MLS Names LAFC's Larry Berg as Next Commissioner, Succeeding Don Garber in 2027
Major League Soccer picked its next leader over the weekend, tapping a team owner who helped build one of the league's f...
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Judge's Injunction Gives Class of 2022 Athletes a Fifth NCAA Season, and Chaos Follows
A federal judge's ruling has thrown college sports into a scramble just as football teams open training camp, after she ...
Australia Tops Medal Table as 2026 Commonwealth Games Close in Glasgow
The 2026 Commonwealth Games closed in Glasgow on Sunday after 11 days of competition, with Australia finishing well clea...
UEFA Tells Infantino to Resign or Face No-Confidence Vote After FIFA Investment Plan Collapses
UEFA has told FIFA president Gianni Infantino to resign or face a push for an emergency no-confidence vote, an extraordi...
The Phone Call That Changed the World Cup - And Still Could Not Save America
There is a version of this story in which the phone call matters. In which a president intervenes, a red card is reverse...
How an Unknown Finnish Qualifier Just Ended Ben Shelton's Wimbledon Before It Began
There is a particular cruelty in a match-point loss. You are one point from winning. You are one point from going home s...
Brazil and Japan Play a World Cup Thriller That Ends in Penalties - and Brazil Win
No one who was inside NRG Stadium in Houston on Sunday evening was going to describe it as pretty football. It was not p...
Cape Verde Make History at the World Cup - the Smallest Nation Ever to Advance Out of the Group Stage
When the final whistle blew in Houston, the Cape Verde players did not immediately celebrate. They looked up at the big ...
Mexico Win Three From Three at the Azteca as 80,000 Watch El Tri Make History at Home
Eighty thousand people were inside the Estadio Azteca on Wednesday night and the noise they made was audible well outsid...
Brazil Humiliate Scotland 3-0 as Neymar Returns From the Dead - But South Korea's World Cup May Be Over
Scott McKenna lost the ball in the Brazillian penalty area in the seventh minute. Rayan was waiting. He laid it off to V...