Jun 11, 2024, 10:37 PM ETThe United States heads to its first men's Olympic soccer tournament since 2008 off a performance it would rather forget.Shota Fujio converted a penalty kick in the sixth minute, Mao Hosoya added a goal in the 69th and Japan won 2-0 in an under-23 game Tuesday night in the Americans' last warmup match in Kansas City, Kansas."Since we started this process eight months ago, this […]

Jun 11, 2024, 10:30 PM ETCOLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- Brittney Sykes scored 18 points in her first game since May 17, Ariel Atkins also had 18 and the Washington Mystics won their first game of the season, beating the Atlanta Dream 87-68 on Tuesday night.Washington (1-12) avoided tying the longest losing streak in franchise history with the 2012 team dropping 13 games in a row. The Mystics' 19-point win is […]

Jun 11, 2024, 09:33 PM ETPSV Eindhoven forward Ricardo Pepi set high expectations for the United States at this summer's 2024 Copa América, saying the bare minimum for success for the team would be to reach the knockout round."It's a tournament where we don't just want to sit there and compete, we want to make it as far as we can," Pepi told ESPN. "I think anything besides making it […]

Michael Voepel, ESPN.comJun 12, 2024, 01:49 AM ETCloseMichael Voepel covers the WNBA, women's college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.For the first time since 2019, the Las Vegas Aces have lost three games in a row. But the two-time defending champions said they are still betting on themselves to get back to top-tier status in […]