Talks between UEFA and Relevent Sports Group about an expanded International Champions Cup -- one that would compete directly with FIFA's Club World Cup -- have reached an advanced stage, sources have confirmed to ESPN.

The Daily Mail was the first to report the latest developments about the talks. The New York Times reported back in January that Relevent owner Stephen M. Ross had met with some of Europe's biggest clubs to discuss the possibility of an expanded ICC, including Liverpool, Manchester...

CARY, N.C. -- It is the rare team that can make Olympique Lyon sweat, even with the assistance of a stifling summer evening in North Carolina. But rarer still is, well, Lyon.

There is still only one of those. The world might not be big enough for two of them.

The best team in women's soccer removed the lone nagging impediment to using that label with a 1-0 win against the North Carolina Courage in the Women's International Champions Cup final. After losing to the Courage in the final of the...