A phone call from President Trump to FIFA president Gianni Infantino preceded the first suspension waiver ever granted at a World Cup, and football is calling it unprecedented - but the history says...
Next Tuesday, France and Spain meet in a World Cup semifinal in Dallas - which means one of the tournament's two best teams is already guaranteed a spot in the match no player has ever dreamed about: ...
This week the Carolina Hurricanes revealed a Stanley Cup engraving that leads with owner Tom Dundon, his wife and their five children - seven names, none but his holding a team role, listed above th...
In 96 years of World Cups, exactly two teams have come back from three goals down and won, only one team has recovered from two down in a final, and until Belgium's ten-second counterattack in 2018, e...
Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are tied atop the World Cup's Golden Boot race this morning, and all three could be wearing a different shirt: Haaland was born in England - the team h...
Canada on Saturday, Mexico on Sunday, the United States on Monday: it took 72 hours for the biggest World Cup ever staged to eliminate all three of the countries staging it, every one of them in the...
A team bus with the curtains drawn in Knysna, a Kuwaiti sheikh walking onto a World Cup pitch to erase a goal, eleven Iranians standing in silence through their own anthem, and three million American ...
Since FIFA introduced the automatic one-match ban for a red card, the number of World Cup players spared from serving it stood at zero for half a century - until Sunday, when a phone call from Preside...
Shea Weber's $110 million held the record for fourteen years, and on Friday afternoon Philadelphia decided to chase it, putting $90 million in front of Anaheim's Leo Carlsson and starting a seven-day ...
Germany had never lost a World Cup penalty shootout. Four shootouts across five decades, seventeen of eighteen kicks scored, the closest thing football had to a law of physics - and on Monday night Pa...
On August 9, 1988, the Edmonton Oilers did the unthinkable. They sold Wayne Gretzky, 27 years old and fresh off his fourth Stanley Cup in five years, to the Los Angeles Kings. A country wept. An owner...
Germany entered the 2026 FIFA World Cup with genuine expectations of making a deep run. Instead, they leave the tournament surrounded by questions. This was not just about losing to Paraguay on pen...
LeBron James never went to college. He went straight from a high school gym in Akron to the number one pick in the 2003 NBA draft, and he has spent the twenty-three years since becoming the most decor...
Two weeks ago the New York Knicks ended 53 years of waiting, beat the Spurs in five, and walked off the board of teams nobody wants to be on. Which means the misery crown got handed to somebody else, ...
Eight countries have won the World Cup. A stranger group has reached it and never won a single match. Earlier today in Vancouver, Canada finally escaped that club, hammering Qatar 6-0 for the first wi...
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