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The Daily Show Tackles English Football Hooliganism: Video

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c World Cup 2010: Into Africa – Vuvuzealots www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party In case you missed, I know I did, here's the hysterical segment from Comedy Central's The Daily Show last week featuring John Oliver's report on English football […]

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Landon Donovan US TV Appearances After World Cup: Videos

After Landon Donovan returned to the United States last week, he was quickly thrown on a US press junket that took him around New York for TV appearances on several of the top US shows. Those included The David Letterman Show (above), and others including: CBS Early Show: Watch CBS News Videos Online Regis & […]

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Reasons for England Football Fans to be Cheerful

Supposedly, the Three Lions on England football shirts represent pride, passion and courage. Clearly, it’s time for a kit redesign. Even as England’s footballing lions shriveled into meek kittens in the World Cup cauldron it may be finally sinking in that England are ordinary. They’re capable of qualifying for major tournaments, perhaps even making the […]

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Is Luis Suarez a Hero or a Cheat?

World Cup 2010 has been a challenging tournament for fans of the beautiful game. There have been beautiful goals, incredible teamwork and wonderful stories. But there has also been injustices and, at the end of the day, the sport of soccer has been tarnished. Whether it's Luis Suarez cheating to prevent Ghana from securing a […]

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Argentina 0-4 Germany: Video Highlights

At the quarter-final stage of a World Cup tournament, matches are often very close. We're used to seeing extra time, penalty kicks or low scoring games. But Saturday, Germany put on a clinic in how to play defensively sound soccer as well as how to mount explosive counter-attacks as well as finishing off goals with […]

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What's a Big Difference Between the USMNT and Other Teams in the World Cup?

One of the greatest attributes of the US men's national team is something that very few other countries have on the world's stage. And that is a combination of good sportsmanship as well as a lack of cheating. Yesterday's games in the World Cup were a perfect example. You had Arjen Robben flopping, leaping and […]

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18 Best Goals of World Cup 2010: Video

Which have been the best goals of the 2010 World Cup so far? Despite the tournament being mired in controversy courtesy of the Jabulani ball from Adidas, there have still been plenty of delightful goals. Just to name a few that come to my mind are David Villa's wonderful run through the middle of two […]

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Who Will Win The World Cup Now That Brazil Is Out?

Now that Brazil is out of the 2010 World Cup after a underwhelming performance against a very strong Dutch team, the favorites no longer have a chance to win the tournament. But who do you think will now win the World Cup? Before we get to the poll below, I would like to add that […]

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/ 5770 days ago

What Will the World Cup Look Like In 2014?

Four years ago, which seems like a lifetime in Internet years, the 2006 World Cup experience was very different than it is today. There were only a handful of soccer podcasts worldwide. Soccer blogs were a relatively new thing. And the TV coverage was decent. All games were televised but national anthems were skipped and […]

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/ 5771 days ago

7 Wish List Items for the Rest of the 2010 World Cup

I'm trying to pretend it's not true, but there's only seven games left in this World Cup tournament (I'm not counting the third place game, which is a waste of time and a silly idea). When you think about it, seven games isn't much. That's a typical Saturday in the Premier League. So since we're […]

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World Cup Viewing Parties this Weekend at Wowies in Boca Raton

This weekend, soccer fans around the world will be licking their lips at the prospect of four World Cup quarter-final games, each of which will be intriguing for different reasons. The games are: BRAZIL v HOLLAND, Friday, 10am ET. URUGUAY v GHANA, Friday, 2:30pm ET. GERMANY v ARGENTINA, Saturday, 10am ET. SPAIN v PARAGUAY, Saturday, […]

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/ 5771 days ago

World Cup, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways

Man, I am seriously jonesing for some football. After nearly three weeks of up to three games a day, suddenly, my world has dropped off a cliff. A blank, non-football day arrived yesterday and worse still has been followed by another one. What do I do? How do I live my life without the skeleton […]

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Italy's Mistakes of 2010

With Italy out of the 2010 World Cup, we have plenty of time to plan for the future and avoid any mistakes we made in this tournament. So it's important to know what Italy did wrong, the mistakes that cost us dearly in the World Cup, making us end up last in the group, behind […]

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Poll: How Do You Rate this World Cup So Far?

We've seen 19 straight days of World Cup soccer. During that time, we've watched an mind boggling 56 games. There have been plenty of highs, lots of controversy and a few lows. But how does this World Cup compare to previous ones in your opinion? Better or worse, or same? Vote in the poll below. […]

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/ 5772 days ago

England 1-4 Germany in Lego Football: Video

Watching the highlights of Germany's demolition of England in the World Cup are a pretty depressing sight, but LegoFussball.eu have brought some levity to the situation by featuring the highlights as played out by Lego characters. Each scene uses stop motion photography. Particularly interesting is the replay of Frank Lampard's disallowed goal. In the Lego […]