Fox Sports launches 'Miracle' World Cup ad campaign featuring USMNT

TheU.S. men's national teammight need a miracle to win theWorld Cupon home soil this summer.

In its new ad campaign for the tournament, Fox Sports imagines a world where it actually happens.

With just over a month until the World Cup kicks off, Fox launched its campaign around the 2026 World Cup, starting with a spot called "Miracle."

The ad envisions the USMNT and Brazil facing off in the final on July 19 in New Jersey. Christian Pulisic takes a last-second corner kick, leading to the tournament-clinching goal.

With the Elvis Presley song “The Impossible Dream" playing in the background, the country erupts.

The ad features cameos from several USMNT players including Pulisic, Tim Ream and Diego Luna, as well as former U.S. coach Bruce Arena. Fox Sports analysts Tom Brady and Zlatan Ibrahimović also make an appearance.

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The last cameo comes from Mike Eruzione, captain of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Eruzione, as you'd expect, has some opinions about miracles.

Watch the full ad below:

“We really wanted the tone of this spot to evolve as you watch it, beginning with something that feels like it’s grounded, but quickly grows to be more and more improbable until finally reality can’t resist calling,” said Matthew Woodhams Roberts, chief creative officer of Special US, which made the ad along with FOX Sports Marketing.

“Of course, then we have Mike Eruzione and a living reminder that no dream is too big. So, we’re saying there’s a chance…maybe.”

Spain – 17th appearance

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Spain– 17th appearance

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Cavs use third-quarter surge to best Raptors in Game 7

Jarrett Allen scored 14 of his career playoff-high-tying 22 points in the third quarter and grabbed 19 rebounds, powering the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 114-102 win over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Sunday night in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.

Fourth-seeded Cleveland, which trailed by double digits in the first and second quarters, will play the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in the East semifinals, beginning Tuesday in Detroit. The home team won every game in the Cavaliers-Pistons series.

Donovan Mitchell also had 22 points and James Harden posted 18 points and six rebounds for the Cavaliers, who built a 94-72 lead early in the fourth. Allen had 10 rebounds -- five offensive -- in the third when Cleveland outscored the Raptors 38-19.

"Emotions were high and the crowd was into it," Allen said, before laughing, "Dr. J-A. I just had to let 'em know. I was just playing hard, trying to get us ahead."

Mitchell agreed about Allen's impact on both the game and the crowd.

"The crowd brought the same energy as Jarrett Allen," Mitchell said. "That dude took over. He was doing everything, getting steals, rebounds, scoring points."

Scottie Barnes collected 24 points, nine rebounds and six assists for fifth-seeded Toronto. RJ Barrett had 23 points on 9-of-25 field-goal attempts and Jamal Shead added 14 points and seven assists.

"For the stage of his career, (Barnes) gave it all," Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic said. "I don't want to sound like a broken record, but this is not the best version of Scottie we're going to see. He's going to be even better next season."

Despite his coach's praise, Barnes found plenty to blame for his team's loss.

"They worked harder than us in this game," he said. "They had 20 offensive rebounds. They had four guys crashing every play, even 5-10, 5-11 guys crashing the glass."

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Cleveland is 5-0 all-time at home in Game 7 and has beaten the Raptors all 11 times in the playoffs in its arena. The Cavaliers also have won all four of their postseason series against Toronto.

Evan Mobley, who had 13 points, scored the first basket of the second half to give Cleveland its initial lead at 51-49. It turned into a 20-2 run spanning the second and third quarters when Mitchell made a hoop with 9:28 remaining in the third to make it 58-49.

"Jarrett (Allen) really took us over the top with that third-quarter performance," Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said. "That's the best I've ever seen him. He was just absolutely incredible tonight."

Cleveland used an 11-2 run to close the opening half, tying the score for the first time at 49-all on a Jaylon Tyson 3-pointer. Shead and Barnes led all players at the half with 14 points apiece, while Harden had 10 points and Sam Merrill added eight off the bench.

"It felt like we had them," Barrett said. "That's what's going to hurt. We definitely could have won this game and won this series."

The Cavaliers committed 13 turnovers in the first half, which Toronto turned into 14 points. Cleveland had six miscues in the first quarter and seven in the second.

Barnes netted the first five points of the evening after Allen missed a dunk on Cleveland's opening possession. Shead made a runner to give the Raptors a 22-12 advantage, but Merrill had five points in the final three minutes to cut it to 26-24.

Shead scored seven points in the period and Barnes had five points and four assists, helping Toronto shoot 55% (11 of 20) from the floor.

The Raptors were without two starters, small forward Brandon Ingram (right heel soreness) and point guard Immanuel Quickley (right hamstring strain).

"We gave it all, everything we had today," Rajakovic said. "Our guys were awesome. We made it hard on (the Cavaliers)."

--Field Level Media

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St. Pauli edges closer to Bundesliga relegation, Mainz and Gladbach are safe

BERLIN (AP) — St. Pauli lost 2-1 at home to Mainz to edge closer to Bundesliga relegation, with Wolfsburg hoping to take advantage later Sunday.

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Phillip Tietz and Phillipp Mwene scored in the first half for Mainz to secure its place in the division next season with no concerns about relegation. Mainz had been bottom of the table with nine defeats from 13 games when it appointed Urs Fischer as coach in December.

Wolfsburg was playing at Freiburg later and could move above St. Pauli into the relegation playoff place by avoiding defeat.

The bottom two are relegated automatically, while the team that finishes third from bottom has a two-leg playoff against the third-place finisher from the second division to determine which plays in the Bundesliga next season.

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Also Sunday, Haris Tabaković scored late for Borussia Mönchengladbach to clinch its survival with a 1-0 win over second-place Borussia Dortmund.

Two rounds remain after this weekend.

Bayern Munich has already won the titlewith four rounds to spare. Schalkeclinched promotionback to the division on Saturday.

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Jimmy Kimmel reacts to 'bozos' blaming Rudy Giuliani's hospitalization on him

Jimmy Kimmel is addressing recent backlash after a joke he previously made about Rudy Giuliani resurfaced following news of the politician's hospitalization.

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• "When I read this, I thought — I really thought — I said, I wonder if they'll try to blame this on me," Kimmel said during Monday night's monologue. "And then sure enough..."

• A spokesperson for Giuliani told The New York Times that the former NYC mayor is in "critical but stable condition."

Jimmy Kimmelis not a psychic, despite what recent backlash over the comedian and late-night TV host's jokes might have some people believing.

During Monday night'sJimmy Kimmel Live,the host dedicated half of his monologue to addressingthe backlash he's receiving onlineafter a joke he made aboutRudy Giulianiresurfaced following news of the politician's hospitalization. The former New York City mayor was hospitalized with pneumonia over the weekend. A spokesperson for Giuliani toldThe New York Timeson Sunday that the disbarred lawyer was in a Florida hospital in "critical but stable condition."

"When I read this [about Giuliani], I really thought, 'I wonder if they'll try to blame this on me,'" Kimmel told his audience on Monday. "And then sure enough, one of these podcast bozos points to a joke I made about Rudy on Thursday, about him being a vampire, and then suggests I might actually have some inside knowledge of what's going on in Trumptown there, and then that becomes a thing."

The comedian poked fun at Giuliani during hisJimmy Kimmel Livemonologue last week, teasing at the time that the former NYC mayor “rose from the grave” to react to the latest developments in the ongoing Trump-Kimmel feud.

Kimmel showed a clip of conservative media figures discussing the resurfaced joke during a panel on Newsmax, questioning its timing. One panelist asked, "Is this supposed to be comedy?" while another declared, "He's really not funny," calling the bit "abhorrent" and accusing the late-night host of operating under the "gauze of comedy."

The host took the statement as an opening, of course.

"Right. In fact, I'm under the gauze of comedy right now," he said, as the camera pulled back to reveal him literally standing beneath a large piece of gauze held aloft by four men donning Groucho glasses. Kimmel went on to claim the "gauze" gave him psychic powers to predict future events. "Every day in the morning, I wake up, I make coffee, and then I look into the future to see which events have yet to occur, and then we write jokes we know are going to make trouble," he said.

On a more serious note, Kimmel said he hopes Giuliani "lives another 100 years."

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"He earned that outside the dildo shop. That was the funniest thing any person has done this century," he added, referring toGiuliani leading a conference for the Trump campaignoutside a Philadelphia landscaping business next to an adult store in 2020.

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Kimmel also brought up Giuliani in his monologue last Tuesday, after the ex-mayor dragged him fora joke about Melania Trump having the glow of an “expectant widow”days beforethe White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.

He showed a clip from Giuliani'sAmerica's Mayor Livebroadcast in which the politician called Kimmel "maybe one of the most distasteful human beings in this country" and, later, "an incompetent jacka--."

In response, Kimmel said, "I have to say, it's confusing to be called an incompetent jacka-- by a man who accidentally held a press conference outside a dildo store, who doesn't seem to have any understanding of when videos are running and when they aren't, and has a gallon of squid ink dribbling off the top of his head."

He added, "Does this man have any family members who can come get him already?"

Watch Kimmel's monologue from Monday night above.

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