2024: The sports year in pictures
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Cowboys cut RB Ezekiel Elliott to give him chance at playoffs - ESPN
FRISCO, Texas — Ezekiel Elliott's return to the Dallas Cowboys is over with one game left to play.
Source -- Rangers place Igor Shesterkin on injured reserve - ESPN
New York Rangers star goaltender Igor Shesterkin has been placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury, an NHL source told ESPN on Tuesday.
How ‘mighty’ Ladd McConkey has become WR1 for playoff-bound Chargers
Editor’s note: This is the 17th installment of a season-long series on a breakout star from the past week of NFL action. The Week 17 winner: Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Ladd McConkey .
Brock Purdy's elbow was 'on fire' after hit, but QB says tests show UCL is fine
Brock Purdy hurt his surgically repaired throwing elbow late in a loss to the Detroit Lions on Monday night, the latest blow in an injury-plagued season for the San Francisco 49ers.
Chiefs' Travis Kelce finishes 1st in fan Pro Bowl Games voting - ESPN
Travis Kelce led all players in fan balloting for the 2025 Pro Bowl Games.
Celebrity deaths 2024: The famous faces who have died this year
It was another historic year.
"Golden Era For Indian Chess": Koneru Humpy After Scripting History
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy capped off a wonderful year for Indian chess, defeating Irene Sukandar of Indonesia to emerge the FIDE Women's World Rapid Chess champion in New York on Sunday. Humpy had won the event back in 2019 at Georgia and the Indian No. 1 is only the second player after China's Ju Wenjun to clinch the title more than once. Humpy's achievement laced a sensational year for the chess fraternity after D Gukesh defeated China's Ding Liren to emerge champion in the classical format World Championship recently in Singapore. In September, India had also won its first-ever gold medals in Open and Women's categories in the Chess Olympiad in Budapest.