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DOHA, Qatar — After the final whistle, after Morocco had upset Portugal, 1-0, on Saturday to become the first African country in World Cup history to reach the semifinals, Cristiano Ronaldo put...

Dec. 10, 2022, 8:52 a.m. ETDec. 10, 2022, 8:52 a.m. ETCredit...Suhaib Salem/ReutersRationally, Fernando Santos has no choice at all to make.In the group phase of the World Cup, his Portugal team looked...

Grant Wahl, a highly regarded soccer journalist who wrote extensively on the game, died Friday in Qatar, where he was covering the World Cup quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands in...

Amira Rose Davis, an assistant professor at Penn State University specializing in race, sports and gender, said that the W.N.B.A. had proved itself as a force for social justice, though she “would...

Dec. 9, 2022, 1:12 p.m. ETDec. 9, 2022, 1:12 p.m. ETLouis van Gaal has looked to be in an unusually good mood during the World Cup.Credit...Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty ImagesLouis van Gaal, the veteran...

DOHA, Qatar — And then there were eight. In a little more than two weeks, the World Cup has whittled its field from 32 hopefuls to eight genuine contenders, most of whom...

DOHA, Qatar — One by one, they have exited the World Cup stage that has been theirs for so long. Some, like Luis Suárez, restless and helpless, on the substitutes’ bench, could...

During the congressional inquiry, former employees made new claims directly against Snyder. Speaking at a committee round table, Tiffani Johnston, a former marketing and events coordinator for the team, said that at...

WASHINGTON — Brittney Griner, the American basketball star imprisoned in Russia, was released on Thursday after nearly 10 months of captivity in a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms...

“I’ve been attacked a few times,” Jule Campbell told a reporter in 1990. “But I have a family. I’m a career person, and I care about women. I just wish women would...