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2024 UCF Knights football team
2024 UCF Knights football team: Gus Malzahn's fourth and final season; Knights went 4-8 (2-7 Big 12, 13th), missed a bowl, R.J. Harvey ran for 1,577 yards, four QBs started, and Scott Frost was rehired in December 2024.
2024 United States men's Olympic basketball team
2024 United States men's Olympic basketball team, the USA Basketball squad at Paris 2024 nicknamed the Avengers; coached by Steve Kerr, selected by Grant Hill, it beat France 98-87 for a fifth consecutive gold.
2024 United States women's Olympic basketball team
2024 United States women's Olympic basketball team, the USA Basketball 5x5 squad at Paris 2024; coached by Cheryl Reeve, omitted Caitlin Clark, beat France 67-66 for an eighth straight and 10th overall Olympic gold.
2024 UNLV Rebels football team
2024 UNLV Rebels football team, Mountain West squad under Barry Odom and interim coach Del Alexander, went 11-3, reached the MW title game, won the LA Bowl, and earned the program's first AP ranking.
2024 US Open – Men's singles
2024 US Open men's singles: Jannik Sinner beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 in the final on 8 September 2024, becoming the first Italian men's champion and winning his second major of 2024 after the Australian Open.
2024 US Open – Mixed doubles
2024 US Open mixed doubles: Italian third seeds Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori beat Taylor Townsend and Donald Young 7-6(0), 7-5 in the September 5, 2024 final, becoming the first all-Italian Grand Slam mixed doubles champions.
2024 US Open – Women's singles
2024 US Open women's singles: Aryna Sabalenka beat Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5 in the September 7, 2024 final for her first US Open and third Grand Slam title; Gauff lost in round 4.
2024 US Open (tennis)
2024 US Open (tennis), Grand Slam hard-court major at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Aug 26-Sep 8, 2024. Champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka; record $75 million compensation and first-ever one-million attendance.
2024 USC Trojans football team
2024 USC Trojans football team: USC's first Big Ten season under Lincoln Riley, finishing 7-6 (4-5 Big Ten) with a 27-20 upset of LSU in the Vegas Kickoff Classic and a 35-31 Las Vegas Bowl win over Texas A&M.
2024 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
2024 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, SEC, coached by Clark Lea, went 7-6 (3-5), upset No. 1 Alabama 40-35 for its first AP top-five win, and beat Georgia Tech 35-27 in the Birmingham Bowl.
2024 Virginia Cavaliers football team
2024 Virginia Cavaliers football team: University of Virginia's 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season in the ACC under Tony Elliott, finishing 5-7 (3-5 ACC), 84th of 134, with a 17-37 finale loss at Virginia Tech and no bowl bid.
2024 Washington Commanders season
2024 Washington Commanders season: NFL team's 93rd season, 12-5, second NFC East, rookie QB Jayden Daniels, coach Dan Quinn; playoff wins over Buccaneers and Lions, NFC title loss to Eagles.
2024 Washington Huskies football team
2024 Washington Huskies football team: University of Washington squad, first-year coach Jedd Fisch, inaugural Big Ten season after leaving Pac-12; finished 6-7 (4-5 Big Ten), 6-0 at home, 0-5 on road, lost Sun Bowl 35-34 to Louisville.
2024 Washington State Cougars football team
2024 Washington State Cougars football team: WSU's independent "Pac-2" season under Jake Dickert, 8-4 regular season with wins over Texas Tech and Washington, John Mateer's record year, and a 52-35 Holiday Bowl loss to Syracuse.
2024 WBSC Premier12
2024 WBSC Premier12, third edition of the WBSC Premier12 (世界棒球12強賽), held 9–24 November 2024 in Mexico, Japan, and Taiwan; Chinese Taipei won its first title by beating Japan 4–0 in the Tokyo Dome final.
2024 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 2024 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 2024 NCAA season, finishing 6-7 before head coach Neal Brown was dismissed on December 1, 2024.
2024 Wimbledon Championships
2024 Wimbledon Championships, 137th edition, 1–14 July 2024, All England Club, London, grass Grand Slam. Carlos Alcaraz beat Djokovic for a second straight men's title; Barbora Krejcikova won the ladies' singles; record £50 million prize money.
2024 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
2024 Wimbledon women's singles: Barbora Krejcikova, 31st seed ranked No. 32, beat Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the 13 July 2024 final for her first Wimbledon and second Grand Slam title.
2024 Wisconsin Badgers football team
2024 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Big Ten FBS squad coached by Luke Fickell; finished 5-7 (3-6 Big Ten), lost finale 24-7 to Minnesota, missed bowls after 22 straight appearances.
2024 WNBA draft
2024 WNBA draft, held April 15, 2024 at Brooklyn Academy of Music; Indiana Fever took Caitlin Clark No. 1, Chicago Sky picked Kamilla Cardoso and Angel Reese; record 2.45 million viewers.
2024 WNBA Finals
2024 WNBA Finals: New York Liberty beat Minnesota Lynx 3-2, winning Game 5 67-62 in OT on Oct 20, 2024; Jonquel Jones Finals MVP; Liberty's first title after five Finals losses; record 1.6M average viewers.
2024 WNBA season
2024 WNBA season, the league's 28th (May 14–Sept. 19, 2024): record 54M+ unique viewers, highest attendance in 22 years, A'ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark records, New York Liberty won their first title over Minnesota in five games.
2024 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
2024 IIHF World Junior Championship, held in Gothenburg, Sweden; the United States won gold 6-2 over Sweden, Czechia took bronze, and Canada finished fifth without a medal.
2024 World Series
The 2024 World Series: the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees 4-1 for their eighth title, the 12th Dodgers-Yankees Fall Classic and first since 1981, with Freddie Freeman's historic walk-off grand slam and Game 5 comeback.
2024 WTA Finals
2024 WTA Finals Riyadh presented by PIF, season-ending WTA championship, Nov 2-9, 2024, King Saud University indoor hard court; $15.25M prize money; Coco Gauff won singles, Dabrowski/Routliffe doubles; first women's tennis event in Saudi Arabia.
2024 WTA Finals – Singles
2024 WTA Finals singles, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2-9, 2024: Coco Gauff beat Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(2) for the Billie Jean King Trophy, earning a record $4,805,000 from a $15.25 million purse; Sabalenka finished year-end No. 1.
2024 WTA Tour
The 2024 WTA Tour was the 2024 edition of the WTA's worldwide professional tennis circuit for women, running from January to the WTA Finals in Riyadh.
2024–25 Boston Celtics season
2024–25 Boston Celtics season: defending NBA champions went 61–21, second in the East, set an NBA record with 1,457 made threes, then lost to the Knicks in six in the 2025 second round after Jayson Tatum's Achilles rupture.
2024–25 Cleveland Cavaliers season
The 2024-25 Cleveland Cavaliers season: 64-18, first in the East under Coach of the Year Kenny Atkinson, Central Division champs, swept Miami, then lost the East semifinals 4-1 to Indiana.
2024–25 College Football Playoff
The 2024–25 College Football Playoff was the first edition to use a 12-team bracket. Eighth-seeded Ohio State won the title, beating Notre Dame 34–23 in Atlanta.