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Unrivaled is taking its semifinals on the road, playing at Barclays Center in New York on Monday night.Top seed Phantom BC will face sixth-seeded Vinyl and No. 2 Mist will play No. 5 Breeze. The top two teams earned byes to this round. The title game will be Wednesday at Unrivaleds home arena in Miami, with a prize pool of $600,000 to be split among players from the championship club.Phantom will be missing star forward Aliyah Boston for the rest of the playoffs as she's out with a right lower extremity injury. Playing at Barclays Center will be a homecoming for Unrivaled co-founder Breanna Stewart, who led the New York Liberty to its first championship in 2024. The league expects a huge crowd Monday night.The young 3-on-3 league drew a professional womens basketball regular-season record crowd of 21, 490 that included Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, Sixers guard Kyle Lowry, and comedians Leslie Jones and Wanda Sykes when it played in Philadelphia in late January.The Philadelphia tour stop represented a proving ground on whether taking the product on the road can lead to new revenue and expand the leagues fan base, while recalibrating a business model that was originally rooted in centralization.MVPChelsea Gray won the league's MVP playing for Rose BC on Monday. The guard, who won Unrivaled's 1-on-1 tournament last month, averaged 24.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.1 assists. Gray broke her own league single-season assists record with 85 in 14 games for Rose BC. She had nine games with 20 or more points and 10 contests with five or more assists. She also tied the league single-game 3-pointers record with 10 on Feb. 22.___AP WNBA: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball

Unrivaled is taking its semifinals on the road, playing at Barclays Center in New York on Monday night.Top seed Phantom BC will face sixth-seeded Vinyl and No. 2 Mist will play No. 5 Breeze. The top two teams earned byes to this round. The title game will be Wednesday at Unrivaleds home arena in Miami, with a prize pool of $600,000 to be split among players from the championship club.Phantom will be missing star forward Aliyah Boston for the rest of the playoffs as she's out with a right lower extremity injury. Playing at Barclays Center will be a homecoming for Unrivaled co-founder Breanna Stewart, who led the New York Liberty to its first championship in 2024. The league expects a huge crowd Monday night.The young 3-on-3 league drew a professional womens basketball regular-season record crowd of 21, 490 that included Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, Sixers guard Kyle Lowry, and comedians Leslie Jones and Wanda Sykes when it played in Philadelphia in late January.The Philadelphia tour stop represented a proving ground on whether taking the product on the road can lead to new revenue and expand the leagues fan base, while recalibrating a business model that was originally rooted in centralization.MVPChelsea Gray won the league's MVP playing for Rose BC on Monday. The guard, who won Unrivaled's 1-on-1 tournament last month, averaged 24.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.1 assists. Gray broke her own league single-season assists record with 85 in 14 games for Rose BC. She had nine games with 20 or more points and 10 contests with five or more assists. She also tied the league single-game 3-pointers record with 10 on Feb. 22.___AP WNBA: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball

Iran's participation in this summer's World Cup has been thrown into serious doubt following the escalating Middle East crisis triggered by attacks that resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The Iranian Football Federation's president, Mehdi Taj, cast uncertainty over his nation's involvement in the tournament, which begins on 11 June across the United States, Canada and Mexico."After this attack, we cannot be expected to look forward to the World Cup with hope," Taj stated.The attacks, attributed to American and Israeli forces, have prompted retaliatory strikes from Tehran against US allies, dramatically intensifying regional tensions just months before kick-off.FIFA's tournament regulations remain notably imprecise regarding the replacement of qualified nations, stating merely that the governing body retains "sole discretion" to "take whatever action is deemed necessary."The world football authority may opt to substitute any withdrawing member association with another nation.Should Iran pull out, reports state that the replacement would most probably emerge from the Asian Football Confederation.Iraq and the United Arab Emirates have been identified as the frontrunners to fill any vacancy.FIFA's general secretary, Mattias Grafstrom, remarked on Saturday that "our focus is to have a safe World Cup with everybody participating."The governing body has declined further comment since those remarks.Iran's withdrawal from the tournament would mark an unprecedented development in modern football history.No nation has pulled out of the World Cup following the draw since 1950, when both France and India declined to participate, citing the expense of travel.Team Melli earned their berth at the finals by topping Group A during the third round of Asian qualifying.The potential void raises complex questions about succession, with FIFA sources suggesting Iraq would be first in line should they fail to secure qualification through their own route.Iraq face an intercontinental playoff on 31 March against either Bolivia or Suriname in Monterrey.Should Iraq successfully navigate their playoff, any Iranian vacancy would likely default to the UAE, Asia's next highest-ranked nation without a finals berth.Iran are scheduled to contest their group-stage matches entirely on American soil, facing New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles before meeting Egypt in Seattle.The diplomatic backdrop remains fraught, with Washington having imposed restrictions barring Iranian citizens from entering the country.Limited exceptions have been granted for national team players and essential support staff.Several Iranian Football Federation officials, including Taj himself, were refused visas to attend the World Cup draw held in Washington DC last December.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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