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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.
DonnaJean Wilde bested her previous planking record by nearly 30 minutes at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah.
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.
David Rush, who already holds more than 200 Guinness World Records, needed 60 attempts with a father and his two sons to card a single hole in 44.31 seconds.
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.
Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell each scored 34 in a 111-91 win over Connecticut, sending Indiana into a three-week hiatus with its playoff positioning secure.
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.
Three jumpers cannonballed onto a giant airbag on Lake Lucerne to fling a fourth man higher than a nine-story building, smashing a 14-year-old blobbing record.
Eugenio Suárez's grand slam and a Tyler Stephenson pinch-hit single capped a seven-run ninth as Cincinnati completed one of the rarest comebacks in the sport.
Yomif Kejelcha ran 56 minutes, 51 seconds through the streets of Buenos Aires to take back the half marathon world record he first set two years ago.
Ha-Seong Kim's two-out single in the ninth completed a second straight comeback over Los Angeles, while a blister on Sasaki's throwing hand sent the Dodgers right-hander to the injured list.
The Ethiopian runner became the first man to break 57 minutes in record-eligible conditions, shaving 29 seconds off the previous mark.
The Atlanta Dream forward's 26 rebounds against the Sparks broke a 23-year-old single-game mark and pushed her past her own single-season rebounding record with six games still to play.
Judi Oyama, who took up skateboarding in 1973, has stretched her own Guinness World Record as the oldest competitive female skateboarder to 66 — with another title defense already on the calendar.
Three closing birdies at Bellerive held off a hard-charging Rory McIlroy and pushed Clark's comeback season into position for a Player of the Year run at next week's Tour Championship.
Yunosuke Yabe struck out seven and hit two home runs to keep Japan alive in a 3-2 win over Czechia, one of four tight elimination games Monday that set up Tuesday's quarterfinal round in Williamsport.
Kinley Rasmus struck out six more Monday to match a mark set in 2014, three decades after her father and uncle reached the same tournament's U.S. final for the same town.
Dominik Szoboszlai's stoppage-time spot kick salvaged a point for new Liverpool boss Andoni Iraola, denying Newcastle and rookie head coach Matthias Jaissle a statement opening-day win.
Machines outran and outjumped human world records at the second World Humanoid Robot Games, where more than 2,000 robots from 16 countries are competing this week.
The Freedom 250 threads 25 cars past the Capitol and the Washington Monument this afternoon, a one-off street race organizers built around the country's 250th anniversary.
The world No. 1 will miss his first Grand Slam since his 2019 debut, reshuffling the men's field days before the year's final major opens in Flushing Meadows.
An American corgi named GG defended her title at the fifth Corgi Race Vilnius, which has grown from a 40-dog local meetup into a nine-nation event in a Lithuanian park.
Mitchell scored a game-high 37 points to break A'ja Wilson's mark, even as Indiana fell to the Dallas Wings and saw its five-game win streak snapped.
Indiana's Kelsey Mitchell scored 37 points to reach 21 straight 20-point games, breaking A'ja Wilson's record, but Dallas held on for a 91-85 win that ended the Fever's five-game streak.
New York finished off a three-game sweep in Baltimore, but the series will be remembered for a disputed foul-ball call that has the Orioles pushing MLB to upgrade its replay cameras.
The American sprinter lowered swimming's fastest sprint mark twice at the Pan Pacific Championships, capping a summer-long duel with teammate Gretchen Walsh.
Minnesota improved to a league-best 30-7 in a showdown of the WNBA's top two teams, but the night ended with breakout rookie Olivia Miles limping to the locker room.
Nicholas "NickyBucketz" DeMarinis keeps stretching the world record past 100 feet — and heads to Orlando this week to defend his Pop-A-Shot national title.
Alvin Kamara avoided a torn ligament but will miss several weeks after leaving a joint practice with the Cowboys, handing Travis Etienne Jr. an even bigger runway to claim New Orleans' lead backfield role.
An Arizona manager's hot-mic message to his 12-year-old pitcher about faith over the scoreboard has been viewed more than 10 million times.
The world No. 1 survived a stiff challenge from Australian qualifier Talia Gibson, another reminder that 2026 has been Sabalenka's toughest title defense yet after a season still missing a Grand Slam.
A course-record-tying 61 on Friday put the tournament away early as Scottie Scheffler cruised to his 21st career PGA Tour title and the top FedExCup seed.
The American sprinter reclaimed the mark from training partner Gretchen Walsh in the morning heats, then broke it again to win Saturday's final in Irvine.
Scottie Scheffler carries a two-shot lead into Sunday's final round at TPC Southwind, chasing his first PGA Tour win since January as Sam Burns and Sungjae Im lurk two back.
Robin Steiner soared 92.5 feet off an inflatable water blob at Lake Lucerne, shattering a 14-year-old record and racking up tens of millions of views.
Miami's new $67.5 million quarterback led a 93-yard touchdown drive in his first series, but Washington pulled away behind its backfield as three preseason openers kicked off the NFL exhibition slate.
Raúl Jiménez converted a stoppage-time penalty to rescue a point for newly relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers as Blackburn Rovers twice came from behind on the opening weekend of the Championship season.
Bregman drove in a career-high seven runs as Chicago routed Washington 12-6, the latest sign of a turnaround for the Cubs' big free-agent addition.
An independent appeal board upheld suspensions for four of five players acquitted last year in Canada's 2018 world junior sexual assault case, ruling their conduct still breached Hockey Canada's code.
More than 25 Hall of Famers are expected in Dyersville, Iowa, Thursday night as the Twins and Phillies — both fighting for wild-card position — meet in the third MLB at Field of Dreams game.
The Fever guard notched her ninth 20-point, 10-assist game of the season, a mark no other player has approached, as Indiana pushes for a playoff spot.
Undrafted rookie Haynes King scored the game-winning touchdown on the final play, outdueling Arizona counterpart Carson Beck to open the 2026 preseason — though the moment came at a cost.
Seattle ended its longest losing streak in years by beating Chicago 97-88, while Atlanta got 20-plus points from three players in a win over expansion Toronto.
Kayla McBride's career-high 43-point, 10-three-pointer explosion powered Minnesota past Dallas 103-90 and made the Lynx the first team to clinch a 2026 playoff berth.
Arizona will retire Fitzgerald's jersey and add him to its Ring of Honor at halftime of a Week 7 game against Denver, capping a milestone week for the franchise's all-time leading receiver.
A three-shot victory at Sedgefield Country Club carried the 24-year-old from 105th to 47th in the standings, while Jackson Koivun matched a Tiger Woods record just to hold the final playoff spot.
The MLS-Liga MX group stage delivered a split Monday — a 1-0 Cruz Azul win over the Union and a 2-0 NYCFC victory — as the 36-club tournament builds toward its September final.
Down in fourth after day one, Rivera clawed back to defend her national all-around title in one of the biggest comebacks in the event's history.
Skye Blakely and Claire Pease are tied atop the women's all-around standings entering the final day of the 2026 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Phoenix.
Four founding franchises kicked off the first women's professional baseball league in more than 70 years at a sold-out neutral-site stadium in Springfield, Illinois, part of a broader wave of new women's pro leagues taking the field.
The England midfielder's move from Nottingham Forest is the most expensive deal ever for a British player and the first major signing of Enzo Maresca's tenure at City.
Los Angeles closed the game on an 8-0 run as the WNBA-leading Lynx missed their final seven shots in an 89-82 upset.
European federations say a FIFA apology over its shelved private-equity plan for the World Cup "changes nothing," leaving the sport's governing body facing a potential boycott by its biggest nations.
Rookie quarterback Haynes King punched in a go-ahead touchdown with no time left as Carolina rallied to open the NFL preseason with a 33-30 win over Arizona.
European clubs have committed €9.8bn this summer, already past last year's full-window total, with the English and Saudi leagues driving the surge.
FIFA finalized the 20-venue map for the centenary tournament spanning Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.