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So why wasn’t Wednesday a memorable day for the U.S. coach? He had to cope with the disappointment of having a highly-anticipated closed-door scrimmage with Belgium canceled by the Belgians with less than one day’s notice, and before that even took place Klinsmann had to spend a good portion of his morning press conference addressing the fallout from his comments that the U.S. can’t win the World Cup.WORLD CUP: Hottest WAGs | Golden Ball contenders | Golden Boot contenders | Potential breakout stars | USA vs....

By defeating Uruguay, Brazil, Russia and Sweden respectively in their quarter-final showdowns - the teams from France, Belgium, Croatia and England have earned a well deserved place in the semi-finals of the biggest football event. The tournament has now entered the penultimate stage, and it is now nearly impossible to predict which team will prevail and which team will not. Each team has played well in the past 3 weeks, hence each one of them have even a slight chance of entering the finals and leaving with the title....

The woman from Stamford Valley—a town in eastern Australia’s Queensland state—called emergency services yesterday evening. Officers arrived at her home just after 7 p.m. local time, Queensland Police said in a statement. The homeowner said she first noticed the snake while working in her garage. Her cat had spotted the serpent under her car and cornered the reptile. The woman tried to rescue the snake but in the process the serpent managed to wrap itself around her right leg, just above her ankle, and wouldn’t budge....

Doris Michel’s father, an 85-year-old Vietnam veteran, and two other people were taken en route through Martissant, a gang-controlled territory in Haiti. The gang run by Ti Lipli, a member of the G9 Family and Allies — a federation considered one of the largest and most powerful in Haiti — asked for a ransom of $6 million and then increased the price to $10 million. Authorities say ransom demands can range from a couple of hundred dollars to several million....

The original poster (OP), u/LiveNowScarlett, shared her story to the Reddit forum r/AmITheAhole because she worried she was wrong to snap at her grandmother for spilling the beans. She earned over 5,600 upvotes and 500 comments in eight hours for her post, “[Am I the Ahole] for getting mad at my grandma for telling my dad that I’m getting married?” She opens by explaining the reason for the estrangement from her dad....

Marriam Ahmad, 27, a paralegal in the U.K. city of Newport, Wales, went into hospital 29 weeks pregnant in January, she told BBC News. Ahmad has asthma, which makes her more vulnerable to severe COVID. Once in hospital, her condition rapidly deteriorated. She was given oxygen to help her breathe and was so weak she needed someone to wash her face. As the situation escalated, Ahmad was told she would need to be put into a coma from which she “may not come back,” and that she would be hooked up to a ventilator....

Betsy Phillips, a writer for Nashville Scene’s political blog “Pith in the Wind,” wrote Tuesday that she had recently received a phone call notifying her that her surgery planned for this week was bumped back due to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where her operation was set to take place, being slammed by COVID patients. “I am not having surgery this week,” Phillips wrote. “The hospital is too full of COVID patients, and the ORs are being shut down so that personnel can deal with COVID patients instead—patients who are mostly unvaccinated....

“Stay safe out there ladies. Decided to confront a creep taking pics of us when we were just trying to hang by the pool. HE TRIED DENYING IT,” she captioned the post. In the clip, one of the friends can first be heard asking the man: “Excuse me, I’d really appreciate it if you deleted the photos of us off your phone.” Pham told Newsweek that they didn’t realise he was taking pictures at first, until he started doing it for the second time: “We noticed that he took his phone out multiple times and angled it towards us, but we thought to not assume the worst....

Lanning scored 560 runs off 492 balls during the event, including a high score of 90, becoming the highest run-scorer for the tournament. She won out over an impressive field of contenders with 36 votes, beating the likes of Perth Scorchers star and England captain Charlotte Edwards (31), fellow England player and Hobart Hurricanes captain Heather Knight (28), and Sydney Sixers captain Ellyse Perry (26) for the title. Votes are awarded on a 3-2-1 basis by the standing umpires at the end of each match – meaning a player can receive up to six votes per match....

The women’s World Cup opens in Mumbai on Thursday with the cricketers hoping to put aside memories of an unsettling build-up and gain recognition in a country where the men’s game reigns supreme. Barely a week before the start, the International Cricket Council was forced to revise the schedule because of security concerns surrounding Pakistan’s participation in Mumbai where the entire tournament was to be played. All group B matches, featuring Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, were shunted to the cricketing backwaters of Cuttack following threats from the right-wing nationalist Shiv Sena party to disrupt matches in Mumbai....

With Sjoerd Marijne back at the helm of affairs as the women’s team coach, the Indian women’s hockey team is all set to remove the stigma of the past and make their mark in the current edition. In the last edition that they had qualified for, way back in 2010, India had finished an average ninth, though it was their best position in the tournament since 1978 when they’d finished seventh....

The average age of the French Open Women’s singles champion in the Open Era is around 24 years. There have been some teenagers who have lifted the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen trophy awarded to the champion. They are Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Iva Majoli. Some women have gone on to win titles even in their 30’s although it has not been all that common to see a player being crowned as champion in Paris post the age of 30....

Andrade told USA Today her team will oust the U.S. Women from the World Cup by a 2-1 or 1-0 final when they meet Monday. PHOTOS: Colombia’s colorful, costumed fans take over Canada “They belittle us. They think we’re a team they’re going to walk all over and it will be an easy game for them,” Andrade said. “We’re going to beat them since they like to talk so much....

Discussing the growth of the sport ahead of the Women’s World Cup final, the U.S. national team midfielder wasn’t particularly impressed by the outgoing FIFA president’s body of work. MORE: USA’s semifinal shutout, in images | Get to know Rapinoe |Blatter’s history of sexism “Sepp kind of had the mindset of any help that he threw to the women’s side he should be congratulated 10 times over for,” Rapinoe said....

She graduated from Wisconsin in 2016 and became a member of the National Women’s Soccer League’s Boston Breakers, who selected her with the No. 1 overall pick out of the 2017 NWSL draft, the following year. Lavelle got off to a hot start as she scored two goals in eight games, but she only made 10 appearances for the Breakers after a hamstring injury forced her to miss two months....

The Americans created a piece of history in Thursday’s group stage finale against Sweden as they broke the record for the most goals scored in the group stage of the tournament with 18. They scored 13 against Thailand, three against Chile and reached the milestone in the 50th minute. Norway previously held the record, which was set in 1995. The U.S. was on the verge of reaching that milestone heading into Thursday’s game, needing two goals....

The prize money and ranking points awarded in this tournament are second only to the Grand Slams. The Singles Trophy presented to the winner is called ‘Billie Jean King Trophy’ named after the eponymous American tennis great. A total of 7.5 million USD is awarded in prize money to the players, with the winner taking home a cool 1.75 million USD. The recently concluded 2018 edition of the tournament saw Ukranian Elina Svitolina emerge victorious for the first time....

Such submarines were designed primarily to counter Soviet ballistic missile and attack submarines. Today the principal threat to the U.S. submarine force is a non sequitur, the belief that because there is no Soviet threat, there is no function for weapons developed in response to that threat. Actually, the Jefferson City’s many capacities make it a fine fit for the nation’s evolving security challenges. U.S. submarines were crucial in winning three wars–the world wars and the Cold War–and today may be what battleships and then aircraft carriers were: the capital ships–those vessels that, when present, control the sea....

Speaking at the same course as he prepared for a return to Open Championship action this week following a three-year absence, Woods dispensed with his perfunctory responses and instead told a story about a teenager in love with the game of golf. It was 1995 when he first ventured to Angus on the east coast of Scotland to compete in the Scottish Open as an amateur, getting his first taste of the oldest and most pure form of golf....

Worcestershire Rapids have won two out of their four matches and are currently sixth in the North Group points table. The Yorkshire Vikings thrashed the Rapids by 94 runs in their last T20 Blast outing. Northamptonshire Steelbacks, on the other hand, are sitting at the bottom of the North Group standings, having failed to pick up even a single win from their four T20 Blast matches. The Steelbacks will head into today’s game on the back of a five-wicket loss to the Derbyshire Falcons....