Jeffrey Grigsby / EyeEm/Getty Images (ENGLEWOOD, Colo.) — Less than a year into the job, the Denver Broncos have fired their head coach, Nathaniel Hackett. The team announced the move on Monday, a day after losing 51-14 to the Los Angeles Rams. The Broncos are now 4-11 this season. In […]
ABC News (DOHA, Qatar) — Argentina defeated France in an epic World Cup final on Sunday that ended after a penalty shootout. All eyes were on France’s Kylian Mbappé and Argentina’s Lionel Messi, two of soccer’s best-known stars, who have played together for two seasons on Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, […]
ABC News (NEW YORK)– The New York Giants pulled off what some call the biggest upset in NFL history in 2008 by beating the undefeated New England Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII. Former coach Tom Coughlin has written a book, A Giant Win, about that game and how he, […]
Richard Sellers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — American soccer writer Grant Wahl died of an undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium while attending the Netherlands-Argentina match last week, according to his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder. Gounder said an autopsy had been performed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office. “Grant […]
Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mississippi State head football coach Mike Leach has died following a heart attack on Sunday. Leach was 61 years old. The school announced Leach’s death Tuesday morning. “Mike was a giving and attentive husband, father and grandfather,” the Leach family said in a statement. […]
Richard Sellers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl’s body has been returned to the U.S., following his unexpected death last week while covering the World Cup in Qatar, according to his brother. His brother, Eric Wahl, tweeted Monday that he was in New York with his brother’s […]
Richard Sellers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died at 49 in Qatar early Saturday while covering the World Cup, U.S. Soccer said in a statement. “The entire U.S. soccer family is heartbroken to learn that we have lost Grant Wahl,” U.S. Soccer said in a statement […]
EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver celebrated the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian custody on Thursday and thanked the athletes who used their platforms to raise awareness about her case since her detention nearly ten months ago. “Brittney has had to […]
Hispanolistic/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Steve, 18, first felt the thrill of gambling at the age of 15. His “first high” came when he won a couple hundred dollars while playing dice, he told ABC News. To speak candidly, he’s asked to be in shadow, to use a different name […]
Stuart Franklin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After years of controversy around its location, the 2022 World Cup is underway in Qatar. There have been allegations of payoffs to FIFA members to earn the bid, criticism of Qatar’s laws against women and LGBTQ individuals, the deaths of migrants used to build […]
