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How Many People Will Get Dengue Fever This World Cup?
Right now, about 600,000 people are pouring into Brazil for the World Cup, joining the two million Brazilians planning to shuffle around on some sort of World Cup pilgrimage. What many of the interlopers don't know, and what many of the locals do, but can do little about, is that being outdoors in B...
Today's World Cup Live Streaming Links
Here are your links for streaming today's matches live, either with U.S.-based English/Spanish commentary or home nations' local broadcasts. ...
Boris Diaw's Behind-The-Back Pass Was Just Incredible
We've already sung the praises of Boris Diaw and his intoxicating fat-guy game, but after the performance he put on during last night's beat down of the Heat, it's worth heaping a little more praise on the thick Frenchman....
Brazilian Newspaper Thanks Ref Who Rewarded Dive
Via the Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen, the front page of Brazilian paper O Globo's World Cup supplement today. Yeah, even the Brazilians know what's up....
Dad In Brazil Blows Up His Protesting Son's Spot, Tells Him To Get A Job
There you are, trying to join in on the great social movement of your young life, chants in your mouth, shirt covering your face. But then dad sees you, pulls the shirt off your face, and makes you go home. Goddammit, dad....
The World Cup Of Beer
Beer is one of the oldest hallmarks of civilization; parts of the 'Code of Hammurabi' regulated the production of beer, and the Sumerian pantheon featured Ninkasi, a goddess dedicated to that golden beverage. The world's oldest continuing food-production regulation is the Reinheitsgebot, promulgated...
Romário: The Hustler From Brazil's <i>Favelas</i>
From Eduardo Galeano's classic, now available as an ebook. We'll have excerpts throughout the week....
Here's Fred's Dive In The Box To Give Brazil The Lead
Yea, that's not a penalty. ...
Remember: Brazil Will Get A Shitload Of Fergie Time If It's Losing
Brazil are tied 1-1 in the second half against Croatia, and there is real danger of the home side dropping points. We ran down all the many ways that Brazil will have an advantage playing at home earlier today—culturally, by strength of schedule, and beyond—but given the situation, thought it was...
Brazil's Early Own Goal Scares Shit Out Of Betting Market
The bet trend on Croatia, as the match has progressed, is above. Check out that sad gray betting spike right before Neymar's equalizer....
What's Up With That Spray The Referee Used On Brazil's Free Kick?
On Brazil's free kick toward the end of the first half, World Cup viewers got their first look at one of this tournament's new wrinkles: A can of vanishing spray used by referees to mark off the distance defenders must stand from the ball....
Brazil Equalize Opening World Cup Match With Neymar Squeaker
Who else but Neymar? Amidst midfield congestion, the World Cup's most heavily-hyped player delivered with a perfectly-placed, if not exactly solidly-struck, shot. Here's how it sounded on Brazil's Rede Globo:...
Brazil Score First Goal Of World Cup—In Their Own Goal
This certainly isn't how Brazil planned to start things off. Croatia took a 1-0 lead 11 minutes into the match when Marcelo knocked the ball into his own goal....
The Crappy Manaus Pitch Is Being Spray-Painted Green
The turf at Manaus's Arena Amazonia is still going to be shit for Saturday's England-Italy match. It's going to be sandy and uneven and third-rate. But worry not: It's going to look great on TV. Today, workers laid down green spray paint to cover the brown parts....
Why Your World Cup Stadium Sucks: Arena Amazonia, Manaus
This is Arena Amazonia, nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Brazil. It is the worst....
Paraplegic In Robotic Exoskeleton Performs World Cup First Kick
OK, so after all the hype about the mind-controlled exoskeleton performing the first kick in the World Cup, it turned out to be kind of disappointing. (The opening ceremony broadcast only showed a few seconds of it, seen above.) But still, a paralyzed man controlling a robot suit with his mind kicke...
Fallen Rangers Fan Is The Saddest Subway Rider
A reader sends along this photo of a prone Rangers fan, fittingly adorned in a Rick Nash jersey and camo Rangers hat, lying prone on the Q train at 2:00 a.m. last night. We are told that this guy "barely moved" for at least three stops, at which time our tipster had to get off the train....
How Big Is Brazil's Home-Field Advantage At The World Cup?
Santos da casa não fazem milagres. At home, saints do not perform miracles. —Brazilian proverb...