Events and Attractions

FIFA leaders are weighing whether to “propose a youth match between Israel and Palestine to open a new festival for under-15s.” The idea has been discussed “at high levels” but has not yet been “put to the respective football associations.” There is likely to be “significant opposition to the plan f...

The Sports Bra, the Portland-based sports bar that shows women’s sports, announced in May that it is “seeking everyday investors to take it to the next level: a national franchise expansion,” according to Jonathan Bach of the Portland OREGONIAN. However, securities filings show that the company is “...

World Cup fans have not been “quite so understanding” of hydration breaks, as they “flooded to social media to express their outrage that the beautiful game was now put on pause so corporations could pitch their products” after matches began Thursday, according to O’Connell & Vranica of the WALL...

Nike, Adidas, Puma, New Balance and Skechers have all “supplied players with variations of bright pink cleats from special releases” for the FIFA World Cup, according to Betancourt & Buckingham of THE ATHLETIC. Nike Dir/Product Management Odinga Nimako said that “high demand for bolder colors le...

Iran is set to open play with its FIFA World Cup match against New Zealand on Monday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., but while the team will play in the U.S., “its players won’t be allowed to stay here,” according to a front-page piece by Hussain & Baxter of the L.A. TIMES. All of the 26 I...

Hundreds of Curaçao fans on Sunday gathered in Houston’s Helix Park to “celebrate the country’s first FIFA World Cup appearance and cheer on the Netherlands as it played Japan,” according to Matthew Gomez of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE. Curaçao made history as the smallest country to play in the World Cup...

For the first time since Dallas’ Cotton Bowl hosted the World Cup in 1994, all eyes of the soccer world temporarily turned to North Texas for a match between Japan and the Netherlands. AT&T Stadium, currently called Dallas Stadium both in name and also on Google Maps, hosted a crowd of 69,285 fa...

PHILADELPHIA — Despite all the drama and consternation that have surrounded host city preparations for the World Cup, Philadelphia has operated with a quiet confidence in the years leading up to the megaevent. This weekend, it was easy to see why.

All the concerns about this World Cup, “spanning extreme heat to transportation headaches and record ticket prices, failed to tarnish the opening days of the tournament” with “few reports of major problems,” according to Williams, Gittelsohn, Cobo & Feldman of BLOOMBERG NEWS. However, it “wasn’t...

NASCAR is launching a “real-world accurate version of the Naval Base Coronado track in Roblox game ‘Driving Empire,’” according to Jennifer Maas of VARIETY. The game’s update comes ahead of NASCAR’s “much-hyped racing weekend” in San Diego running June 19-21. The in-game update for “NASCAR World in ...