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Mamba Sports Academy — the training facility that was Kobe Bryant’s passion project — was the reported destination of the basketball legend, his daughter Gianna, and seven others when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in Calabasas, California. The school was created in 2018 as a multi-sport training center for young athletes and was reportedly […]

Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt has revealed to the world that he is about to become a father for the first time. After five years together, Bolt and his girlfriend Kasi Bennett announced they are expecting. The olympian took to Instagram to share the news. Bolt posted a photo of Bennett cradling her baby bump and […]

With less than one year to go before the 2020 ICC T20 Cricket World Cup opens in Australia, West Indies are looking nothing like the team that battled to the 2016 title. After dropping all three matches of a home series against India in August, the Windies traveled to India, only to lose the opener […]

A Filipino surfer threw away a chance to win a gold medal in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games — and instead saved a life. Roger Casugay was taking part in the surfing competition during the SEA Games when Indonesia’s Arhip Nurhidayat was thrown from his surfboard and tossed about by strong waves. As Fox Sports […]

Jake Burton Carpenter, the professional snowboarder who helped grow the sport into the international phenomenon it is today, has passed away at the age of 65, according to a report by Boston.com. The winter sports star’s death can be attributed to testicular cancer, with an email from his company, Burton, saying that the disease Carpenter […]

A horse was euthanized after suffering a devastating leg injury in the final race of the Breeders’ Cup on Saturday, the 37th horse death at Santa Anita Park in less than a year. The attention of the horse racing world turned to the California race track on Saturday for the biggest event outside of the […]

After England stunned defending Rugby World Cup champions New Zealand 19-7 in the first 2019 semifinal on Saturday in Yokohama, Japan, the South Africa Springboks followed up with a hard-fought, tactical 19-16 victory over the Brave Dragons of Wales, to set up a rematch of the 2007 World Cup final on November 2. The Springboks […]

With just days left until it hosts one of the most-watched horse races in America, the Santa Anita race track is coming under new scrutiny after another horse died in an accident on the track — the 35th overall to die since December. As KABC reported, a 5-year-old race horse named G Q Covergirl injured […]

Less than three months into the inaugural cricket World Test Championship, India has already accumulated a sizable lead, taking 200 points from four matches — well ahead of second-place New Zealand and Sri Lanka, who each sit on 60 from two matches each. The two-year long competition involves the world’s nine top-ranked Test sides, each […]

As the historic return of international cricket to Pakistan continues with the second T20 match on Monday, a young Sri Lanka side can spoil the happy occasion for their hosts. The Sri Lanka side cruised to an easy victory in the first T20 of the three-match series, according to CricBuzz — the island country’s first […]

The South Africa Springboks, two-time Rugby World Cup champions, find themselves in a desperate situation in the 2019 tournament. They sit third on the Pool B table behind three-time champs New Zealand and, in one of the surprises of the tournament so far, the gli Azzurri of Italy, who lead the group with 10 points […]

Before heading into their current, three-match T20 International cricket series, India and South Africa last squared off in the eighth match of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, as The Inquisitr reported. India took the edge in that 50-overs match, taking a six-wicket win with 15 balls remaining — and so far, the results seem to […]

England not only will be looking to definitively cast their sorry showing at the 2015 Rugby World Cup into the dustbin of history when they open their 2019 tournament on Sunday, they will also need to keep pace with New Zealand. The All Blacks won their opening match, and the two are considered co-favorites to […]

With just a single victory since a devastating 36-0 defeat at the hands of arch-rival New Zealand in a Bledisloe Cup match, as The Inquisitr reported, the Australia Wallabies open their 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign by facing a dangerous underdog in the Flying Fijians of Fiji. After host Japan ran over Russia 30-10 in […]

Antonio Brown has been the hottest topic of the NFL for weeks now, and over the weekend things got even crazier when he asked the Raiders to release him, which they did, leaving him open to sign with the league’s powerhouse, the New England Patriots. Of course, many fans aren’t happy about the movie, and […]

After his emotional retirement last month from one day international competition, as The Inquisitr reported, Sri Lanka fast bowling legend Lasith Malinga is back on the cricket pitch to captain his country’s T20 International side as they face New Zealand. For both teams, it will be the start of a year’s worth of preparation for […]

West Indies ranks only eighth on the ICC world Test rankings, but they may be the most improved Test side in the world of cricket. With a revived fast bowling corps that recalls the Windies’ glory years of the 1970s and 1980s, and that, since 2017, has held visitors to a lower Test batting average […]

Sri Lanka can take a firm grip on the top of the table in the early stages of the ICC World Test Championship with a win over New Zealand in the second Test of their two-match series. This is a match that will be worth 60 points on the table due to a scoring system […]

Last weekend, the South Africa Springboks traveled to Argentina, where they captured their first major international trophy in 10 years. This game saw the Springboks destroy the Pumas, 46-13, behind a pair of tries and five penalties scored by 25-year-old fly-half Handré Pollard, as Rugby Pass reported. Now, one Saturday later, the two teams shall […]

For the first time in a decade, the New Zealand All Blacks appear to be losing their vice grip on the world of international rugby. In the Rugby Championship, which concluded just last week, they scratched out a narrow win over upstart Argentina, battled to an uninspiring draw with South Africa, then last weekend, they […]

England’s 24-year-old Cricket World Cup bowling hero Jofra Archer received his first Test cap even though not a single ball was bowled on Wednesday, as The Telegraph reported, as England and Australia will try again on Thursday to get their second Ashes Test match — which will also be the second match for both countries […]

So far, one match has been completed in the first-ever two-year, ICC World Test Championship competition, in which the top nine Test nations will play three home and three away series, according to ESPNCricInfo. But after Australia defeated England in the first of their five-test Ashes series last week, two more teams will enter the […]

The center of attention in the second one-day international match between West Indies and India can only be on one player — Windies opener Chris Gayle. The already-legendary power-hitting batsman has announced his pending retirement from international cricket — though after stating that he would call it a career after the 2019 Cricket World Cup, […]

With just six weeks to go before they open their Rugby World Cup campaign in Japan, the South Africa Springboks can get the best dose of momentum possible, needing only a win over Argentina to clinch their first Rugby Championship crown since 2009, as Sky Sports reports. The ‘Boks will benefit from the result of […]

Less than a month after the conclusion of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, early preparations get underway for the 2013 edition as India continues their tour of the West Indies with the opening match of a three-game one-day international series, one that India Captain Virat Kohli insists is taking place too far in advance […]

India got their preparations for the 2020 ICC World T20 underway on Saturday in halting fashion, taking until the 18th over to chase down an unimpressive 96 total by West Indies — despite losing six wickets along the way, as CricBuzz reported. Only one India batsman, Rohit Sharma, topped 20 runs as the bowlers on […]

Less than a month after their elimination in the semifinal round of the 2018 Cricket World Cup, India takes the field again for the opening match of a West Indies tour that will actually open in the United States. Both teams are beginning preparations for the ICC World T20, which takes place in October and […]

Just two weeks after the conclusion of the dramatic 2019 Cricket World Cup, won in dramatic fashion by England, the oldest rivalry in cricket takes center stage when England hosts arch-rival Australia in the 71st playing of The Ashes, as The Inquisitr reported, with Day 1 of the first Test match out of five scheduled […]

On Thursday, the oldest rivalry in cricket returns as England hosts arch-rival Australia in the first of five Test matches as the 2019 Ashes series opens for the 71st time, in a rivalry that stretches all the way back to 1861, according to CricInfo. Through the years, the two nations have been very closely matched, […]

After a 91-run defeat in a game memorable as the final one-day international outing in legendary Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga’s career, the Bangladesh Tigers will need a better batting performance throughout the order. This will particularly have to come from opener Tamim Iqbal, who, in his captaincy debut led off the Bangladesh run […]

With the opening of the 2019 Rugby World Cup coming up less than two months from now in Japan, the annual Rugby Championship has been truncated this year. The competition for international rugby’s top four Southern Hemisphere teams has been shortened to just three matches per team, rather than six, with each side playing the […]

Two teams who endured disappointing outings in the just-wrapped 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup get back into action in the first of three one day international matches in Sri Lanka, as the hosts take on the Bangladesh Tigers. Both teams will field squads with only a few changes from the World Cup sides that each […]

Just 10 short days after winning the 2019 Cricket World Cup in what, as The Inquisitr reported, was immediately hailed as perhaps the greatest 50-overs match ever played, England returns to the field — this time in the Test format of the game facing Ireland in Test cricket for the first time. While for the […]

The New Zealand All-Blacks open their campaign for a fourth consecutive Rugby Championship trophy when they travel to Argentina to face the Pumas, a team they have defeated in all 28 matches the two have played, going back to their first meeting in 1985, per Rugby Pass. With New Zealand preserving players for their upcoming […]

With the 2019 Rugby World Cup, held this year in Japan, getting underway in exactly two months, the world’s fifth and sixth-ranked teams, per World Rugby, open a shortened version of the eighth annual Rugby Championship — a tournament for the sport’s four top Southern Hemisphere teams. This year, South Africa hosts Australia in what […]

In what was immediately labeled “the greatest cricket World Cup final there has been, by a mile,” by The Guardian, England — the country where the sport originated — won their first world championship, taking the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. To clinch the victory, the team needed a tiebreaking super over to come out […]

In a 2019 Cricket World Cup final that matches the teams that placed third and fourth on the group stage table, one outcome is certain. When England and New Zealand finish their match, the Cricket World Cup, in its 12th edition, will see its sixth different champion, as CricBuzz noted. Neither side has captured the […]

After underdog New Zealand shocked table-topping India — the Black Caps bowlers rallied to defend a seemingly vulnerable total of just 239, as Deadspin reported — one of cricket’s oldest and most heated rivalries moves to center stage in the 2019 Cricket World Cup, as Australia faces England in the second semifinal. The winner, of […]

Tennis superstar Serena Williams lost the U.S. Open last September after three controversial on-court violations. Now, Williams reveals that she wrote a letter to opponent Naomi Osaka to apologize for arguing with the umpire and taking the spotlight away from the game. Williams was issued three violations, one each for illegal coaching, breaking her racquet, […]

The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup has entered its final phase. With group stage play wrapping up over the weekend and seeing a switch in the top two positions with Australia dropping into second place thanks to a surprising loss to South Africa, India now faces fourth-place New Zealand in the first semifinal match. Though […]

Megan Rapinoe and girlfriend Sue Bird are getting plenty of attention after Team USA took home the Women’s World Cup title, with one columnist calling the pair “America’s Best Sports Couple.” Rapinoe helped lead the U.S. Women’s National Team to a win on Sunday over the Netherlands in the World Cup Final, with Rapinoe playing […]

India takes on their most familiar opponent in their final 2019 Cricket World Cup match before they enter the semifinal round, facing Sri Lanka in an ODI match for the 159th time — more ODIs than any two other countries have played against each other, according to The Times of India. But for India, the […]

Bangladesh and Pakistan will both try to end what has been somewhat disappointing ICC Cricket World Cup with a victory, but only Pakistan still retains a hope — albeit distant — of qualifying for the semifinals of the 2019 tournament. The team’s captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, admits that his side will need “miracles” to earn a […]

Joey Chestnut is the undisputed Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest champ, winning 11 out of the last 12 competitions at the annual Fourth of July event held at New York’s Coney Island. But while Chestnut has dominated the annual hot dog contest over the past decade—losing only to Matt Stonie in 2015—his mother worried about […]

Ahead of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the 38th match of the tournament, pitting host England against powerhouse India — the second and first-ranked ODI sides in the world, according to the ICC — would likely have been seen as a battle for the top spot on the table. But when the two countries […]

Pakistan started their 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in a dispiriting fashion, to say the least, with a crushing seven-wicket loss to West Indies — with 218 balls to spare, as ESPN reported. But the Men in Green, winners of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, have recently turned their tournament around. After two consecutive victories […]

After back-to-back heartbreaking defeats to New Zealand and Bangladesh, West Indies have one last, albeit remote, chance to get themselves back into the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. But their opponent on Thursday, the mighty India, narrowly avoided what could have been a devastating upset to Afghanistan their last time out, showing vulnerabilities that, as […]

Pakistan has experienced an up-and-down 2019 Cricket World Cup, but as CricInfo noted, their tournament so far, through six scheduled matches, has exactly mirrored the country’s 1992 World Cup outing, which took place in Australia and New Zealand. The team started off with a loss to West Indies, just as they did 27 years ago. […]

As they enter the final there matches of their 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup group stage, the Bangladesh Tigers face what, in effect, would be a mini-Asia Cup, with India and Pakistan remaining on their fixture list — in addition to Monday’s opponent, the still winless Afghanistan. But though Afghanistan comes into the Bangladesh showdown […]

Two teams who have struggled in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, with just one win each, find themselves playing for survival on Sunday. No matter who wins, Pakistan or South Africa, the climb into the top four and advancement to the semifinals will be difficult, to say the least. For Pakistan, being one of […]