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United States Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from United States with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United States Sports News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from United States.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=us&category=sports&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 448532,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f7eb0c9b6f15dc88a12c52333ebbcb28",
            "title": "Believe it: Indiana is the Big Ten champ and the College Football Playoff’s No. 1 seed",
            "description": "Indiana won its first outright Big Ten title since 1945 by knocking off the previously perfect Buckeyes.",
            "content": "INDIANAPOLIS — Fernando Mendoza, welcome to New York City. Coach Curt Cignetti, welcome to immortality. Indiana football, welcome to No. 1.\nOnce the losingest program in college football history, No. 2 Indiana capped its greatest regular season with ... [5641 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6868835/2025/12/06/ohio-state-indiana-big-ten-championship/",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/athletic/uploads/wp/2025/12/07032448/GettyImages-2250451725-scaled-e1765095915480.jpg?width=1200&height=630&fit=cover",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-07T10:51:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e56f7b59280baf67b4b9826a81918904",
            "title": "Duke parties like its 1989 - and makes its case to be in College Football Playoff field",
            "description": "Duke captured the ACC championship, but it might not be enough to earn a spot in the CFP.",
            "content": "CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There was no time for the Gatorade bath, a rite of passage for most champions.\nDuke’s players wouldn’t dare do it midway through the fourth quarter, when they had a double-digit lead. And they weren’t going to do it as Virginia rall... [6391 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6868913/2025/12/07/duke-virginia-score-result/",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/athletic/uploads/wp/2025/12/07025109/USATSI_27763154-scaled.jpg?width=1200&height=630&fit=cover",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-07T08:18:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "451fda52ff5e7841e78f0f1458a9b8c3",
            "title": "2025 College Football Rankings: Indiana, Texas Tech Jump After Conference Title Wins",
            "description": "FOX Sports' RJ Young reveals his final Top 25 rankings after Week 15, with Big Ten winner Indiana on top and ACC champ Duke rounding it out.",
            "content": "The consensus two best teams in college football met on Saturday night, and the Indiana Hoosiers came out as the only 13-0 team in the sport, the Big Ten champs and the best bet to win the national championship in 2025.\nNot bad for a program that had... [7196 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/2025-college-football-rankings-conference-championship-weekend-indiana-ohio-state-texas-tech-virginia-duke",
            "image": "https://a57.foxsports.com/statics.foxsports.com/www.foxsports.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1408/814/rj-youngs-vs-ap-top-25_16x9.jpg?ve=1&tl=1",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-07T06:55:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d8ebc62fd4b923bed9968347f7c07cd8",
                "name": "FOX Sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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