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Four long years after dominating Japan to win their third World Cup crown the United States Women’s National Team will finally begin their title defense on Tuesday. The United States faces Thailand to open the tournament, beginning play in a group that also features Chile and the Americans’ longtime nemesis, Sweden. The United States is […]

The Latest on the French Open (all times local): 3:30 p.m. The semifinal between Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem has resumed after a rain delay of about an hour. Thiem leads 4-1 in the fifth set. ——— 3:10 p.m. Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada has won the girls singles title at the French Open. The

PARIS ― It’s easy to focus on the teams that will play deep into the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which kicked off Friday afternoon in France as the hosts defeated South Korea. But each squad has a story ― even the ones with a scant chance of advancing past the group stage. Like most female

A look at what’s happening around the majors today: GETTING GOING, PART I Dallas Keuchel says he doesn’t expect to need much time tuning up in the minors before he joins his new team, the Atlanta Braves. The club confirmed Friday night that the 2015 American League Cy Young Award winner had agreed to a

Lyon’s rampant form in the Champions League immediately carried over into France‘s first game of the Women’s World Cup. Friday’s 4-0 home win against South Korea saw the blue shirts of France run riot, just like many of them had done last month when Lyon crushed Barcelona 4-1 to win the Champions League for the

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in the wedding party as Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil tied the knot on Friday. State-run Anadolu news agency said Erdogan and his wife, Emine, were legal witnesses for Ozil, who married model, actress and former Miss Turkey Amine Gulse in Istanbul. Secular Turkish weddings require a witness each for

Now the Women’s World Cup gets down to business. After the gala opening match in Paris on Friday night which saw host France emerge victorious, the group stage of soccer‘s most prestigious tournament goes into full swing with three matches on Saturday. Two-time World Cup champion Germany, ranked No. 2 in the world, opens its

For NBA and MLB executives, a cut of sports betting revenue is pretty much a no-brainer. The wagers wouldn’t even exist, they argue, without their teams playing the games, so they should be paid and sportsbooks should be required to use their data to determine the outcomes of bets. The problem for the leagues has

It’s rough enough for Roger Federer — well, let’s be honest, anyone holding a tennis racket — to try to deal with Rafael Nadal’s unflinching excellence on the French Open’s red clay. Mix in a wild wind, and Federer, so great for so long, against anyone else and anywhere else, morphed into merely good. And

When Brandon Woodruff starts, the Milwaukee Brewers win. Woodruff struck 10 in six innings and Ryan Braun hit a three-run homer, helping the Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-4 on Friday night. “I tried to go out there and make good pitches and tonight I guess the arm was just feeling good,” Woodruff said. The