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Netherlands Top World Cup Group F After Dismantling Tunisia in Opening Minutes

New Delhi, June 26 -- KANSAS CITY - Denzel Dumfries had touched the ball exactly once before the crowd at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium had even settled. His first real contribution was a low, hard ... Read More


Deschamps Flies Home for His Mother's Funeral as France Face Norway Without Their Manager

FOXBOROUGH, June 26 -- The Group I final at Gillette Stadium is scheduled for this afternoon, and Didier Deschamps will not be there. He flew home to France after his mother died this week. His assist... Read More


Cape Verde Reach World Cup Round of 32 for the First Time

New Delhi, June 26 -- HOUSTON - When Vozinha drove the ball into his chest in the sixty-first minute against Spain and the crowd at NRG Stadium rose as one, Cape Verde's goalkeeper was already writing... Read More


NFL Cancels Supplemental Draft, Blocking Sorsby a Year After $90K Gambling Pattern

New Delhi, June 26 -- DALLAS - Brendan Sorsby made a calculated decision in April. The Texas Tech quarterback, having won a court injunction that would have let him play college football in 2026 despi... Read More


NFL Cancels 2026 Supplemental Draft to Block Brendan Sorsby Over Gambling Violations

New Delhi, June 26 -- there will be no supplemental draft. For the quarterback who spent his college career betting on the sport he was still playing, professional football would have to wait until at... Read More


NFL Cancels Supplemental Draft Over Sorsby Gambling; Attorney Says Move Breaks CBA

NEW YORK, June 26 -- The National Football League did not reject Brendan Sorsby. It cancelled the entire mechanism he would have used to enter it. The league informed teams Wednesday it would not hol... Read More


Switzerland Deny Canada Top Spot at BC Place as Vargas Strikes 40 Seconds After Restart

New Delhi, June 26 -- Forty seconds into the second half at BC Place, with fifty-three thousand Canadian voices still settling after the break, Ruben Vargas arrived at the back post and lashed Johan M... Read More


Alajbegovic's Stunner Sends Bosnia to Their First World Cup Round of 32

SEATTLE, June 26 -- Kerim Alajbegovic was eighteen years old and had been a senior international for less than a year when he lined up outside the Qatar penalty area in the twenty-ninth minute at Lume... Read More


Rahimi Ends Haiti's Dream as Morocco Fight Back to Reach World Cup Round of 32

ATLANTA, June 26 -- Haiti had waited fifty-two years to score a World Cup goal. When it came, in the tenth minute at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, it arrived in the most improbable fashion: a Lenny Joseph ba... Read More


Ivory Coast Reach World Cup Knockout Stage for First Time in History as Pepe Breaks the Curse

PHILADELPHIA, June 26 -- The Ivory Coast players collapsed onto each other the moment the final whistle sounded, and for a few seconds the cameras could not tell where one player ended and another beg... Read More