Mewis scores late goal as the U.S. women's soccer team beats Mexico
Kristie Mewis scored in the 89th minute to break a stalemate and the United States beat Mexico 1-0 on Monday night at the CONCACAF W Championship in Monterrey, Mexico.
The U.S. won Group A in the eight-team tournament and will face Costa Rica in the semifinals. The Americans had already qualified for the 2023 Women's World Cup as one of the top two teams in their group.
Mexico's Lizbeth Ovalle was sent off with a red card for a foul on Rose Lavelle in the 73rd minute. The United States appeared offside on Mewis' goal, but it was not reviewed.
While Mexico was stout on defense against the top-ranked United States, the hosts were eliminated from qualifying for next summer's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Jamaica beat Haiti 4-0 on Monday night to qualify for its second straight World Cup and advance to a semifinal match against Canada. Bunny Shaw had a pair of goals, and Trudi Carter and Drew Spence also scored for the Reggae Girlz.
Haiti finished third in Group A but will have a chance to make the World Cup when it plays in an intercontinental playoff in February in New Zealand.
The teams at the W Championship participated in a moment of silence for Jedine Carr, a player for Jamaica's youth national team who was fatally shot on Friday while on the way to training with her club team.
Jessie Fleming scored an early goal and Canada beat Costa Rica 2-0 on Monday at the CONCACAF W Championship.
• Soccer legend Landon Donovan, who led the Earthquakes to the only two MLS Cup titles in their history, could be returning to San Jose.
The 40-year-old Donovan is one of the finalists to become the Earthquakes coach, according to an ESPN report Monday.
He is one of five candidates remaining as the team enters its final phase of replacing five-year coach Matias Almeyda, who was relieved of his duties three months ago. ESPN reported San Jose's interim coach Alex Covelo is also among those being considered.
Donovan has been coaching the past three years in the USL Championship, a second division league that includes the Oakland Roots. He is the coach of the San Diego Loyal, which is in third place. Donovan also doubles as the team's co-owner and executive vice president of operations.
San Jose is currently in last place in the 14-team Western Conference, a far cry from the state of affairs when Donovan was playing with the Earthquakes 18 years ago.
Donovan's four-year stay in San Jose produced MLS Cups in both 2001 and 2003 as the Ontario native was a three-time All-Star.
• Iran has fired head coach Dragan Skocic four months before the World Cup is set to begin.
IRNA, the national news agency, on Monday said the 53-year-old Croatian would not be taking the Iran team to Qatar.
Asia's top-ranked team, at No. 23, Iran is in Group B with England, Wales and the United States at the World Cup, which kicks off Nov. 21.
Skocic started working with Iran's national team in February 2020.
DOJ looking into PGA over LIV Golf series
The dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudifunded LIV Golf series now has the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the PGA Tour said Monday it was confident it would prevail.
“This was not unexpected,” the tour said in a statement.
The Journal said players' agents have received inquiries from the Justice Department's antitrust division that involve PGA Tour regulations on competing events and the tour suspending players in recent months for playing in LIV Golf events. The Journal cited a person familiar with the inquiries.
The Justice Department had no comment.
The new series is backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and already has attracted nearly two dozen PGA Tour members, a list that includes Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau. All reportedly have received signing fees of $150 million or more. For Johnson, that would be twice as much as his career earnings in his 15 years on the PGA Tour.
At issue is the PGA Tour's policy that members receive a conflicting event release to play tournaments overseas when a tour event is being held that week. Players typically get three such releases a year, only for overseas events. The tour does not allow releases for tournaments held in North America.
It denied releases for the first LIV Golf event, which was held outside London the first week in June, because it viewed it as a series of tournaments that threatened the PGA Tour. The LIV events offer $25 million in prize money and its eight-tournament schedule features five events in the United States. Two are at courses owned by former President Donald Trump.
Rice now part of Broncos owners
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been added to the new Broncos ownership group.
Rob Walton announced the inclusion of Rice in a statement issued Monday on behalf of the WaltonPenner family ownership group. The group agreed to buy the franchise from the Pat Bowlen Trust last month for a reported $4.65 billion. It's pending approval by the NFL.
“A highly respected public servant, accomplished academic and corporate leader, Secretary Rice is well known as a passionate and knowledgeable football fan who has worked to make the sport stronger and better,” Walton said in a statement. “Her unique experience and extraordinary judgment will be a great benefit to our group and the Broncos organization.”
Rice has strong ties to the Denver community. She received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Denver.
The former provost at Stanford University, Rice served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush from 2005-09. She's also been on the College Football Playoff selection committee and chaired a commission on college basketball.
The new ownership group is led by Walton and includes his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband, Greg Penner.
Walton, 77, was chairman of Walmart, the world's largest retailer, from 1992-2015, when he retired. He is the eldest son of founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton and has an estimated net worth of nearly $60 billion. The Pittsburgh Steelers have run out of Heinz. And they're not running to the store to grab more.
The Steelers announced Monday that the organization has ended its longtime partnership with the formerly Pittsburgh-based food company, which had served as the title sponsor for the NFL franchise's home stadium on the city's North Shore since it opened in 2001.
The 68,400-seat venue will be known as Acrisure Stadium after the Steelers reached a 15-year sponsorship agreement with the Michigan-based financial tech company. Financial details were not disclosed.
• Former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III died of heat stroke, police said Monday.
In a statement, police in the Dallas suburb of Frisco said the Collin County medical examiner had ruled Barber's death an accident. A police spokesman provided no further elaboration on the circumstances of the 38-year-old's death, and the medical examiner's office did not immediately respond to a message from The Associated Press.
Police making a welfare check on June 1 found the 38-year-old Barber dead at a Frisco apartment that he was believed to have been leasing.
Olympian Mo Farah entered Britain illegally
Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has disclosed he was brought into Britain illegally from Djibouti under the name of another child.
“The truth is I'm not who you think I am,” the 39-year-old Farah told the BBC in a documentary called “The Real Mo Farah.”
Farah, who became the first British track and field athlete to win four Olympic golds, said his children have motivated him to be truthful about his past.
“The real story is I was born in Somaliland, north of Somalia, as Hussein Abdi Kahin,” he told the BBC. “Despite what I've said in the past, my parents never lived in the U.K.
“When I was four my dad was killed in the civil war, you know as a family we were torn apart. I was separated from my mother, and I was brought into the U.K. illegally under the name of another child called Mohamed Farah.”