Brazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 75 dead
By LUIS BENAVIDES and JOSHUA GOODMAN A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces,…
Brazil National Soccer Team
Police and World Cup protesters clash in Brazil
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and BRADLEY BROOKS Demonstrators push over a police car during a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup soccer…
Pope to World Cup: Overcome racism, greed in sport
By NICOLE WINFIELD In this image from video, Pope Francis records a video message to camera, Thursday June 12, 2014, giving a message for the soccer World Cup: Let football…
WADA: FIFA can overcome WCup doping lab issue
John Fahey, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), speaks during a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Fahey says he is confident that cycling’s new…