After watching FOX Sports' coverage of the 2018 World Cup for the first three days of the tournament, I've given up on their poor, dumbed-down coverage. Instead, I've switched to watching the World Cup games on Telemundo, and I'm loving every minute of it. Even though I don't speak Spanish, the differences in watching World […]

Sunday's massive World Cup game between Brazil and Switzerland will be televised live on NBCSN in Spanish as well as on Telemundo Deportes. The game, which will be NBCSN's first-ever World Cup broadcast, kicks off at 2pm ET. Pre-match coverage begins at 1:30pm ET. Televised live from Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, the match will […]

On Wednesday, as many devout Indonesians left their respective Mosque after Asr (late-afternoon prayer), a seminal decision was being made almost 5800 miles away in Moscow. The United States, Canada and Mexico will host the 2026 World Cup whereby the tournament’s new format will be expanded to 48 teams, an overall 35% increase in countries […]

With millions of Americans tuning in to watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup, one of the best ways to experience the tournament is with a free trial, a leading legal streaming provider. Don't be fooled by the name. With PlayStation Vue, you don't need a PlayStation video game console. PlayStation Vue is an Internet-based live […]

With all of the weekday World Cup games happening during office hours in the United States, one of the biggest questions going into the tournament is where viewers can watch replays of games on television. Compared to previous World Cup tournaments on US television, this one will have fewer games available that will re-air on […]

There is a good reason why the World Cup isn't on Univision for the 2022 World Cup. The popular Spanish-language broadcaster lost the rights to Telemundo Deportes. Beginning with the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Telemundo Deportes and Universo broadcast the World Cup in Spanish-language to viewers in the United States. Bidding for the […]

The World Cup squads are set and twelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities are ready to host 32 teams competing for the globe’s greatest prize. Though the finals are yet to kick off, this tournament has already seen its share of drama. Argentina, for one, likely wouldn’t be involved if not for the heroics of […]

While everyone will be watching Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar at the World Cup in Russia. What about the ones that are not as popular? Listed below are five players that could burst onto the scene during this summer’s World Cup. Ayoub El Kaabi – Morocco The 24-year-old forward has never played outside of […]

Who Should England Start? England opens their World Cup on Monday, June 18 against Tunisia. Because of the relative inexperience of the squad, there are lots of question marks over who manager Gareth Southgate will choose as his starting eleven. Here's my opinion about how he can get the best out of this young squad. […]

What if you could watch the World Cup at home, work or on-the-go and listen to the commentary in your own language? Normally, your choice would be to press the mute button or to grin and bear listening to the English commentary, but technology has created a better solution. Sling TV now offers the choice […]

One of the greatest aspects about the FIFA World Cup is how different nationalities from around the United States can enjoy the competition in a variety of languages. At the end of the day during the World Cup, we all speak the same language called soccer. But for those of you who want to listen […]

FOX Sports has announced the assignments of commentators for the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. With only two lead commentators out of six in Russia (while all of the others will be calling games off a TV screen from a studio in Los Angeles), it'll be interesting to see how much of […]

Four years ago CONCACAF sent four teams to the World Cup: USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Honduras. Somewhat remarkably three of those four teams made it to the knockout rounds: USA and Mexico both advanced as far as the Round of 16. Mexico would eventually loose, on a controversial penalty, to the Netherlands. The US […]

Four years ago a reasonably strong argument could have been made that Memphis was not a soccer town. Memphis was almost exclusively a basketball town: the Grizzlies were going to the NBA playoffs every year and the Tigers were going to the NCAA Tournament every year. But that was four years ago. Both the Grizzlies […]

Editor's Note: With the World Cup fast approaching, Abe Asher takes a look at groups A-D and predicts who'll finish first through fourth as well as offering his games to watch and players of note. Group A 1. Uruguay Uruguay came comfortably through qualifying and are headed to a third straight World Cup with […]