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What It's Like To Live Inside A Rio De Janeiro Favela
From Dave Zirin's newest book, Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy,available now. We'll be running excerpts throughout the World Cup....
How "Seven Nation Army" Became Soccer's Favorite Chant
Three World Cups later, the riff from the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" remains the soccer world's most prolific chant. It's possible to pinpoint the exact time and place the wordless chant was born: Oct. 22, 2003, in a bar in Milan....
Colombia's Goals Sound Best When Watched On Colombian TV
Here's our daily roundup of every World Cup goal as heard on national broadcasts. Colombia again takes the lead, with both the amazing play-by-play on Caracol TV but also that kick-ass theme song....
Lana Del Rey Thinkpieces, Ranked
Lana Del Rey is a successful pop singer with a carefully crafted persona who sings about The Way We Live Now. For reasons no one is quite clear on, music writers find the idea of a pop singer with a carefully crafted persona novel and interesting and enjoy writing pieces that attempt to explain what...
Pint-Sized Weezer Cover Band Comes Undone In 30 Seconds
This four-piece band from Michigan's Grosse Pointe Music Academy already seems nervous to be playing at a recital in front of people, but they start their cover of Weezer's "Undone—The Sweater Song" with no problem. But soon, some faulty equipment stops everything....
Your Italy-Costa Rica Open Thread
We start off the day with Italy and Costa Rica. Everyone is still alive in this group, though the result of this match could change that. We shall see....
FIFA Hired British Sex Comics To Make The Official 1970 World Cup Film
Early on while watching The World at Their Feet, FIFA’s chronicle of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, I dozed off. In my somnolence, I wondered if a saucy old British sex farce from the early 1970s was playing instead, a film full of fart jokes, sexual innuendo, and nurses frolicking in the nude. (If y...
Italy-Costa Rica: Live Online Streaming Links
Buon giorno! It's time for Italy-Costa Rica. Your links to watch on TV or online are below....
Insane Car Crash Slowed Down For Maximum Viewer Discomfort
"When I woke up the morning of jump day, I called my wife and told her that I had a bad feeling," said James Kirkam, the 4 Wheel Motor Sports Creative Team Leader for the GoPro video above. ...
Police Probe Wheelchair-Bound Brazil Fans Standing At World Cup
According to the Telegraph, Brazilian police are investigating images of supposedly wheelchair-bound fans leaping to their feet during the World Cup's opening match in São Paulo. ...
Did Chewing Tobacco Kill Tony Gwynn?
On Monday, Tony Gwynn died from complications related to salivary cancer, the same disease that claimed the life of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch two years ago. When Yauch died at the hospital where I work in Manhattan, I was shaken. A whole generation got a little older that day. The thing about Yauch's i...
Unfairly Slimed: It's Time To Forgive <em>Ghostbusters II</em>
In the weeks leading up to June 16, 1989, I can only imagine how incessantly my seven-year-old self pestered my parents to go see Ghostbusters II. I spent years obsessed with the 1984 original, once watching it on repeat from the moment I woke up to the moment I got sent to bed, wearing my plastic p...
Song For My Father
Several years ago, I eagerly read Adam Hochschild's celebrated book about the early days of the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's Ghost. It is an evocative and engaging read. I was stopped on the subway twice, exactly one week apart, by women who saw me reading the book and who were compelled to tell me...
Italy-Costa Rica: England Be Damned, The Ticos Are In Search Of A Draw
Most would agree Brazil 2014 has been as exciting as any World Cup group stage in recent memory. The tournament began with an unbelievable twelve consecutive matches without a draw. Of those first twelve matches, five were come-from-behind victories with two of the five genuine upsets (Netherlands-...
19 Tips For Comic Artists From Moebius
Via Royalboiler here are 19 tips for comic artists from Moebius. ...
FIFPro Calls For Concussion Probe After Alvaro Pereira Gets Knocked Cold
Uruguay's Alvaro Pereira took a knee to the head in yesterday's England match. He was out on the pitch—completely unconscious. Just minutes later, he overruled the team's medical staff and returned to play. Today, world soccer's players' union called for an investigation using some pretty basic logi...
NBA Logo Moved To Back Of Jerseys To Make Room For Ads
When the Charlotte Hornets revealed their jerseys yesterday, eagle-eyed observers like Uni Watch's Paul Lukas noticed something odd—the NBA logo, which had previously appeared on jerseys on the upper left chest area, had been moved to the back of the uniform. That's an awful lot of blank space creat...
