
It's Business Over Ideals in Olympics
The Olympic movement, which likes to sell itself as a politics-free zone where athletes can teach the grown-ups how to get along, is slinking toward another avoidable controversy with its...
Algeria
The Olympic movement, which likes to sell itself as a politics-free zone where athletes can teach the grown-ups how to get along, is slinking toward another avoidable controversy with its...

A nasty spat between an Algerian soccer player and an Algerian reporter took place Wednesday after the U.S. eliminated Algeria from the World Cup with a 1-0 victory.

On a conference call five weeks ago after U.S. Soccer entered its official bid to host another World Cup in 2018 or 2022, three of the men who represented the submission to FIFA's Zurich,...