Previews, schedules and players to watch for every Copa America team
This first full day of the Copa America Centenario kicks off with three matches (all times Eastern):
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— Group A: Costa Rica vs. Paraguay in Orlando, 5 p.m. (Fox, Univision)
The Ticos‘ underdog image was perhaps retired forever after their World Cup quarterfinal run in 2014. But their chances of getting out of the group dimmed days before the tournament when goalkeeper Keylor Navas — the starter at that for World Cup and for Real Madrid when it won its 11th UEFA Champions League title last month — was ruled out because of an Achilles’ tendon injury. Read More...
Among the U.S. sites that fascinate paranormal-activity enthusiasts, Nevada’s Area 51 and New Mexico’s Roswell are more famous, but Skinwalker Ranch boasts the most colorful name. The eastern Utah property, the subject of an online photo show organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery, evokes the Navajo myth of a vengeful shaman who can assume the forms of other creatures. That’s great branding for a place that has long been associated with tales of UFOs and other unverified phenomena, and that has recently been the subject of a factually dubious History Channel series, “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Read More...
When Ashley Terrill encountered a hornet in her home in McLean, Va., this past Saturday, she feared it was a “murder hornet,” the large, invasive and sometimes killer stinging insect from Asia that has raided Washington state.
“It appeared similar in size and markings,” said Terrill. “The discovery seemed uncanny. I had just read about the arrival of the Asian giant hornet in the Pacific Northwest the same day I found this giant hornet in my house. Read More...
