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Gotham FC, the reigning NWSL champion, will be the first NWSL team to visit the White House for a championship celebration. President Joe Biden will welcome the team on Monday, reuniting most of last season’s squad — including Ali Krieger, who retired at the end of the year. “This is …

In the old days, they were known as big plays. Or maybe long plays. It’s not clear when, or why, football people started to refer to them as “explosive plays” or just “explosives.” It was probably around the time football people started referring to position groups as “rooms.” The football …

Deepdale was the venue of English football’s most interminable penalty shootout on Tuesday night. After playing out a 1-1 draw in normal time during their Carabao Cup third-round tie, Fulham and Preston North End took a record-breaking 34 penalties between them, with an astonishing 31 finding the net. Excluding FA …

Noah Powell was sitting in his usual chair by the TV at his home in the suburbs north of Chicago, surrounded by a close-knit group of family and friends. The group hadn’t travelled to Vegas for the 2024 NHL Draft. Powell kept the gathering small because he had no idea if …

What does the old Nationwide Insurance commercial say? “Life comes at you fast.” Indeed it does. Just ask Bryce Young, the quarterback once heralded as the savior of the Carolina Panthers. Sunday afternoon, despite another poor outing from the 2023 No. 1 pick, Panthers coach Dave Canales pledged loyalty to …

The Grand Slam season is over, and the WTA and ATP Finals are rapidly approaching. These next two months can be a strange period for tennis — especially in an Olympic year — with some players keeping their powder dry for the following season while others desperately try to finish …

The Champions League is back, with a new format, more games and lots more goals. There were 28 scored across six matches, with blistering Bayern Munich scoring almost a third of that total. In fact, in Champions League history, only one more night (in October 2014) has seen a higher …

Texas is back … at No. 1. For the first time in nearly 16 years, the Longhorns are atop the Associated Press Top 25, surpassing Georgia when the latest poll was released on Sunday. That achievement has little tangible meaning now for the Longhorns; how they fare in their inaugural …

It is the week when Manchester City begin another assault on the Champions League against the backdrop of a legal battle with the Premier League, yet Rodri, the club’s star midfielder, managed to take the conversation in an unexpected direction on Tuesday. A question on the increasing demands being placed …

The tournament, long a staple for European players, has become an international event for the world’s top golfers. Source link