BERLIN (AP) — Another extraordinary summer or another national embarrassment. No one knows quite what to expect from this Germany team heading in the European Championship. The optimists point to the opportunity of staging another monthlong party like the one that gripped the country when it hosted the 2006 World Cup. The pessimists can point to three straight fiascos at major tournaments that has forced Germany fans to readjust their expectations of the men’s soccer team. The latest signs seem
TOKYO (AP) — Commuters at Tokyo's Shimbashi Station were greeted with a special edition of the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday. The big news was the victory of Yuka Saso at the U.S. Open on Sunday, the second time she has won title. Japanese papers still print special editions to mark such moments. She won in 2021 playing under the flag of the Philippines, the land of her birth. This time she won flying the flag of Japan, the birthplace of her father. “Winning in 2021, I represented the Philippines.
The Yanks head home after a very successful nine-game California trip — they went 7-2 — for a series against, who else, their all-time punching bag: The Minnesota Twins.