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[ti-amie]

[skatingfan]

NBC executives must be doing back flips themselves a year ahead of the Olympics to have an athlete of that status back in competition.

[ashkor87]

Saw the US-Sweden match...US couldn't get past the Swedish goalie.. then Rapinoe missed a sitter...sad altogether as it was the last time for her..

[ptmcmahon]

I'm not too sad, she did win two world cups. I didn't see the whole game, but what I did the Swedish goalie played amazing to keep them in it.

The margin on the winning goal in the shootout was something else too.

[ashkor87]

Still, US was ahead 3-2 when it was Rapinoe's turn..if she had scored, it was game over...

[ponchi101]

I don't follow any soccer, so this story hardly resonates with me. But I found an article about her, and it was a bad ending to a storied career. She joins Roberto Baggio as great players that suffered such fate.

[ashkor87]

My son (who lives in London, Arsenal fan) gets upset whenever anyone calls it 'soccer' - it is football, he insists.. I find it mildly amusing but still.. what Americans play can hardly be graced with the term football so maybe he is right.

[ponchi101]

Oh, I switch between the names. To me, it is true football; after all, you use your feet to hit the ball.
American Football should be the one that should have another name; only one player kicks the ball (the kicker, obviously). But then, what would you call that sport?

[ptmcmahon]

I don't follow any soccer, so this story hardly resonates with me. But I found an article about her, and it was a bad ending to a storied career. She joins Roberto Baggio as great players that suffered such fate.

The difference being Baggio never won a world cup before or after. So I have a lot more sympathy for him. It also wasn't his last world Cup either.

If Rapinoe had never won any, I could see feeling sorry for her, but she's won two before so not too upset. That'd be like saying "Man I'm so sad for Djokovic for not being able to win a 24th slam."

[skatingfan]

My son (who lives in London, Arsenal fan) gets upset whenever anyone calls it 'soccer' - it is football, he insists.. I find it mildly amusing but still.. what Americans play can hardly be graced with the term football so maybe he is right.

Ironically it is the English who seem most upset about the word soccer are the ones who invented the word, and American/Canadian football started out as a game similar to rugby forward hand passes were not allowed, only kicking the ball.

[ti-amie]

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Caleb White, one of the top high school basketball players in the country, has died after collapsing on the court during a workout https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/pinson-val

[Suliso]

England vs Spain for women's World Cup. It will be the first title for either one.

[ponchi101]

Too bad. Two traditional powers. I was rooting for the Aussies, or a small country like Colombia or Jamaica.
Anyway, I am only following the news.

[Suliso]

How traditional could they really be having never reached the final before? In women's football mind you.

[Suliso]

Also Colombia bigger than Spain now.