Mar 21, 2025, 09:37 AM ET Chris Wood’s interactions with fans after being subbed off earned him a yellow card. Getty Chris Wood picked up a yellow card for signing autographs and taking pictures with fans during New Zealand’s win over Fiji in their World Cup qualifier on Thursday. The Nottingham Forest striker, who has scored […]
It’s Will Smith announcing a new album. It’s “Mamma Mia!” returning to Broadway. It’s the uptick in law school applications. And it’s absolutely spring breaking in Houston. In recent weeks, as the finance world has been nervously watching the S&P 500 fall, nonexperts and the chronically online are seeing signs of a possible recession in […]
As Franck Verhaeghe and two friends planned a March trip to Mexico City, they plotted out not only where they would stay and which museums they would visit but also the language they would speak: French. “It’s not that I think it’s unsafe for Americans,” said Mr. Verhaeghe, 65, who lives in California, but “I […]
Jeff CarlisleMar 20, 2025, 11:21 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. INGLEWOOD, Calif. — United States manager Mauricio Pochettino was visibly frustrated after his side’s shocking 1-0 defeat to Panama in the semifinals of the Concacaf Nations League, bluntly telling his players it was not enough […]
When Lewis Lapham died last year, it appeared that his magazine might go with him. Lapham’s Quarterly, a beloved journal of history and reportage he started, had stopped putting out issues. The fate of the publication was uncertain without Mr. Lapham, a nattily dressed former editor at Harper’s who seemed to personify a bygone era […]
Disney knew that remaking “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” as a live-action musical would be treacherous. But the studio was feeling cocky. It was 2019, and Disney was minting money at the box office by “reimagining” animated classics like “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Jungle Book” as movies with real actors. The […]
Robert E. Denham, a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer who was known for parachuting into imperiled companies and splintered board rooms and steering the organizations out of trouble, died on Saturday at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 79. His family said the cause was cancer. Soft-spoken, erudite and strategic, Mr. Denham had a knack for being […]
After the first quarter, both SMU and Memphis assumed everything would calm down. Nine fouls in 10 minutes was a lot. But everyone, officials included, regroups after each quarter. Surely, someone in the three-member officiating squad would say: Let’s let them play. In the second quarter, the teams made it 90 seconds before the next […]
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has withdrawn from the Brazil squad after sustaining a concussion during Thursday’s World Cup qualifier with Colombia. Alisson collided with Colombia defender Davinson Sánchez during Brazil’s 2-1 win, with both players forced off the pitch in the 78th minute. Liverpool have now confirmed that Alisson is set to fly back to […]
President Trump claimed on Friday that a report in The New York Times, which detailed plans for Elon Musk to receive a briefing at the Pentagon on U.S. military plans for any prospective war with China, was “made-up” and “fake.” The Times said afterward that it stood by the reporting in the article, which was […]