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Team USA faces a familiar foe for a shot at gold. Team USA plays for a chance to get revenge from the knockout stage against Japan, and a shot at their first baseball gold medal at the Olympics, against the Republic of Korea on Thursday, August 5. Perhaps the odds are in their favor: The United States defeated Korea in a 4-2 group stage clash, and Korea is coming off a potentially demoralizing loss to Japan on Wednesday morning. The good news: Team USA will almost certainly walk away from the Olympics with a medal of some kind. The winner of Thursday morning's game will advance to the gold medal game, while the loser will face the bronze medal game in the Dominican Republic on Friday night. Here's how to catch the semi-final game on Thursday morning: MORE: Watch the Olympics Live with...

UFC 265 will feature heavyweights in the spotlight as Derrick Lewis and Ciryl Gane battle it out for the UFC interim heavyweight championship at the Toyota Center in Houston. Since champion Francis Ngannou was unable to compete in August, the UFC decided to book a matchup to determine who will have the next chance against Ngannou once he is ready to defend his title. Lewis and Gane are on unbeaten streaks, and the two giants will enter the Octagon to find out who will come close to championship gold. Lewis is currently the second-ranked heavyweight and has a win over Ngannou. He is undefeated in his last four outings with wins over players like Curtis Blaydes and Aleksei Oleinik. He has had a shot at the heavyweight title before, but fell short when he was introduced by Daniel Corm...

Is this the end of the Big 12 as we know it? With Oklahoma and Texas seeking membership in the Southeastern Conference, the conference appears to be heading for another drastic change in the era of the college football playoffs. On the field, the Sooners are still the team to beat. Oklahoma has won six consecutive Big 12 championships, and coach Lincoln Riley has another charged offense to work with in 2021. Heisman Trophy favorite Spencer Rattler is back at quarterback, and there's enough talent to make a national championship. Texas begins a new era with Steve Sarkisian, who won the Broyles Award for the nation's best assistant coach in Alabama in 2020. Kansas also fired Les Miles and hired Buffalo coach Lance Leipold this offseason. BENDER: The Best Realization Options of the Big ...

Simone Biles won a bronze medal in her last event of the 2021 Olympics. She finished with 14,000 on the balance beam to win her second Summer Games medal. But the medal was not what worried him most about entering the final competition. All he wanted to do was avoid injury while taking the stage at the Olympics in what will likely be the last time. "I'm going home in one piece, so I was a little nervous," Biles said. NBC's Mike Tirico in an interview about your efforts on the beam. “So, I am not angry. It's not how I wanted it to be, but I think we've opened bigger doors and bigger conversations. "Biles certainly opened the doors when he missed a week of the Tokyo Games while dealing with mental health issues. Specifically, she was dealing with a case of "spinning," a mental block t...

Before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, the US men's basketball team fell to Australia in an exhibition game despite being the favorite to win by double digits. Now Americans have a chance to avenge that loss. Team USA will face Australia in the semifinal round of the 2021 Olympic tournament on Thursday with a place in the gold medal game up for grabs. Kevin Durant has led the way for Team USA, averaging 18.0 points per game on 54.2 percent shooting from the field. Patty Mills, who will reportedly sign with the Nets and become Durant's teammate in the NBA next season, has been excellent for Australia, scoring 20.8 points per game and shooting 41.7 percent from three-point range. Can Durant and the Americans stay on track to the gold medal? Or will Mills and the Australians get anoth...

Slovenia will have a chance of winning a medal. In fact, he will have a chance to play for gold, if he can beat France on Thursday. The Slovenian basketball team has been the talk of the Olympic men's basketball tournament, carving out their schedule to go undefeated in group play, defeat Germany in the quarter-finals and reach the semi-finals for the first time in the history of the nation. The Slovenians are winning with an average of 21.25 points per game. That success has been due, in large part, to the stellar play of Mavericks star Luka Doncic. The 22-year-old, who is now 17-0 in international play, averages nearly a triple-double for the team and has led Slovenia in points, rebounds or assists in each of the team's four victories. How was Slovenia so close to winning an Olymp...

The rooms of the hotel of the press begin to shine on the door the sign of "disinfected for the next guest", but this never arrives. There will no longer be massive landings of athletes, journalists, officials and referees in Narita and Haneda, the two gigantic airfields of the capital of the Rising Sun; Nor long lines to register at the reception of the hotels of Such. We are already counting down to the end. More and more special envoys from half the world are leaving for their respective countries. Some because they came to cover only the first days; others because they accompanied national teams that already fell down; and...

The employer agrees to sell 10% of its business to CVC for 2,700 million, of which about 270 will go directly to the Barça clubThe operation, which will be approved this Wednesday by the clubs, provides oxygen to the clubs and, in the case of Barcelona, ​​to overcome the problem of financial Fair play LaLiga has agreed sell 10% of your business to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for 2,700 million euros. The agreement, advanced by the New York Times and confirmed by the employers, will help finance the growth plans of the competition but above all it will inject oxygen to Spanish clubs in the face of the effects of the pandemic. 90% of the money will go directly to the clubs, which will app...

David Martín's team will fight for the podium after beating the United States (8-12)Qualification for a semifinal in a Games did not occur since Sydney-2000 Spanish water polo will fight for the medals also in the men's tournament. A solid and worked victory against United States (8-12) of the team he leads David Martin will complete a historic plenary session for this sport. Never before have the two teams managed to cross the quarterfinals as happened in Tokyo for the men's team, it is a milestone: it has been 21 years since they have qualified for the semifinal of a Games. Specifically, since Sydney-2000, where a legend of this sport still competed as Manel Estiarte. ...

The Spanish pivot Pau Gasol, which announced the end of his career in the Spanish basketball team after his elimination from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics when falling against United States (81-95), left an open door to continue playing in club basketball by confirming that he has not decided. "We'll see if I retire or not, I'll decide that later, for now I have to digest everything I'm living," said the eldest of the brothers. Gasoline, after both announced the end of their time in the national team this Tuesday. Pau gasoHe explained that the selection has "enormous importance" ...