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vulture sports
Dec. 18, 2022
Drake’s $1 Million World Cup Bet Is His Loss It was God’s plan for Argentina to win … just not as quickly as the rapper had hoped.
By Jennifer Zhan
The Last World Cup After Qatar, soccer may never be the same again.
By Ryu Spaeth
The Best Team in the World Is Out of the World Cup Another devastating quarterfinals defeat for Brazil.
By Benjamin Hart
Goalkeepers Gone Wild At the World Cup, netminders are increasingly going on offense. The consequences can be miraculous or disastrous.
By David Gendelman
world cup hottie
Dec. 5, 2022
I’m Watching the World Cup Only for Memphis Depay The Dutch forward (and Lori Harvey’s ex) can get it on and off the field.
By Tariro Mzezewa
‘i can do my time’
Dec. 5, 2022
Why Was Eric Adams Really in Qatar? The mayor went to some World Cup matches, met investors, and didn’t appear to say much about the tournament’s alleged abuses.
By Matt Stieb
The U.S. Team Can Hold Their Heads High Losing to the Netherlands was deeply frustrating, but the Americans’ best days are ahead of them.
By Will Leitch
Roger Bennett Is U.S. Soccer’s Biggest Fan He may speak with an English accent, but he has distinctly American ingenuity.
By Matt Stieb
The U.S. Can Absolutely Beat the Netherlands on Saturday Your guide to this weekend’s very big, very winnable game.
By Will Leitch
Pulisic Says He’ll Return From Very Painful-Sounding Injury “Pelvic” and “contusion” are two words you never want to see together.
By Benjamin Hart
The U.S. Pulled It Off They survived a tense second half and an injury to their best player to beat Iran.
By Will Leitch
The Five Most Dramatic Subplots Ahead of U.S.-Iran As the geopolitical foes square off in Qatar, there’s a lot hanging in the balance.
By Benjamin Hart
The U.S. Just Outplayed England at the World Cup They were the better team in Friday’s scoreless draw — which is amazing.
By Will Leitch
The Biggest World Cup Upset in History? Saudi Arabia beat Argentina on Tuesday, in one of the great soccer shockers of all time.
By Benjamin Hart
The U.S. Team’s Draw With Wales Felt Like a Loss Disappointment at not beating a top-20 team is actually a sign of progress for the Americans.
By Will Leitch
The Wrenching Moral Calculus of Watching the World Cup Qatar 2022 is rotten to the core, but ignoring the tournament is not realistic.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Fans Won’t Be Able to Buy Beer at World Cup Games A last-minute ban on alcohol sales is the latest controversy as the tournament kicks off in Qatar.
By Tariro Mzezewa
The World Cup Is the Only Real American Underdog Story Sometimes it’s nice to root for a scrappy up-and-comer, and this year’s men’s team is exactly that.
By Will Leitch
Process the World Cup With These Podcasts For fans of both soccer and murky geopolitics.
By Nicholas Quah
Did You Know the World Cup Is in Two Months? The strange timing (and location) of the world’s biggest sporting event will make it a hard sell in America.
By Will Leitch
The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of the Decade From the rise of athlete autonomy to the end of a very long baseball curse.
By Will Leitch
Women’s World Cup Soccer Final Scores 14 Million Viewers Despite the early start time for many viewers, the title match delivered big.
By Josef Adalian
A National Team for the Trump Era The U.S. Women’s World Cup victory was sweet because of Megan Rapinoe’s and her teammates’ activism.
By Will Leitch
The Women’s World Cup and the Future of American Sports The last American triumph in the Women’s World Cup felt like the birth of a new era in women’s sports. Another win could lead to the era’s maturation.
By Will Leitch
sports page
July 15, 2018
By Devon Ivie
this week in late night
July 13, 2018
Late Night Coverage of the World Cup, Ranked Ranking the five hottest takes on the U.S.’s coldest interest.
By Bethy Squires
food truths
July 10, 2018
By Chris Crowley
World Cup 2018: An Exhaustive List of Reasons to Root for Each Team Soccer fans, international diplomats, and one MLS player explain why you, an American, should root for their favorite team.
By Nate Jones
Missing the World Cup Is Like Detention for the United States Somehow it fits that America missed the tournament for the first time in a generation.
By Will Leitch
The New World Cup Song Is Here and So Is Will Smith This is the closest we’ll get to being part of the action, America, so live it up!
By Anne Victoria Clark
The U.S. May Not Land the 2026 World Cup and It’s All Trump’s Fault More than 200 FIFA members have to vote on the host and Trump has reportedly imperiled America’s chances.
By Adam K. Raymond
Let Women Run U.S. Soccer The U.S. women’s team is the reigning world champ, while the men didn’t qualify for the World Cup.
By Lisa Ryan
eff you pay me
May 26, 2016
By Dayna Evans
just girly things
Aug. 25, 2015
US Women’s Soccer Win Doesn’t Impress FIFA Flack Because here, soccer is just “an ethnic sport for girls in schools.”
By Dayna Evans
the sports section
July 6, 2015
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
Vladimir Putin Is Not Impressed With the FIFA Indictment Other people and organizations are not impressed with FIFA.
By Jaime Fuller
World Cup Fever Led to 10,000 Hospitality Jobs Last Month Jobs were up about five times their average monthly growth rate.
By Hugh Merwin
the sports section
July 11, 2014
By Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
July 9, 2014
By Joe Coscarelli
Triumph Wraps Up His World Cup Coverage by Humping a Dog From Every Country
Triumph wrapped up his three-part World Cup coverage last night the only way he really could - by humping every type of dog he could possibly […]
By Adam Frucci
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