The Las Vegas Raiders selected Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza as their franchise quarterback with the top overall pick in Thursday night's NFL draft. Mendoza led Indiana to its first national championship. He watched the draft with family in Miami instead of attending in Pittsburgh. The Raiders hope Mendoza will revive a franchise with three Lombardi Trophies but no playoff wins since the 2002 season.

Sixty years after it invented sports drinks, Gatorade is making a surprising pivot: It’s no longer focusing primarily on athletes.

Inter Miami finally made good on its namesake, christening its new home in Miami. But even though the move is complete, the stadium isn't.

Uthmeier, who has used his position to challenge diversity, equity and inclusion policies before, told the NFL that its "Rooney Rule" is discriminatory and illegal in Florida, and ordered the league to stop enforcing it.

FIFA has raised prices for over 40 games of the World Cup in its latest sale that kicked off Wednesday, according to an NPR count. The most expensive tickets to the final now cost $10,900.

Authorities say Tiger Woods showed signs of impairment at the scene of a car crash in which he struck another vehicle and rolled his Land Rover. Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI after the crash Friday.

The attorney general of Florida wants one of the biggest and most popular corporations in the country, the National Football League, to stop implementing what he calls race-based hiring policies, because he says it violates Florida’s Civil Rights Act. Uthmeier contacted NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Wednesday to inform him that the “Rooney Rule,” established more than 20 years ago for the league to combat the historically low number of minorities in head coaching position, is illegal under Florida law.

If you’ve been watching the 2026 Miami Open, you’ve likely seen tennis stars like Coco Gauff and Jannik Sinner dominating the court. But look a little closer, and you’ll notice another group moving just as fast and with quiet precision. Those orange-clad figures are the ballpersons — the engine behind every match.

Aaron Judge says the World Baseball Classic has become baseball's biggest stage. Speaking after the U.S. beat the Dominican Republic 2-1 in semifinal, Judge said as the crowd's atmosphere: "It's bigger and better than the World Series."

Detractors point to Adebayo's one-of-a-kind stat line — 43 field goal attempts, 22 3-point attempts and, most of all, NBA records of 36 free throws and 43 attempts — as proof of stat-padding.