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Recently, we were waiting in front of the Television for three most interesting events in the sports and games arena - Australian Open, South Africa - India Cricket...
made popular Feb 7 2011
These games have done just that, as evidenced by their endless airings on ESPN Classic. Hopefully, if we’re lucky, we’ll see one this year worthy of supplanting the...
made popular Dec 22 2010
Qatar defeated both Australia and the United States to host the 2022 World Cup, the first for the Middle East. In another first Russia will host 2018. And Brazil, yet...
made popular Dec 13 2010
UEFA threatens to evict Israel.
The state of Israel is an all-purpose human rights violator. And Palestinian athletes are not excluded. The Palestinians Football...
made popular Oct 7 2010
George Blanda, the Hall of Fame quarterback and kickerwho played a record 26 seasons of professional football and once almost single-handedly won five consecutive games...
made popular Sep 28 2010
A former coach of Togo’s national football team has been suspended for three years after hosting a fake match in Bahrain earlier this month.
Togo’s...
made popular Sep 21 2010
But to see design in Capello’s confusion would assume that he was a man in control, a coach at the top of his game. That is not how it looked for much of this...
made popular Aug 12 2010
I saw this coming.
I will be humble and not brag too much: But I saw this coming. During the World Cup I had my say about what may befall the North Korean team after...
made popular Jul 31 2010
Nigeria national U-20 women’s team, the Falconets yesterday continued their impressive run in the FIFA organized football tournament by edging out hard fighting...
made popular Jul 30 2010
The most talked about memory of the FIFA World Cup 2010 I am sure is going to be, “Whose exit was more humiliating, Argentina’s or Brazil’s?” And mind you it is...
made popular Jul 26 2010
Children from the Premier India Football Academy had the privilege to watch the last Spanish league game at Nou Camp, Barcelona
Premier India Football Academy (PIFA)...
made popular Jul 26 2010
At least on the European continent, nobody par-tay like the Spaniards. The Spanish hold so many celebrations over so many events that sleep can be a problem. Festivals...
made popular Jul 13 2010
The goalkeeper of Brazil’s most popular football team has surrendered to the police in connection with the disappearance of his former lover.
Bruno Fernandes,...
made popular Jul 8 2010
Two goals in three second-half minutes by Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben helped to see off a resolute Uruguay side and put the Netherlands into a World Cup final for...
made popular Jul 7 2010
FIFA said on Wednesday it would release 2,000 tickets for the World Cup quarter-finals which had been reserved by fans who hoped their teams would reach the last eight...
made popular Jun 30 2010
Above is the discounted English goal which may have made all the difference to the Three Lions...but probably not.
British fans are seething after their second goal in...
made popular Jun 30 2010
I recently wrote that one of the reasons the British national football (or soccer) team often under-performs is that they are under too much pressure to succeed.
That...
made popular Jun 29 2010
A willingness to compete and a fighting spirit are the two major factors that have propelled Ghana to the World Cup quarter-finals, says coach Milovan Rajevac, praising...
made popular Jun 28 2010
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South Africa rejoiced Sunday as Ghana became only the third African team ever to make the World Cup quarter-finals, as England crashed out of the tournament after a...
made popular Jun 28 2010
Every time the World Cup rolls around the English national team, which is incredibly on paper, comes under tremendous pressure to win. This is due to both the zealot...
made popular Jun 28 2010
The Palestinians and their steadfastness, their refusal to let Israel defeat them and their creativity never fails to impress.
The thing about the Palestinian people...
made popular Jun 28 2010
The thrilling run of the United States national team at the World Cup has come to end, finished by Asamoah (Baby Jet) Gyan’s goal in the third minute of extra time...
made popular Jun 28 2010
Algeria soccer player Rafik Saifi slapped a female journalist across the face as the aftermath of the United States’ dramatic World Cup victory turned ugly at Loftus...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Over and over, everything seemed to go against them.
A referee took away a win last week, and a linesman disallowed another goal Wednesday.
Now there was just 3 1/2...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Nigeria became the third African side to drop out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup when they were held to a 2-2 draw by South Korea at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on...
made popular Jun 23 2010
The FIFA refereeing committee will review a referee’s controversial call that disallowed a U.S. goal in the match against Slovenia Friday that ended in a...
made popular Jun 21 2010
A FIFA referee who disallowed a winning third goal by the U.S. national football team is under scrutiny.
The United States played an admirable game yesterday against...
made popular Jun 21 2010
At least 86 FIFA World Cup volunteers were treated for food poisoning after eating breakfast at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga on Friday, Local...
made popular Jun 19 2010
Hope you\’re enjoying that monster suite in the Michelangelo Hotel, Sepp Blatter, and the luxurious massages and, I assume, the caviar and nightly champagne. Your...
made popular Jun 19 2010
Sao Paulo is Latin America’s most populous city and one of Brazil’s most dynamic. It is also home to two football clubs: the popular Sao Paulo FC along with...
made popular Jun 18 2010
Angry and hoping against hope. That was the mood among World Cup stadium security guards in Durban who on Thursday heard they had been fired.
Regret at...
made popular Jun 17 2010
Cote d’Ivoire put in a thrilling performance but had to settle for a 0-0 draw with Portugal in their 2010 FIFA World Cup Group G clash at the Nelson Mandela Bay...
made popular Jun 16 2010
Granted this is the silly Murdoch tabloid New York Post, but nonetheless the New York Post’s grotesque and extreme Americana nationalism speaks to a trend within...
made popular Jun 16 2010
For the first time since 1966, North Korea has qualified for the World Cup. The national team is ranked last in the world and due to the extreme insular nature of the...
made popular Jun 16 2010
The ‘Vuvuzela’, the indigenous South African horn, should be banned from the on-going FIFA World Cup being played in South Africa as it is creating an...
made popular Jun 15 2010
It is because of the constant noise, that the South African authorities are considering banning the Vuvuzelas:
There are reports that World Cup organizers are already...
made popular Jun 14 2010
The first World Cup in Africa has its first African winner.
Ghana stunned Serbia when Asamoah Gyan scored on an 84th-minute penalty kick Sunday for a 1-0 victory in...
made popular Jun 14 2010
Coach Fabio Capello said soon after the game on Saturday night that King would definitely miss Friday’s game with Algeria, but it is feared King could be...
made popular Jun 14 2010
Who was the idiot who decided that it would be a good idea to give tens of thousands of energized soccer fans loud and obnoxious horns? If you’ve been watching...
made popular Jun 14 2010
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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2006 file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Larry Foote returns an interception during the AFC championship football game against the Denver Broncos in Denver. The Steelers released Foote on Monday, May 4, 2009, a move...
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