This week the FIFA World Cup begins in the United States, bringing with it all the familiar trappings of modern international sports: billion-dollar television contracts, eye-popping ticket prices, ...

Oh, how times have changed. A recently discovered dusty stack of 1994 World Cup tickets is serving as an unexpected reminder of how the price to attend soccer’s biggest spectacle has dramatically ...

For those of a certain age, 1994, or more specifically, the 1994 World Cup, isn’t difficult to remember. It’s certainly easy to recall just how different things were back then compared to now. The ...

Thirty-two years ago, many fans in the global soccer community saw the United States planning to host its first FIFA World Cup in 1994 and asked one collective question: Why? At the time, the United ...

Against the odds, the Stars and Stripes reached the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup—one that was solely hosted in the United States. Before co-hosting the 2026 World Cup alongside Mexico and Canada, the ...

From George Clooney to Ben Affleck, and from the Clydesdales to a defecting polar bear, we've got the best of Super Bowl Sunday ads. Like in previous years, we got pre-releases of some of the best ...

Here’s one thing I hated about the commercials for the Super Bowl this year: Apparently, if I can trust the PR campaigns behind many of these ads, to get the full “experience” of their commercials, I ...

Is it jarring to see Stone in a Super Bowl ad instead of a moody and provocative Yorgos Lanthimos film? Kind of, but it’s also extremely fun, especially thanks to the Lanthimos-directed spot’s ...

Budweiser 's patriotic 2026 Super Bowl commercial won USA TODAY Ad Meter, the record 10th title for the beer brand, uniting a Clydesdale and a bald eagle for America's 250th birthday. Rounding out the ...

The most-liked ad of Super Bowl LX? As ranked by ad-tracking and analytics firm iSpot, the No. 1 spot was the NFL’s inspirational “Belief Is a Superpower,” a heartstring-tugging thank-you to coaches ...

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