Note: Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus, about Russia's abuse of Performance Enhancing Drugs in sports, was nominated today for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Since its release on Netflix last August, Russia has been banned from the upcoming Winter Olympics, and ...read more

Israel has long been sensitive to criticism of its actions with respect to the occupied Palestinian territories, but it may have gone overboard with its response to an official statement from the Brazilian government condemning Israel's "disproportionate use of force" in Gaza. ...read more

Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Before Brazil and Germany even stepped out onto the pitch to play their now-legendary World Cup semi-final match on Tuesday, it was almost impossible to talk about the two teams without resorting to obvious clichés. Brazil was always the club that ...read more

Even though I hadn't been watching the World Cup semi-final match between Argentina and the Netherlands on Wednesday, I leapt to my feet upon receiving word from my SportsCenter app that they were heading to a shootout after extra time of a 0-0 game, turned on the TV, and saw ...read more

Photo: AP It's one hour into the World Cup semi-final match between Germany and Brazil. Well, it's really more like the Germans are playing nobody because in the first half they managed to score a staggering five times while Brazil has yet to score once. The German attack is ...read more

Photo: Matthias Schrader/Associated Press In case you haven't heard, we lost the battle but won the war in the World Cup today. The U.S. national team lost 1/nil to a powerhouse German club, but we still advance out of our group and into the knockout round. Over the past couple ...read more