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Writer/showrunner Bill Lawrence has entered the streaming series world with the Apple+ comedy “Ted Lasso.” Premiering Aug. 14, it follows Ted (Jason Sudeikis, the show’s co-creator and star), an affable American college football coach who’s hired to run a Premier League soccer team in the UK — despite having no knowledge of the sport or …

VINCENTE CAMALOTE, Mexico — Mexican soccer teammates of Alexander Martinez, a 16-year-old whose death this week was blamed on police, mobbed his wooden coffin this week after kicking a ball off it and bouncing it into the goal so he could score one final time. After one last match on home ground in the southern …

The new Amazon series “El Presidente,” premiering Friday, lays bare the 2015 FIFA soccer scandal that exposed the international organization’s wide-ranging corruption, resulting in the ouster of its president, Sepp Blatter, and the arrests of top-tier members — including US officials. The gripping eight-episode series, created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Armando Bo (“Birdman”), tells a tale …

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hope Solo (@hopesolo) on May 16, 2020 at 6:02pm PDT Hope Solo is mourning the death of her beloved Doberman Conan, who passed away over the weekend after being shot days prior. On Saturday, the former soccer star confirmed the devastating news on Instagram, revealing Conan …

Netflix has set in motion a feature centered on the 1999 U.S. Women’s Soccer team winning the FIFA World Cup. Who can forget the iconic moment when Brandi Chastain scored the winning penalty shootout goal and took her jersey off in celebration? The news was announced by Vice President of Netflix films, Tendo Nagenda. The …

He’s alive! A former prominent soccer player has reappeared four years after being pronounced dead in a car accident, a report said. Hiannick Kamba’s former wife is being accused of fraud after she allegedly forged documents and collected a six-figure life insurance payment following the soccer player’s phony passing, German prosecutor Anette Milk told the …

The fates of a 19th-century cotton mill, two rival soccer teams and a troubled marriage are bound together in “The English Game,” a mild entertainment from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes. Anglophiles frothing at the mouth for Lord Fellowes’ usual costume-drama eye candy may be disappointed, as the bulk of the story takes place in …