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When the new beginning ended, the television cameras found Tyler Adams absorbing the disappointment. The 23-year-old captain of the U.S. men's national soccer team, the youngest of anyone carrying that title at this World Cup, sat with his legs crossed and head down. Teammates and coaches came by, one at a time, to kneel and encourage him. Adams remained in the middle of the field, thinking and hurting for several minutes, until an American teammate and Dutch opponent extended their arms and helped Adams to his feet. It was the final, humbling scene of a spirited American recovery at this tournament. With a 3-1 victory, the Netherlands ousted the U.S. during the round of 16 on Saturday. No one is hustling to schedule a parade after this outcome, but for a program writhing near rock bottom and enduring ridicule four years ago, this run felt joyous. The incremental progress was clear, but more than that, the players performed in a matter that indicates they are on a path to immense … [Read more...] about Don’t view the USMNT’s loss as the end. It’s a down payment on the future.

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 RAYYAN, Qatar - The U.S. men's national soccer team had reached the knockout stage of the World Cup with a blend of defensive excellence, precocious poise and unflinching confidence. Even though goals were scarce, the formula carried the young squad through group play unbeaten and injected belief that it could take yet another step on the sport's greatest stage. But the things that carried the Americans into the round of 16 were missing Saturday, and a World Cup campaign that brought hope and harrowing moments, a courageous winning goal in the group finale and stirred interest back home, came to a close with a 3-1 defeat to the Netherlands at Khalifa International Stadium. The Dutch, ranked No. 8 and a 2010 finalist, scored twice in the first half, including a backbreaker for the United States seconds before intermission. Substitute Haji Wright … [Read more...] about USMNT’s hopeful World Cup run fizzles out with loss to the Netherlands

LUBBOCK — The Northwest Texas Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches started like a regular church service. Participants sang, took communion, then prayed before voting to split from the United Methodist Church, the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination. “We are a broken body,” Presiding Bishop James G.Nunn, said as he explained to his hundreds of congregants how the communion bread represented both the broken body of Jesus Christ but also the tension within the faith. “But it teaches us that the breaking is not the end.” Nunn continued, calling the accompanying communion juice “cups of forgiveness.” He prayed for the congregation’s mercy and forgiveness toward one another. “Even in the best of circumstances, there are feelings that are hurt, and sometimes, relationships are rendered in two,” Nunn said. The Northwest Texas Conference includes 200 churches from far West Texas up through the Panhandle. The Lubbock gathering included 145 of those churches — … [Read more...] about Hundreds of Texas Methodist churches vote to split from denomination after years of infighting over gay marriage and abortion

RAYYAN, Qatar - As the American soccer players took their sadness and their hope and exited this World Cup on Saturday night, they passed through the mixed zone, a strange and familiar maze of padded barricades and ad-rich walls at global sporting events where athletes sometimes stop in front of gaggles of reporters and share insights or non-insights on what just happened. The Americans stopped, one by one by one, and unwittingly built a sort of staccato chorus that told of their pain at their 3-1 shooing from the Netherlands, their sense that they might have done more, and their sense that they might do more. They offered a bit of What I Learned At The World Cup, as when goalkeeper Matt Turner said, "I think the biggest thing is the margins of success or failure in this tournament are just so paper-thin," or when the youngest captain at this World Cup, Tyler Adams said, "If there's anything this team will take away from it, it comes down to the margins," or when veteran DeAndre … [Read more...] about The pain and promise of the USMNT’s World Cup exit

Fans on Reddit have turned against Kanye West, transforming a subreddit dedicated to him into a page promoting Holocaust education within hours of Ye's most recent antisemitic comments. r/Kanye, a 700,000-member space on Reddit where fans once discussed Ye's music, fashion and other endeavors, has been flooded with posts providing information about the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust and denouncing antisemitism. The page offered a spontaneous show of support for Jewish Americans and a visual representation of pushback against West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, after weeks of his antisemitic remarks. It came after Ye on Thursday said he liked Adolf Hitler and later tweeted an image of a swastika. "As a Jew and an early Kanye fan," one commenter posted, "I never looked in this sub[reddit] until this morning and I saw all the holocaust remembrance posts. I'm in . . . tears right now. Thank you for standing up for us." The posts include Holocaust-related … [Read more...] about Reddit users turn Kanye West page into a Holocaust awareness forum

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 During the early portion of most practices, the Washington Commanders defensive line runs through a drill that usually draws an audience "Here we go!" defensive line coach Jeff Zgonina begins, his voice booming. "There it is!" he says, as tackle Daron Payne swats the ball. "I see you, Big Payne!" One at a time, the linemen put their weight into a padded sled to lift it like a blocker, drop it with a thud, then jump to bat a volleyball Zgonina tosses from about 10 yards away. Comical as it is at times to watch 300-pound linemen lunge for volleyballs, the drill has a purpose. On Sunday, Payne deflected a pass that cornerback Kendall Fuller then intercepted to seal Washington's victory over the Atlanta Falcons. "I said on the sidelines, 'Way to go; you're taking the drill to the field,' and the guys started laughing," Zgonina said. "They don't want to hear that." Washington's … [Read more...] about With Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne, Commanders may have NFL’s best DT duo

WASHINGTON - Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) woke up thoroughly depressed one late June morning earlier this year. His best friend in Congress had lost his primary race to a MAGA Republican, leaving Joyce to think about both losing his wingman but also the direction of his party. "What am I doing here?" the five-term Midwestern moderate recalled thinking. If he hadn't already won his own primary weeks earlier, Joyce acknowledged that he might have just given up and retired. Instead, after winning another two-year term by more than 20 percentage points last month, Joyce has thrown himself into the deep end of the House Republican Conference's ideological swimming pool. He's the new chairman of the Republican Governance Group, a collection of just under 50 GOP lawmakers who quietly like to see Congress function. They often end up under siege from what he calls "the exotics" from the far-right flank, the loudest, most media-seeking Republicans who pine for former president Donald … [Read more...] about ‘Everybody’s a Joe Manchin.’ A GOP moderate looks ahead to a very narrowly divided House

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 17 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ty Zentner kicked a 31-yard field goal in overtime as 13th-ranked Kansas State beat No. 3 TCU 31-28 in the Big 12 championship game Saturday, leaving the Horned Frogs to wait another day to find out if they had already done enough to get into the four-team College Football Playoff. The Wildcats set up the winning field goal after TCU (12-1) had the opening possession of overtime and Kendre Miller was stopped short on consecutive plays from inside the 1. Deuce Vaughn ran for 130 yards and a touchdown and Will Howard threw two TDs for the Wildcats (10-3, No. 10 CFP), who six weeks earlier had jumped out to a 28-10 lead early in the second quarter before TCU scored the game’s last 28 points. That was one of five games the Horned Frogs (12-1, No. 3 CFP) won when trailing after … [Read more...] about No. 3 TCU loses 31-28 in OT to K-State in Big 12 title game