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#Breaking U.S. Soccer Argues It Pays Women More Than Men In Latest In Pay Inequality Lawsuit NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rachel Bachman, senior sports reporter for the Wall Street Journal, about the dispute between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the U.S. Women's Team over pay inequality. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Jill Ellis Is Stepping Down As U.S. Women's Soccer Coach "The timing is right to move on and the program is positioned to remain at the pinnacle of women's soccer," said Ellis, who won back-to-back World Cup titles and will depart in October. Read more on NPR

#Breaking In Wake of Abuse Scandals, Bill Would Hold U.S. Olympic Organizations Accountable Two senators have introduced a bill to address the failures in the U.S. Olympic system that allowed a team doctor to sexually abuse athletes for years. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Colombian Cyclist Egan Arley Bernal Gómez Wins Tour De France NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Caley Fretz, editor-in-chief of Cycling Tips, about this year's Tour de France. It is the first time that a cyclist from Colombia has won the race. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Sports Roundup: Boxing Deaths, Olympic Swimming And The WNBA Two boxing deaths in one week, a preview of Olympic swimming, and a check-in about the WNBA: Host Scott Simon gets an update from NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman. Read more on NPR

#Breaking A Group Of Women Are Riding The Tour De France Route — One Day Ahead Of The Men Before the men cycle across the finish line at the Tour de France, a group of women riders will finish the route. Host Scott Simon talks with Sara Beck, a member of the InternationElles team. Read more on NPR

#Breaking The Latest From This Year's Tour De France NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Damian McCall of the Agence France Presse to give us the latest developments from the Tour de France after a stage of the race was cancelled due to extreme weather. Read more on NPR

#Breaking The Future Of Baseball May Be Happening Already As Independent League Tests New Rules The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, in partnership with the major league is implementing new rules this season. It's unclear though if these will impact the game at the highest levels. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Cornhole And Other Less Traditional Sports Gather More Attention Niche sports, such as cornhole, axe throwing and even professional arm wrestling, are beginning to attract interest and money. These less traditional sports are attracting sponsors. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ireland's Shane Lowry Wins British Open In His First Major Title Lowry's win marked the first Open played in Northern Ireland since 1951. He became the second player from south of the border to lift the Claret Jug. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Sports Roundup: Previewing Sunday's Baseball Hall Of Fame Induction NPR's Scott Simon speaks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about the 2019 baseball season so far and about Mariano Rivera, baseball's first unanimous Hall of Famer. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe Leads Tour De France As Race Enters Second Half NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Damian McCall, a reporter for the Agence France-Presse, about this year's Tour de France and the Frenchman currently in the lead, Julian Alaphilippe. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Pumpsie Green, First Black Player On The Boston Red Sox, Dies At 85 The Boston Red Sox were the last Major League Baseball team to integrate, some 12 years after Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking They Fight — Politely — For What's Right For The World's Girls We spoke to teen activists at the Girl Up event in Washington, D.C., this week. They had a lot to say about everything from buzzwords that make them mad to the best ways to de-stress. Read more on NPR

#Breaking WNBA Suspends Riquna Williams For 10 Games Over Alleged Domestic Violence The Los Angeles Sparks guard was charged months ago with assaulting an ex-girlfriend. She will miss nearly a third of the regular season, and the WNBA players union plans to file a grievance. Read more on NPR

#Breaking What Did Wimbledon Teach Us About Genius? Federer, Djokovic — and the debate between specialists and generalists. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Crowds Gather Each Week In Wisconsin To Watch Their Teams Play Ball — In Snowshoes Snowshoe baseball commentator Jimmy Soyck says you can't actually run in snowshoes. It's all in the shuffle. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Novak Djokovic Defeats Roger Federer in Record-Breaking Wimbledon Match After a nearly five-hour match, the 32-year-old Serbian claimed his fifth Wimbledon title, defending his 2018 win. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Wimbledon Update In the men's final at Wimbledon, Roger Federer is up against defending champion Novak Djokovic. Read more on NPR

#Breaking For Bethany Hamilton, Surfing Is 'An Escape From All The Chaos On Land' Hamilton was 13 years old when she lost her arm to a shark while surfing in Hawaii. She went on to surf some of the biggest waves in the world. Hamilton tells her story in the documentary Unstoppable. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Simona Halep Defeats Serena Williams To Win Her First Wimbledon Title Williams was vying for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title, but fell to the 27 year old from Romania, 6-2, 6-2. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Wimbledon, NBA Off-Season Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic renew a great rivalry at Wimbledon, and NBA free agency madness. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Remembering Ball Player Jim Bouton And 'Ball Four' Jim Bouton, the baseball player who spilled the dirt on the Major Leagues with his celebrated memoir, Ball Four, died this week at the age of 80. Read more on NPR

#Breaking After Numerous Foul Ball Fan Injuries, Baseball Reconsiders Protective Netting In 2018, all 30 MLB teams extended their netting over stadium dugouts. The protective measure has not done enough to safeguard fans from dangerous foul ball injuries. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Remembering Major League Pitcher Jim Bouton, Author Of 'Ball Four' Bouton, who died Wednesday, spoke to Fresh Air in 1986 about his 1970 tell-all memoir, in which he drew on his seven years with the New York Yankees to offer an insider's guide to baseball. Read more on NPR