Sports
Page: 82
Argentina need a win against Iraq on Saturday to get back on track in the Olympic men’s soccer after a controversial opening defeat to Morocco. Javier Mascherano blasted the 2-1 loss to the Atlas Lions as a “circus” with a win now required for the Albiceleste in Group B. Meanwhile, Iraq took maximum points against […]
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images (PARIS) — From Bacon (both Sarah, a diver, and Phoebe, a swimmer) to Coffey (both Olivia, a rower, and Sam, a soccer player), Team USA will be sending a veritable smorgasbord of talent to Paris for the 2024 Olympics. You probably know the big names — such as gymnast Simone Biles and […]
Riccardo Calafiori’s transfer to Arsenal is nearing completion, the Italian defender due in London on Friday for the first part of his medical before jetting off to Los Angeles to join up with his new team mates, per CBS Sports sources. More than a month of talks between Bologna and the Gunners have reached their […]
Julian Finney/Getty Images (LONDON) — An Olympic athlete has had his finger amputated after he suffered an injury just so he can play in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Just two weeks ago, Matthew Dawson, a 30-year-old hockey player from Australia, suffered a badly broken finger on his right-hand during a team training session in […]
This week has seen the tragically inevitable demise of Girondins de Bordeaux come to fruition with the six-time French champions essentially opting out of professional soccer because of the financial black hole that Les Girondins has become after years of disastrous foreign ownership. FCGB’s slide on the field had started before the 2018 sale of […]
The U.S. women’s national team delivered a statement in their opening game of the Olympics and did it with clinical goalscoring, defeating Zambia 3-0 to jump-start their group stage with goals by Mallory Swanson and Trinity Rodman. Still, Zambia went down a player early in the first half, and the USWNT weren’t able to capitalize […]
Glory and gold will be on the line when many of the world’s best men’s and women’s tennis players square off at the 2024 Summer Olympics beginning Saturday on the famed red clay at Roland Garros. The competition will award medals in men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles. The men’s […]
Getty Images The U.S. women’s national team got off to a blazing start in their first Olympic group match against Zambia on Thursday as forward Trinity Rodman hit the crossbar twice in the opening 10 minutes before finally getting the opening goal for the Stars and Stripes. It was the first goal for the USWNT […]
Hezly Rivera warming up on beam on Day Two of the 2024 U.S.Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center, June 28, 2024, in Minneapolis. (Karen Hickey/isi Photos/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Of the nearly 600 American athletes representing the red, white and blue at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Hezly Rivera will make history as the […]
Getty Images As the USWNT prepare to take on Zambia in their Olympics group stage opener on Thursday, they’ll have to include a game plan for how to stop forward Barbra Banda. The Zambian striker caught the attention of global audiences during the Tokyo Olympics where she became the first player to record back-to-back hat […]
KVSP