Rubiales kissed Jenni Hermoso during the awards ceremony after Spain beat England to win the
September 10, 2023
Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes is pitching a no-hitter through six innings Sunday against the New York Yankees. The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner retired his first 12 hitters before walking Giancarlo Stanton on his 54th pitch. He also issued a two-out walk to rookie Everson Pereira before third baseman Andruw Monasterio made a running catch in foul territory on Oswaldo Cabrera. Burnes struck out four and walked two, throwing 51 of 81 pitches for strikes. His season high is 110 pitches against San Francisco on May 27. The 28-year-old right-hander had not thrown a complete game
September 10, 2023
Germany removed Hansi Flick as coach of the men’s national soccer team on Sunday, one day after a 4-1 loss to Japan deepened the gloom around the squad ahead of hosting next year’s European Championship. The German soccer federation, known as the DFB, said team director Rudi Völler would be one of three coaches taking joint charge of the next game, a friendly against France on Tuesday in Dortmund. Germany hasn’t won any of its last five games and was eliminated in the group stage at last year’s World Cup. Flick said after the loss to
September 10, 2023
Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev will meet again to determine the U.S. Open men’s champion. Their match Sunday afternoon is a rematch of the 2021 final in Flushing Meadows. Medvedev won that day for his lone Grand Slam title. The 27-year-old from Russia also denied Djokovic what would have been the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969. Djokovic has gone on to win two more major titles this year, at the Australian Open and French Open, to raise his career total to 23. That is the most Grand Slam singles titles in men’s
September 10, 2023
American Sean Strickland stunned Nigerian-born New Zealander Israel Adesanya to take the middleweight title by unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 293, the first UFC event in Australia’s largest city in six years. The 32-year-old Strickland (28-5), who caused a stir in the lead-up to the fight with sexist and misogynistic comments at a press conference promoting the bout, won a five-round decision with all three judges scoring it 49-46. “Am I dreaming? Am I going to wake up? Someone hit me. … I don’t cry much but I’m trying to keep it together right
September 10, 2023
Bruce Arena quit as coach of the New England Revolution on Saturday night, six weeks after he was placed on administrative leave by Major League Soccer for what it said were “allegations that he made insensitive and inappropriate remarks.” The 71-year-old, a member of the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame, did not detail the allegations. The league said Aug. 1 it had placed him on leave. MLS did not detail its findings except to say in a statement that the probe “confirmed certain of these allegations.” The league said if Arena wants to accept a
September 10, 2023
The United States won its first match in Gregg Berhalter’s second term as coach, beating Uzbekistan 3-0 in an exhibition Saturday behind goals by Tim Weah, Ricardo Pepi and Christian Pulisic. Weah put the U.S. ahead in the fourth minute, Pepi doubled the lead in second-half stoppage time and Pulisic converted a penalty kick in the fifth minute of stoppage time. Berhalter first was hired after the failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and led the Americans to the second round of last year’s tournament, where they lost to the Netherlands 3-1. He was
September 09, 2023
Weeks after a school shooting, students return for classes at Apalachee High School
There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades
Several states are making late changes to election rules, even as voting is set to begin
World leaders meet under shadow of global divisions, 3 wars and possible Mideast conflict
Reconstruction set to begin on Copenhagen’s fire-damaged Old Stock Exchange landmark
Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison faces sentencing
Climate solutions: 2 kinds of ocean energy inch forward off the Oregon coast
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash's statue: A monument to the singer is unveiled at the US Capitol
Rookie Jayden Daniels nearly flawless for Commanders in 38-33 win over Bengals
Josh Allen throws 4 TD passes and the Bills roll to a 47-10 win over the unraveling Jaguars