San Diego, Calif. — August 7, 2026 As San Diego prepares for its first ownership change in more than a decade, the man poised to take control of the Padres […]
Infantino’s World Cup Sell-Off Collapses Amid Backlash — and Questions About Trump’s Inner Circle
By The Navarro Report Staff | ZURICH FIFA President Gianni Infantino spent Wednesday’s crisis meeting in Rabat, Morocco, doing what he has spent the past week doing everywhere else: apologizing. […]
Whose World Cup Is It? Inside FIFA’s 2030 Expansion Fight and the Governance Gaps Behind It
A vice president’s proposal to nearly guarantee his own confederation a place at the table, a rollback of anti-corruption reforms, and a president whose expansion instincts have always tracked his […]
Argentina’s Long Shadow: Fifty Years of Suspicion, From Videla’s Locker Room to Tapia’s FBI Probe
As the Argentine Football Association navigates a federal money-laundering investigation and an uncertain future without Lionel Messi, a look back at nearly half a century of corruption allegations shows a […]
What Spain Built and the U.S. Didn’t: A Three-Decade Coaching Contrast
By Jose E. Navarro SAN DIEGO — July 16, 2026 Sunday’s final between Spain and Argentina is, at its surface, a match. Underneath it is the outcome of two very […]
Before Crediting the Federation, Consider Ronald Koeman
By Jose E. Navarro SAN DIEGO — July 16, 2026 The story of Sunday’s World Cup final is an appealing one: two coaches, Luis de la Fuente and Lionel Scaloni, […]
Federation Over Pedigree: How Two Coaching Academies Built the Same Final
By Jose E. Navarro SAN DIEGO — July 16, 2026 Sunday’s World Cup final at MetLife Stadium will be contested by two coaches who share something more unusual than the […]
First Time, Highest Stakes: Messi and Argentina Face England for a World Cup Final Spot
World Affairs — July 12, 2026 Lionel Messi has played 205 matches for Argentina and never once lined up against England. That changes Wednesday in Atlanta, where the two teams […]
UCLA’s Draft Class: How One College Program Produced Two Potential First-Rounders
By Jose E. Navarro | The Navarro Report | California July 10, 2026 When the White Sox go on the clock Saturday with the first overall pick in the 2026 […]
$5 Million at 17: The Economics of MLB’s International Bonus Pools
By Jose E. Navarro | The Navarro Report | National July 10, 2026 On January 15, while most of the sports world was fixated on this weekend’s amateur draft in […]