Sweden is a potential conqueror of the back-to-back champs because it does one thing better than any other team in the world.
Author: Michael
It’s the bottom of the 12th, Alex Gonzalez up to bat… welcome to a moment in history.
The 2003 World Series presented a weird matchup in several ways. We had the historic, big-money, championship-laden New York Yankees against the brand-new, super-young, cheap-o Florida Marlins. The Yankees still had so much of the core that won them titles throughout the ‘90s, with several more superstars and promising up-and-comers piled on top.
Sweden has the potential to give the United States all sorts of problems when the two teams go head-to-head on Sunday.
Marcedes Lewis has reached a deal with the Bears, he told ESPN. It would be his 18th season, which would be an NFL record for a tight end.
Bayern Munich have set Tottenham a deadline of midnight on Friday to accept a club-record offer in excess of €100 million for striker Harry Kane, sources have told ESPN.
The U.S. women’s national team is in a bad place as it arrives in a very good place: Australia, for a round-of-16 matchup against Sweden in the Women’s World Cup. The Americans could certainly upset the Swedes, but I wouldn’t wager on it, and, judging from their demeanor against Portugal a few days ago, neither would they. Nothing about their performance in the group stage indicates they can win four more games.
Getting inside the head of one person is hard enough. Getting inside 23 heads at the same time is far beyond my capabilities, though apparently well within Carli Lloyd’s.
Yankees prospect Anthony Seigler is a switch-hitting catcher, which isn’t terribly unusual. But he’s also capable of being a switch-throwing fielder.
Seigler made headlines as a high schooler in Georgia for his ability to pitch with both arms, striking out 29 batters in 25.2 innings. But when the Yankees took him in the first round of the 2018 draft, it was as a catcher, and Seigler has played almost exclusively behind the plate (as a righty) in five seasons in the minors.
We’ve got your cable, streaming and over-the-air options for Sunday’s early morning match.
1. Aaron Rodgers will be a Hall of Fame quarterback who (as of now) has won one Super Bowl. But it seems he’s now known more for his famous darkness retreat than anything else.
During Thursday’s Hall of Fame Game between the Jets and Browns, the lights went out for several minutes, and NBC’s cameras caught New York’s new quarterback sitting on the sidelines in the dark.
Major heavy hitters across the sports media landscape immediately fired up the Twitter app (Twitter is what I will always call it) and made the same exact joke.
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Starved for motorsport content during F1’s summer shutdown? We have you covered
For Formula 1 fans, August is a trying month.
With the sport heading into its “summer shutdown,” a period on the calendar where absolutely no work takes place. This is actually written into the sport’s regulations, under Article 24 of FIA’s sporting regulations for F1: “All competitors must observe a shutdown period of fourteen (14) consecutive days during the months of July and/or August.