Tuesday starts a 100-day countdown to the biggest World Cup of them all: a 48-nation extravaganza, 104 games in 16 cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico over 39 days of what promises to be an unforgettable summer.

MILAN -- The Winter Olympics are set to open this Friday in Italy, some 4,600 miles away from Minneapolis, the epicenter of the uproar over the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement tactics.