“The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and television studio.” Nobody could seriously doubt that. The USA had played…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Last month, Florida State announced the football program’s decision to retain head coach Mike Norvell despite a 5-7 record. Former FSU star quarterback and current New York Giants player Jameis Winston took a moment to sound off about the state of the football program he once led…
Arguments behind the scenes about the proposed transformation of the top tier of English club rugby into a franchise-based league are intensifying with just two Champ clubs seemingly now eligible for promotion this season. Only Ealing Trailfinders and Doncaster Knights have applied formally to be promoted to the Prem, with Worcester Warriors understood to have…
Red Bull’s influential auto racing adviser Helmut Marko is retiring from his role at the age of 82, ending a 20-year stint in which he helped Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen develop into four-time Formula One world champions. Marko’s departure leaves Red Bull without the two main guiding personalities from their 2005 entry into F1…