XFL and USFL announce new, merged spring football league
The new league will kickoff in March 2024. The Arlington Renegades (XFL) and Birmingham Stallions (USFL) will play in the opening game
October 2023
From guard rails and toilet seats to giant cups and gorillas: bizarre sporting trophies – in pictures
The Central Coast Mariners and Newcastle Jets this week unveiled a new trophy featuring a piece of highway infrastructure. It ranks up there with the strangest gongs ever held aloft (where possible)
August 2020
XFL gets Hollywood ending as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson group buys league
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s is set to add professional sports league owner to his entertainment résumé
April 2020
XFL files for bankruptcy halfway through return season amid pandemic
XFL suspends operations due to Covid-19 with no plans for 2021 return
March 2020
Pistons' Christian Wood and XFL player among latest to test positive for virus
Christian Wood of the NBA’s Detroit Pistons and an unidentified player on the XFL’s Seattle Dragons have become the latest US athletes to test positive
February 2020
XFL opener: DC Defenders slay Seattle Dragons behind 39-yard trick play
XFL relaunches and attempts to forget the 'sex, booze and sleaze' era
January 2020
Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson clinches tryout as kicker in XFL
Chad Johnson, who was named to the Pro Bowl six times as a wide receiver during his career in the NFL, is attempting a comeback in the XFL as a kicker
January 2018
The resurrected XFL is the perfect exponent of Trump's America
Les Carpenter
'No kneeling, no criminals': Vince McMahon announces return of XFL for 2020
