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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": 458640,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2c40d739168e85421ac3c0e73b42ec18",
            "title": "Los Angeles Lakers vs. Dallas Mavericks Live Score and Stats",
            "description": "Get real-time NBA Basketball coverage and scores as Los Angeles Lakers takes on Dallas Mavericks. We bring you the latest game previews, live stats, expert picks and recaps on CBSSports.com",
            "content": "DALLAS (AP) Cooper Flagg scored 45 points and the Dallas Mavericks ended their longest home losing streak in 32 years at 14 games with a 134-128 victory over the depleted Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night.\nLeBron James had 30 points and 15 assists f... [1740 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20260405_LAL@DAL/",
            "image": "https://sportsfly.cbsistatic.com/fly-524/bundles/sportsmediacss/images/fantasy/default-article-image-large.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T03:43:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "416e66c8ea979965c0cee3b0ed1f714b",
                "name": "CBS Sports",
                "url": "https://www.cbssports.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ed10d989c462b4e16780bec765b04e04",
            "title": "Silver Screen and Roll",
            "description": "Grading every Lakers player’s performance from the team’s 134-128 loss to the Mavericks.",
            "content": "It was a good job and good effort from the Lakers, but they came up short in their first game since learning that Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves would be out for the rest of the regular season.\nWith three starters unavailable against Dallas, LA strugg... [4178 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/lakers-analysis/113187/player-grades-lakers-mavericks-stats-box-score-recap-austin-reaves-luka-doncic-lebron-james-jj-redick",
            "image": "https://platform.silverscreenandroll.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/144/2026/04/gettyimages-2269428221.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C10.732984293194%2C100%2C78.534031413613&w=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T03:11:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fd7b61a11201acd39c61991e35f3cb0b",
                "name": "Silver Screen and Roll",
                "url": "https://www.silverscreenandroll.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7b30f40a76cb235516a8b4c0dcdcf475",
            "title": "Cameron Boozer suffered multiple facial fractures in loss to UConn",
            "description": "Cameron Boozer suffered multiple fractures around his eye during Duke’s loss to UConn in the Elite Eight, the freshman star revealed after accepting The Associated Press and United States Basketball Writers Association player of the year awards.",
            "content": "Cameron Boozer suffered multiple fractures around his eye during Duke’s loss to UConn in the Elite Eight, the freshman star revealed after accepting The Associated Press and United States Basketball Writers Association player of the year awards.\nBooz... [1455 chars]",
            "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/04/05/sports/cameron-boozer-suffered-multiple-facial-fractures-in-loss-to-uconn/",
            "image": "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/newspress-collage-zbe59xxea-1775440635742.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1775426282&w=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T02:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9d7e5ab9f28d430ac851e2b94640216c",
                "name": "New York Post",
                "url": "https://nypost.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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