ROLLINGOUT — To call soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe “bold” is an understatement. She is one of the few athletes audacious enough to take up the cause...
(BBC) – South Africa’s rugby chief has hit back at allegations of racism following a row over the selection of a mainly white squad for the...
(CNN) – FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said Wednesday that FIFA would “postpone” the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, as investigations continue into allegations...
The Associated Press The indictment of soccer officials and marketing and TV executives Wednesday alleges 12 schemes: SCHEME A — 1993, 1995 AND 1997 COPA AMERICAS...
GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) — Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA on Wednesday, only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and...
(BBC) – Former Zimbabwe international Bruce Grobbelaar believes players will leave the country as a result of the team’s expulsion from the 2018 World Cup. The...
(Time) – Talk of Qatar losing the tournament makes complete sense, but in the crazy world of FIFA it probably will never happen. The Twittersphere...
JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — World Cup organizers repeatedly failed to follow their own concussion protocol and then failed to take advantage of...
NESHA STARCEVIC, AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The World Cup title for Joachim Loew and his “golden generation” crowned a process that was...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — FIFA President Sepp Blatter has criticized the way discrimination incidents were dealt with at World Cup matches. Blatter says “I...
(USA Today) – The beautiful game’s biggest tournament is under way in Brazil. Here is the schedule and TV listings for today. Wednesday, July 9 4...
CHRIS LEHOURITES, AP Sports Writer BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — With Neymar out injured, just about everyone in Brazil knew it would be tough against Germany....
MATTIAS KAREN, AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil and Germany are two of the most decorated teams in football, with eight World Cup...
TALES AZZONI, AP Sports Writer FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — With tears streaming down his face after being kneed in the back, Neymar was carried off the...
RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Tim Howard kept the ball out of the net with slides, with dives and with leaps. He...
RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — Now that the U.S. has survived the so-called “Group of Death,” it’s time for sudden death: the...
Jim Vertuno, ASSOCIATED PRESS NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis Suarez, as soccer’s bad boy was maturing into...
JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lucky students in Chile went home early, many Brazilian offices and stores went dark, and across the...
GERALD IMRAY, AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The younger brother of Ivory Coast players Yaya and Kolo Toure died on Thursday, the same...
STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Starved of the World Cup action for 16 years, Colombia — and its fanatical traveling supporters —...
KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — As teams battle for football glory at the World Cup in Brazil, the biggest winners from the...
(ESPN) NATAL, Brazil — It is easy to forget, for all its breathlessness about love and unity, that the World Cup is a zero-sum game. That...
SAO PAULO, Brazil (The Washington Post) — Antonio da Silva sat atop a dilapidated wooden throne in the middle of the city. Below him a man...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The brightly painted Haitian minibuses known as tap-taps are getting even more colorful in the lead-up to the World Cup. Although...
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Protesters and police clashed in Sao Paulo Thursday, as demonstrations against the World Cup and rallies calling...
