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Brazilian Newspaper Front Page Features Flight Times Back To Chile
They seem pretty confident....
Where Hulk, Cristiano Ronaldo And Other World Cup Stars Got Their Names
It's fitting that the World Cup hosted by Brazil, a country with such a unique anthroponomastic culture, is lousy with guys bearing interesting names and sobriquets. And while hearing these names and wondering where they came from offers one source of enjoyment, we've tried to actually find out what...
Brazil vs. Chile: Live Online Streaming Links
The knockout round is upon us, which means it's time for our live streaming updates. Here's how to watch Brazil vs Chile on your TV, computer, or mobile device....
Islanders GM On Draft Pick: "He'll Fit Right In; They Shit On Me, Too"
The New York Islanders traded back into the first round and selected Josh Ho-Sang with the 28th pick in the NHL draft Friday night. Islanders GM Garth Snow apparently saw something of a kindred spirit in the much-discussed 18-year-old out of the Ontario Hockey League because now he thinks he's got s...
Runway Food Run Amok: Crowning Aspen's "King Of Porc"
After about 90 minutes at Grand Cochon in Aspen, Colorado, it all starts going to your head. Whether it's a function of being crowded into a century-old ballroom with hundreds of others at an altitude of 8,000 feet, the cumulative effect of spending three days treating wine as one of the four main f...
Why Chile Can Beat Brazil And Make A Deep World Cup Run
This is South America's World Cup. It started with a flourish of Brazilian zest and color in São Paulo, with Brazil's opening day coming out party against Croatia. Then there was the Argentine invasion of the Maracanã, Brazilian soccer's spiritual home. And the brightest stars at the glitteriest of ...
Swaggy P Juked Out Of The Gym By Little Kid
This little kid had Swaggy P on tilt. The crossover and behind-the-back dribble really seemed to catch Nick Young off guard and he never recovered. Once the time came for the pump fake, the eager Swaggy P was flying off the court. ...
<em>Good Day New York</em> Anchor Gets Horny Over His Female Colleague's Body
The folks at Good Day New York sent a correspondent out out to the newly renovated Action Park in New Jersey yesterday. It was an assignment that made for some fun on-the-scene reporting from Anna Gilligan. It also presented a good opportunity for Greg Kelly to do some heavy-breathed creepin' on his...
How Brazilian Protests Evolved To Fight Back Against The World Cup
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 Muslim Athletes Deal With Ramadan
For the first time since 1986, the World Cup and Ramadan will overlap. Ramadan's a month in the Islamic calendar—a lunar calendar—in which Muslims, among other things, abstain from food and water during the day, breaking fast at sundown. The fasting will start Saturday. There's a substantial number ...
Someone Invented A Better Way To Broadcast The World Cup
Dutch designer Guus ter Beek doesn't really like what he sees when he watches watches World Cup games on ESPN, so he and his colleagues went and invented a new, better way to broadcast the games....
What World Cup Coverage Is Missing
Soccer is, obviously, the centerpiece of the World Cup, but it means nothing without the crowd—the people in the stadiums, in the streets and parks of Brazilian cities, and in the urban spaces all over the world where collective viewing of the tournament has increasingly become the norm. It is a phe...
More Photos From Foggy, Foggy Wrigley Field
Denard Span wasn't the only one affected by the foggy conditions at Wrigley Field last night. Thankfully, the barking of the beer vendor seems to have cut through what the ball's light waves could not. Here are more photos from the game:...
Chart: Scoring At The 2014 World Cup Has Been Bonkers
Over on Stats In the Wild, Gregory Matthews has visualized how much scoring there's been at the 2014 World Cup, using the clever grid chart you see above. The goals of the "winning" team—draws are included—are the y-axix, and the losing team is the x-axis. Each square is labeled (and colored) with t...
I Can't Stop Watching This Hands-Free Chokeslam
This hands-free chokeslam is sold well by both wrestlers, and even the ref reacts appropriately. Good work all around....
Why Your World Cup Stadium Sucks: Arena Da Baixada, Curitiba
Arena da Baixada is on the less-sucky end of Brazil's list of World Cup stadiums, but that's not to say it doesn't also kind of suck....
<em>Nurse Jackie</em> Is Peaking With A Downward Spiral
"We need to talk about Jackie," All Saints Hospital nurse Zoey (played by Emmy winner and excellent speech-giver Merritt Wever) warns her boss as the penultimate episode of Nurse Jackie's sixth season winds down. That's an understatement. The show's titular caregiver and reckless drug addict (Oxycon...
Walter Matthau, '70s Action Hero: The Lurid Charms Of <em>Charley Varrick</em>
For much of his adult life, Walter Matthau looked like a weathered chew-toy version of Ronald Reagan, not like anyone's idea of an action hero. But for a three-movie run of early-'70s crime thrillers, he made a case for himself as one of the all-time great movie tough guys, a calm and sardonic every...
Denard Span Had No Fun Playing In Foggy-Ass Wrigley Last Night
The Nationals and the Cubs played a game under a thick blanket of fog at Wrigley Field last night. The conditions didn't wreak too much havoc on the outcome of the game, but the fog did create one crappy moment for Nationals center fielder Denard Span....