Within the first grand slam since Andy Murray ended his stellar profession, Draper has introduced himself as the brand new star of British tennis and is taking New York by storm.

He has received his first 5 matches with out dropping a set, together with his quarter-final win over tenth seed Alex de Minaur, to grow to be the primary British man to achieve the semi-final of the US Open since Murray received it in 2012.

His hardest check but awaits, although, as he’ll meet world primary Jannik Sinner within the subsequent spherical.

Draper admitted he questioned whether or not he was reduce out for a life on the high of the sport however coming via the opposite aspect of these doubts has strengthened his resolve.

“It helps the truth that I’ve been in quite a lot of type of low factors already in my profession the place I’ve had accidents, I’ve had setbacks, I’ve had instances after I’ve possibly thought to cease or query whether or not I’m reduce out for this sport, am I actually ok and all this form of stuff.

“I stored on believing in myself, stored on working. These are exhausting moments. That is type of not a tough second in comparison with that.

“This can be a privilege and that is an honour to be on this place. For this reason I work so exhausting, so I’ve acquired to simply maintain it getting in my stride.

“On the finish of the day, I’m not afraid of being in these positions. I wish to carry on doing this and for this reason I play.”

Draper has received 15 straight units on the event and breezed via to the final 4 with minimal fuss.

Though he sustained a slight “niggle” in his quarter-final win over De Minaur, Draper says there’s a lot left within the tank.

“I’ve been feeling like a extra full participant, like bodily I’ve at all times possibly previously fearful a bit of bit about taking part in 5 units and mentally and emotionally it being an excessive amount of for me,” he admitted.

“And type of simply considering, ‘Am I ok to play these finest gamers on the planet in best-of-five units?’

“Regardless that I’ve received all of them in three units, I nonetheless really feel like I’ve acquired a lot left in my locker.

“I’m not worrying about if it goes longer.

“It provides me quite a lot of peace of thoughts realizing that my physique feels good or strong, and I’m able to go the space if I must.”

“I really feel like my tennis feels actually flowing and I really feel like I’m not utilizing an excessive amount of vitality after I’m taking part in the factors.”

Annually, Newsday highlights the highest 100 soccer gamers for the autumn season. This yr, three student-athletes have been highlighted together with seniors: Geo Alvarez, Derek Amato and Aaron Fisher, who need to make their senior season a memorable one.

William Floyd Colonials varsity soccer – Newsday High 100: Head Coach Paul Longo

Geo Alvarez, Senior, Extensive Receiver
Alvarez caught 22 passes for 560 yards and 10 touchdowns throughout his junior season. He is without doubt one of the quickest receivers in New York State.

Derek Amato, Senior, Offensive Lineman/Defensive Lineman
Amato is a uncommon four-year starter for the Colonials. He’s an distinctive run blocker and received higher on protection as final season progressed.

Aaron Fisher, Senior, Offensive Lineman/Defensive Lineman
Fisher is without doubt one of the finest defensive linemen on Lengthy Island. The four-year starter had 12 sacks final season.

The Colonials kick off their common season on Saturday, September 14 at residence in opposition to Longwood within the annual Parkway Energy Bowl. The William Floyd Colonials lead the Parkway Energy Bowl collection 10-2.

It’s beautiful to have a look at, it stars a 4,000-bedroom mansion on an exquisite stretch of US shoreline and it’s full of lavish existence funded by fifth-generational wealth. There are cashmere knits in impractical colors, plus extra stunning shoreline, a homicide that nearly everybody within the neighborhood had a motive to hold out – and did I point out the gorgeous shoreline?

We will solely be within the presence of Nicole Kidman’s newest automobile. This time, it’s known as The Good Couple, however you possibly can consider it as Huge Little Lies relocated from Monterey, California, to Nantucket, Massachusetts. Or as The Undoing with plot. Or as 9 Good Strangers, however not bonkers. Additionally it is, as any luxe murder-mystery is today, half The White Lotus – which Kidman wasn’t in, however who can fairly keep in mind?

So, what are the tweaks to the spec? The proper couple of the title are a bestselling romantic novelist named, for some cause – maybe abusive dad and mom, maybe a case of Bertie Wooster’s “uncooked work pulled on the font” – Greer Garrison Winbury (Kidman) and Tag (Liev Schreiber), her husband of 29 years. It’s attainable that they don’t seem to be as excellent as they appear. They’ve three sons – Thomas (Jack Reynor), a chunk of labor, golden boy Benji (Billy Howle) and teenager Will (Sam Nivola) who hadn’t come into play within the episodes out there to reviewers, however uncommon certainly is the character in these chess-like productions that goes unused so we’ll watch and look forward to his transfer.

Benji is getting married to Amelia (Eve Hewson), whom he loves madly, despite the fact that she was introduced up with out sight of the ocean and with no cashmere knits. Greer is icily livid about this and is taking it out on everyone in probably the most Waspy means attainable – by creating the right marriage ceremony for the pair, admiring the fruit basket Amelia’s dad and mom deliver as a present and savaging the bride behind her again at each alternative.

Nearly as adept at slicing and dicing those that aren’t born to the purple is Thomas’s pregnant spouse, Abby (Dakota Fanning, having a beautiful time as a weakness-seeking missile) and the marriage planner, Roger (Tim Bagley), deeply in thrall to the glamour of his betters. “They’re ‘I’m bored – let’s go purchase a monkey’ wealthy!” he says with glee. “‘Kill somebody and get away with it’ wealthy.”

Refined foreshadowing has its place, however not right here. There may be additionally the Winbury’s trustworthy housekeeper (Gosia, performed by Irina Dubova), who’s contemptuous of anybody who has not been born into or labored for the household for no less than two generations, and a specific admirer of Greer’s tight rein over all. “With out worry, there might be no management.” Their interviews with the police intersect the motion and shed sidelights on the principle characters, simply as these of potential witnesses and suspects did in Huge Little Lies. It’s equally efficient.

Added to this little lot is the hard-partying maid of honour Merritt Monaco (Meghann Fahy) – extra “uncooked work” – an $18,000 bracelet purchased by Tag, however not given to his spouse, and lustful appears to be like forged by Amelia at the perfect man, Shooter (Ishaan Khattar). There are numerous ignored calls to Greer from somebody known as Broderick Graham, capsules and pot free to all and a bloodstained shirt hidden underneath the mattress of the police chief’s daughter. Throw in Isabelle Adjani as a longtime household pal (and semtex in human kind) and the stage is ready for us to have a ludicrously good time within the very doggest days of summer season.

As soon as the police investigation begins, it turns into clear who the star of the present is – neither Kidman nor the mansion, nor even the knits, however Donna Lynne Champlin as Det Nikki Henry. What a efficiency. Each thought the detective is having about these terrible folks performs fleetingly throughout her face, though by no means for lengthy sufficient to jeopardise the case, nevertheless a lot she hauls the native police chief, Dan (Michael Seashore), over the coals for cosying as much as the household that funds a lot exercise in the neighborhood.

The Good Couple has a correct plot – and a few to spare. The carousel of suspects turns and divulges drop at completely spaced intervals; if there may be anybody who can resist bingeing all six episodes as soon as they’ve began, I’ll eat a fruit basket. It might or might not have issues to say concerning the haves and have-nots, the ability of cash to deprave, in addition to class consciousness, however it doesn’t have something just like the curiosity The White Lotus, say, took in such questions. It was tailored by Jenna Lamia from the guide of the identical title by Elin Hilderbrand, who is called the queen of the seaside learn. Lamia has stored precisely what makes such books nice and introduced us with an excellent, ridiculous deal with. Nothing to do however sit again and revel in.

The Good Couple is on Netflix

THE GAME
The IUP soccer program raises the curtain on the 2024 season Thursday night time when it travels to Ashland College for the primary of three consecutive highway journeys to open the marketing campaign. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. inside Jack Miller Stadium at Martinelli Area in Ashland, Ohio. The Crimson Hawks are 4-0 within the all-time sequence in opposition to Ashland.

IUP put an exclamation level on the 2023 season with again to again highway wins to safe this system’s thirteenth consecutive successful season (6-5). Keen to show the web page, IUP incorporates a veteran-laden roster this fall together with eight starters again on offense and 6 extra on the defensive facet together with skilled switch additions. Six All-PSAC choices return and several other extra from 2022 are again within the combine. 

Ashland (9-3, 8-1) received its remaining eight video games final season, marking the second-longest streak in NCAA Division II as the brand new season begins – behind solely 2023 nationwide champion and preseason No. 1 Harding (19 in a row). The Eagles are 63-15 (.808) of their first 15 years (14 seasons) at Jack Miller Stadium/Martinelli Area. 

 
QUICK NOTES/STORYLINES

• IUP has received 22 of its final 25 season openers courting again to 1998. This system has an all-time file of 56-33-3 (.625) within the first sport of a season.
• The Crimson Hawks haven’t misplaced a season opener on the highway to a non-conference opponent since falling to Findlay, 37-34 in 2002. (3-0 since)
• Thursday’s matchup between IUP and Ashland is the second in a four-year scheduling settlement by way of 2026. The Hawks will host the Eagles in 2025 and return to Ashland in 2026.
• IUP seems to be to stay undefeated within the all-time sequence in opposition to Ashland. All 4 earlier matchups have been determined by seven factors or much less.
• Paul Tortorella enters his eighth season as head coach and thirtieth general at IUP. His first head teaching victory got here in opposition to Ashland in 2017.
• Tortorella ranks third on this system’s all-time wins checklist (54), passing former IUP and present Indiana College head coach Curt Cignetti final fall with the season-finale victory over Bloomsburg.
• IUP will open with three straight highway video games for the primary time since 2016. IUP began 3-0 that season and superior to the NCAA Second Spherical.
• Since Tortorella took over this system in 2017, IUP has carried out barely higher on the highway (26-5) than at house (28-11). The Crimson Hawks dropped a number of highway video games final season (3-2) for simply the primary time since 2016 (5-2).
• The Crimson Hawks return their beginning QB (Karst Hunter) for the primary time since 2018.
• Final season, Hunter accomplished 60% of his passing makes an attempt whereas throwing for over 1,500 yards with 16 passing touchdowns and 6 dashing scores, regardless of lacking important time (3+ video games) as a result of damage.
• For his profession, Hunter has thrown a mixed 49 landing passes whereas dashing for 20 touchdowns.
• IUP has been chosen to complete third within the Western Division of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Convention (PSAC). The Hawks acquired one first-place vote.
• Gerald Comedy, Chad Layton, Cyair Clark and Hilton Ridley are all former All-PSAC honorees on offense.
• On the defensive facet of the ball, three-time all-league choice Darius Bruce is a part of a proficient secondary alongside former All-PSAC choices Kalen Frazier and Jaheim Howard. 

NOTEBOOK

TORTORELLA THIRD IN IUP HISTORY IN WINS 
IUP head coach Paul Tortorella was named the PSAC West Coach of the Yr for 2022, a mirrored image on the general power of this system beneath his management. Teaching his seventieth profession sport within the 2023 season finale in opposition to Bloomsburg and now in his seventh season, Tortorella is 54-16 (.771) general with a 32-10 mark in opposition to PSAC West opponents. His 54 wins on the completion of the 2023 marketing campaign surpassed Curt Cignetti (53) for third place. In his 62nd sport on Sept. 16, 2023, in opposition to Shippensburg, Tortorella develop into the second quickest coach to achieve 50 wins in IUP historical past, behind Frank Cignetti (59 video games). He reached 30 wins sooner than every other IUP coach (35 video games), and has three NCAA playoff berths (2017, 2019, 2022), two PSAC West titles, two PSAC Championships and a regional title. 

IUP IS NO STRANGER TO CLOSE GAMES 
IUP has seen its fair proportion of one-score video games, courting again to the 2021 season. Because the begin of 2021, IUP is 9-6 in one-score video games. IUP was 5-1 in one-score video games two seasons in the past, and now 6-3 for the reason that begin of the 2022 marketing campaign. The opening two matchups of the 2023 season (ASH/ESU) have been determined by a mixed margin of eight factors, whereas the Hawks fell by one rating in three of their 5 setbacks in 2023. 

IUP/ASHLAND SERIES HISTORY 
IUP and Ashland will meet for the fifth time general and simply the second time at Jack Miller Stadium when the 2 area powers kick off the 2024 season Thursday night time. The Crimson Hawks look to stay undefeated within the tightly-contested sequence, which options a mean margin of victory of solely 5 factors. The newest matchup noticed IUP overcome three turnovers and a fourth-quarter deficit for an exciting 24-17 triumph in final season’s opener. It was the biggest margin of victory within the sequence. IUP’s longest move play of the 2023 season was recorded within the Ashland sport, a 74-yard strike from Karst Hunter to Cole Laney to arrange IUP’s landing within the remaining minute earlier than halftime. The primary assembly (26-23 IUP) launched the Tortorella period in 2017 with the Crimson Hawks kicking a game-winning area aim as time expired. The 2 groups additionally met within the 2018 season opener (21-17 IUP) and 2022 Tremendous Area 1 Semifinals (19-13 IUP). 

QUICK GLANCE AT THE 2024 SCHEDULE 
IUP has simply 4 house video games on the schedule in 2024, shedding a sport after Mercyhurst made the soar to NCAA Division I. The Crimson Hawks open the season with three consecutive highway video games, together with a highly-anticipated opener in opposition to Ashland on Thursday, September 5 in Ohio. IUP opens the house slate on Saturday, September 28 with the annual Corridor of Fame Recreation in opposition to Clarion. From there, the Hawks play host to Slippery Rock for Homecoming on October 5 earlier than matchups with Seton Hill (Senior Day; October 19) and Kutztown (PSAC Championship Weekend; November 16). 

ROAD WARRIORS 
IUP has been significantly sturdy on the highway since Tortorella took over as head coach in 2017. IUP boasts a 26-5 (.838) mark in highway video games since 2017. IUP has a pair of undefeated seasons on the highway beneath the course of Tortorella, posting a 5-0 mark in 2017 and 2021. IUP closed the 2023 season with a pair of highway victories at Clarion (39-27) and Bloomsburg (31-0), which clinched this system’s thirteenth consecutive season with an general file above the .500 mark. 

PSAC PRESEASON POLL 
The IUP soccer program slotted third within the Western Division of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Convention (PSAC) preseason coaches’ ballot, a part of the league’s 2024 digital media day. The Crimson Hawks picked up one first-place vote within the PSAC West.

VETERAN HAWKS TO LEAD IUP OFFENSIVE ATTACK
IUP will depend on its veteran line and sign caller to guide the offense. The Crimson Hawks ranked fifth within the league in scoring offense (26.3) and second in dashing (178.2) final season. IUP is boosted by the return of its beginning QB for the primary time since 2018 in Karst Hunter (6,143 Go Yards, 49 TD, 22 Int; 1,060 Rush Yds, 20 Rush TD). Hunter ranked sixth within the league with 16 passing touchdowns regardless of lacking a number of video games as a result of damage. The South Dakota native ranks tied for second amongst D2 energetic profession leaders in whole TDs liable for (69). All-PSAC honorees Chad Layton (heart) and Gerald Comedy (proper guard) anchor the offensive line unit that returns 4 of 5 starters. Extensive receiver Hilton Ridley (103 Rec, 1,480 Yds, 16 TD), a 6-foot-3 redshirt-senior has hauled in 14 landing receptions over the previous two seasons. Ridley had a breakout efficiency at Seton Hill with a career-high 11 catches for 131 yards final fall. Redshirt senior Adam Houser (61 ATT, 1,198 Yds, 11 Rush TDs) and senior all-league switch Kaleb Monaco (2,172 Rush Yards, 399 Rec Yds, 11 Complete TD) will carry the majority of the load within the floor sport. 

SECONDARY SET TO PLAY PRIMARY ROLE
The IUP secondary incorporates a pair of returning All-PSAC honorees in Darius Bruce and Jaheim Howard with the duo lined up for his or her fourth season beginning collectively. Two-year starter Kalen Frazier additionally returns because the crew’s prime cornerback. The skilled trio will lead a Crimson Hawks unit that ranked second within the PSAC and thirty third nationally in scoring protection final season, permitting 19.7 factors per sport. IUP has saved the opponent scoring common beneath 20 factors per sport in back-to-back seasons. The Crimson Hawks allowed 11 passing touchdowns, the fewest since giving up 9 in 2018, with solely three of these surrendered contained in the pink zone final season. Key contributor Chuck Ingram has shifted to linebacker after showing in all 33 video games over the previous three seasons. Redshirt junior Isaiah Towler (33 profession video games) and redshirt freshman Ian Amegatcher are anticipated to step up into beginning roles. 

KEY TRANSFERS ADDED ON DEFENSE THROUGH THE PORTAL
Regardless of an enormous void left within the linebacker room from shedding main tackler Drew DiNunzio-Bliss and fellow senior Jay Holmes, IUP has added expertise by bringing in Millersville transfers Garrett Cox and Randy Okungu, together with Notre Dame Faculty switch Nathan Rosario-Santos. Cox, who’s a two-time first-team All-PSAC performer, led the league in tackles (114) final yr. He’s a former highschool teammate of Kalen Frazier. Okungu recorded 5.5 sacks for the Marauders final season. Rosario-Santos (67 tackles) is anticipated to develop into a heavy contributor after ramping up from preseason damage. 

CRIMSON HAWKS ARE 26-1 SINCE 2011 WHEN THE DEFENSE SCORES A TOUCHDOWN
IUP has one defensive landing this yr – approaching a 21-yard scoop and rating by LB Jay Holmes in opposition to Shippensburg on September 16. The one defensive TD this season mirrors the crew’s output 2021, 2018 and 2014. In each different yr since 2011 the Crimson Hawks have had a number of defensive scores, together with 4 in 2017, 5 in 2016, and 6 in 2015. In 2022, IUP had a pair of defensive scores, together with a blocked punt within the postseason in opposition to Ashland’s first crew offense together with a pick-six at Shippensburg. 

COMEDY AND TORTORELLA NOMINEES FOR AFCA GOOD WORKS TEAM
IUP soccer offensive lineman Gerald Comedy and head coach Paul Tortorella are among the many nominees for the 2024 Allstate American Soccer Coaches Affiliation (AFCA) Good Works Workforce. Established in 1992, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Workforce acknowledges school soccer athletes for his or her unwavering dedication to neighborhood service and their “good works” off the sector. Comedy has been a key chief in IUP soccer’s neighborhood service all through his achieved profession, actively concerned socially and throughout the city of Indiana. Comedy and his teammates major neighborhood service initiative was serving to to beautify and clear up the woods at an space close to campus final spring. He has joined the soccer program to help with move-in, studying at numerous elementary colleges in Indiana County and volunteering as an assistant soccer coach as his schedule permits. Tortorella is the one NCAA DII head coach and certainly one of simply 11 head soccer coaches within the nation acknowledged as a Good Works Workforce nominee. The IUP head coach spearheads all neighborhood service initiatives throughout the program, which not too long ago included a cease on the Indiana Regional Medical Middle (IRMC) Wholesome Youngsters’ Camp in late June 2024.

A WINNING TRADITION
IUP has a protracted successful custom with its soccer program, recording 604 whole victories since 1927. IUP has 20 NCAA DII Playoff appearances, probably the most within the PSAC and fourth most all-time. Moreover, IUP is eighth in NCAA DII historical past with 23 playoff victories.

UP NEXT
IUP travels to Lock Haven for its Week 2 contest on Saturday, September 14 for a 6 p.m. kickoff.

FOLLOW
For protection of the IUP soccer program, comply with the Crimson Hawks on Twitter and Instagram @IUPfootball and on-line at IUPAthletics.com.
 

Portugal is about to host Croatia in its Nations League opener on Thursday earlier than welcoming Scotland in League A Group One on Sunday, Martinez mentioned that he took positives from their penalty shootout defeat to France within the quarterfinals on the Euros and that his aspect can be stronger for the expertise.

“Criticism is a part of the demand we’ll at all times have. However the inner calls for are even stronger than the calls for of the followers,” Martinez informed a press convention on Wednesday.

“We at all times need to win however the massive tournaments have the very best gamers on the earth, so video games are determined by particulars. The element is usually a penalty the place the ball goes in or out.

“We confirmed character, we managed the sport in opposition to France and we grew quite a bit as a crew. The group was able to play two extra video games, however I actually preferred our character. We did very properly in lots of elements.”

Martinez mentioned his gamers are skilled sufficient to cope with the strain and switch the web page on the heartbreaking shootout loss after a goalless stalemate, which summed up Portugal’s disappointing marketing campaign, as they struggled to be efficient up-front.

The Spanish supervisor mentioned that his essential focus was to construct his crew round their assault and that the followers ought to count on a extra aggressive aspect than the one they noticed in Germany

Cristiano Ronaldo has dominated out any quick considered retirement from worldwide soccer as he believes he nonetheless has lots to present Portugal, he informed a press convention on Monday.

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner, who has been taking part in for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia for nearly two years now, failed to attain as he appeared at a document sixth European Championship this 12 months, with Portugal exiting within the quarterfinals.

Regardless of the criticism he obtained within the press convention Ronaldo mentioned he “by no means thought-about leaving the nationwide crew” and he has retained the backing of coach Roberto Martinez.

CHICAGO (Sept. 5, 2024) – Alex Morgan, one of many biggest objective scorers and winners in U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff historical past and one of the crucial in style girls’s soccer stars within the historical past of the worldwide recreation, has formally introduced her retirement from skilled soccer.

Morgan, who introduced right now that she is pregnant along with her second little one, will go well with up for a ultimate skilled match on Sunday, Sept. 8 when the San Diego Wave takes on the North Carolina Braveness at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, Calif.

“I grew up on this staff, it was a lot greater than soccer,” mentioned Morgan, who got here into her first USWNT coaching camp on the finish of 2009 at age 20. “It was the friendships and the unwavering respect and help amongst one another, the relentless push for international funding in girls’s sports activities, and the pivotal moments of success each on and off the sphere. I’m so extremely honored to have borrowed the crest for greater than 15 years. I realized a lot about myself in that point and a lot of that may be a credit score to my teammates and our followers. I really feel immense delight in the place this staff is headed, and I’ll without end be a fan of the USWNT. My want for fulfillment might have at all times pushed me, however what I obtained in return was greater than I may have ever requested and hoped for.”

Morgan, 35, concludes a legendary 15-year skilled profession wherein she scored a voluminous variety of essential objectives for the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff and rose to change into one of the crucial well-known feminine gamers on this planet as a result of her prolific scoring exploits, dynamic persona, off the sphere work for ladies’s sports activities and equality and continuous successful. Her cultural impression on girls’s soccer is matched by solely a choose few gamers in sports activities historical past and her inspirational interactions along with her followers had been second to none.

She completed her USWNT profession with 123 objectives, good for fifth all time, together with 53 profession assists, which is ninth all-time in U.S. historical past. The USA’s report in matches wherein Morgan performed stands at 177W-15L-32D. She scored in 86 of her 224 worldwide appearances (good for ninth all-time in U.S. historical past), whereas making 158 begins, and he or she captained the USA 23 instances throughout that span. Within the 86 matches wherein Morgan scored the USWNT by no means misplaced, going 76W-0L-10D.

Morgan’s 176 mixed objectives and assists rank fifth all-time in USWNT historical past behind solely Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Kristine Lilly and Carli Lloyd.

Since scoring her first profession objective in 2010 (it got here towards China PR), Morgan scored towards 32 totally different nations, with probably the most coming towards Japan (12 objectives). She scored 10 objectives towards Canada, 9 towards Mexico, eight towards New Zealand, seven towards each France and Thailand and 6 every towards Costa Rica, Sweden and Trinidad & Tobago.

Morgan’s final recreation in a U.S. uniform was June 4, 2024, towards the Korea Republic. Her ultimate objective got here towards Argentina on Feb. 23, 2024, within the Concacaf W Gold Cup. Appropriately, the objective got here in Carson, Calif., simply 40 miles from the SoCal native’s hometown of Diamond Bar.

Morgan’s penultimate USWNT objective got here towards the Dominican Republic on Feb. 20, 2024. It was her twenty seventh profession USWNT objective as a reserve, 9 greater than every other participant in staff historical past.

Morgan finishes her worldwide profession third in U.S. historical past in two-goal video games (23), behind solely Wambach (37) and Hamm (28). Her 29 profession multi-goal video games additionally path solely Wambach (45) and Hamm (38). Of Morgan’s 123 worldwide objectives, solely 5 had been from the penalty spot.

Nicknamed “Child Horse” early in her profession for her blazing velocity and jaunty working type, she scored her first 4 USWNT objectives in 2010 and shortly out-grew that moniker as she turned one of the crucial outstanding faces of the U.S. staff and the ladies’s recreation.

Morgan scored her first USWNT objective on March 31, 2010, however actually introduced her presence on Nov. 20 of that 12 months when she scored in stoppage time towards Italy in Padova on the finish of the primary leg of the Girls’s World Cup playoff, giving the USA a 1-0 win and a key benefit heading again to Chicago for the second leg, which the USA gained 1-0 to qualify for the 2011 FIFA Girls’s World Cup.

It was in Germany at that event that Morgan really burst onto the worldwide stage, coming off the bench in 5 of the six video games and becoming a member of Wambach as the primary two U.S. gamers to attain in a World Cup Semifinal and Closing. The USA misplaced the World Cup Closing in a penalty kick shootout, however there can be extra world championships in Morgan’s future.

A 12 months later on the 2012 Olympics, Morgan scored three objectives with 4 assists and produced one of the crucial epic and essential objectives in U.S. historical past within the semifinal when she looped in a header within the 123rd minute towards Canada to offer the USA a dramatic 4-3 win. It nonetheless is the most recent objective scored ever in a FIFA girls’s world championship.

In 2012, Morgan had one of many biggest scoring years of any participant in U.S. historical past when she pounded in a outstanding 28 objectives with 21 assists. Mia Hamm is the one different U.S. participant to have a 12 months wherein she scored not less than 20 objectives and had not less than 20 assists, hitting these precise marks in 1998. Morgan’s 2012 objective complete was third most in USWNT historical past in a calendar 12 months and her help complete tied for second most ever in a 12 months.

Morgan gained the primary of her two U.S. Soccer Feminine Participant of the 12 months awards in 2012. She would additionally win in 2018. She was named to the FIFA FIFPRO World XI six instances, the second most of any participant in historical past so far. She twice completed second in voting for FIFA Girls’s Participant of the 12 months and completed third as soon as. Morgan was named Concacaf Feminine Participant of the 12 months 4 instances, together with successful the inaugural award in 2013.

Morgan performed a serious half in serving to the USA win back-to-back FIFA Girls’s World Cups, taking part in in 13 of the 14 matches over the 2015 and 2019 tournaments whereas scoring seven objectives with 4 assists. In 2019, she scored a vital header objective within the semifinal towards England, adopted by her now-famous “sipping tea” celebration, and earned a penalty kick within the World Cup Closing towards the Netherlands that Megan Rapinoe transformed for the 1-0 lead. Within the opening recreation of the 2019 World Cup, she tied a U.S. and World Cup report with 5 objectives towards Thailand.

Morgan performed in 22 World Cup matches and scored 9 objectives. She performed in 16 Olympic matches and scored six objectives.

She scored one of many greatest objectives of 2022 when she transformed from the penalty spot to defeat Canada, 1-0, within the title recreation of the Concacaf W Championship to assist the USA earn a berth to the 2024 Paris Olympics after clinching a spot within the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup earlier in that event.

Her objective towards Nigeria on Sept. 3, 2022, gave her objectives towards groups from all six FIFA Confederations, the 14th U.S. participant to perform that feat.

In 2008, Morgan helped lead the USA to the FIFA Underneath-20 Girls’s World Cup title in Chile on a staff coached by the legendary Tony DiCicco. Morgan scored 4 objectives in that competitors, together with what turned out to be the game-winner within the World Cup Closing, a 2-1 win over Korea DPR. She gained the Silver Ball because the second-best participant within the event – behind teammate Sydney Leroux – and gained the Bronze Shoe because the third-leading scorer.

Morgan gave start to her first little one, daughter Charlie, on Might 7, 2020, and would come again to play within the 2021 Olympics and 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup. Morgan was the 14th mother to play for the USWNT, and along with her objective towards Brazil on Feb. 22, 2023, she moved previous Pleasure Fawcett to change into the all-time chief in USWNT objectives as a mother with 14. She completed her profession with 16 objectives as a mom

On the skilled membership stage, Morgan was one of many pioneers of the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL), taking part in within the league yearly of its existence. Her membership profession additionally included transient stints in Europe at Olympique Lyon in 2017, when she helped the membership win the treble – the league, French Cup and UEFA Champions League — and for Tottenham Hotspur in 2020. She began her NWSL profession with the Portland Thorns (2013-2015), successful the inaugural NWSL title, after which performed for the Orlando Delight (2016-2021) earlier than taking part in her final two and a half seasons with the San Diego Wave, for whom she scored 22 objectives. She gained the NWSL Golden Boot in 2022 with 15 objectives.

Morgan additionally performed one season within the short-lived Girls’s Skilled Soccer (WPS) league after being taken #1 within the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash. She helped the Flash win the WPS common season and league titles that 12 months.

Alexandra Patricia Morgan was born in San Dimas, Calif. and grew up within the Los Angeles suburb of Diamond Bar, the place she attended Diamond Bar Excessive College. She joined Cypress Elite on the age of 14 and, regardless of struggling an ACL tear as a teen, labored herself up by way of the ranks to the U.S. U-20 WNT whereas incomes a scholarship to the College of California, Berkeley, the place she would rating 45 objectives for the Golden Bears and change into a four-time All-Pac-10 choice and a First-Staff All-American.

In school, she met her future husband, Servando Carrasco, additionally a Cal soccer participant who would go on to play 9 years in Main League Soccer, Morgan appeared on the quilt of quite a few main magazines throughout her profession, together with Time, Adweek, Sports activities Illustrated, SI for Children and Glamour, to call just a few. She is a best-selling creator of a kids’s e book sequence and co-stared in a characteristic movie “Alex and Me” in 2018.

In 2023, she launched the Alex Morgan Basis to create fairness and alternative for women and girls on and off the sphere whereas specializing in sports activities fairness and help for mothers. It was one other step in a protracted profession of charity work, service and advocacy.

Her impression on and off the sphere will little doubt be felt for years to return.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 900th profession aim in Portugal’s Nations League victory over Croatia on Thursday.

The star ahead discovered the web within the thirty fourth minute on the Stadium of Mild in Lisbon.

“It means loads,” Ronaldo mentioned after Portugal’s 2-1 win. “It was a milestone I needed to achieve for a very long time. I knew I might attain this quantity, as a result of as I proceed to play, it could occur naturally.”

Within the celebration, Ronaldo raised his arms to his face and dropped to his knees.

“It was emotional as a result of it’s a milestone,” he mentioned. “It looks like every other milestone, however solely I do know, and the folks round me, how exhausting it’s to work day-after-day, to be bodily and psychologically match, to attain 900 targets. It’s a singular milestone in my profession.”

It was the 131st aim of his worldwide profession.

The aim put Portugal up 2-0. Croatia later made it 2-1.

He’s the primary man to achieve the 900-goal milestone in official matches for membership and nation.

Ronaldo performs membership soccer for Al-Nassr within the Saudi Professional League.

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SAN DIEGO (Sept. 5, 2024) — San Diego Wave FC and U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Group icon Alex Morgan has introduced as we speak her resolution to retire from skilled soccer. Morgan, widely known as one of many best gamers within the historical past of the game, will shut her outstanding profession this Sunday, Sept. 8, at Snapdragon Stadium with San Diego Wave. 

• Buy tickets to see Alex Morgan play in her remaining match this Sunday right here.

“I’m retiring. I’ve a lot readability about this resolution,” mentioned Alex Morgan in her retirement video. “It has been a very long time coming, and this resolution wasn’t simple, however initially of 2024, I felt in my coronary heart and soul that this was the final season that I’d play soccer. The impression we now have on the subsequent technology is irreversible, and I’m pleased with the hand I had in making that occur, pushing the sport ahead, and leaving it in a spot that I’m so completely happy and pleased with.”

Morgan, 35, has had an illustrious 13-and-a-half 12 months profession that noticed her characteristic within the high divisions in the US and Europe, in addition to grow to be an icon of the US Ladies’s Nationwide Group, amassing over 200 objectives and 88 assists throughout 337 appearances. Morgan will shut her legendary profession with San Diego because the all-time objectives (28) and help chief (11). Internationally, Morgan ranks within the high 10 in U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Group historical past for objectives, assists and multi-goal video games.

The ahead’s in depth record of profession accolades additionally consists of numerous particular person recognitions being named U.S. Soccer Feminine Athlete of the Yr twice (2012, 2018), FIFA FIFPRO Ladies’s World 11 choice (2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) and CONCACAF Participant of the Yr 4 instances (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018). Morgan additionally captured an NWSL Championship, NWSL Protect, NWSL Problem Cup and Champions League, amongst others. 

On the worldwide stage, Morgan has starred for the U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Group since 2010. The ahead made 224 appearances for the USWNT and scored 123 objectives throughout all competitions, the fifth-most of any participant within the nation’s historical past. She appeared in matches at 4 editions of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, together with capturing the titles in 2015 and 2019, whereas additionally turning into a gold medalist (2012) and a bronze medalist (2020) on the Olympic stage. Following a 2012 season that she completed with 28 objectives and 21 assists, Morgan joined Mia Hamm as the one American girl to attain 20 objectives and supply 20 assists in the identical calendar 12 months. In 2019, the two-time World Cup champion gained the Silver Boot on the 2019 World Cup, scoring six objectives and three assists. 

On the membership degree, Morgan signed for San Diego Wave on July 24, 2022 earlier than occurring to make 50 appearances and tallying 23 objectives and 9 assists in NWSL motion. She led the workforce in scoring in 2022 with 16 objectives, incomes NWSL Golden Boot within the membership’s inaugural season. The Wave captain led San Diego to unprecedented success, because the membership grew to become the primary enlargement workforce in league historical past to make the playoffs in its inaugural season. The membership adopted that by lifting their first trophy – the 2023 NWSL Protect – in San Diego’s second season of play. 

Earlier than becoming a member of San Diego Wave, the American star ahead featured for Orlando Delight throughout a number of stints, first becoming a member of the enlargement aspect in October 2015. Throughout her time with Orlando, Morgan scored 23 objectives in 66 appearances (64 begins). In 2017, she briefly performed for Olympique Lyonnais, the place she helped lead the workforce to the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League and the French Cup. 

Morgan was one of many league’s unique allotted gamers in 2013, shifting to the Portland Thorns the place she led the workforce in scoring and helped the aspect safe the inaugural NWSL Championship. She started her skilled profession because the primary total choose within the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash, the place the membership captured the WPS Championship. 

Morgan’s affect extends past her enjoying profession by means of her philanthropic efforts, together with the launch of the Alex Morgan Basis in 2023, which focuses on supporting and empowering younger women in sports activities. The inspiration’s work is deeply rooted to Morgan’s long-standing advocacy for gender equality, impressed by her personal expertise as knowledgeable athlete and mom. Morgan has additionally been a co-founder of Togethxr, a media platform that amplifies the tales of ladies in sports activities and past. 

Morgan introduced on Thursday morning that she is pregnant together with her second baby with husband Servando Carrasco. The couple welcomed their first baby, Charlie, in Might 2020. 

San Diego Wave FC will have a good time Alex Morgan’s storied profession throughout the membership’s remaining dwelling match on Sunday, November 3 at Snapdragon Stadium. Tickets for the match might be bought right here.

Après l’annonce de sa nomination à Matignon à la mi-journée, le nouveau Premier ministre Michel Barnier s’est rendu à Matignon pour effectuer la passation de pouvoir avec son prédécesseur, Gabriel Attal.

Près de deux mois après le résultat des élections législatives et après 52 jours de gouvernement démissionnaire, la passation de pouvoir entre Michel Barnier, nouveau Premier ministre, et Gabriel Attal, a enfin eu lieu aujourd’hui en fin d’après-midi.

Évoquant sa “frustration” de quitter Matignon au bout de huit mois, “l’honneur d’une vie“, le Premier ministre a félicité “chaleureusement” le nouveau Premier ministre Michel Barnier, un “grand élu native” à “l’expérience quasiment inégalée au service de l’État“.

Estimant que “la politique française est malade [mais que] la guérison est doable“, saluant le “génie français“, l’ex-Premier ministre a appelé à “sortir du pessimisme“.

“Pendant 8 mois, nous avons agi […] avec une ambition : respecter nos promesses“, a dit Gabriel Attal, qui a enjoint le nouveau Premier ministre à agir sur plusieurs “dossiers” : le “chantier de la dé-smicardisation“, “le besoin important de companies publics“, la query de l’accès aux soins, le doublement du nombre d’étudiants en médecine d’ici 2027, le projet de loi sur la comparution immédiate des mineurs ou le plan nationwide d’adaptation au changement climatique – autant de sujets sur le “bureau” du nouveau Premier ministre.

Si je devais ne vous faire qu’une demande, […] ce serait de continuer à faire de l’école une priorité absolue de la République.

“Vous me permettrez d’ajouter ma propre valeur ajoutée“, a souligné Michel Barnier après la longue déclaration de Gabriel Attal. J’aborde cette nouvelle web page qui s’ouvre avec beaucoup d’humilité, […] et avec une forme olympique“, référence à sa contribution à la préparation des Jeux olympiques d’Albertville en 1992 en tant que président du comité d’organisation, avec l’ancien skieur Jean-Claude Killy.

“Je souhaite que la période qui s’ouvre soit une période utile pour les Français et pour la France“ a dit le nouveau Premier ministre. “Il s’agira de répondre autant que nous le pouvons aux défis, aux colères, aux souffrances, au sentiment d’abandon, d’injustice qui traversent beaucoup trop nos villes, nos quartiers, nos campagnes“, citant notamment les companies publics, l’école, la “sécurité au quotidien” ou la “maîtrise de l’immigration“.

Michel Barnier a estimé qu’un Premier ministre est attendu pour “dire la vérité“, notamment sur la “dette financière et écologique” à laquelle fait face la France. “Il faudra de la persévérance pour continuer un sure nombre d’actions” a ajouté le nouveau locataire de Matignon, notamment en matière de réindustrialisation et de défense des intérêts en Europe.

Il faudra beaucoup d’écoute et de respect à l’égard du Parlement et de toutes les forces politiques. Je dis bien : toutes les forces politiques qui y sont représentées. 

“Nous devons et nous allons davantage agir que parler, pour trouver partout les options qui marchent” s’est engagé Michel Barnier, promettant des “changements et des ruptures“.  “Respect, unité, apaisement : je ferai tout pour être à la hauteur des attentes et des espérances [des Français]“, a conclu le Savoyard, qui rencontrera samedi la présidente de l’Assemblée nationale.

When adapting novelist Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel “The Excellent Couple” for Netflix, sequence creator Jenna Lamia may have made it an intense homicide thriller, or leaned towards all of the scrumptious bits that make the story an irresistible seashore learn. Lamia selected the latter. “The Excellent Couple” follows Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a zoologist who’s marrying into the rich and esteemed Winbury household. Sadly, when a physique is found on the Winbury property the morning after Amelia and Benji’s (Billy Howle) rehearsal dinner, the joyful event shortly turns into a homicide investigation. As clues are unearthed, long-held secrets and techniques concerning the Winburys come to gentle in probably the most absurd methods, making method for a pulpy, overdramatized and fully entertaining present. 

“The Excellent Couple” opens on Nantucket Island throughout a picturesque Fourth of July weekend. With the cameras rolling, the viewers is launched to the friends having fun with the pre-wedding festivities below an enormous tent within the Winburys’ beachfront yard. Whereas Amelia’s dad and mom and finest good friend/maid of honor, Merritt (Meghann Fahy), are in attendance, that is principally a Winbury affair.  

Amela’s fiancé, Benji, is considerate and sort, however his prosperous household is totally different. Benji’s older brother, Tom (Jack Reynor), is an blowhard bro barely stored in line by his conniving spouse, Abby (Dakota Fanning). In the meantime, Will (Sam Nivola), the youngest Winbury, is emotionally disturbed and haunted by the previous. Windbury patriarch Tag’s (Liev Schreiber) sole passions seem like rowing, {golfing} and smoking weed. And matriarch Greer (Nicole Kidman), an acclaimed novelist, guidelines her husband and sons with a seething calculation, and stands on the high of this home of playing cards. 

The rehearsal dinner seems glamorous and joyful, however issues take a dire flip within the early hours of the next day. Nantucket Chief of Police Dan Carter (Michael Seashore) receives a name {that a} floater has been discovered. Chief Carter, a Nantucket resident who is aware of that Winburys’ energy, initially makes an attempt to wrap the investigation up as swiftly as potential. But he should confront the reality when Det. Nikki Henry (Donna Lynne Champlin) is introduced in from the mainland to work on the case. Because the pair shortly uncover, there may be way more to the Winburys than their flawless facade. 

Kidman, Schreiber and Fanning, specifically, successfully painting profoundly damaged people who find themselves involved solely with appearances and sustaining their existence. The present’s pacing and timeline additionally preserve viewers engaged. As marriage ceremony friends are known as into the police station for questioning, the viewers learns about their interior ideas and preoccupations. Nevertheless, the sequence’ tone is nearly comical, as a result of the larger image turns into obviously obvious as every puzzle piece clicks collectively. From the soap-opera-esque dialogue to a tacky dance sequence involving the whole forged that opens every episode, there may be by no means a degree the place viewers can take “The Excellent Couple” critically. However for this reason it’s so fulfilling. 

Although Amelia adores Benji, it’s clear she’s deeply uncomfortable below the Winbury roof. Furthermore, whereas everybody else appears scared of Greer, Amelia will not be concerned about placing on airs. She pushes again in opposition to sure etiquette and desperately searches for solutions to all of the questions which have arisen for her. In Episode 3, “The Excellent Household,” a dinner descends right into a actuality TV-like affair when the bride-to-be boldly asks Greer about her use of NDAs and the cryptic disappearance of a household good friend. What’s uncovered are solutions nobody on the desk is able to confront. An analogous scene within the finale, “That Feels Higher,” results in extra jaw-dropping and fantastical revelations.  

Whereas it’s billed as a gripping investigation, “The Excellent Couple” examines appearances and what individuals are keen to do to uphold them. Regardless of the nonsensical narrative and its lack of precise depth, the sequence has sufficient magnetic star energy and conspicuous intrigue to make it a pleasant and extremely watchable expertise.

“The Excellent Couple” premieres on Netflix Sept. 5.