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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran’s football federation isn’t looking at the World Cup in a positive fashion after the United States-assisted strikes conducted by Israel against Iran.Iran qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will take place in the U.S., Mexico and Canada this summer. Iran is currently set to face New Zealand at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, to start their Group G play on June 15. However, Iranian football federation’s president, Mehdi Taj, gave a dim outlook on the tournament for his country. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Players of Iran celebrate after the 2026 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers Group A game against Uzbekistan at Azadi Stadium on March 25, 2025 in Tehran. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu)"What is certain is...

New York Mets PreviewThere are few teams that have tried as hard to win as the New York Mets. You have to give the franchise credit because they aren’t just cutting corners. They are really going for it and trying to put their best roster together each season. There are a lot of complainers about the Dodgers, but the Mets seem to be attempting to do a similar structure. Unfortunately for them, it hasn’t garnered as much success. Will this be the year the Mets cash spending gives them what they are looking for?Last year recap:The Mets have to be thanking the Detroit Tigers for their collapse. In 2024, the Mets turned the page and started to dominate. Remember when they had Grimace magic? They were one of the best teams in baseball and rode that success to the NLCS. Then, last season, th...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Destiny Littleton was supposed to be on a flight from Israel back to the US on Tuesday. That plan is now up in smoke, as she navigates bomb shelters in Jerusalem during Iran's counterstrike. She has no idea when she'll be home.The former NCAA and Team USA women's basketball player moved to Israel in November to play for Hapoel Jerusalem in the country's top women's basketball division. She called it an "amazing" experience, before Saturday. But now, she said she would not come to Israel if she could do it all over again. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM South Carolina guard Destiny Littleton (11) plays during a women’s college basketball game between the Kentucky Wildcats and the South Carolina Gamecocks at Colonial Life ...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel's national gymnastics team has suspended all training and team activities amid the recent Iranian counterattack on the country following the U.S.-assisted strikes on Iran. The Israel Gymnastics Federation (IGF) provided a statement to Fox News Digital announcing the violence has caused "unavoidable disruptions." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"The current security situation in our region has resulted in unavoidable disruptions to our regular training schedule and has created significant uncertainty regarding the national teams’ professional plans, particularly as we are at the outset of the international season," the statement read. "At this time, all training activities have been temporarily suspended, pending app...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Players from the men's and women's Olympic gold-medal winning hockey teams appeared together on "Saturday Night Live" amid recent political controversy. The men's and women's players had been publicly pitted against each other after President Donald Trump called the men's team following their gold medal win against Canada to invite them to the State of the Union, and joked that he would have to invite the women too or he'd be impeached. The joke prompted backlash, primarily from American and Canadian liberals, against the men's team after the players laughed in response.Women's players Hilary Knight and Megan Keller were joined by men's players Jack and Quinn Hughes on SNL, and made light of the recent controversy. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORT...

Sirens blare in Tel Aviv as Iran retaliates Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reports an 'incredibly powerful explosion' as Iran continues its ballistic fire against Israel, saying an Israeli official confirmed 40 top Iranian leaders were also killed. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former NCAA and Team USA women's basketball player Destiny Littleton shared footage Saturday of her experience fleeing Iranian counterstrikes in Israel. Her documentation concluded with a panicked scene of her and other civilians shouting in fear as drones flew overhead. Littleton, who won a national championship at South Carolina under coach Dawn Staley in 2022, and a gold medal for the U.S. in the 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup, currently plays for Hapoel Jerusalem in Israel’s...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Team USA Olympic hockey hero Jack Hughes spoke about his support for his country's women's hockey team after his team was the subject of backlash for laughing at a joke by President Donald Trump about the women's team. During an interview on ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" Friday, Hughes opened up about his respect for the women's team after McAfee appeared to reference the controversy by joking that Hughes and his teammates "hate" the women players. "We are hanging out with them so much, the women's team. We were supporting them. Like, we were at their games, they were at our games," Hughes said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM  Jack Hughes of the United States celebrates after a gold medal win during against Canadaat Mila...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley said Saturday that the university is working to bring three former women’s basketball players, including WNBA veteran Tiffany Mitchell, home from Israel as joint missile strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran continued. Staley shared a message on X revealing that Mitchell, who played last season for the Seattle Storm; former Phoenix Mercury forward Mikiah Herbert Harrigan; and former Team USA guard Destiny Littleton were all in Israel at the time of the strikes. Head coach Dawn Staley of the South Carolina Gamecocks during a game against the Vanderbilt Commodores at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, S.C., Jan. 25, 2026.  (Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)"Please pray for our @Gam...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After Team USA’s thrilling win over Canada in the Olympic gold medal game Sunday, all Brady Tkachuk wanted to do was celebrate. However, he had to take a drug test first.Tkachuk, 26, wrapped up his media obligations and was on his way to the locker room when he got a tap on the shoulder."I get a tap on the shoulder, ‘Hello Brady, you've been selected for a drug test,’" Tkachuk said on a recent episode of his podcast, "Wingmen with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Brady Tkachuk of the United States celebrates winning the gold medal during after the men's gold medal game against Canada at the Milan Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games  in Milan, Italy, Fe...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers had to deal with a very noisy disruption during the Pistons’ 122-119 overtime win  Friday at Little Caesars Arena.During a timeout, with the Pistons up 65-64, the horn sounded to signal that the teams should return to play. But the horn blared for 13 straight minutes, delaying the game.The horn blared after a power surge caused the overhead scoreboard to malfunction. The horn finally shut off when the arena staff shut down the overhead scoreboard, and the crowd cheered.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell, left, talks with teammate James Harden during a timeout against the Detroit Pistons in the second half at Little Caesars Arena in Detroi...