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It wasn’t the homecoming Logan Stieber had in mind when he returned from Budapest on Monday after winning his first world championship.
USA captain Michael Bradley says there is total respect for Mexican-Americans and people around the world on Wednesday in Ohio, after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. His statement comes ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Mexico
USA captain Michael Bradley says there is total respect for Mexican-Americans and people around the world on Wednesday in Ohio, after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. His statement comes ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Mexico
Since 2001, the US has opted to stage every home World Cup qualifier against Mexico in Columbus, where the frigid temperatures, compact design and hostile atmosphere have conspired to make it a house of horrors for El Tri
Welcome to the heart of the midwest and Mapfre Stadium: America’s Azteca.
In 2001, on a cold February night in Ohio’s capital, more than 24,000 fans packed what was then called Columbus Crew Stadium to witness the beginning of a new era for US soccer. Bruce Arena and the men’s national team were about to face Mexico in the final round of qualifiers for the 2002 World Cup. As kick-off neared, Mexican players were so fazed by the unforgiving temperatures that they decided to warm up inside their locker room. “It was a different climate than what we were used to,” said defender Alberto Macías after the match. “The way the people backed them surprised us, and the cold was tremendous.”
The head of Cleveland’s police union has threatened to pull his officers from Browns games over a controversial Instagram post by Cleveland running back Isaiah Crowell.
Last week, after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Crowell posted a picture on Instagram of a police officer’s throat being slit. Crowell posted the photo before the killings of five Dallas officers last Thursday. He later removed the post and apologized.
Hundreds of thousands of fans took to the streets in downtown Cleveland to celebrate the Cavaliers’ NBA championship win with LeBron James and the rest of the squad. The team brought the city its first major sports title in 52 years after beating the Golden State Warriors in a seven-game series that concluded on Sunday
Hundreds of thousands of fans descended on downtown Cleveland on Wednesday to celebrate the Cavaliers’ win over the Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals, which ended the city’s 52-year championship drought
The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar is the rare case of someone with wild promise exceeding expectations
The first time I saw LeBron James play basketball was during his final year at St Vincent-St Mary High School. By then he was already a national sensation – Sports Illustrated had featured him on the cover months earlier under the headline “The Chosen One” – and his senior season was essentially a barnstorming tour that filled arenas around the country and sated the intense curiosity of a pre-YouTube world. Several of his games were broadcast nationally on ESPN2, a rarity for high school basketball. Still more were available on pay-per-view, which is unheard of. When the circus came to my hometown of Philadelphia, a sellout crowd packed the Palestra to the corners. Allen Iverson watched from courtside. The multimillion-dollar industry that would be constructed around LeBron’s image was still years away from completion, but even then you could see the scaffolding in place. It was three days before Christmas 2002.
Watching him that day it wasn’t so much the size that belied his age – though to behold the 6ft 8in, 225lb teenager picking his teeth with high school defenders no doubt lent to the spectacle – but that he operated with the maturity and sophistication of a seasoned professional. Was he really only 17? The combination of skills he commanded was more than just rare: it defied categorization. Sure, he could score from anywhere on the court but plenty of players make their mark that way. LeBron devoured rebounds like each was his last. He whipped passes from outrageous angles with pace and uncanny precision, finding his team-mates in perfect position for easy baskets. He could play the one through the five and defend them just the same. Every action was exacted with economy of movement and effortless calm, the way a Formula One driver can navigate a car with the casual indifference of a channel surfer idly flicking the remote.
LeBron James is home and fans have a strong bond with their teams – these are good times to be in Cleveland
By the time the Golden State Warriors finished dancing with the trophy and flew back home to California, a tired, old script was being written about the city they left behind. Woe is Cleveland the narrative began once more. The city of sports misfortune sinks again. Another season gone, another year without a championship.
The story has been so easy to write it has grown stale from overuse. Cleveland’s misery was rolled out when the Cavaliers didn’t win a championship in LeBron James’s first time there. It burned through dozens of news cycles when James bolted for Miami. It has been trundled out about every third week during the Browns seasons, held up as some deeper failing of a city, as if championships should define a fan’s soul.
For years, Cleveland has experienced economic – and sporting – decline. But if the Cavs break the Cleveland Curse in the NBA finals, a whole city will celebrate
When Cleveland Cavaliers’ guard Kyrie Irving hobbled off the court late in the fourth quarter in game one of the NBA finals – and then was shown thrown spiking his jersey angrily to the floor in the bowels of Oracle Arena in Oakland – you could almost hear a collective “Oh no, why us?” from the sports fans on the shores of Lake Erie.
And when the Cavs then lost that game to the Golden State Warriors in overtime, it was almost a “Here, we go again” refrain. For in Cleveland, which hasn’t won a title in a major sport since the Cleveland Browns won the NFL championship in 1964, losing big games and in melodramatic ways is just par for the course. Most dedicated sports fans here (and, quite frankly, almost everyone is emotionally attached to their teams) fans figured this series was over almost before it began, and the “waiting for next year” mantra started.
