This article is part of the Guardian’s Women’s World Cup 2023 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 32 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 20 July.
Overview
Panama’s journey to their first World Cup appearance began at the 2018 Concacaf Championships, where a defeat to Jamaica on penalties in the third-place playoff meant they missed out on qualification for France 2019. That tournament, though, was a watershed for players such as Lineth Cedeño, Karla Riley, Hilary Jaén, Yenith Bailey, Marta Cox and Wendy Natis, who have played a key role in get…
I guess the lesson is that you don't come into Henry Waxman's house talking smack. Just hours after Congress recommended that Roger Clemens' testimony be examined by the Justice Department, the FBI announced that it has begun investigating whether the pitcher lied to Congress when he denied taking steroids. FBI agents in Washington opened the case a little more than two weeks after both Clemens and McNamee appeared at the same House hearing on Feb. 13, each accusing the other of lying. "The request to open an investigation on the congressional testimony of Roger Clemens has been turned over to the FBI and will receive appropriate investigative action by the Washington Field Office," said FBI spokeswoman Debra Weierman. Meanwhile, the Astros are distancing th…
The 2014 Deadspin Hall of Fame class was never inducted, and to remedy that, here they are, two years later. We screwed up. Sorry! Dan Le Batard’s Hall of Fame Ballot. Final tally: 86.64 percent. Butthole Eaten At Lions Tailgate. Final tally: 78.75 percent. Tommy Craggs. Automatic induction. Clark the Cub. Final tally: 74.19 percent. Regarding the last inductee: Deadspin editor-in-chief Tim Marchman was furious when he found out that you, the readers, didn’t quite get Clark to the required 75 percent, so the at-the-time Cook County resident claimed that he’d found a box of late-arriving ballots, allowing the pantsless Cubs mascot to get into the Hall of Fame anyway. When reached for comment, Marchman said, “Go to hell.” Below, the plaques: Image: Jim Cooke Image: Ji…