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LIVE: Follow USA vs. Iran updates from World Cup Group B match Only one of the two nations can reach the Round of 16. For the United States, the task is simple — they must win to advance. There’s no goal differential, goals scored, or fair play tiebreakers to worry about. If Gregg Berhalter and company win, they go through, and if they do not, they are out. For Iran, it’s only slightly more complicated than that....

Through the U.S. women’s basketball team’s first two Olympic games, A’ja Wilson is averaging 19.5 points and 11.5 rebounds while shooting 60 percent from the field. The Las Vegas Aces star has fueled the Americans’ dominant interior attack in wins over Nigeria and Japan. “I mean, you look down the stretch of USA Basketball on the women’s side of the roster, Hall of Famers, is incredible,” Wilson said. “So for me to be in the list of that, it kind of gets to me at times, but at times I’m just like, you know, I’m surrounded by players that are going to make me better and I’m just trying to be a good teammate....

Participating in the inaugural World Cup in 1930, that tournament is a good representation of the USMNT’s World Cup history, reaching the semifinals before falling to Argentina 6-1. Since, they’ve reached the World Cup 10 times in 21 tournaments, missing a long stretch between 1954 and 1986 before establishing themselves as a consistent participant. The miss to qualify for the last tournament was painful, and a return to the 2022 event is a positive for the federation....

Forging a football career has long been sprinting superstar Bolt’s ambition after hanging up his running spikes, with Dortmund the first club to offer him a chance to show his skills. The Jamaican completed two sessions with Dortmund over Thursday and Friday, the latter in front of the world’s media and 1,400 supporters. Bolt did not look out of place at BVB’s Strobelallee Training Centre, completing all the exercises with the members of Peter Stoger’s squad not away on international duty....

Fifteen players are up for the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Year Trophy, 10 are candidates for the Henry Iba National Coach of the Year Award, and six freshmen are candidates for the Integris Wayman Tisdale Award. While each player or coach is designated as a finalist, write-in candidates will still be accepted for each award. OSCAR ROBERTSON TROPHY FINALISTS G/F Kyle Anderson, UCLA, 6-9, 230, So., Fairview, N....

A USC spokesman described Haden, 62, as being “fine” and he was resting comfortably before departing on a private plane. MORE: Five things we learned from USC’s loss to Notre Dame Haden initially felt lightheaded on the sideline and was forced to take a knee before being tended to by first-aid staff at Notre Dame Stadium. The game was USC’s first since Haden fired coach Steve Sarkisian. The AD has been criticized for his handling of Sarkisian, who has entered outpatient rehab for alcohol-use issues....

The Minnesota Democrat told Reuters before the January 14 primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa, that going into a head-to-head with Trump “without some animation” would be a “problem,” and said it would be necessary to “show how absurd he is.” But she also said it would be important to ignore the president. “First of all, you have to have that ability to make a joke or poke at him or just show how absurd he is....

A bike computer app can give you all the information you need on your smartphone. Here are the top Android bike computers for when you go riding again. 1. Jepster Jepster is an Android app that uses your smartphone like a bike computer. It uses GPS to give you real-time information on the performance of your ride. There are a wide range of features on this app that will help you keep track of your progress while enjoying your ride....

Which Version of Disk Utility Is Right for You? Disk Utility has evolved, gaining new features with each new version of OS X. For the most part, Apple added features and capabilities to the original Disk Utility core app. However, when Apple released OS X El Capitan, it created a new version of Disk Utility. While it retains the same name, its user interface underwent a dramatic makeover. Therefore, there are two separate workflows for using Disk Utility’s First Aid feature....

The Australian selectors preferred to stick with Joe Burns and dropped the centurion from the first Test, despite Burns failing to score a fifty in his last three matches. Burns though enjoys a fruitful opening partnership with David Warner, with whom he shared three successive century stands against New Zealand. Steven Smith admitted that the selectors didn’t want to break the successful Burns-Warner partnership and decided to drop Marsh, despite him being involved in the highest Test fourth-wicket partnership of all-time with Adam Voges in Hobart...

The 29-year-old, who has 15 caps with the USA to his name, made the jump from Championship side to Championship side on a two-year deal, with the club holding the option for a third year. Lichaj established himself as a regular with Forest, having made 190 appearances for the club since joining in the summer of 2013 from Aston Villa. “I’m excited about playing here and I’m looking forward to getting started with pre-season next week," he said in a club release....

To judge whether the draw is easy or difficult, whether it is ideal in promoting the possibility of the Americans successfully defending the world championship they claimed in 2015, it is necessary to look beyond the group to their potential opponents in the knockout portion of the competition. As it happens, the draw could be tougher than it looks. 23 TICKETS TO FRANCE: Projecting the USWNT’s World Cup roster...

The United States women’s national team wanted to beat Mexico because their CONCACAF W Championship group stage game drew a nice crowd of El Tri fans, and because they almost always beat Mexico. And they did, escaping with a 1-0 triumph that made them perfect in Group A play. But their standing in the group would have been no different had they drawn the game or lost it. Entering the match, the American women knew they had a commanding goal-difference advantage in group play....

The two-time Women’s World Cup winner has made no secret of her NFL dream, and she caught the eyes of NFL people last August when she drilling a series of kicks while visiting a Philadelphia Eagles practice session. MORE: ‘Disappointing’ to hear U.S. Soccer’s sexist court arguments, Lloyd says Lloyd, a longtime Eagles fan, is convinced she could become the first woman to play in the NFL. Hall of Fame kicker Morten Andersen last year said he would be prepared to school Lloyd in the intricacies of kicking a pigskin with the precision she shoots a soccer ball....

Earlier this month the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah said in a Facebook post people should “watch out for quicksand at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument” after a hiker found themselves stuck in sand that they said was chest-deep. “Rangers patrolled the rockfall dam in Bull Valley Gorge after receiving a quicksand report from a hiker,” the post read. “The hiker said the quicksand was chest deep and shared that they would have been unable to extract themselves from the sand if alone....

She doesn’t waste any time cutting directly to the chase and asking him about him forbidding Uzaki from coming over. Yanagi suggests that he spend Christmas with her, and they play video games at his place, which finally gets something of a reaction from Uzaki. Uzaki suggests them having Christmas Eve at her place, and it catches Yanagi off guard. Sakurai was actually going to let Uzaki off the hook about the banishment, but this works too, so he agrees to go over to her place for Christmas Eve, but Uzaki is forgetting something, as the viewers certainly were too....

Once they get to the hot spring, they see the mascot and take pictures of it. There’s an odd moment with the hot spring mascot and the random cat that’s been popping up in the background of scenes throughout the whole anime. Let’s cut to the chase. Cats are cute, as many a cat person would agree, but that cat is the least cute animal to appear on-screen since the Tucker Family pet, Alexander, from Fullmetal Alchemist and everyone knows how that turned out....