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With every tournament, the possibility of a genuine surprise is shrinking.

Lamine Yamal, the team's wonderkid, is thrilling, but discipline and patience have seen them through to the final.

Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death?

The match began as a snooze, then became a romp. But the brilliance of the French team, and of its biggest star, Kylian Mbappé, shone through.

Despite a strong start to the tournament, and an egregious intervention by President Trump into FIFA's suspension of its star striker, the U.S. men's soccer team couldn't keep up with Belgium.

The Yanks won their first knockout-round match in more than twenty years. But, after a controversial red card, they will be down their breakout star in the round of sixteen.

For a moment, it looked like the forty-four-year-old would pull off another stunning comeback in the tournament she has won seven times. Then reality sank in.

With Erling Haaland watching from the bench, Ousmane Dembélé scored three times as France won, 4-1, in a much-anticipated World Cup matchup against Norway. Read Louisa Thomas's report on the game.

The power of the diaspora is the story of this World Cup--and the U.S. team, which beat Australia 2-0 on Friday, embodies it as well as anyone.

A joyous parade up the Canyon of Heroes proved a fitting celebration.