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A year ago, the 21-year-old former Australian Rugby League player tried on a football helmet and pads for the very first time. By April, he was drafted as an offensive lineman by the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

Viewers can't get enough of the grit and drama surrounding the brutal sport, and production companies led by Amazon and Netflix are taking notice.

(CNN) Since the early primaries began for the 2018 midterm elections, it's been a year of firsts and to many, a year of the woman. In the midst of this election, the first significant national vote since the election of Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh's nomination and confirmation battle only amped up the existing pressure on questions of gender, power, women's health and women in elected office. CNN Opinion asked thinkers to weigh in on 2018 as a Year of the Woman. The views expressed here are s

Bollywood record label T-Series was on track to overtake Felix Kjellberg — or "PewDiePie" — in subscriber count by last Monday, according to analytics firm Tubular Labs, but a campaign to defend his spot has seen a remarkable surge in followers for the Swedish video star in the past week.

With World Mental Health Day landing a few days before the NBA season launched in October, a reminder was served that the league's policy concerning mental illness is evolving.

Reporting from an NFL locker room is one of the strangest things a journalist can experience. It also should come with a list of do's and dont's.

For most of the 1,000 or so participants of Gay Bowl -- who include several college football players and even some ex-pros -- the long weekend represents a celebration of football, the sport they love, which in many ways shaped their lives.

He may wear size-19 sneakers, but Kevin Love still has some big shoes to fill.

More than 1,000 people move to Florida every day. That means there are a lot of new Floridians who haven't experienced a hurricane evacuation yet.

The teenagers drop down on their stomachs, slap the floor with their hands and rise with a gracious twirl. They then proceed to flap their arms like a flock of birds to the beat of a K-pop song.

Remember back when Conor McGregor's acerbic tongue and quick wit were the life of the MMA party? Those were the days, weren't they? Back before all the cars and the yacht and the whiskey and the trouble with the law; back when McGregor was still a hungry young man who had no Euros in the bank but had a noggin full of world-changing, history-making dreams.

Since the very first college game played between Princeton and Rutgers University nearly 150 years ago, tailgating has gone hand-in- hand with American football as a celebration of fandom unmatched by other sports.

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a medical doctor and Kansas City Chiefs linchpin.

Eighty-seven-year-old John Chance-Reed is the oldest registered member of the British Slot Car Racing Association, a collection of enthusiasts in a sport that enjoyed its heyday in the 1960s and now skews heavily towards men at or near retirement age.

Largely thanks to Nathan Chapman's Pro Kick Australia school, founded on the lessons he learned as an NFL hopeful, the country is cranking out punters to major US college programs and infiltrating the pros.

Discover America's most captivating natural and historic treasures as the National Park Service celebrates its birthday.

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (CNN) Yasmin is 33 days old. Wrapped in a checkered blanket, she writhes around in her makeshift crib, a rice sack attached to the ceiling with rope.

Josh Lambo began his athletic career as a goalkeeping prodigy for the US Under-17 national team, even garnering interest from English Premier League club Everton. After an injury forced him out of soccer, he turned his knack for pressure situations into a thriving NFL career.

Ten years ago, Behan and Jamie Gifford plotted to set sail around the world with their three young children. Nearly 50 countries and 58,000 miles later, they're on a short break to drop their son at college ... before starting all over again.

When it comes to the military, Trump blusters or throws tantrums at or about them. But McRaven took out targets. That's a contrast that would work decisively in McRaven's favor.

Here's one way to get paid in American college athletics: Go professional in another sport.

(CNN) A sexist remark hurled across Australia's Senate chamber by a male politician at a female lawmaker has now made its way into the courts, after Senator Sarah Hanson-Young filed a defamation suit against David Leyonhjelm, the man who has refused to apologize for insulting her. "The defamatory statements Senator Leyonhjelm made and continues to make are an attack on my character," Hanson-Young said in a statement after filing the suit on Thursday. "I'm calling this out because it is wrong. N

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has overseen the destruction of $5.5 million worth of luxury vehicles and motorcycles as part of his campaign against corruption.

Ten people have been killed and more than 100,000 have been forced to flee their homes after days of heavy monsoon rains flooded villages in central and southern Myanmar, according to government officials. As of Tuesday, more than 119,000 people across five provinces had been displaced by rising waters, with Magway Region in central Myanmar particularly hard hit, with more than 70,000 affected, said Min Thein, director of Myanmar's Department of Disaster Management.

Lower House member Mio Sugita called gay couples "unproductive" and wondered whether it was "appropriate to spend taxpayer money on them" in a magazine article published last Wednesday. Sugita, who belongs to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is no stranger to controversial statements. She has previously denied the existence of comfort women, victim-blamed the leader of Japan's MeToo movement, and garners more than her fair share of media attention for

(CNN) Egyptian archaeologists have unsealed and opened a mysterious granite sarcophagus discovered on a construction site in Alexandria -- only to find the remains of three mummies in a pool of leaked sewage water. Photos released Thursday evening by Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities show a team of archaeologists climbing down the 16-foot-deep (5 meter) pit and wedging the black sarcophagus open with a wooden plank. The experts had to wear masks over their mouths and noses to block the reportedly

If the NFL thinks its new rule designed to quell player protests will end its national anthem controversy, it may want to think again.

The story of Elon Musk — and by extension, society's unjustified confidence in tech geniuses — is starting to take a dark turn.

(CNN) Scores of foreign experts flew into a remote area of northern Thailand to help the Thai Navy SEALs execute a rescue mission that had been called urgent, risky and dangerous. Divers, engineers, medics and military personnel from all over the world played a crucial role in helping devise a strategy to transport the boys the four grueling kilometers out of a flooded cave.

With steady superyacht orders leading up to the busy summer season, the few marine cybercrime specialists who operate from Monaco to Miami are increasingly in demand.