FIFA’s 48-team World Cup gamble couldn’t have drawn up a better end result

ARLINGTON, Texas — For all the worries about the World Cup’s expansion to 48 teams, FIFA could hardly have imagined a better outcome. With a few one-game exceptions, the competition never seemed watered-down. Instead of a reason to trim back to 32, the relative lack of jeopardy on the last day of the group stage seems a reason to expand to 64, as Gianni Infantino has already advocated in an interview with Swiss media outlet Bluewin. And still, the last four teams standing are the four that many neutral fan will have wanted to see. The semifinals and final promise…

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Gavin Newsom curiously says little on Eric Swalwell sex assault scandal

Gavin Newsom may have the biggest microphone in California politics, but the governor has been noticeably meek in commenting on the horrifying sexual assault scandal involving Rep. Eric Swalwell — who until last week was the leading Democrat to succeed Newsom in office. Swalwell suspended his campaign Sunday and submitted…

Ex-Yankees prospect Oswald Peraza has 3-hit night: ‘He killed us’

Just like the Yankees envisioned, Oswald Peraza was hitting lasers all over the field in The Bronx. Just about everything else about the situation Tuesday was unlike what the Yankees envisioned. In his first game back at Yankee Stadium, Peraza — the former Yankees top prospect — blistered pitch after…

Trail Blazers rally past  Suns in NBA play-in tournament

PHOENIX — Deni Avdija scored 41 points — including a go-ahead 3-point play with 16.1 seconds left — and the Portland Trail Blazers clawed back from an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Phoenix Suns 114-110 in the NBA’s play-in tournament on Tuesday night. Jordan Goodwin drove…

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