The United States advanced to the World Cup knockout stage with one game to spare after comfortably beating Australia 2-0 in a Group D match on Friday.
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Three-time Stanley Cup champion and longtime Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews officially announced his retirement Friday after 16 seasons.
- Carter Braun, Jack Cooney and Derek Oliveros USA Today
Canada defeated Qatar, dominating 6-0, but the historic first World Cup win for Canada on Thursday was overshadowed by a gruesome injury.
- Nancy Armour USA Today
It’s not often soccer match officials continue to have an impact after a game ends. That’s exactly what Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo and Kathryn Nesbitt will do, however.
- BOB NIGHTENGALE USA Today
MLB’s proposal, which would begin in 2028, would require players to be at least 20 years old and at least two years after their high school graduation.
- CASSANDRA GARRISON and DIEGO DELGADO Reuters
Mexico will host only 13 of the 104 World Cup matches, with the lion's share played in the United States. For some lifelong fans, that imbalance stings.
- BOB NIGHTENGALE USA Today
After his latest magnificent performance on Tuesday, Reid Detmers is the pitcher that everyone badly covets at the Aug. 3 trade deadline.
In the first 48-team World Cup, every team has now played one match. Here's a look at some of the winners and losers.
In the history of dumb sports beefs, this has to be the dumbest.
A domesticated duck named Merlin, sporting a miniature Mexico shirt and custom duck socks, has waddled his way into the hearts of soccer fans.
It seems that Kyle Busch’s family won’t be filing a wrongful death lawsuit.
Serena Williams will compete in the women's doubles alongside her sister, Venus, after receiving a wild card entry into the Championships, which begin June 29.
Major League Baseball has warned three San Francisco Giants pitchers for writing Bible verses on their Pride Night caps, telling the players that they broke its uniform rules.
The risk that a traveler infected with Ebola could arrive in the United States during the World Cup tournament that kicked off last week is low but not zero.
Officiating has been an ongoing source of friction in the WNBA, more now than ever.
The Knicks have finally done it. They’ve brought a championship back to New York City, their first since 1973, ending a long string of disappointing results and playoff flameouts.
Christian Pulisic’s legacy is on the line at this World Cup. The impact he has on this U.S. men’s national team will determine how he’s viewed in his home country.
The Carolina Hurricanes are celebrating a Stanley Cup championship 20 years in the making after beating Vegas in Game 6 on Sunday.
INGLEWOOD, CA — Give the 14th amendment an assist for the U.S.’s win in its 2026 World Cup opener. Without it, Folarin Balogun wouldn’t be wearing a USMNT uniform.
There are many lessons to be learned by the young, talented San Antonio Spurs as they went down in five games to the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals.
SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson fully understands what leading the New York Knicks to the NBA championship means for him, for his team and for the city of New York.
Frenzied Knicks fans skirmished with cops in a running pitched battle along 42nd St. early Sunday — hurling bottles at police and even trying to tip over a school bus.
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NEW YORK — Hours before the World Cup kickoff, the boost to travel and tourism expected from this year’s biggest sporting event has yet to materialize.
The New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday night in San Antonio to clinch the franchise's first championship since 1973.
It was a dream night for the United States men's national team, opening the 2026 World Cup with a rollicking 4-1 win over Paraguay in Inglewood, California.
Stacy Gooden-Crandle would have never guessed when her son was born that he'd grow up to be a Super Bowl champion.
A huge part of soccer is, very literally, the grass it's played on.
FORT WORTH, Texas — America’s favorite sport is not football, or soccer, but screwing over sports fans, which is why FIFA should hold its World Cup in the United States permanently. The NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and NCAA should all take a course from FIFA on how to defraud customers. What has happened so far to ticket-buying fans who plan to attend these World Cup matches is the second chapter of the ...
CHICAGO — The U.S. men’s national team knew it wasn't going to win the 1994 World Cup.
Tarik Skubal is back on the mound. His agent, Scott Boras, already has a name for what got him there so fast.