Playing through a virus and a fourth-quarter ankle tweak, Wembanyama set career highs with 52 points, 24 rebounds and 8 blocks — a line the league hadn't seen since 1974.
Fabián Ruiz scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain raced to a four-goal lead in 17 minutes, stretching the defending champions' winning streak to ten games in all competitions.
Play paused briefly at Kadir Has Stadium in Kayseri when a fox wandered onto the field during a second-tier Turkish league match, surprising players and officials.
Four days after Chicago sent two future first-round picks to Tennessee for the Pro Bowl defensive tackle, Simmons recorded his first sack as a Bear in a win that pushed Chicago to 6-2.
Milwaukee lost just twice all postseason en route to the franchise's first championship, with catcher William Contreras named World Series MVP.
Mercedes' Andrea Kimi Antonelli clinched the title with a third-place finish behind race winner Max Verstappen, breaking Sebastian Vettel's 16-year-old record by more than three years in just his second F1 season.
Rookie Cameron Boozer and guard Ty Jerome have Memphis tied with Houston for the league's best record through the first week of the season.
Milwaukee shut down its downtown for a championship parade that drew nearly double the expected crowd, capping a 44-year wait for the franchise's first title.
More than 50,000 runners take on the TCS New York City Marathon's 50th five-borough running, led by defending champions Benson Kipruto and Hellen Obiri.
Newly released police files widen the case against Josh Jacobs beyond the May arrest that already cost him six games, as the league's conduct review continues.
A quarter-final win in Vienna guarantees Alexander Zverev will replace the injured Jannik Sinner atop the ATP rankings on Monday, capping a season built almost entirely without beating Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz.
Australian world-record holder Joanna Wietrzyk says she takes full responsibility for continuing a Beijing race after a mid-event bout of food-poisoning diarrhoea, as new rules let officials pull contaminated athletes.
A team written off all October as too young and too cheap closed out a 103-win season with its first title in 57 years, as catcher William Contreras took home MVP honors.
Down 3-0 in the series, Tampa Bay rallied in extra innings as pinch-hitter Ben Williamson's single in the 12th drove in the winning run, sending the Fall Classic back to Milwaukee with the Brewers still one win away from the title.
A running meme calling the Real Madrid forward a "dictator" for his influence on the pitch backfired badly after he laughed along with a clip appearing to reference Mao. Several Chinese sponsors cut ties within hours.
Milwaukee has won three straight to open the Fall Classic, leaving Tampa Bay facing elimination as the series shifts back to Wisconsin.
Sal Frelick's go-ahead-tying homer and Cooper Pratt's seventh-inning RBI single capped another signature Milwaukee comeback, with the bullpen shutting out Tampa Bay over the final six innings.
Sir Kevin completed seven ultramarathons in seven days this month for motor neurone disease charities, continuing a fundraising mission he began after the death of his friend and teammate Rob Burrow.
Milwaukee held off a late Tampa Bay rally after a would-be game-ending double play was overturned on video review, with Christian Yelich sparking the Brewers' first World Series win since 1982.
An email promising employees their own title rings was really a corporate cybersecurity drill — and whoever clicked got sent straight to a mandatory class instead.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren led Oklahoma City to a stifling road win, holding Nikola Jokic's Denver to its lowest point total of the young season.
Edwards torched Miami for 45 points on 9-for-17 shooting from three as Minnesota rolled to a 131-106 win, overshadowing Antetokounmpo's first game in a Heat uniform after the summer's blockbuster trade.
Iran's anthem was mistakenly played for athletes from Taiwan and Mongolia at the Japan-hosted Games, the latest in a string of organizational stumbles.
Philadelphia spoiled New York's championship-banner ceremony while Detroit erased a 22-point deficit, headlining a wild start to the 2026-27 season.
Forward Maddie DiMaria scored six goals as ten different Americans found the net in the most lopsided result in FIFA Women's World Cup history at any age level.
Tampa Bay closes out a seesawing ALCS at home, while Milwaukee's sweep of the two-time-champion Dodgers sets up a Fall Classic opening Friday in Wisconsin.
Drew Rasmussen's seven strong innings and an early flurry of runs carry Tampa Bay past Cleveland, 3-1, leaving the Guardians facing elimination Monday night at Tropicana Field.
Alex McPherson's 34-yard field goal as time expired capped a furious Auburn rally and ended Georgia's one-week reign atop the AP Top 25.
Organizers worried a scorching summer had left too few large horse chestnuts to play with, then crowned Frankie Hooper, Simon Griffiths, James Moss and Jack Marchbank champions anyway.
Persistent showers in Cleveland forced a rare Championship Series postponement, pushing Game 4 to Saturday and Game 5 to a hastily created Sunday date — with the Brewers already waiting in the World Series.
Diego Poncelet broke a downhill-skateboarding speed record that had stood since 2017, reaching 94.34 mph on the same Quebec hill in an aerodynamic suit built for the attempt.
The rookie outfielder's two-run shot proved decisive as Cleveland beat Tampa Bay 3-2 in Game 3 on Thursday.
Milwaukee completes a four-game NLCS sweep of the two-time defending champion Dodgers, winning 6-4 in Game 4 to clinch its first pennant since 1982.
Jackson Chourio's leadoff homer and a seventh-inning Jake Bauers-Garrett Mitchell blast send Milwaukee to a 3-0 NLCS lead over the two-time defending champions.
Serial record-breaker David Rush had avoided this stunt for years because it hurt too much — until his niece, a soccer goalkeeper, helped him stick the landing.
A José Ramírez error unlocked a three-run fourth, and a midseason trade acquisition made it hold up as Game 2 sent the series back to Cleveland tied 1-1.
Chase DeLauter and Patrick Bailey each went deep off Drew Rasmussen, and Cleveland scored six unanswered runs over the final four innings in a 7-3 win Monday night at Tropicana Field.
Mario Neurauter cleared 3.80 meters to land on a marked target at an Austrian bike festival, taking a Guinness title seven years in the making.
Golden State knocked out two-time defending champion Las Vegas and Atlanta eliminated New York within hours of each other, pairing a two-year-old expansion team against a franchise that hadn't reached the title round since 2013.
José Ramírez homered and drove in three runs as Cleveland erased an early deficit with a six-run sixth inning, beating Chicago 9-5 to even the ALDS at two games apiece and set up Saturday's winner-take-all Game 5.
A September game between the Brewers and Phillies produced one of the year's most-replayed stadium moments: a dad making the grab of his life with an infant tucked in his other arm.
Victor Mesa Jr.'s go-ahead homer and a reversed fan-interference call sent Tampa Bay past New York 4-3, completing a three-game sweep of baseball's highest-spending roster.
Daniil Medvedev was three points from a straight-sets loss to Novak Djokovic in Beijing when a frustrated swat into the stands ended his night — and his tournament — early.
San Diego beat Milwaukee 4-3 at Petco Park to trim the Brewers' NLDS lead to 2-1, with Michael King closing it out two days after his Game 2 start.
Michael Harris II's triple and a wild pitch sent Atlanta past Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium, setting up a pivotal Game 3 in Atlanta.
The two-time Cy Young winner threw six innings in 100-degree heat as Los Angeles opened the best-of-five series with a win at Dodger Stadium.
Caleb Komolafe ran for 188 yards and Northwestern piled up 413 rushing yards in a lopsided win over Penn State in the first game at the rebuilt Ryan Field, dropping Matt Campbell's Nittany Lions to 0-2 in Big Ten play.
The 20-year-old's unbeaten 79-ball 188 for the Titans eclipsed a mark Gayle set in the 2013 Indian Premier League that had stood for more than a decade.
Atlanta won Game 3 of the NL Wild Card Series 6-2, scoring all six runs on home runs, to eliminate Philadelphia and set up a Division Series matchup with the defending champion Dodgers.
Cleveland built a 21-point second-quarter cushion, then held on as Pittsburgh's quarterback nearly pulled off a late comeback on Thursday night.
Chase Meidroth's three-run homer sends Chicago past Houston 7-3 in Game 2, completing a sweep that pushes the rebuilding White Sox into the Division Series against the AL's top-seeded Tampa Bay Rays.
Lian Yunzhi of China became the first woman to average under 4.5 seconds solving a 3x3 cube, then beat her own mark days later.
Rice went 4-for-5 with two homers and six RBI, and Schlittler struck out 10 over 6 1/3 shutout innings, as New York seized a 1-0 series lead over their Wild Card Series rivals at Yankee Stadium.
A franchise-record 103-win Milwaukee season and the Dodgers' bid for a third straight title headline a bracket that kicks off Tuesday with four best-of-three Wild Card openers, including a renewed Braves-Phillies rivalry.
Timofei Tarasenko posted a 1:36.80 average on the giant 7x7x7 puzzle in Hanoi, edging out Max Park's year-old mark while using a different solving technique.
A 56-yard field goal as time expired capped a stunning final possession in the league's first regular-season game in Rio de Janeiro, one of five Week 3 finishes decided in the closing minutes.
For the first time in the event's history, the Internationals carry a lead into the final day on American soil, needing just five more points at Medinah to end a 28-year title drought.
The retired Patriots and Colts kicker traveled to the Swiss Alps and booted a field goal at 11,332 feet above sea level, a Guinness World Records title for the highest-altitude field goal ever verified.
The Astros and Rangers are tied at 79-81 with two games left in a sub-.500 scrap for the AL West, while Cleveland's lead over Chicago and Philadelphia's wild-card cushion both shrank to the slimmest of margins on Friday.
Kimia Zarei and Zeinab Norouzi won lightweight double sculls gold for Iran at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, part of a strong showing by the country's women rowers this week.
San Diego rallied past a Tyler Glasnow no-hit bid to beat Los Angeles 4-2, sealing a franchise-record third consecutive postseason trip under first-year manager Craig Stammen.
Seventeen-year-old Shin Ohashi became the first man to break 2:05 in the 200-meter breaststroke, stunning a home crowd at the Asian Games.
Rice's 40th and 41st home runs tie him for the American League lead in a 9-2 win over Tampa Bay, coming days after the Rays wrapped up their fifth AL East title.
The retired Patriots kicker split the uprights 3,454 meters up on the Jungfraujoch, calling the thin mountain air unlike anything he faced in 20 NFL seasons.
An eight-pitcher shutout and an 11th straight home win pulled Los Angeles within one victory of baseball's best record, with Roki Sasaki now auditioning for October leverage innings.
China's Yu Zidi, too young for next year's World Championships under current rules, keeps swimming fast enough to make that rule the story.
Matthew Stafford threw four touchdown passes and moved into sixth on the NFL's career list as Los Angeles routed New York 28-6, a night darkened by rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart's early exit with a knee injury.
A five-over sprint in Tochigi Prefecture marked the first-ever cricket international between India and Japan, and nearly ended in an upset.
Six new sports debut as more than 11,000 athletes from 45 nations gather for the continental Games, which open under the threat of an approaching tropical storm.
Conner Weigman's late touchdown pass pulled Houston within two, but a failed two-point conversion sealed a Red Raiders comeback win in Lubbock.
Sujan Feist matched his 0.86-second average for the 2x2 Rubik's Cube, extending a run that has made him one of only seven cubers ever to break the one-second barrier.
Buffalo's quarterback threw for three scores and ran for two more as the Bills' new $2.1 billion stadium hosted its first regular-season game, holding off a Detroit rally.
Cleveland's series win at Progressive Field snaps Chicago's two-and-a-half-month hold on first place, tightening an AL Central race that still doubles as the backdrop for the White Sox's historic playoff push.
Tarik Skubal's seven scoreless innings and homers from Kyle Tucker and Teoscar Hernández sent Los Angeles past Cincinnati, matching an all-time mark for consecutive postseason trips as the two-time defending champions push for an unprecedented three-peat.
It took 60 tries and a 41-second uphill sprint, but an Idaho team now holds the record for fastest disc golf hole played by a team of four.
Nine months after surgery to repair a torn ACL and LCL, Patrick Mahomes threw for 184 yards and ran for a touchdown as Kansas City opened its season with a rout of Denver at Arrowhead Stadium.
Three jumpers catapulted a teammate nearly 93 feet above a Swiss lake on a giant airbag, breaking a 'blobbing' height record that had stood since 2012.
Elena Rybakina beat Aryna Sabalenka in three sets at Arthur Ashe Stadium to claim her third Grand Slam trophy, end Sabalenka's bid for a US Open three-peat, and take over the WTA's No. 1 ranking.
A stadium-wide relay to stuff a giant inflatable frank into an equally giant bun went viral at Kauffman Stadium, and earned the whole crowd a free meal.
Brock Purdy throws three touchdowns as San Francisco dominates Los Angeles before a record Australian crowd of 100,021 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The new world No. 1 rallied past Coco Gauff in three sets to reach Saturday's championship match against two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka, who dispatched Jessica Pegula in the day's other semifinal.
Backup Drew Lock rallied Seattle past New England in a rematch of Super Bowl LX, but coach Mike Macdonald says more tests are needed to gauge the severity of Sam Darnold's hip injury.
Britain's Leah Shutkever took back the fastest-burrito title from American rival Miki Sudo and set two more records in the same visit.
The No. 8 seed outlasted an injury-hampered Carlos Alcaraz in a five-set epic that didn't end until 3:33 a.m., breaking the tournament's latest-finish record and setting up an all-American semifinal against Frances Tiafoe.
Dale Sanders fell 71 times chasing his own record back — and at 91, made it to Katahdin anyway.
Qinwen Zheng erased a 5-0 deficit to oust two-time finalist Iga Świątek, while Alex Michelsen's unbeaten run and Frances Tiafoe's win over Daniil Medvedev set up an all-American men's quarterfinal ahead of Tuesday's Carlos Alcaraz–Ben Shelton showdown.
Faustino Oro's title was formally ratified by FIDE this week, capping a run that fell just short of the all-time record but still outpaced a mark that had stood for nearly two decades.
In his first game as LSU's head coach, Lane Kiffin routed a Clemson team picked outside the preseason rankings, outgaining the visitors 644 yards to 145 in a 51-10 season-opening statement.
Chardonnay the Australian shepherd cleared a line of Edmonton Riverhawks fans in 16 seconds, smashing the one-minute time limit for a new Guinness title.
Francisco Cerúndolo erases a two-set deficit on Arthur Ashe Stadium to eliminate No. 9 seed Taylor Fritz, leaving American men's 23-year wait for a Grand Slam singles title to run at least one more year.
Dale Sanders, 91, endured 71 falls and a health scare on Vermont's Killington Mountain to reclaim the record for oldest person to complete the full Appalachian Trail — five years after losing it.
The defending champion tied Pete Sampras for career US Open wins and will face a red-hot Tommy Paul, while Tiafoe, Tsitsipas, Shelton and Townsend all punched into the round of 16.
Alexander Zverev outlasted Quentin Halys in a match that ended past 2 a.m. Friday, his second straight five-setter, while third-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime and sixth-seeded Alex de Minaur were eliminated on a chaotic night in Flushing Meadows.
Robin Steiner soared 28.22 meters after three teammates leapt onto a giant airbag in unison, breaking a height record for 'blobbing' that had stood since 2012.
Given a wild-card spot less than a day before his match, China's Bu Yunchaokete routed 12th-seeded Rafael Jódar 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 in one of the most lopsided upsets of a top-15 seed at Flushing Meadows in years.
Dale Sanders fell 71 times chasing the record back from the friend who'd taken it from him — and finished atop Maine's tallest peak nearly a year after he started.
A 2:01 a.m. finish makes history as Sofia Kenin ends Venus Williams' singles run in three sets, setting up a doubles reunion with sister Serena days after Serena's own injury-marred loss at Wimbledon.
Argentine Mariano Navone outlasts an ailing Novak Djokovic in a four-hour, 36-minute five-setter, sending the four-time champion out in the first round for the first time and out of the ATP top 10 for the first time since 2018.
Riders and drivers rewrote the record boards on one of Britain's oldest hillclimb courses in the British Championship's final round of 2026.
Eight FBS games mark one of the strongest Week 0 slates in years, topped by a Dublin rematch between North Carolina and TCU a year after the Horned Frogs routed Bill Belichick's coaching debut.