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Let the Games begin! After a year of waiting, the U.S. Women’s National Team will launch its Olympic campaign on July 21, taking on Sweden in its first match at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m. local/4:30 a.m. ET at Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo and the match will be broadcast in the United States on the USA Network and Telemundo, with streaming coverage also provided at NBCOlympics.com and through the Telemundo Deportes App. The match will also be replayed later that day on NBCSN at 8:30 a.m. ET and 6 p.m. ET. The USA enters the...

Coming off a 1-0 win over Portugal to start the 2021 WNT Summer Series, presented by AT&T 5G, the U.S. Women’s National Team returns to the field on June 13, taking on Jamaica at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. ET. The game against the Reggae Girlz, which will be played at Houston’s BBVA Stadium, will be broadcast on FS1, with official kickoff slated for 10:15 p.m. ET/9:15 p.m. CT. Portugal and Nigeria will meet in the first match of the Sunday doubleheader, with kickoff at 7:15 p.m. ET. That game will be available via live stream at ussoccer.com/live. The USA extended...

Off to a strong start in 2021 with a 5-0-0 record and a championship at the 2021 SheBelieves Cup in Orlando, the U.S. Women’s National Team returns to the pitch on April 10 against Sweden for the first match of its highly-anticipated two-game European tour. The match against Sweden will be played at Friends Arena in Stockholm (1 p.m. ET/7 p.m. local on FOX) and pits the USA – the top-ranked team in the world – against fifth-ranked Sweden in its first game on foreign soil this year. Following the match against Sweden, the USA will travel to Le Havre...

WIMBLEDON, England For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depressing series of health scares that sent her to the hospital repeatedly and kept her away from tennis for 10 months. The high point came Saturday on Centre Court at Wimbledon, when Williams dropped down to the grass, hands covering her face. She was all the way back, a Grand Slam champion yet again. Her serve as good as there is, her grit as good as ever, Williams was dominant at the start and finish, beating Agnieszka...

or the first time since 1974, the U.S. won baseball's World Cup. And to put the whip cream and cherry on top, we also ended Cuba's winning streak of nine straight titles. The U.S. beat Cuba 6-3. This bodes very well for the U.S. Olympic Baseball Team. Congrats to Team USA's Jayson Nix and Jason Jaramillo--who got two runs each--and Pitcher Brian Duensing, who was nearly perfect through the first three innings, yielding just one hit. In the past, Cuba has engaged in dirty tricks to win, but the U.S. was prepared, according to the Team USA website: Knowing Cuba...

Just a few weeks ago, some Republicans were openly fretting about the war in Iraq and its effect on their re-election prospects, with particularly vulnerable lawmakers worried that its growing unpopularity was becoming a drag on their campaigns. But there was little sign of such nervousness on Wednesday as Republican after Republican took to the Senate floor to offer an unambiguous embrace of the Iraq war and to portray Democrats as advocates of an overly hasty withdrawal that would have grave consequences for the security of the United States. Like their counterparts in the House last week, they accused Democrats...

US Faces Mexico in World Cup VOA News 17 Jun 2002 00:45 UTC The World Cup football finals continue Monday in South Korea and Japan with two more second round, single elimination games. The United States plays Mexico in South Korea. The two teams have faced each other numerous times in regional competition. Four-time World Cup champion Brazil will play Belgium in Japan as those teams also play for a quarterfinal berth. In action Sunday, Spain defeated Ireland, 3-2, on penalty kicks to join Senegal in advancing. Ireland made only two of its five penalty kick chances following two scoreless...