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The Last Time the USMNT Played Belgium, They Lost by Three Goals. Monday Is Win or Go Home.

SEATTLE, July 5 -- Four months ago, Belgium beat the United States by three goals in a meaningless March friendly nobody outside the two federations much remembers now. On Monday night at Lumen Field,... Read More


A 15-Year-Old Broke Tendulkar's Record at Old Trafford. Then Jacob Bethell Made Sure Nobody Remembered the Score.

MANCHESTER, July 5 -- The over that decided this match had nothing to do with the boy who made the history. Two no-balls, two free hits, twenty-nine runs. By the time Ravi Bishnoi's 17th over ended, J... Read More


Morocco End Canada's World Cup Co-Host Dream With Ruthless 3-0 Win in Houston

HOUSTON, July 5 -- At the 82nd minute on the Fourth of July, the date Canada had circled since earning the right to co-host this tournament, Azzedine Ounahi collected a short pass from Brahim Diaz ins... Read More


LeBron James Leaves the Lakers, Setting Off the NBA's Biggest Free-Agent Chase

He told the Lakers, July 5 -- When Rich Paul picked up the phone to call the Los Angeles Lakers at the start of free agency, he'd planned on making that call eventually. Six months earlier, he told pe... Read More


Alexandra Eala Stuns Iga Swiatek to Make Philippine Tennis History at Wimbledon

New Delhi, July 5 -- LONDON - At 7-5 down in the first-set tiebreak, two points away from conceding the opening set to the defending champion, Alexandra Eala bounced on her toes at the baseline of Cen... Read More


France Face Paraguay in Philadelphia as Mbappe Chases World Cup Record

New Delhi, July 5 -- PHILADELPHIA - The moment everyone at Lincoln Financial Field will remember from this July Fourth is not the flyover from Naval Air Station. Not Idina Menzel's national anthem. No... Read More


Shreyas Iyer's India Face England at Old Trafford, Looking to Reset After Ireland Series Sweep

New Delhi, July 4 -- Forty-eight hours ago, Ireland completed what cricket had never seen before: a Test-playing nation winning a T20 series against India. Now Shreyas Iyer's squad arrives at Old Traf... Read More


Ten Milliseconds at Silverstone: Hamilton Snatches Sprint Pole on Home Soil

The lap that did it, July 4 -- The main grandstand was already on its feet when the number flashed onto the timing screens, and for a beat it did not quite register: 0.011 seconds. Lewis Hamilton had ... Read More


Salah's Panenka Sends Egypt to the World Cup Last 16 for the First Time

DALLAS, July 4 -- The hamstring had kept Mohamed Salah off the training pitch for days and restricted him to a peripheral role through nearly two hours of football that could have ended Egypt's tourna... Read More


One Run, One Hundred Caps: Ireland Seal Historic T20I Series Win Over India in Belfast

BELFAST, July 4 -- Harry Tector walked to the bowling crease at Stormont on the 20th over of India's chase needing to defend nine runs against a team that had arrived as heavy favourites and departed ... Read More