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ESPN, Fox, Warner Brothers creating sports streaming serviceESPN, Fox, and Warner Brothers have announced that they will launch a joint streaming service sometime this year, dedicated to broadcasting live games across 15 networks and all big four leagues....

The Cardinals appear to want to assemble the worst starting rotationThe 2023 season for the St. Louis Cardinals was an absolute disaster. Though they entered it as the NL Central favorites, even if by default, they lost 91 games as pretty much everything went wrong. The epicenter of their collapse was their starting rotation, which contained pitchers that couldn’t s...

World Cup Day 21: This tournament will be remembered for how far the women’s game has comeWe have our final four. When you get this deep into a tournament, anyone who’s not seen as chalk has done something grand, like Morocco’s men’s team last year and Colombia’s women’s team would’ve been this year. The South Americans entered as the lone surprise to make the quarterfinals. They benefit...

World Cup Day 19: Colombia is now the lone hope for the Cinderellas

The bottom-right side of the World Cup knockout-round bracket was always a double-edged sword. More upsets happened in Groups F and H than any other, with powerhouses Brazil and Germany watching the final 16 play instead of competing among them. The quarterfinals are now composed of seven heavy hitt...

World Cup Day 9: England wins and loses at the same time

Doing the bare minimum to win seems to be England’s way in this World Cup. The Three Lionesses have a pair of 1-0 wins in the tournament, including the win over Denmark early Friday morning. Already without Leah Williamson, Beth Mead, and Fran Kirby for the global showcase, Keira Walsh was taken off...

World Cup Day 6: Linda Caicedo is ready to be soccer’s next big female star

Group H was always going to be a battle between the teams not named Germany for who would advance alongside the European powerhouses. There were thoughts that Morocco could go from unknowns to the knockout rounds, then it lost 6-0 to Germany. The last two teams to play their first group stage game w...

World Cup Day 5: We cannot run from who we are

Day 5 of the World Cup was probably the most rewarding, and a great example of how football is football no matter who is playing it, no matter where they come from. We do our best to not compare or relate the women’s game to the men’s, as they’re two different sports. But Sunday night’s fare was per...

World Cup Group H Preview: Why can’t there be more like Morocco?

The women’s World Cup should be, and still is in a lot of ways, a celebration of how far the game has come from where it was even just four years ago. The attention is more, the players, and teams are better, the quality of play keeps rising, the anticipation grows, as does the appreciation when it ...

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Deadspin predicts the Women’s World Cup

How was the USWNT’s Megan Rapinoe being thrust into the forefront of sport and society while helping the United States women’s national team lift a second straight World Cup title four years ago? No matter how long ago it feels, the next edition of the global showcase is here, with 32 teams competin...

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|Wed Jul 19 2023

Women’s World Cup Group G preview: Italy and Argentina, you're in the middle of the ride

There’s a clear top and bottom in Group G. Sweden is No. 3 in the world and has every bit of skill needed to win the whole tournament. It’ll be a minor miracle if South Africa picks up a point before a return flight to Johannesburg. The most important game of Group G will be contested by the two tea...

by Eric Blum|

|Tue Jul 18 2023

The United States men’s national team’s Gold Cup squad lacks stars, serves better long-term purpose

It’s clear by interim United States men’s national team head coach B.J. Callaghan’s 23-man roster for this summer’s CONCACAF Gold Cup that winning the tournament isn’t the only priority. How else do you explain giving players like Christian Pulisic a pass? It’s not a break as he barely played at Che...

by Eric Blum|

|Tue Jun 13 2023

Israel's U-20 World Cup Team is a bright spot in a world where antisemitism is on the rise

The phrase “David and Goliath” gets thrown around too much in sports. There is typically a reason for those mismatches to take place, like in the case of No. 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament needing to defeat a No. 1 to reach the round of 32. According to several Jewish texts, David was the King of I...

by Eric Blum|

|Tue Jun 06 2023

The 2026 World Cup is swole as fuck

Despite being shoved into the middle of the season and in a country that was in no way up to the standards of hosting such a thing, the last World Cup ended up being a hit for what went on on the field. Exciting conclusion to the group stages, classic games in the knockout stages, and a memorable wi...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Mar 14 2023

The best soccer players of all time to never win a World Cup

It’s the pinnacle of soccer. The World Cup is a spectacle unlike any other in sport. And to truly be considered the greatest to ever lace up your cleats, you need to have lifted the trophy. Why can’t Dan Marino be in the discussion for the greatest quarterback of all time? He never won a Super Bowl....

by Eric Blum|

|Tue Dec 20 2022

Leo's legacy is on the line

After Argentina easily dispatched Croatia in the World Cup semifinals, the prophecy of Lionel Messi lifting the one piece of hardware that’d separate him from many of soccer’s other all-time greats is one win away. He’ll have that chance in what’s likely his final game on the sports’ biggest stage. ...

by Eric Blum|

|Sat Dec 17 2022

France or Argentina? Who wins the FIFA World Cup? | Agree to Disagree

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by DJ Dunson|

|Thu Dec 15 2022

World Cup 2022: England fans share disappointment in exit

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|Sat Dec 10 2022

World Cup Diary Day 18: Croatia, Argentina advance in penalty kicks

As extra time started, neither Brazil nor Croatia showed any urgency. The weight of a FIFA World Cup quarterfinal entering the additional 30 minutes-plus after going scoreless in the contest’s original time could’ve been swapped for the rhythm of a Tuesday exhibition. World Cups are how every countr...

by Eric Blum|

|Tue Dec 13 2022

The obliviousness of unfathomable wealth

It’s here that the Qatari rulers and FIFA would expect me to simply write about the quarterfinals of the World Cup that start today. And they are mouthwatering, in a vacuum of just soccer. All eight teams come in with a great story. Whether it’s Brazil not only trying to collect their sixth trophy b...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Dec 13 2022

World Cup 2022 Round of 16 Preview: Portugal Vs. Switzerland

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