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NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about the Australian Open and the upcoming Super Bowl match between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.

Rutgers University welcomes the arrival of new athletic director Julie Hermann as the beginning of a new era, weeks after turmoil engulfed its athletics department. The school's basketball coach was fired last month after videos showed that he verbally and physically abused players during practice.

Joy can be cultivated. Hostility often masks depression. As one year ends and another begins, these six insights and tips from psychologists offer hope for a good new year.

A gunman who entered the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Ill., on Friday afternoon, armed with a handgun, killed five civilians, officials said. Five police officers were also wounded.

The Citadel, at the heart of the Kurdish city of Erbil, has been inhabited for six millennia. Now, amid war and destruction, it's undergoing a much-needed restoration and upgrade of city services.

Men's soccer in Brazil has always reigned supreme. Women were actually banned from playing in the country for decades. But the success of the women's team at the Rio Olympics is changing the narrative.

Thursday's bronze is India's first field hockey medal since 1980 — before any of the current players were born. More history could be made Friday, when India's women go for their first Olympic medal.

Chinese and U.S. officials get into a shouting match on the tarmac, seemingly over where reporters traveling with President Obama could stand as he was exiting Air Force One.

Almost everyone agrees that the much-hyped boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and MMA champ Conor McGregor will not be much of a fight. But fans will shell out an estimated half a billion dollars to watch. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with sports columnist Adam Kilgore of The Washington Post about the fight.

She's a cancer survivor and Colombia's brightest star in the Women's World Cup. Striker Linda Caicedo carries Colombia's hopes on her shoulders ahead of the quarter final match against England.