Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo’s worldwide celebrity reached another height as he became the fastest to reach 1 million subscribers on YouTube this week. Ronaldo created his YouTube channel, UR Cristiano, on Wednesday. He’s used to…
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IOWA CITY, Iowa − Longtime Iowa football head coach Kirk Ferentz had some big news to share Thursday afternoon. And he wanted to do it in person, not in a press release. No, the third-winningest…
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Jahan Dotson is getting a fresh start with a former rival. The Washington Commanders are trading the wide receiver and a fifth-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a third-round pick and two…
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NHL general managers had money to spend this offseason with the salary cap rising from $83.5 million to $88 million. That led to a busy free agency season in which USA TODAY Sports’ top 25…
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‘Pommel horse guy’ is headed to ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ ABC on Thursday announced that gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik, the pommel horse specialist who became an internet sensation during the 2024 Paris Olympics, is joining the…
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The race to the playoffs has become a slog of attrition. It’s late August and the Major League Baseball landscape is littered with the remains of the mediocre. At the halfway point, a half-dozen teams…
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Lynn Williams won a gold medal in Paris, but the U.S. women’s national team forward now has, in her words, ‘the world’s most expensive coaster.’ Williams played a key role in the USWNT’s victorious run…
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It’s the dawn of a college football season unlike any other. There is massive change to the landscape with conference realignment, sending one of the historic leagues into dormancy. The College Football Playoff is tripling…
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The NWSL is scrapping its draft and moving to unrestricted free agency in its new collective bargaining agreement, a first for a major American professional sports league. The move puts the NWSL in alignment with…
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Sean Payton has made the decision he wasn’t prepared to announce just a few days earlier. The Denver Broncos coach on Wednesday revealed that rookie Bo Nix will be the team’s starting quarterback. Nix, who…