While the days of soccer being a go-to conservative punching bag for being "socialist " or a "sign of the nation's moral decay " have largely subsided, right-leaning publications still regularly trot out arguments for why the "US doesn't care about soccer " or the sport is "unjust and un-American ".
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) released a statement on its website on Thursday announcing that the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) would not kick off in Morocco on March 17 as planned. Instead, it is to be moved to the summer.
Elite female distance runners take off at the start of the Atlanta Half Marathon on March 1. Jess McClain, middle left, led much of the race before an official car led her off course.
March 3 marks 100 days until the 2026 World Cup kicks off. A series of playoffs this month will determine the last six teams to make up the newly expanded 48-team tournament.
A commemorative T-shirt on the Olympics online store marking the 1936 Games in Berlin under Adolf Hitler's National Socialist, or Nazi, government caught the eye of German media on Wednesday.
Almost seven years ago, Samer Tawk wondered whether he would walk again. "I was young and crazy and was skiing somewhere I shouldn't have been in Lebanon, and I fell 14 meters (46 feet)," Tawk told DW. Now the cross-country skier is preparing to represent Lebanon at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
It's the kind of story that only the Olympic Games seem to produce: A talented ski jumper, who had yet to win anything of significance, delivers the performance of his life to win Olympic gold. "I don't know how I did it.
Journalists from Italy's RaiSport on Tuesday announced that they would stage a three-day strike after the Winter Olympics, and would no longer be putting their bylines on Olympics coverage, among other measures. They are protesting an opening ceremony broadcast by their boss last Friday that started with a wobble and soon fell off the rails entirely.
A view of the arena in Verona, Italy, where the opening ceremony for the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics takes place on March 6. The Paralympic Games are being overshadowed by military conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.