REIMS, France — Get ready for the S--tshow Circus.
You wanted USA-France. Now you’ve got it. Sure, it would have made for an epic Women’s World Cup final: The two favorites to win, the defending champion and the host country, going toe to toe in Paris at the giant theater of the Parc des Princes. Alas, it will be a quarterfinal, and yet there’s still no real way to oversell the showdown that’s set for Friday (3 p.m. ET, FOX, Telemundo).
Just listen to Megan Rapinoe, the scorer of both U.S. penalties in Monday’s unexpectedly hard 2-1 round-of-16 victory over Spain.