United States Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from the United States with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top sports headlines from the United States. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=sports&country=us&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=us" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "sports", "country": "us", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "sports",
    country: "us",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "sports",
    "country"  => "us",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=sports&country=us&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 580254,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "49f86c4d6ce9962e828ed9cb5cf58ed8",
            "title": "15 players to watch amid NFL trade deadline buzz",
            "description": "Yahoo Sports' Frank Schwab and Eric Edholm highlight 15 players who could be trade candidates prior to the deadline.",
            "content": "Take a look at the NFL standings. There's no sure thing this season.\nOnce the Los Angeles Rams got off to a rocky start, it opened things up around the league. There is no runaway team this season, and there is also a group of teams already looking a... [12685 chars]",
            "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/15-players-to-watch-amid-nfl-trade-deadline-buzz-033058936.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/bbf8c2eb95605caa8503bfd3b6b35f58129801c8597788de203379b60d863741/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fd29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net%2Fimages%2Fuser-uploaded%2Fed-110326-15-players-to-watch-for-nfl-trade-deadline_0996.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T03:32:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1213ab3f5e360256b89d3b205e3e8e48",
                "name": "Yahoo Sports",
                "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "392a94d2c9c584f8ee866eae6b330709",
            "title": "Fallece Carlos Albert, reconocido periodista deportivo mexicano",
            "description": "Después de colgar los botines, encontró en el periodismo deportivo una nueva manera de permanecer ligado a su gran pasión.",
            "content": "El deporte mexicano atraviesa un momento de tristeza tras confirmarse la muerte de Carlos Albert Llorente, quien falleció a los 83 años. El exfutbolista y reconocido comentarista dejó una importante huella en los medios de comunicación, donde desarro... [2071 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.diez.hn/internacionales/fallece-carlos-albert-reconocido-periodista-deportivo-mexicano-IH32534963",
            "image": "https://www.diez.hn/binrepository/1201x901/0c0/1200d630/none/3014757/QYMM/carlos-albert-1_16029667_20261103195434.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T01:43:00Z",
            "lang": "es",
            "source": {
                "id": "62687b88e66412a58e4dbdec538ec187",
                "name": "DIEZ.HN",
                "url": "https://www.diez.hn"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8e8eac966ce3a3d4cebd7bbe394910fb",
            "title": "Bills reverse course on \"high-maintenance\" C.J. Gardner-Johnson",
            "description": "The Bills said they'd be keeping safety C.J.",
            "content": "The Bills said they’d be keeping safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson. And now they’re not.\nTuesday’s surprise move to release the veteran defensive back directly contradicts the comments made publicly by coach Joe Brady, on the same day Gardner-Johnson recei... [1363 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bills-reverse-course-on-high-maintenance-c-j-gardner-johnson",
            "image": "https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e215055/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5746x3232+0+299/resize/1440x810!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnbc-sports-production-nbc-sports.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F77%2F11%2F115e073047a4aad8a8899af94a03%2F2300068433.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T01:42:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dc8f73f077072c35626eba314ee483bd",
                "name": "NBC Sports",
                "url": "https://www.nbcsports.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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