Thanks for following along with us this evening – or morning, if you’re on Chelsea’s side of the Atlantic. We’ve seen a few good games in this tournament, and this was certainly one of them.
Palmer is asked about Estêvão joining Chelsea: “You can see he’s a top player, so we’re excited.”
Palmer was actually seen smiling during this conversation. Sorry I don’t have photographic evidence.
Estêvão talks to Chelsea’s Cole Palmer, Dario Essugo and Liam Delap after the match. Photograph: Derik Hamilton/AP
Robert Speed writes: “FIFA used to have a perfectly fine rule on yellow card suspensions at these tournaments, where yellow cards were wiped after the group phase. But then Michael Ballack deservedly missed the 2002 World Cup final for a 2nd yellow in the knockouts, so they ruined the rule and instead wiped yellow cards after the quarterfinals. Now 2 yellow cards in the space of 5 matches, and a player misses a semi-final. The final is not the only important match in the tournament. It really shouldn’t be treated differently, at the expense of ridiculously suspending all these players in earlier matches.”
Sound argument, though I think Delap and Rios should miss the next match just through the sheer idiocy of their actions.
You could call Chelsea a bit lucky on the second goal, with a deflection and an uncharacteristic misplay by goalkeeper Weverton. But this result is no more than Chelsea deserve. Estêvão had his moments, to be sure, but Chelsea outshot Palmeiras 19-7, with a 6-2 edge in shots on target. Palmer was excellent through much of the game, and Chelsea only got better when Madueke entered the fray.
Estêvão takes the Player of the Match award despite being on the losing side, and it’s absolutely a fair choice. Several Chelsea players work their way over to him, and they’re all smiles. They know they’re getting a great new teammate.
Full time: Palmeiras 1-2 Chelsea
Nice choice of music in Philadelphia – the Madness instrumental One Step Beyond. Chelsea will indeed take one more step and will face a second consecutive Brazilian side, Fluminense, in the semi-finals.
90 min +4: SAVE OFF THE POST. Terrible giveaway from Palmeiras, and Palmer gratefully heads into the attacking half. It ends up with Madueke, who drills a shot that Weverton does very well to redirect off the post.
And another Chelsea shot with another great save by Weverton. No goal for Chelsea, but they’re making that clock tick.
90 min +3: Palmer is hopping mad, literally, after being whistled for fouling Veiga.
90 min +2: Madueke has been giving the Palmeiras defense fits. He draws a free kick near the center circle.
90 min +1: We’ll have four minutes of added time. Add another 30-60 seconds because Chelsea are making a sub. Anbrey Santos, the last-minute addition to the starting XI, will head out after a strong showing in the Chelsea midfield. Dario Essugo is in.
ESPN’s scores page is giving the own goal to Giay rather than Weverton, which does indeed make more sense.
87 min: Sanchez slaps away a hard Mauricio shot like a volleyball player spiking the ball. It wouldn’t have mattered – the whistle had just gone for a foul.
86 min: I believe this is the last sub window for Palmeiras. Rios, who will miss the semi-final that his team is now unlikely to make, makes way for Raphael Veiga.
Then it’s yellow to Colwill, and he will also miss the semi-final.
Pedro Neto is out, with Kieran Dewsbury-Hall coming in.
85 min: Chelsea are off to the races again, and Fuchs has to make a vital recovery run.
But they overplay their hand, and Paulinho cuts back against Colwill to get space for a shot that trickles past the far post.
Goooooalll! Palmeiras 1-2 Chelsea (own goal 83)
Chelsea take a short corner. Gusto tries to whip in a cross, and it takes a slight deflection off Giay and goes through the grasp of the Palmeiras keeper.
The official ruling now is an own goal by Weverton.
82 min: Palmer has the ball in an acre of space and opts to drop the ball back to Fernandez, who drills a shot from the center of the arc that’s deflected for a corner.
80 min: Another solid play from Anbrey Santos for Chelsea, a slide tackle that pops the ball free from an attacker. Palmeiras win back possession and cross, but it goes straight to Sanchez.
79 min: Palmer takes the free kick and drills it straight into Moreno’s face. People in the USA call that “taking one for the team.”
77 min: Cucurella does well to dispossess Estêvão before the Palmeiras goal-scorer can do anything with the ball.
Chelsea go on the attack, and Madueke earns a free kick at the top of the penalty arc, slotting the ball through Micael’s legs and getting knocked down by the defender.
And it’s a yellow for Richard Rios, likely for dissent. He’ll miss the next match. That’s not smart.
Speaking of dissent, Peter Oh wrote again to say he believes, based on lip-reading, that Delap dropped a particular four-letter word in his conversation with the referee. He easily could’ve earned a second yellow.
75 min: More subs for Palmeiras – Anibal Moreno for Martinez, and Jose Lopez for Vitor Roque.
73 min: Madueke goes one-on-one with Fuchs and finally gets some space for a cross, and Fuchs has to stretch out a leg to knock it out for a corner.
Off that corner, the ball lands at Cucurella’s feet, and he kicks what would certainly be three points when this stadium resumes NFL hosting duties.
70 min: Colwill races back to break up a dangerous cross, conceding a corner but squashing a terrific Palmeiras opportunity.
69 min: Palmer plays back to Sanchez, and the Chelsea keeper dawdles too long with the ball and is nearly dispossessed. That’ll make Chelsea supporters’ heart rate shoot upward.
68 min: João Pedro explodes like a Fourth of July firework into a dangerous spot, but his touch is heavy and drifts over the line before he can tap it back toward a teammate.
66 min: The other sub, João Pedro, dribbles across the top of the penalty area and drags a mishit shot wide.
Now Palmeiras will use some subs – Allan and Facundo Torres depart, replaced by Paulinho and Mauricio.
65 min: It’s Madeuke again on the left flank, driving into the penalty area and attempting a through ball that Weverton gathers. Inspired substitution for Chelsea.
63 min: Madueke is proving to be quite the handful for the Palmeiras defense.
But Palmeiras break again, and Allan shoots just wide of the far post.
61 min: Someone asked about Andrey Santos? He just single-handedly broke up a Palmeiras counterattack, so I’d say that’s pretty positive.
Madueke earns another corner. Possession stays with Chelsea, and Colwill knocks a cross of a defender for yet another corner.
60 min: Palmer tries to dribble, which is difficult when the ball is under the prone body of Richard Rios. That’ll be a free kick for Palmeiras.
58 min: The cameras give some love to the joyful Palmeiras supporters, of whom there are a great many. This is practically a home match for the Brazilian side.
55 min: Chelsea figure it’s time for some substitutions, and it’s no surprise that Delap, who has spent more time complaining and fouling than doing anything constructive, is out. So is Nkunku, who has done little but put a shot a mile away from the target.
Now in – Noni Madueke and the new signing, João Pedro.
Madueke immediately earns a corner kick.
Goooooalll!!!! Palmeiras 1-1 Chelsea (Estêvão 53)
Wow!
To say that would be an acute angle would be an understatement. Estêvão turned on Colwill and wound up three yards from the goal line but about three yards outside the 6-yard box. No problem. He simply drills it into the underside of the bar, and it lands nicely in the goal.
50 min: Cucurella should count himself very lucky that he hasn’t become the next name in Faghani’s book. He plows through Allan, knocking the Palmeiras attacker out of his boot. Literally.
And now Chris Colwill is in the referee’s face – or over it, considering Colwill’s height advantage – because he has been asked to kindly stop shoving people as Palmeiras take a set piece.
I’d have given about 20 yellows for dissent by now.
49 min: Clumsy foul from Cucurella, and Palmeiras have a free kick near the sideline. Sanchez snags it out of the air with little fuss.
Rod Boyle writes in regard to the shorts: “Is it not more likely that there is a rule about matching shorts?”
As in having to wear a shorts that aren’t the same color as the opponents’? That would rule out Chelsea wearing white shorts, sure.
They still look gray-ish to me, but I’ve seen some photos in which they have a green tint. This is turning into a “what color is this dress?” thing.
46 min: Free kick for Palmeiras, and Fuchs pops free for an open header, but he did so by leaning his whole body into an offside position, so the point is moot.
Fifa’s stat page says Chelsea have scored one goal (obviously). Inside the penalty area: no goals. Outside the penalty area: no goals. Cole Palmer apparently has departed into another dimension.
Delap returns to the field and resumes his argument with the referee. Embarrassing, frankly. Unless he also has been sent to another dimension and a replicant was the one who committed the foul.
Kickoff …
Mailbag time …
An unidentified person asks: “Talk before the game was that Caicedo’s absence could be a problem for Chelsea, then James was withdrawn. How’s Santos doing? Thanks.”
He hasn’t done anything particularly noteworthy, but Chelsea have done well in possession, and Palmeiras haven’t found any space in the middle of the field, so no news is good news. He’s in a position where he’d be noticed if he did poorly, and that’s not happening.
Usman Moorad: “Can you please help me understand why Chelsea’s shorts are green? I swear their away Jersey on their site has white shirts.”
They look gray-ish to me. But I figure clubs that spend as much as Chelsea will eventually have a shirt and shorts in every conceivable color so they can rack up the sales.
Liam Delap turns away as he receives a yellow card. Photograph: François Nel/Getty Images
Justin Kavanagh again: “There are fireworks going on everywhere across the city of Philadelphia right now, and there are a fair few bombs bursting in air inside the Linc too! Some of the tackling is positively explosive and the fuse has been lit here for an explosive climax to this one. Should the ref be exerting more control?”
I think this email came in before at least one of the yellow cards. I’ve only seen one or two incidents that may have merited a whistle. On the whole, I think he’s doing well. He had some conversations early in the game, but some players apparently didn’t listen.
Halftime: Palmeiras 0-1 Chelsea
The half ends with Delap barking at Faghani. Maybe we should peek into Chelsea’s options on the bench.
45 min +2: The referee, incidentally, is Alireza Faghani, who’s from Iran but has moved to Australia.
He gives a yellow to Delap, which means he would miss the semi-final. He argues, but maybe he shouldn’t slam into opposing players when the ball is nowhere near. Appalling judgment on the Chelsea man’s part, and not for the first time in this contest.
45 min: Giay and Cucurella battle for the ball, and Giay responds with the lightest of touches to Cucurella’s chest. The Chelsea defender drops like a bowling pin. The referee is not impressed.
44 min: OK, we’ll take away the 10 from Palmer after a petulant foul at midfield. That’s eight fouls for each team, most of them rather silly and unnecessary.
42 min: CHANCE for Palmeirasas a well-placed cross finds the onrushing Vanderlan, whose header slams into the grass and up into Sanchez’s hands. The Brazilian side are creeping back into this contest.
41 min: Yellow to Chelsea defender Gusto, who’s late in a challenge and catches Micael’s leg. No argument there.
A shooting at Evergreen High School this afternoon hospitalized four students — three with gunshot wounds, including the suspected shooter.
The students with gunshot wounds were treated at CommonSpirit St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood. After treatment, two of the three — one being the suspect — are still in critical condition.
The third victim has non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff’s office confirmed in an evening update that the suspected shooter sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Officials said a fourth juvenile took themselves to the hospital with injuries sustained while escaping the high school and fleeing to a nearby elementary school.
“This is the scariest thing you could ever think could happen,” said Jacki Kelley, public information officer with Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. “Honestly, I don’t know if our suspect is old enough to even drive.”
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteCrime scene investigators inspect a lot near Evergreen High School, after a shooting there on Sept. 10, 2025.
Kelley said it was not clear who the shooter was or how many shooters may have been involved. Over 100 police officers from around the Denver area rushed to the school to try to help, Kelley said.
Officials said the shooter used a handgun and that police have not found a letter explaining the attack. Kelley said it appeared the shooting happened on school grounds, but outside the school.
The school is about 28 miles southwest of Denver. It enrolls about 900 students, according to the state Department of Education.
Tony Gorman/CPR NewsA long line of families and community members waiting outside the reunification point following a school shooting in Evergreen, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.
Cameron Jones is a 9th grader at Evergreen High School. He said he was eating lunch outside when he heard three gunshots. A security guard then told him to run.
He said he never thought a shooting like Wednesday’s would happen in Evergreen.
“Absolutely not,” Jones said. “I thought this was like a one-in-a-million thing, and it still feels surreal that it happened.”
Jen Weber, a mother of a freshman student at the school, said she was washing her car when her son sent her a text message that a shooting was happening.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteJen Weber watches with relief as her son, an Evergreen High School freshman, leaves the school after a shooting there on Sept. 10, 2025. She hiked through the woods to get closer.
“I think if I’m being honest with myself, I always knew it was ‘When, not if?’” Weber said. “But having been born and raised in Evergreen, I didn’t ever really think it would happen here in Evergreen.”
Weber was still waiting on Wednesday afternoon to be reunited with her son.
Authorities have not released more details on the shooting. Videos on social media show emergency service vehicles racing towards the school.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteFirst responders are staged near Evergreen High School after a shooting was reported there. Sept. 10, 2025.
“I am closely monitoring the situation at Evergreen High School, and am getting live updates. State Troopers are supporting local law enforcement in responding to this situation. Students should be able to attend school safely and without fear across our state and nation. We are all praying for the victims and the entire community,” said Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
Federal law enforcement is also responding to the scene to assist.
Allison Sherry/CPR NewsJefferson County Sheriff Reggie Marinelli addresses the media this afternoon following a shooting at Evergreen High School. Behind her is Evergreen Fire Chief Mike Weege.
Parents are being asked to go to Bergen Meadow Elementary School at 1928 Hiwan Drive to reunify with their students.
Outside the school on Wednesday afternoon, a long line of parents waited to be reunited with their students.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteSchool buses line up, heading towards Evergreen High School after a shooting was reported there. Sept. 10, 2025.
The Jefferson County Education Association, a teachers’ union in the district, said in a statement that every time a school shooting happens, it retraumatizes the community that lived through the Columbine shooting in 1999.
“Colorado has lived through this pain too many times. We cannot become numb. We cannot accept this as normal. We demand that our leaders at every level — local, state, and national — take real, meaningful action to end the epidemic of gun violence in our schools,” the association’s leaders said in a statement.
All Jefferson County school athletics and activities for Wednesday were canceled.
CPR reporters Haylee May, Alejandro A. Alonso Galva, Yesenia Robles, Molly Cruse, Kevin Beaty, Ben Markus, Allison Sherry and Tony Gorman, as well as The Associated Press, contributed to this report.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with more information about the victims and the alleged shooter.
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Melissa McCoul, the professor fired by Texas A&M University on Tuesday for allegedly not changing her course content to match its description, is disputing her cause for termination and exploring legal options, according to a statement her attorney sent to The Texas Tribune on Wednesday.
McCoul’s attorney Amanda Reichek said the listed reason for termination was that she failed to change her course content to align with the catalog and course descriptions despite numerous instructions to do so. However, Reichek countered that McCoul’s course content was consistent with the descriptions, and she wasn’t instructed to change her course content. She had also been teaching the course for multiple years at that point with no difficulty.
McCoul has appealed the firing and is exploring legal action, Reichek said.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III terminated McCoul after a video went viral that showed a confrontation between her and a student in one of her summer classes, an upper-level children’s literature course. The video, which does not show anyone’s face, captures audio of a student objecting to a professor teaching that there are more than two genders. The student said this conflicts with President Donald Trump’s executive order and her religious beliefs, and McCoul responded by saying she had a right to teach the lesson while the student had a right to leave.
Texas A&M and Welsh have come under increasing fire from Republican lawmakers over the video. As a result, Welsh fired McCoul, revoked administrative duties from the head of the department that oversaw the course and reportedly demoted Mark Zoran, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M’s second-largest college with more than 15,000 students.
The backlash from Republican lawmakers critical of the video has put Texas A&M on the defensive, a push fueled by Texas Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, publishing new, unreleased audio recordings of a meeting Welsh had with the student who confronted McCoul. In the audio, Welsh defended the professor and the topics taught in the class.
But, as the pressure to fire McCoul ramped up, Welsh switched gears. Late Monday, he removed both Zoran and the then-head of the English department, Emily Johansen, from their positions, saying they approved plans to teach material that was inconsistent with the published course description. The university has not confirmed whether they were fired or re-assigned. However, a university employee who works in upper administration told The Tribune that both Zoran and Johansen have been demoted.
It’s unclear who is leading the College of Arts and Sciences. On Wednesday, the English department announced that its associate department head would move up to acting head while they search for a replacement.
In a statement, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents said they would audit every course to ensure compliance with the law. A separate statement from Chancellor Glenn Hegar praised Welsh for sacking McCoul. She was not tenured and had been an educator for more than 10 years.
Texas A&M has not identified any students involved in producing the video or audio.
Hours before Welsh announced McCoul’s firing, Gov. Greg Abbott called the dean and department head’s removal “good” in a post on X before also calling for the professor to be fired. Harrison, however, responded to Abbott’s post saying that the removals were not good enough and that Welsh “must also be fired.”
Several Republican lawmakers have since called for Welsh’s removal, and Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, wrote on X that the incident was “deeply concerning” and said the agency would “look into” it. The Justice Department declined to comment further. Texas A&M University did not respond to questions or provide additional information about the incident.
Harrison, a Texas A&M alum and former Trump administration official, has clashed with Welsh for months over diversity, equity and inclusion policies. In May, he accused Texas A&M of “egregious discrimination” by offering DEI-related courses and “targeted student recruitment.” Welsh has denied violating the law or discriminating.
It’s unclear how Harrison, the state representative, acquired the video and audio recordings. He also posted multiple screenshots of presentation and classroom material on X that is not available to people not enrolled in the course.
Welsh became Texas A&M’s president in 2023, the same year Texas lawmakers passed a ban on DEI offices and programs at public universities. He took over after the resignation of former President M. Katherine Banks, and since then, Republican leaders have moved aggressively to assert more control over higher education.
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Boeing Defense and the machinists union have reached a tentative deal to end a five-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, union officials announced on Wednesday.
A vote on Boeing’s five-year contract offer is scheduled for Friday, according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
IAM District 837’s roughly 3,200 members, who assemble Boeing fighter jets, went on strike on August 4 after voting 67% to reject the company’s last contract proposal.
“We’ve found a path forward on a five-year contract offer that grows wages by 45% on average,” Boeing Defense Vice President Dan Gillian said in a statement. “It remains the best deal we’ve ever offered to IAM 837, and we encourage our team to vote yes so we can get back to work building amazing products for our customers.”
The deal includes a 24% general wage increase over five years and a $4,000 ratification bonus, among other terms.
The previous offer was for four years and included a 20% wage increase and a $5,000 bonus. The deal would have raised compensation by 40% on average, according to the company.
“They didn’t really offer more, they just extended it another year,” said IAM member Brandon Thiel, who works on the F-15 program.
Thiel said he did not know how he will vote, but “I have a strong inclination that it will not pass.”
His raises during his seven years at Boeing have been almost entirely offset by rising living costs, he said.
“We just want to be comfortable, to not stress out on a daily basis,” he said.
A seven-week strike by IAM District 751 members in Washington and Oregon ended with a contract that included a 38% wage increase and a $12,000 signing bonus.
Contract negotiations with a federal mediator ended Tuesday afternoon without any progress. Boeing and the IAM resumed discussion later that day, which continued into Wednesday and led to the latest proposal, he said.
If the contract is approved, workers would start returning Monday evening, and production would be back to normal in about a week, Gillian told reporters on Wednesday.
Non-union employees have kept production going during the strike, though output has slowed on some programs, he said last week.
Boeing’s offer assures workers another year of raises, even for employees already at the top of the pay scale, Gillian said. “So, I feel good about the offer.”
