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Last-minute visas and moving training camp: Iran's road to the World Cup
Iran's participation has become one of the most complex stories of the tournament.
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USC baseball’s ninth-inning implosion costs trip to College World Series
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Two outs. Two measly outs. That was all the most decorated program in the history of college baseball needed to get back to what once felt like its second home. At that point, everything was tilting heavily USC’s way in its bid to make its first College World Series appearance since 2001. USC’s Andrew Johnson...
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Iranian soccer team arrives in Mexico for World Cup amid US visa issues
The Iranian men’s soccer team arrived in Mexico on Sunday, with the FIFA World Cup just four days away. The Iranian squad posted to Instagram photos of the team, dressed in matching white shirts and blue blazers, boarding a plane in Antalya, Turkey, on Saturday. The team has been training in Turkey ahead of the…
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4 takeaways from the U.S. men's final tune-up games before the World Cup
The U.S. men's national team chose to play a pair of highly-ranked, super competitive teams in the final lead-up to the World Cup: Senegal and Germany. The matches showed the U.S. is ready.
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‘Unite Here’ needs to unite, here, to make World Cup a success
Unions are running LA into the ground. Of course workers have the right to organize, and to protect their members from poor conditions and bad management. But right now, they are choking LA. The Hollywood strikes that caused the studios to move production. The teachers’ union that keeps our schools in a dismal state. The...
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World Cup stadiums earn prestigious certifications as green buildings before matches begin
Most of the stadiums for this year’s FIFA World Cup have achieved green building status after a push for certification in the run-up to the tournament. As the tournament opens, 13 of the 16 stadiums have earned LEED certification, the world’s most widely used green building rating system, the U.S. Green Building Council said. Ten…
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An Australian in the US: national identity is one thing, but it’s hard to cheer for either World Cup team | Tom Hawking
The Socceroos playing on football’s biggest stage in my adopted country would normally have me racing to book tickets. Not this year Is “USA! USA! USA!” a more fundamentally obnoxious chant than “Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!”? As an Australian who has spent most of the last 15 years living in the United States and is now a permanent resident, the Socceroos’ World Cup group match against the USA raises some questions. Has my adopted nation dethroned my homeland as the world’s foremost exponent of being unconscionably terrible to immigrants? And on a more personal level … who do I support here?Well, look, OK, there’s really only one answer to that second question. I’m not an especially patriotic type, but if anything does bring out my Australian-ness, it’s the World Cup – perhaps because it’s one of the few events at which we can still claim to be underdogs. And now, two decades after I rose at dawn to watch Australia’s dreams dashed by the intersection of Lucas Neill’s leg and Fabio Grosso’s general vicinity, I find myself living in a country hosting the tournament. Continue reading...
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HORROR: Innocent College Student Gunned Down in Cold Blood by Youths Outside His Family’s Home in Philly (VIDEO)
A promising college student was brutally murdered in South Philadelphia on Saturday morning by two unknown thugs. The post HORROR: Innocent College Student Gunned Down in Cold Blood by Youths Outside His Family’s Home in Philly (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Benson blasts California election system as ‘third-world nonsense’
Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson sharply criticized California’s election system following the state’s primary elections, calling the process “embarrassing” and “third-world nonsense.” California’s voters’ high use of mail-in voting contributes to a lengthier vote-counting process, as election officials must carefully verify ballots before certifying final results, a process that can drag on for days after […]
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