CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Remember my encounter with the Miss World ladies? Absent from that group was one Lisa-Marie…

PRETORIA, South Africa — My host in Pretoria gave me this can of pepper spray to fend off bandits. I didn't have it…

PRETORIA, South Africa — People here keep telling me I look South African. What they mean is that I look Afrikaner.…

Luke: well, i just got robbed
me: what?
what happened?
Luke: they took my tickets man
my tickets
to [USA-Ghana]
they…

PRETORIA, South Africa — A few hours before the gut-roiling USA victory here, I witnessed a tense moment of another…

JOHANNESBURG — Getting around this city during the World Cup has been an unholy mess. Traffic can be obscene. Cabbies…

JOHANNESBURG — Slovenia-USA had it all. There was the immediate and customary American breakdown. The stirring…

NEAR RUSTENBURG / DURBAN, South Africa — Our friends at ESPN treat the World Cup like a luxury safari. A few days ago,…

JOHANNESBURG — See this button? It's called a panic button. It was given to me by my hosts at a guesthouse in…