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...
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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...
Salah Does the Impossible: Egypt Beat New Zealand 3-1 for Their First-Ever World Cup Win in 92 Years of Trying
Egypt had tried three times before. In 1934. In 1990. In 2018. None of those campaigns produced a single win. Ninety-two...
Wyndham Clark Wins His Second US Open at Shinnecock Hills, Beating a Hostile Crowd and Sam Burns by One Shot
Not many athletes have to win a major title in the face of a crowd actively cheering their mistakes. Wyndham Clark did i...
USMNT Reaches World Cup Knockout Stage for First Time Since 1930 With Back-to-Back Wins
For a team that came into this World Cup with hype, expectation and no shortage of skeptics waiting to see whether the h...
Tunisia Stuns Japan in World Cup Group Stage Shock as Group F Race Blows Wide Open
Japan arrived at Estadio Akron in Guadalajara on Saturday night with momentum and expectation. The Samurai Blue had open...