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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: June 21, 2013
Spain constitute the gold standard for international football teams these days and they proved that again on Friday at the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Turkey. La Roja scored early and often in the first half to build a 3-0 lead and added to that lead in the second half en route to a 4-1 victory against the United States in a Group A match between the two young sides. FIFA.com tweeted...
Published: June 16, 2013
Three days of golf are complete at the 2013 US Open, where Phil Mickelson has the lead at one-under heading into the final round of the second major championship on the PGA Tour this season. Merion Golf Club has proven to be the most difficult golf course of the season so far, with “frustrating” likely a word you’ll hear tossed around a lot in the upcoming week with respect...
Published: June 15, 2013
The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup kicked off on Saturday, with host nation and reigning champion Brazil taking on Japan in the first match of the two-week tournament. With the Confederations Cup serving as a warm-up venue for potential 2014 World Cup teams, the two aforementioned teams are joined by Tahiti, Uruguay, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Nigeria in the quest to take home one of football’s...
Published: June 15, 2013
The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup is scheduled to begin on Saturday, when host nation Brazil will tangle with Spain for both bragging rights and the chance for an early lead atop the group standings. Formerly known as the King Fahd Cup, it’s been just over two decades since this tournament began back in 1992, and Brazil has been the most successful nation by far. It has won three Confederations...
Published: June 15, 2013
Brazil and Japan are the two countries primed to open up the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and both squads will do so with the comfort of one of the spots in the 2014 World Cup next summer. Grant Wahl noted as much on Twitter: The Brazilian side has played eight straight friendlies, going 3-4-1 in that time but coming off an impressive 3-0 win over France on June 9—the last time this new...
Published: June 12, 2013
Cue the panic at Estadio Azteca. Mexico had a chance to make a statement and absolve some of their earlier concerns after a slow start to the hexagonal table in 2014 World Cup qualifying standings, but a scoreless draw against Costa Rica did anything but table early concerns that El Tri are lost under Jose Manuel de la Torre. In fact, Mexico is in dire straits headed into the Confederations...
Published: June 8, 2013
Merion Golf Club is a national historic landmark, and it’s also the host of the U.S. Open Championship for the fifth time since 1934. Located in Haverford Township, Penn., Merion will also be the subject of poor conditions should weather strike the 2013 major championship starting on June 13. Weather has plagued the PGA Tour several times so far this year, including last week at the Memorial...
Published: June 8, 2013
Italy already had a win in the 2013 European Under-21 Championships coming into Saturday’s match with Israel, and that momentum carried over into an impressive 4-0 victory over the opposition again to vault the Azzurri into first place in the Group A standings. The team’s official Twitter account had the post as the score became official after just over 90 minutes of action: Italy...
Published: June 8, 2013
The men’s singles side of the 2013 French Open draw has pushed its way to the finals, where Rafael Nadal (3) and David Ferrer (4) are set to square off for the second Grand Slam title of the 2013 season. Nadal reached the final at Roland Garros by ousting Novak Djokovic in a thriller, while Ferrer took care of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets to do the same. Roland Garros had the tweet...
Published: June 7, 2013
With Brandt Snedeker being the highest-rated golfer in the field at the 2013 FedEx St. Jude Classic this weekend at TPC Southwind in Memphis, a reasonable prediction of the early leaders would have been anyone’s guess. I’m not sure anyone quite expected the leaderboard we have after Day 2. Harris English followed up his opening-round 66 by shaving two strokes off his scorecard,...