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No sooner has Neymar finished an incredibly successful club season with Barcelona than he is flung headlong into international duty with the Selecao. Brazil coach Dunga will spare him the midweek friendly against Honduras, but he will expect Neymar to line up alongside his team mates for the opening Copa America game against Peru on Sunday. With two more fixtures during the following week against Colombia...
Published: June 8, 2015
Much like the man at the helm of their ship, this was efficient, brisk and almost businesslike. Brazil, as they step up their preparations for the upcoming Copa America, were not what you might describe as vintage but nevertheless comfortably saw off the challenge of a far-from-full-strength Mexico side 2-0 at the Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo. An excellently taken goal from Philippe Coutinho...
Published: June 8, 2015
Wolfsburg‘s German centre-back Robin Knoche, 23, was a big defensive talent when he became a Bundesliga regular. Key word being was because Knoche is now facing question marks over his viability as a starter with Wolfsburg on the up and up. This summer’s European Under-21 Championship hands Knoche the chance to find form and prove himself to his club. Knoche‘s Form Slump Hovering...
Published: June 8, 2015
The United States women’s national team is once again one of the favorites as it enters its eighth World Cup in search of its third title. What are the USWNT’s chances in this tournament? Who will lead the stars and stripes this time around? Which new additions will become household names by the end of the World Cup? Bleacher Report’s Michael Cummings joins Ryan Bailey to lay out...
Published: June 8, 2015
The European U-21 Championship kick off on June 17 in Prague, giving us football fans a welcome reprieve from tedious summer transfer links and a lack of competitive domestic football. This exciting tournament is where some of tomorrow’s stars announce themselves, and the squads selected for it ooze class and quality. In 2013, Thiago Alcantara, Isco, Asier Illarramendi and more all shone as Spain...
Published: June 8, 2015
The rugby community came together in mourning during the most recent weekend of action after news emerged that Jerry Collins and his partner, Alana Madill, died in a car crash in the French department of Herault on Friday. The former New Zealand flanker was remembered as a great member of not just the All Black fraternity but as a terrific servant of rugby, and he is a major loss to the sport. Just...
Published: June 8, 2015
MONTREAL — Lewis Hamilton‘s victory for Mercedes at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday was not the most thrilling race the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve has ever produced, but they can’t all be classics, can they? Last year’s certainly was, with Daniel Ricciardo taking his first career win with a brilliant late-race pass on the ailing Mercedes of Hamilton’s team-mate, Nico...
Published: June 8, 2015
With victory in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton extended his lead at the top of the Formula One drivers’ standings to 17 points. The Montreal race marked a return to the top step of the podium for the reigning world champion, who despite hardly putting a foot wrong in Spain and Monaco had been waiting for his fourth win of the campaign since April’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton’s...
Published: June 7, 2015
If nothing else, golf fans got their money’s worth at the Memorial Tournament. David Lingmerth and Justin Rose exchanged clutch putts on the 72nd hole of regulation play then had to play three more holes in sudden-death fashion before the Swede finally vanquished the Englishman to capture his first career PGA Tour event. It was the longest playoff in the tournament’s 40-year history. The...
Published: June 7, 2015
Sunday’s final round of the 2015 Memorial Tournament began with a past champion in Justin Rose atop the leaderboard but ended with first-time PGA Tour winner David Lingmerth claiming the trophy at Muirfield Village Golf Club in a three-hole playoff. Matching pars on the first two sudden-death holes at the 18th preceded the players’ trip to the par-four 10th, where Lingmerth...