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Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi won the 2023 Ballon d’Or, world soccer’s top individual award, for the eighth time on Monday evening in Paris. The Inter Miami star was the favorite to win this year’s trophy after helping Argentina to victory in the FIFA World Cup in Qatar last December. The 36-year-old had an underwhelming season with Paris Saint-Germain […]

The team activated the former Pro Bowl wide receiver off injured reserve on Saturday, clearing the way for him to play on Sunday when the Steelers (3-2) visit the Los Angeles Rams (3-3). Johnson hasn’t played since injuring his right hamstring early in the third quarter of a Week 1 loss to San Francisco. His […]

Patrick Mahomes is still in the middle of his playing career, but he has already added several sports franchises to his investment portfolio. Eventually, though, Mahomes is eyeing a major jump after he retires. He wants to own an NFL team. “I think Tom [Brady] is trying to do it right now, but that’s definitely […]

Like a number of NFL teams do with their highest-paid players, the Green Bay Packers routinely took out disability insurance policies on quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who has suffered injuries to nearly every quadrant of his body over his 19-year pro career. After the New York Jets signed Rodgers to a new, fully guaranteed $75 million deal this offseason, his […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots gave up. Down 24-0 early in the second half, hearing boos at home like they used to on the road, a week after the worst loss of coach Bill Belichick’s career, with quarterback Mac Jones on his way to the bench for the second straight game, the […]

HANGZHOU, CHINA — The first gold medals at the Asian Games were all won by host nation China on Sunday in rowing, shooting and wushu after President Xi Jinping opened the two-week multisport extravaganza in a colorful ceremony. China claimed the first gold when Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping dominated the women’s lightweight double sculls rowing […]

Notre Dame, by and large, had done everything it possibly could and needed to do to score what would have been a momentous, signature victory the type of which the Fighting Irish program has found so very fleeting in recent years. Down 10-0 at home Saturday night to sixth-ranked Ohio State, Notre Dame clawed ahead […]

A four-year absence of elite women’s tennis in China is set to end with the Women’s Tennis Association holding seven tournaments in the next six weeks as part of the tour’s Asian swing. After tournaments in China were canceled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in 2020, the WTA suspended events in the country in December […]

NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic emerged from an exhilarating and exhausting U.S. Open final with a 24th Grand Slam title on Sunday night, using every ounce of his energy and some serve-and-volley guile to get past Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 in a match that was more closely contested than the straight-set score indicated. Djokovic, […]

BARCELONA, SPAIN — The president of the Spanish football federation faces an emergency meeting of its general assembly on Friday amid media reports that he will hand in his resignation following an uproar for kissing a Women’s World Cup champion. Luis Rubiales is expected to stand before representatives of Spain’s regional federations, clubs, players, coaches and […]