Sports & Fitness

When it comes to keeping young girls involved in sports, two contrasting facts always come to light: (1) Girls drop out of sports at twice the rate of boys by the age of 14. And (2) 94% of women in senior leadership positions played sports through their teens.

The FIFA World Cup — men’s and women’s — joins the Olympic Games as arguably the best examples of the positive sides of nationalism and patriotism.

When two dual-national Spanish citizens face off against each other in the final game of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, it is the culmination of a narrative that has permeated the entire tournament — a new phenomenon that is not going away, a story of players representing nations that may or may not have been the country of their birth.

European basketball is unlike anything most U.S. fans have experienced, where fans become just as much a part of the game as the players themselves.

The UEFA Champions League gathers the strongest clubs in European football, but behind every squad lies a global map of talent.

Chris Armas, the head coach of the Kansas City Current in the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League, had a distinctly cross-cultural upbringing.

A documentary that originally was just supposed to be a short film about Afghan skiers turned into a much longer piece after those skiers were forced to leave the country as refugees when the Taliban returned to power.

In this inspiring episode of The Destinations Podcast, we sit down with Chris Armas, head coach of the National Women’s Soccer League’s Kansas City Current and member of the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame.