As soaked Senegal fans celebrated winning the Africa Cup of Nations in a Moroccan rainstorm on Sunday, thoughts and talk would likely have soon turned to a World Cup opener against France less than six months away.
The German national team's sporting director, Rudi Völler, stressed in a weekly sports talk show recently, that while no gag order would be imposed on anyone, "it cannot be that it's being talked about, practically on a matchday like with this disaster in Qatar."
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said a proposed NBA Europe league would "respect the traditions of European basketball." Silver used the occasion of Thursday's NBA game in Berlin between the Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies — the first regular season game to ever take place in Germany — to give an update on the venture.
A major investor in a new American football league in Europe believes the time is right for a sustainable pan-European competition, despite a host of previous failures. David Gandler, who co-founded the sports streaming service Fubo, said he has personally invested "seven figures" in the European Football Alliance (EFA).
With relations between European governments and the United States strained, calls for European teams to boycott World Cup 2026 are beginning to gain traction in some quarters. Politicians, fans and football executives are among those who believe that the actions of Donald Trump's administration — particularly in relation to Greenland — make participating in the tournament problematic.
The deal the Washington Spirit announced on Thursday ended weeks of uncertainty over the footballing future of Trinity Rodman, whose previous contract with the club had expired on December 31. "I knew this was where I wanted to enter the next chapter of my career," the 23-year-old said in a statement.
NPR journalists are at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Join host A Martinez and correspondents Becky Sullivan, Brian Mann and Rachel Treisman as they talk about what's coming up, including Lindsey Vonn's comeback, Chloe Kim's shoulder injury and the U.S. men's hockey team's shot at gold.
The 2026 Winter Olympics sports program opened with the first curling matches scheduled in Italy's Cortina on Wednesday night, two days before the official opening ceremony. Several hundred spectators watched as eight teams unpacked their equipment in the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.
With the new ice hockey arena in Milan and the new ice rink in Cortina both finished just in time, the 25th Winter Olympics can begin. Cortina d'Ampezzo is hosting the Olympics for the second time.
FIFA's previous president, Sepp Blatter, weighed in on discussions about attending the upcoming World Cup in North America this week, saying he thought it was "right to question" this World Cup.
In the face of thousands of killings, leading figures in Iranian sport have been vocal about the need for help and action.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has rejected a request from the United States, which called for Katie Uhlaender, the skeleton athlete at the center of an Olympic qualifying controversy, to be given a discretionary place at February's Winter Games at Milano Cortina, to "preserve" her Olympic dream.