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. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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": 579844,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2a61ee58bf471b2a19bebe12ff262031",
            "title": "Marvin Harrison Jr. will play for Texans on Sunday in London",
            "description": "Texans wideout Marvin Harrison Jr. will play against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Sunday, Houston coach DeMeco Ryans said Wednesday.",
            "content": "HOUSTON -- Newly acquired Texans wideout Marvin Harrison Jr. will play against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Sunday, Houston coach DeMeco Ryans said Wednesday.\nIt's a quick turnaround for Harrison, as he just arrived in Houston on Monday. The... [2835 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50184544/marvin-harrison-jr-play-texans-sunday-london",
            "image": "https://a3.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F1014%2Fr1730812_2_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:27:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0207e330d5d787ce8251900411dd488d",
                "name": "ESPN",
                "url": "https://www.espn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1656e8ce890e5b3a901e7f9a60abc787",
            "title": "A pesar de la rebeldía de Haaland, PSG pone en su lugar al City en Champions",
            "description": "Manchester City no pudo con el actual bicampeón de la Champions League en su propia casa.",
            "content": "Tan afinado colectivamente en ataque que cada jugador y cada movimiento conformaron una composición casi perfecta en el primer tiempo, el París Saint-Germain ejerció de vigente campeón y presente favorito, inspirado e impresionante con tres goles en ... [5381 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.diez.hn/champions-league/a-pesar-de-la-rebeldia-de-haaland-psg-pone-en-su-lugar-al-city-en-champions-LA32324917",
            "image": "https://www.diez.hn/binrepository/1200x797/0c84/1200d630/none/3014757/DRCB/salarios-barcelona-1_15842068_20261014144209.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:04:09Z",
            "lang": "es",
            "source": {
                "id": "62687b88e66412a58e4dbdec538ec187",
                "name": "DIEZ.HN",
                "url": "https://www.diez.hn"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6c04a8c64b5c37ff8b98db042f09c4ed",
            "title": "LIV golf: Organisation concerned by DP Tour's 'attempt to interfere' in player discussions",
            "description": "LIV Golf accuses the DP World Tour of a \"clear attempt to interfere\" with its restructuring process, after the European tour said it would refuse membership to anyone playing on the breakaway LIV circuit next season.",
            "content": "LIV Golf has accused the DP World Tour of a \"clear attempt to interfere\" with its restructuring process, after the European tour said it would refuse membership to anyone playing on the breakaway circuit next season.\nDuring a court hearing on Wednesd... [4634 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/articles/cmpwg7dx0q71o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/4c97/live/248414a0-c80a-11f1-aff0-65f8bbf884f7.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T20:54:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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