World Cup champs honored at parade
Fans celebrate World Cup champs at parade in New York
Adoring fans packed New York City’s Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday amid a blizzard of confetti to praise the World Cupwinning U.S. women’s national soccer team as athletic leaders on the field — and as advocates for pay equity off it.
Crowds chanted “USA! USA!” and workers sounded air horns from a construction site as the hourlong parade moved up a stretch of lower Broadway that has long hosted socalled ticker tape parades for world leaders, veterans and hometown sports stars.
Co-captain Megan Rapinoe and her teammates shared a float with Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Soccer Federation president Carlos Cordeiro. Rapinoe struck her now-famous victory pose, took a swig of Champagne and handed the bottle to a fan. Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher held the World Cup trophy aloft.
Aly Hoover, 12, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, stood at the sidelines with a poster of the face of Alex Morgan, another team star. “I just want to be like them,” she said.
Garret Prather brought his newborn son “to celebrate how the American women made us proud on and off the field.”
The team sealed its second consecutive tournament win by beating the Netherlands 2-0 on Sunday. It will get $4 million for winning the World Cup from FIFA, the international soccer governing body. The men’s French team got $38 million for winning last year.
The U.S. women’s team has sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for gender and pay discrimination. The federation will give the women bonuses about five times smaller than
nesota comes to town for a three-game series. The Indians hit the All-Star break with the majors’ longest active win streak at six in a row, improving to 21-6 since June 1 and moving within 5½ games of the divisionleading Twins.
“In the beginning it seemed like we were good, then all of a sudden in May we had that stretch where we weren’t playing as good as we wanted to play,” Lindor said. “But right now, we continue to play the game right and we’re enjoying it, we’re all having fun. We all get along, we love each other, we back each other up. We’re having a blast.”
Washington also is having some fun again, moving into position to shake up the NL East after a terrible start to the season . Led by a resurgent Scherzer, the Nationals have won 15 of 19 to pull within six games of the division-leading Braves.
Washington plays Atlanta 14 times in the last half of the season, including seven games in July.
“When we can go out there and play our best baseball and play mistake-free baseball, we’re a tough team and we can compete with anybody in this league,” Scherzer said.
The Nationals have seven players with at least 11 homers, led by Anthony Rendon with 20. But everyone is going deep these days.
Beginning with Thursday night’s Astros-Rangers game in Arlington, the game’s top sluggers resume their assault on an array of home run records. Yelich leads the way with 31 so far, putting together an appropriate encore to his NL MVP performance a year ago.
The majors are on pace for 6,668 homers, which would smash the record 6,105 hit in 2017, and the real heat of the summer, when hits pick up, is only just beginning.