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8:28 PM on Thursday, June 25

Sebastián Beccacece went from being criticized for what was veering toward Ecuador's worst World Cup showing to an emotional victory that got his team into the knockout round

8:20 PM on Thursday, June 25

Ivory Coast coach Emerse Faé has slammed what he considered were racist comments made about his team by Bastian Schweinsteiger

7:07 PM on Thursday, June 25

Micah Nori was told by several NBA teams that he was their No. 2 choice to be head coach before the Trail Blazers finally gave him his chance at No. 1

7:04 PM on Thursday, June 25

Jonah Heim’s RBI single tied the game, Lawrence Butler followed with a go-ahead RBI hit and the Athletics scored four times with two out in the ninth inning Thursday, rallying for a 9-6 win over the San Francisco Giants

6:43 PM on Thursday, June 25

It took a while for Carlo Ancelotti to become popular in Brazil

6:35 PM on Thursday, June 25

Eric Cole left the Travelers Championship early last year because of a nasty stomach issue

6:10 PM on Thursday, June 25

A federal magistrate has ruled that multimedia rights companies that represent university athletic departments can continue to be subject to the same rules governing millions in third party name-image-likeness payments to players that are reshaping college sports

6:07 PM on Thursday, June 25

The Arizona Diamondbacks activated outfielder Max Kepler from the restricted list following his completion of an 80-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug

5:58 PM on Thursday, June 25

Ivory Coast advances to the World Cup knockout round for the first time in its history with a 2-0 victory over Curaçao

5:58 PM on Thursday, June 25

Gonzalo Plata poked the ball past Manuel Neuer in the 77th minute and Ecuador advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup by rallying for a 2-1 win over Germany

5:48 PM on Thursday, June 25

Serena Williams keeps on commenting half-jokingly about how “it’s summer” and “the kids aren’t in school” as the reasoning for her tennis comeback at age 44

5:13 PM on Thursday, June 25

The Special Olympics have been a bastion of inclusion since the first Games in 1968

4:53 PM on Thursday, June 25

Milwaukee Bucks lottery picks Brayden Burries and Nate Ament got their first bit of tough love from their new coach well before discovering they’d be playing for him

4:51 PM on Thursday, June 25

The rebuilding Toronto Maple Leafs hold the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft that opens on Friday night

3:08 PM on Thursday, June 25

The WNBA has suspended Phoenix’s Alyssa Thomas for one game after she made contact with her fist to Caitlin Clark’s throat in Wednesday night’s matchup against Indiana

2:20 PM on Thursday, June 25

India has accounted for Bangladesh by five wickets in Manchester in the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup

12:19 PM on Thursday, June 25

The Columbus Blue Jackets made a big addition on the eve of the draft by acquiring do-it-all winger Valeri Nichushkin in a trade with the Colorado Avalanche

10:04 AM on Thursday, June 25

Captain Dhananjaya de Silva’s 13th century has rallied Sri Lanka after it twice lost two wickets in an over

12:33 AM on Thursday, June 25

Detroit Lions player Terrion Arnold has been charged in Tampa, Florida, with leading a plot to detain and pistol-whip three people whom he believed had stolen from him

11:01 PM on Wednesday, June 24

Mateo Chávez and Julián Quiñones scored goals in a six-minute span early in the second half, and Mexico beat the Czech Republic 3-0 to win all three of its World Cup group-stage matches for the first time