Alors qu'il avait indiqu qu'il pourrait s'absenter momentanment pour assister la naissance de son premier enfant prvue pendant la Coupe du monde, l'attaquant belge Jrmy Doku sera forfait dimanche contre l'Iran... mais pour une autre raison. Sa slection a voqu des "problmes respiratoires".

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SEATTLE STADIUM Tyler Adams didnt hesitate. Standing in front of a gaggle of reporters in the bowels of this packed 69,000-seat arena that had just seen the U.S. men's national team continue what is quickly becoming a glorious 2026 FIFA World Cup on home soil the USAs 2-0 victory over Australia on a perfectly sunny afternoon marked the first time the Americans have won two straight World Cup games since 1930 Adams was asked if hed like play in Thursdays first round finale vs. Trkiye, at risk of being suspended for the first knockout game should he pick up another yellow card. "I want to play every game, so yeah," he said. "I managed [to avoid another caution] today, so hopefully I could do it again." Theres no chance that will happen now. Though beating the Socceroos guaranteed the Stars and Stripes a spot in the knockout stage with a game to spare, Adams couldnt know at the time the outcome of Fridays nightcap between the Turks and Paraguay. That match would decide if the Americans' next contest even mattered. As it turned out, Paraguays 1-0 win clinchedGroup D for the U.S. regardless of the outcome on Thursday. That means U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino has the rare opportunity to rest his entire starting lineup before the round of 32 if he chooses. Had star attacker Christian Pulisic not been sidelined by a tight left calf in Seattle, Pochettino wouldve rolled out the exact same 11 players in the co-hosts' first two games. This is the World Cup. Of course, the former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain manager wanted his best players on the field despite the possibility of injury, fatigue and yellow card accumulation. That last one couldve been particularly vexing. Adams, striker Folarin Balogun, defender Chris Richards and fullback Antonee "Jedi" Robinson were all booked in the Americans' first two outings. Getting another yellow card on Thursday would see them suspended for the Americans first elimination match, on July 1 at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium. Even if he doesn't admit when he meets the media on the eve of the next game, it's now essentially 100 percent guaranteed that Pochettino wont play Adams, Balogun, Richards or Jedi against Trkiye. He cant. With yellows wiped clean at the conclusion of group play, its the only way to ensure that theyre all available for the knockout round opener. Make no mistake: That game is now everything. Though the vibes in the team and the public right now are "over the roof," to quote defender Alex Freeman, failing the first do-or-die test would immediately turn this World Cup into a disaster of epic proportions. Making sure that Pulisic can participate when it really counts must be a top priority. Same for Richards, who came into this tournament nursing an ankle injury. The big center back almost certainly wouldn't have played even if he hadn't seen yellow in Seattle. Theres also really no reason to use midfielder Weston McKennie, fullback Sergio Dest, midfielder Malik Tillman or defender and 38-year-old captain Tim Ream in the next match. Keeping the starters as fresh as possible is paramount. So expect plenty of opportunities for others. Premier League starter Brenden Aaronson hasnt logged a minute of this World Cup yet. Neither have fullback Max Arfsten, center back duo Mark McKenzie and Miles Robinson, midfielder Cristian Roldan, goalkeeper Matt Turner or winger Alex Zendejas. Most or even all of them should see some playing time on Thursday, either from the beginning or off the bench as substitutes. If Pochettino wants some continuity, maybe he sticks with goalkeeper Matt Freese rather than throw a bone to Turner, the USA's No. 1 in 2022. Freese is still relatively green at the highest level, and he just posted the USAs first clean sheet in 11 tries. Freeman, who scored the Americans second goal against the Aussies, is only 21, a physical freak, and seems to get better with each passing game. Surely he can go again if asked. It's more difficult to make an argument for almost anyone else. In addition to giving the first string more time to recover, playing the understudies would boost morale especially if they can beat an already eliminated opponent inside a group that is already clearly flying high. After the U.S. routed two-time World Cup champion Uruguay last November with a lineup that included just three players (Dest, Freeman and Freese) who have started at this World Cup, Pochettino bristled at the notion that this team has "regulars" at all. Yet the fact remains that its almost impossible to dole out minutes to everyone at a World Cup, especially since FIFA increased roster sizes to 26 (from 23) four years ago. Pochettino has just been given that luxury. Expect him to take it against Trkiye.

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CHICAGO (AP) Kazuma Okamoto hit a three-run home run to cap a five-run eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Chicago Cubs 8-6 on Saturday.Daulton Varsho returned from the 10-day injured list and added a three-run shot as Toronto won for the fourth time in five games.Matt Shaw and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered for the Cubs, who wasted a 5-0 lead in the late innings and missed a chance to win their third straight.Chicago's Jacob Webb (1-2) came on with two on in the eighth and gave up consecutive RBI singles to Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to tie the game at 5-all.Okamoto then sent his 16th homer of the season deep into the left-field bleachers to give the Blue Jays the lead for good. Jeff Hoffman (5-4) threw one inning of relief and Louis Varland got the final six outs for his 15th save.Shaw hit his fourth homer of the season in the second after Patrick Corbin surrendered singles to Alex Bregman and Ian Happ to start the inning. Corbin threw 101 pitches in the first 2 2/3 innings and gave up six hits and three walks while striking out four.Crow-Armstrong had a two-run shot off Lazaro Estrada in the sixth to give the Cubs a 5-0 lead. Varsho tightened the score an inning later with his home run off Trent Thornton.Colin Rea was perfect through the first four innings for the Cubs and allowed three hits and struck out three in the first 5 2/3 innings.Guerrero was back in the Toronto lineup a day after leaving Fridays game after an awkward swing.Up nextThe three-game series concludes Sunday when Toronto RHP Dylan Cease (4-3, 2.71 ERA) faces LHP Shota Imanaga (4-6, 4.26).___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb

Shane van Gisbergen qualified first Saturday for NASCAR's inaugural race on Naval Base Coronado on Sunday, easily outpacing Carson Hocevar, who will join him on the front row.

No matter how all of this unfolds for Scotland across the coming days, nothing will ever be quite the same again for so many of those individuals at the heart of it.

No one ever leading at Shinnecock Hills the last 40 years at the halfway point has won the U.S. Open, a small slice of history that awaited Wyndham Clark. He had a four-shot lead in the fierce wind of Saturday.Dustin Johnson led by that much eight years ago and that didn't end well.But it's really not about Clark as much as it is everyone else, and the reminder to fight to the end.Geoff Ogilvy can speak from the experience of 20 years ago at Winged Foot, where he played the last 12 holes with four bogeys and no birdies and won at 5-over 285. He is the last U.S. Open champion to have never broken par in any of the four rounds.But what he recalls is a conversation the morning of the final round with World Golf Hall of Famer Judy Rankin, a relative by marriage. She told him: Everyone wakes up Monday morning, looks at the newspaper and is surprised by the score that won the U.S. Open.I know that more from watching than playing, Rankin said Saturday morning from her home in Midland, Texas, where she was quick to point out that it's blowing here, too. She devoted the second half of her career to broadcasting.I just said, Save ever shot. I'm telling you, you never know at the U.S. Open what's going to happen, she said. It's a different kind of experience.No need to look back any further than last year, when J.J. Spaun began the final round at Oakmont with five bogeys in six holes. He birdied the last two to win.I just remember telling him to try to the bitter end if you're in it, because you'll be surprised, Rankin said.It's so true, said Andy North, a two-time U.S. Open champion working television this week at Shinnecock Hills. You look at the scores the next day and everyone is ticked but the winner.Here's how the weekend unfolded in the previous U.S. Opens at Shinnecock Hills:2018Johnson had just returned to No. 1 in the world and looked the part. He opened with 69-67, the only player under par going into the weekend and with a four-shot lead.But then the USGA didn't account for how dry and windy the course became, and pin positions late in the day made it a brute. Putts were rolling 50 feet by the hole and over the green. No one from the final 22 groups matched par. Johnson shot 77 and was still tied for the lead.Brooks Koepka, five shots behind going into the weekend, emerged the winner with a 68 on a course the USGA soaked overnight.2004Phil Mickelson and Shigeki Maruyama shared the 36-hole lead at 6-under 134. Retief Goosen had one of only three rounds under par on Saturday to take the lead. In the final round in which the greens baked out particularly the par-3 seventh green no one broke par.Goosen was scrambling the whole way around, but he showed his U.S. Open mettle that day when he one-putted the final six greens. This still looked like Mickelson's to win until he three-putted from 5 feet on the 17th hole.Maruyama, meanwhile, went 74-76 on the weekend and tied for fourth.1995For the second straight time at Shinnecock Hills, Greg Norman had the the 36-hole lead by two shots. As usual, someone else ended up holding the trophy.Corey Pavin, six shots behind going into the weekend, cut the deficit in half on Saturday. He fell four shots behind after a bogey on the third hole. That was his last bogey of the round. Norman and Tom Lehman slowly came back to the field. Pavin saved par with a 5-foot putt on the 17th. And then he hit the famous 4-wood into the 18th that secured the win.Norman had nine straight pars in the middle of his round U.S. Open golf until two straight bogeys early on the back nine cost him the lead, and a bogey on the 17th put him behind. He needed birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. He made bogey.1986This was the year of Norman's famous Saturday slam when he had the 54-hole lead at all four majors (and only won the British Open).He was up by three shots over Lee Trevino and Denis Watson going into the weekend, four shots clear over a group that included Raymond Floyd and Tom Watson. In a final round of good scoring, 10 players had at least a share of the lead. Floyd didn't pull ahead until a birdie on the 13th hole.Floyd was bogey-free for a 66 to win by two shots.___AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf

No one ever leading at Shinnecock Hills the last 40 years at the halfway point has won the U.S. Open, a small slice of history that awaited Wyndham Clark. He had a four-shot lead in the fierce wind of Saturday.Dustin Johnson led by that much eight years ago and that didn't end well.But it's really not about Clark as much as it is everyone else, and the reminder to fight to the end.Geoff Ogilvy can speak from the experience of 20 years ago at Winged Foot, where he played the last 12 holes with four bogeys and no birdies and won at 5-over 285. He is the last U.S. Open champion to have never broken par in any of the four rounds.But what he recalls is a conversation the morning of the final round with World Golf Hall of Famer Judy Rankin, a relative by marriage. She told him: Everyone wakes up Monday morning, looks at the newspaper and is surprised by the score that won the U.S. Open.I know that more from watching than playing, Rankin said Saturday morning from her home in Midland, Texas, where she was quick to point out that it's blowing here, too. She devoted the second half of her career to broadcasting.I just said, Save ever shot. I'm telling you, you never know at the U.S. Open what's going to happen, she said. It's a different kind of experience.No need to look back any further than last year, when J.J. Spaun began the final round at Oakmont with five bogeys in six holes. He birdied the last two to win.I just remember telling him to try to the bitter end if you're in it, because you'll be surprised, Rankin said.It's so true, said Andy North, a two-time U.S. Open champion working television this week at Shinnecock Hills. You look at the scores the next day and everyone is ticked but the winner.Here's how the weekend unfolded in the previous U.S. Opens at Shinnecock Hills:2018Johnson had just returned to No. 1 in the world and looked the part. He opened with 69-67, the only player under par going into the weekend and with a four-shot lead.But then the USGA didn't account for how dry and windy the course became, and pin positions late in the day made it a brute. Putts were rolling 50 feet by the hole and over the green. No one from the final 22 groups matched par. Johnson shot 77 and was still tied for the lead.Brooks Koepka, five shots behind going into the weekend, emerged the winner with a 68 on a course the USGA soaked overnight.2004Phil Mickelson and Shigeki Maruyama shared the 36-hole lead at 6-under 134. Retief Goosen had one of only three rounds under par on Saturday to take the lead. In the final round in which the greens baked out particularly the par-3 seventh green no one broke par.Goosen was scrambling the whole way around, but he showed his U.S. Open mettle that day when he one-putted the final six greens. This still looked like Mickelson's to win until he three-putted from 5 feet on the 17th hole.Maruyama, meanwhile, went 74-76 on the weekend and tied for fourth.1995For the second straight time at Shinnecock Hills, Greg Norman had the the 36-hole lead by two shots. As usual, someone else ended up holding the trophy.Corey Pavin, six shots behind going into the weekend, cut the deficit in half on Saturday. He fell four shots behind after a bogey on the third hole. That was his last bogey of the round. Norman and Tom Lehman slowly came back to the field. Pavin saved par with a 5-foot putt on the 17th. And then he hit the famous 4-wood into the 18th that secured the win.Norman had nine straight pars in the middle of his round U.S. Open golf until two straight bogeys early on the back nine cost him the lead, and a bogey on the 17th put him behind. He needed birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. He made bogey.1986This was the year of Norman's famous Saturday slam when he had the 54-hole lead at all four majors (and only won the British Open).He was up by three shots over Lee Trevino and Denis Watson going into the weekend, four shots clear over a group that included Raymond Floyd and Tom Watson. In a final round of good scoring, 10 players had at least a share of the lead. Floyd didn't pull ahead until a birdie on the 13th hole.Floyd was bogey-free for a 66 to win by two shots.___AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf