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Sports Central July 10, 2006 Will Tidey |
World Cup: Italy Are World Champions For the Italians, a stuttering campaign caught fire in their thrilling defeat of Germany in the semifinals -- and it stayed hot with a thrilling victory over France. |
Sports Central June 30, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Brazil vs. France What better way to end the quarterfinals than a repeat of the 1998 World Cup final? Brazil vs. France for the right to prolong a quest for the greatest title in all of sport. |
AskMen.com David Stoll |
Top 20: Soccer Players Of All Time Basically, a footballer who is a national hero or a club legend must obviously be considered one of the greatest. Read these players' biographies and decide for yourself whether they would be included in your top 20. |
Sports Central July 4, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: France vs. Portugal The second semifinal of the World Cup features a resilient Portugal squad against a surprising French team that has overcome a slow start and ferocious competition to advance this far. |
AskMen.com Mark Simmons |
Is Zidane REAL-ly Worth It? The past couple of weeks saw an interesting event take place: Real Madrid agreed to pay 46 million pounds (roughly US$65 million) to Juventus for Zinedine Zidane... |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Get your World Cup scorecard! Everything you need to know about the players and teams... |
AskMen.com June 12, 2002 Dennis O'Connell |
Top 10 Most Attended World Cup Games Pride is one thing, but facts and figures are another. This list looks at the most watched World Cup finals in terms of average attendance at each game. |
Sports Central June 7, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group G There should be very little drama with who finishes at the top of Group G, but after that nothing is certain. |
Salon.com July 2, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
Salon.com June 12, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup! France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up. |
Sports Central June 6, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group F It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Brazil will win this group. The race for second, though, is anything but clear. |
Sports Central May 20, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group A One of the weakest groups in this summer's World Cup features the host nation Germany, along with Poland, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. |
Sports Central April 10, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups A and B With the World Cup scarcely over two months away, it's time to roll out the previews. In this first of a four-part series, I will be looking at groups A and B. |
AskMen.com October 28, 2013 Simon Kuper |
2014 World Cup Preview Possibly the four best teams on earth today -- Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Spain -- are intent on providing more attacking thrills than we've seen in many a tournament. |
Sports Central January 10, 2007 Bill Hazell |
2006: Not a Year to Play Favorites (Pt. 2) With 2006 at a close, we can now say it was not a good year for Goliath. |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Viva Italia 32 teams will clash in Japan and South Korea for soccer's utlimate prize. Here's how we see the field -- and why the Italians will have reason to celebrate... |
Sports Central June 30, 2009 Ross Lancaster |
So Close to Glory, But Getting Closer The US soccer team is the most skilled and talented than they have been in the past. |
AskMen.com July 23, 2003 Mark Simmons |
Soccer's New Dream Team Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, David Beckham. This quartet of footballers represents the most potent starting lineup to be assembled in any sport, at any time. When it soccer, this year's edition of Real Madrid is in a stratosphere of its own. |
Sports Central June 4, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group E The United States finds itself smack dab in the middle of the second group of death in this World Cup. If the United States are to advance out of this group, it would be a monumental achievement of the highest order. |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Roger Bennett |
The World Is Watching the World Cup A spectator's guide to the soccer tournament in South Africa. Whom to root for -- or against -- and who has the coolest uniforms |
Sports Central May 12, 2006 Ray Leroy |
Soccer: The Beautiful Game June 9th will kick off the most watched sporting event in the world, as 32 teams from across the globe vie for professional soccer's 2006 World Cup. |
Sports Central April 12, 2012 Kevin Beane |
Euro 2012 Preview It's getting close to time for the second-biggest global soccer spectacle, the Euros. Spain are the defending champions, and solidified their hold as the best team in the world by following that up by winning the World Cup. |
Sports Central October 5, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Guy Forget and France Face Big Challenge On the first weekend of December, Serbia and France will meet in Belgrade Arena for a showdown to determine the winner of 2010 Davis Cup. |
AskMen.com Al Saunders |
Top 10: 2006 World Cup Stadiums In Germany Organizers have announced that approximately 2.6 million World Cup tickets are being sold for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. |
Sports Central April 11, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
U.S. Marching on Against All Odds When USA Davis Cup team began last Friday their encounter against the French, it was almost like a flashback to two months ago. |
Sports Central April 24, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups C and D The author examines eight teams in groups C and D and predicts the likely winners. |
Sports Central January 17, 2006 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Sports' Greatest Individual Winners This writer's list of the greatest sports winners of all-time. |
Sports Central June 28, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Blame Begins With FIFA The referees have come under even more scrutiny in this World Cup than in previous ones, and that is truly saying something. But if you are looking to blame anyone, don't put it solely on the referees. |
Sports Central July 8, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Italy vs. France The World Cup final is here. Italy and France will vie for global supremacy in the world's most popular sport. |
Sports Central May 22, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups G and H The author predicts the likelihood of success for teams from the USA, Germany, Portugal, and more. |
Sports Central May 9, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups E and F Groups E and F include Switzerland, Ecuador, Argentina, and more. |
Sports Central June 24, 2010 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: France's World Cup "De"-Bacle France's 2-1 loss to South Africa mercifully ended arguably the most disgraceful performance in the history of the World Cup. How did the 1998 champions and 2006 finalists fall so stunningly from the top of international soccer? |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Jack Ewing |
Can Football Be Saved? In Europe, football is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? |
Sports Central June 2, 2011 Kevin Beane |
2011 Gold Cup Preview Nearly a year has passed since the World Cup has passed, which is usually the beginning and the end of United States interest in soccer. |
Sports Central July 15, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
A Penalty Kick in the Pants Forget that famous head-butt. The real tragedy, the true outrage, of this near-classic match is the way it ended. |
AskMen.com Andrew Jordan |
The World Cup From A to Z Comments on the games, country by country. |
Sports Illustrated September 23, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2002 Grant Wahl |
No mas for Armas What now for the U.S.? Chris Armas, the U.S.'s tough-as-nails defensive midfielder, will miss the World Cup after tearing his right ACL against Uruguay. But this isn't a catastrophe for the U.S. team... |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Race and European Soccer International soccer has been a place of diversity from the start, and despite the wistful musing of some in France, it's becoming ever more so. |
AskMen.com |
Ronaldo Headed To Madrid Manchester United accepted a world-record transfer offer for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid on Thursday, clearing the World Player of the Year to negotiate personal terms with the Spanish club. |
Sports Central May 13, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
The Idiot's Guide to the World Cup In less than one month, the grandest tournament on the planet kicks off -- the World Cup of football, or what Americans call soccer. |
AskMen.com Geoffrey Lansdell |
Top 10: Fatal Screwups Although every athlete drops the ball from time to time, these top 10 fatal screwups participated in misguided moments when the stakes were high. |
AskMen.com May 19, 2014 Simon Kuper |
The Only Way To Experience The World Cup Is By Actually Attending. Here's Why. Over time I've discovered the truth about the World Cup: The soccer isn't the best bit. It's the stuff that happens away from the stadiums that you really remember. |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 John Glover |
France Suddenly Looks Risky Could France be the next to fall? |