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The 2015 Women’s World Cup moved into the knockout stage Saturday, with Germany and Sweden kicking things off. There was no struggle for the German women, who rode two goals in each half to a 4-1 win and an appearance in the quarterfinals. There was a friendly rivalry going on between the coaches coming into the match. Germany’s Silvia Neid and Sweden’s Pia Sundhage have been able to bond during this…

Nadine Angerer: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know One of the best goalies in the world, Nadine Angerer will look to lift Germany to the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup title. Click here to read more

We find ourselves yet again with another botched suspension, and in this case, it proves that the most visible league in the United States can’t read or interpret its own rules and regulations. It can be argued a three-match suspension, which Seattle Sounders foward and USMNT captain Clint Dempsey ultimately received for tearing up the referee’s notebook in a 3-1 U.S. Open Cup loss to Portland, is the correct punishment via precedent and any…

JOLIET, Ill. — New England Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski often resembles a tornado. He can blow through defenders on the field, and is known to wreak havoc in his off-the-field pursuits. Once you meet his family, you see where this tendency comes from. The entire Gronkowski clan is at Chicagoland Speedway for the NASCAR Xfinity series stop, and the experience is Gronk times five. Everyone talks at once, and…

With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series enjoying the second of just three off-weeks over the course of the lengthy season, drivers took advantage of the break by engaging in a variety of activities that a busy race week might not allow. See how a few of the sport’s biggest stars have been spending the downtime: Looking forward to the rest of my life with this amazing girl. https://t.co/EuGZbCVynM — Dale…

We find ourselves yet again with another botched suspension, and in this case, it proves that the most visible league in the United States can’t read or interpret its own rules and regulations. It can be argued a three-match suspension, which Seattle Sounders foward and USMNT captain Clint Dempsey ultimately received for tearing up the referee’s notebook in a 3-1 U.S. Open Cup loss to Portland, is the correct punishment via precedent and any…

We find ourselves yet again with another botched suspension, and in this case, it proves that the most visible league in the United States can’t read or interpret its own rules and regulations. It can be argued a three-match suspension, which Seattle Sounders foward and USMNT captain Clint Dempsey ultimately received for tearing up the referee’s notebook in a 3-1 U.S. Open Cup loss to Portland, is the correct punishment via precedent and any…

This wasn’t always the case. While she is now a starting outside back for the United States Women’s National Team, her first year of soccer, she was, in her own words, “by far the worst on the team.” Timid and shy, she didn’t understand the concept of winning the ball. “The coach would be like, ‘We’re going to put in Meghan’ – and everybody would be like, ‘Great, now…

Sixteen years after Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey in front of millions of Americans following one of the most magical moments in sports, she’s a coach. At 46, she coaches the soccer team at Bellarmine College Prep, an all-boys Catholic high school in San Jose and has spent years assisting her husband, the longtime women’s coach at her alma mater Santa Clara. But Chastain has always hoped to return…

Boston 2024 made an ambitious sales pitch to the US Olympic committee and the public, vowing to host the most walkable Games in modern times. Bid leaders proposed that 28 of 33 venues would fall within a roughly 6-mile radius and envisioned a uniquely intimate setting for the Summer Olympics. They saw a compact venue plan as a competitive advantage against the US and international bid cities. Continue reading below…

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay—In 1996, Nicolás Leoz, then president of the South American Soccer Confederation, wrote to a Paraguayan senator with an unusual request: Grant the confederation immunity from prosecution. In exchange, Mr. Leoz said, the federation would base itself permanently in this poor, landlocked country. Paraguay’s Congress passed legislation giving the confederation, known as Conmebol, an untouchable status in this…

Sixteen years after Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey in front of millions of Americans following one of the most magical moments in sports, she’s a coach. At 46, she coaches the soccer team at Bellarmine College Prep, an all-boys Catholic high school in San Jose and has spent years assisting her husband, the longtime women’s coach at her alma mater Santa Clara. But Chastain has always hoped to return…

0 Shares Print When I was a kid, I talked a lot. Like, a lot. During the summers I would spend a good bit of time at my grandparents’ house, and looking back, I drove them crazy with all my yammering and the racket coming from video games and other noisy toys. Sometimes I’d be going on and on and then I’d ask a question and get no answer, only…

It was intended as a playfully snarky jab about the TMZ-esque transcendence of the most potentially transformative personality that NASCAR has. When Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Reimann announced their engagement as dawn broke Wednesday – ensuring a full day of nonstop chatter about a sport desperately fighting for a larger slice of water-cooler relevance in the crowded American cultural and sports landscape – Yahoo Sports! writer Nick Bromberg cracked…

Rich Lam—Getty Images Megan Rapinoe #15 of the United States and Ngozi Okobi #13 of Nigeria during the Group D match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 in Vancouver on June 16, 2015. Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The World Cup shouldn’t be the only time my son roots for female sports stars He sat on the edge…

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay—In 1996, Nicolás Leoz, then president of the South American Soccer Confederation, wrote to a Paraguayan senator with an unusual request: Grant the confederation immunity from prosecution. In exchange, Mr. Leoz said, the federation would base itself permanently in this poor, landlocked country. Paraguay’s congress passed legislation giving the confederation, known as Conmebol, an untouchable status in this…

Rich Lam—Getty Images Megan Rapinoe #15 of the United States and Ngozi Okobi #13 of Nigeria during the Group D match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 in Vancouver on June 16, 2015. Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The World Cup shouldn’t be the only time my son roots for female sports stars He sat on the edge…

Rich Lam—Getty Images Megan Rapinoe #15 of the United States and Ngozi Okobi #13 of Nigeria during the Group D match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 in Vancouver on June 16, 2015. Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The World Cup shouldn’t be the only time my son roots for female sports stars He sat on the edge…

I’ve learned after all these years in NASCAR to never close the book on anything. Martin Truex Jr. from 2014 to this year is a perfect example of no matter how big a hole you find yourself in, that you can still dig yourself out. The turnaround of the No. 78 in a year’s time is the biggest comeback I think our sport has seen in a long, long time….

Rich Lam—Getty Images Megan Rapinoe #15 of the United States and Ngozi Okobi #13 of Nigeria during the Group D match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 in Vancouver on June 16, 2015. Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The World Cup shouldn’t be the only time my son roots for female sports stars He sat on the edge…