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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...
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-...
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...
Matt Joyce Hits Ball Back Into Pitching Machine; Machine Fires It Again
Your latest baseball oddity comes courtesy of Matt Joyce. During Thursday's batting practice, the Rays designated hitter fouled a ball that bounced off the top of the cage and right back into the pitching machine's loading slot. The machine then zipped another strike before Joyce realized what had h...
Idiot Rays Fan Has The Worst Videobombing Routine
What's this guy doing? He has the perfect opportunity to do something—anything—interesting in the background of Kevin Kiermaier's postgame interview, but he doesn't. It's a waste of TV time....
Deafblind Boy's Friends Build Mini Pitch And Help Him "Watch" World Cup
Carlos is deafblind, but he was hoping to experience the World Cup and support Brazil. Fortunately for him, his two friends found an incredibly creative way to let him follow the first game of the tournament....
Gallery: England's Saddest Fans
England wouldn't be England if, in today's match, they didn't fall down early, get back up, only to get shoved right back into the mud afterward. And England fans wouldn't be England fans if they didn't look hilariously sad about it in the aftermath. Here's a collection of the best Sad England Fans:...
Your Japan-Greece Open Thread
A win tonight by either Japan or Greece would get them right back into the race. Let's talk about it in the discussion section below....
Cameroon Are A Mess, And Samuel Eto'o May Be Abandoning Ship
In 2010, in South Africa, the French famously refused to get off the bus. Four years later, Cameroon refused to get on the plane to Brazil. ...
Japan vs. Greece: Your Live Online Streaming Links
The last game of the day is upon us. Here's how to watch or stream Japan vs. Greece....
Luis Suárez Sinks His Teeth Into England's Heart With A Second Goal
SEE?! LUIS SUÁREZ IS A GODDAMN ANIMAL!...