2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (535+ words) Mexico will try to follow the resounding success of their first home World Cup match in 40 years in Thursday's match against a South Korea side that represents a far more formidable test than the tournament opener. Mexico will again be…...

13+ hour, 33+ min ago  (225+ words) Tuesday's four World Cup matches drew a combined 281, 223 fans, breaking the 32-year-old single-day tournament record. The previous mark of 277, 070, also for four matches, was set in the United States on June 28, 1994. Tuesday's total came on an action-packed day featuring matches…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (278+ words) Tunisia hired former Morocco and Saudi Arabia World Cup manager Herve Renard to replace Sabri Lamouchi, who was fired after a 5-1 defeat to Sweden in Sunday's World Cup opener. Lamouchi was appointed in January. He oversaw only one victory in…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (652+ words) Lionel Messi has very little left to prove in his career, but the iconic Argentine forward gearing up for another World Cup is like Tom Brady running it back for three seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There are records…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (193+ words) Mexican veteran Hirving "Chucky" Lozano was not included on the 55-man provisional roster for this summer's World Cup released on Wednesday by national team manager Javier Aguirre. Lozano, 30, has 18 goals in 75 appearances since his debut with the senior Mexican national…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (402+ words) Italian golfer Andrea Pavan is hopeful he can return to the DP World Tour after finishing recovery from his three-story fall down an elevator shaft in late February. Pavan, 37, sustained severe shoulder and multiple vertebrae fractures in the incident, which…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (239+ words) Mexico's FIFA World Cup roster began to take shape Tuesday with a dozen Liga MX players invited to the camp that begins on May 6. Manager Javier Aguirre's crew will be joined in training later in the month by players who…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (259+ words) Ghana completed its shakeup ahead of this summer's World Cup by naming Carlos Queiroz as head coach. Queiroz, 73, has World Cup head coach experience with Iran in 2014, 2018 and 2022, as well as with Portugal in 2010. The Portugal native led his home…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (239+ words) Phil Mickelson announced Thursday that he will not compete in the upcoming Masters. "Unfortunately I will not play in the Masters Tournament next week and will be out for an extended period of time as my family continues to navigate…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (424+ words) Ordinarily, it's the individual competition that grabs the headlines at a LIV Golf event. But Thursday at LIV Golf South Africa, it was all about the teams in the debut tournament on the continent. Southern Guards GC, a team of…...