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'spell doom' indeed!

I've got 22 problems and a Dragon ain't one.

Even if all the top american athletes were playing soccer it would not be enough for the american national team to be very good. What you need is players that take part in a good championship or at the very least are in a team good enough to last in continental competitions. In this day and age...

Good fair-play by Jones: a shady player could have turned the ghanaian blowing a gasket into a red card, instead he tried to defuse the situation. I guess Ghana repaid the favor by somehow not scoring at the very end of stoppage time!

Bosnia should feel pretty good about their chances because Nigeria showed almost nothing and the iranian players have heart but their team is pretty limited.

They really failed to convey the wildling army was more than 20 guys doing a BBQ in the woods, the whole Bran thing was miserable and it feels the Tywin-Tyrion scene, while good, did not deliver as much as it could. I found it funny though that complexity is catching up with Danny. PS: I...

Question: is it me or the NBA champion was not called the world champion as it used to?

Leonard! The crowd asked for it and they got it!

Looking good. It's Spurs to lose now.

19 points is a good lead to have entering the fourth, but it would be foolish to think it's an unassailable lead. I am sure this match has still some drama in it.

What is going on? What is going on? There is still a quarter and a half!

That's called good defense!

The building is exploding and we are mid way through the 2nd quarter! I hope Djay will do some on site posting at the half.

Considering the glacial start, down 7 is not that bad.

Ginobili waking up the team with some gritty plays!

Strange start!

We'll see how Nigeria and Iran will play, but I thought Bosnia showed some good stuff and the Argentina of the 2nd half had its moments. Good attitude displayed by Messi that was still sprinting after loose balls after 90 minutes. And again 3 goals! I wonder if it has an impact on the teams...

Bosnia deserves something out of this match. Let's hope they score in the 2nd half or at least that Argentina play better. And France did a good job. A confidence boosting match against a tricky opponent.

Palacios forgot he already had a yellow for a moment and also forgot you can get away with a gentle push in the back but not with a hockey shoulder charge!

It's often like that. The small team fights and fights and loses in a disheartening way at the very end. 15 or 20 years ago, Switzerland was that small team that had more than its fair share of frustrating losses. But they reached another dimension in the past decade, so now they are the ones...

The swiss team seems paralyzed by tension and kindly offered a goal to Ecuador by losing the ball, committing an unneeded foul to give a good free-kick and then collectively hope the other guy will contest the header... There were a couple decent actions, but lost in a sea of missed passes...

28 goals in 8 matches helps! PS: Strangely, not a single draw!

It looks a bit lame, but at the same time the idea is funny and it got me laughing by the end of the trailer.

Implying that bad things will happen sounds like book spoiler to me! The contrary would be surprising though.

About Rooney: Good thing he was not the one that delivered the brilliant cross that lead to the goal then! I am not sure what is worse: english media or english 'fans'.

I think I'll go for Australia even if they have nasty bugs and ridiculously censored video games. I think it fits by Prosperity-Security-Weather trinity and it's a more laid back country than Japan.

As a neutral, I would be very surprised if that english team does not beat Uruguay and Costa Rica. It's not like england ate a 5-1 playing like shit, it could very well have been a draw (notably that miraculous deflection by the italian defender in the first half that managed to both prevent a...

At first it sounded like we would have the first 0-0 of the world cup, but Sterling, Sturidge and Welbeck have hot feet and the italians play like they are sleeping only to surprise with sudden and often well constructed accelerations. Fun match and I suspect we will see more goals. PS: that...

The last 5 minutes of that Costa Rica vs Uruguay match should be showed to the Atletico Madrid players!

It's not like boxing with weight categories: a light and short player cannot win a shoulder to shoulder contest with a tall and heavy player, so they let themselves fly and often they get a call in their favor, that's plenty of incentive right there. They make the best of a bad match-up. When...

2-2 would have been more in line with what happened during the match than 3-1, but this is what it is. As for the chilean players falling, they must be on average 25kg lighter than the australian players (apparently this is also the team with the lowest average height in the competition) so...

Fun fact: Cahill with 33 goals scored more for the national team than the other 22 australian players combined (28).

Chile thought it was a sprint and Australia thought it was a marathon. We'll see who is right.

My guess is that the reaction is the same all around the world: disbelief. It comes in many flavors though.

You got to feel for Sneijder, when he get to take part in the feast he stumbles! Anyway, that was pretty great and Blind must have the least fitting name ever.

The penalty was very very generous considering the attacker went out of his way to touch the defender, but it's less awful than Fred's flop.

A youTube video lead to another youTube video and here is a good one from February about where the Spurs stood then, with the doubts and difficulties. Interesting to watch 4 months later as they are on the verge of being the champions.

Only in the northern parts of Norway I believe. (also Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada, Alaska).

Except Ray Allen who is getting better and better!

There is something creepy to make a movie about killing an actual person and something irresponsible about making it the leader of country with which diplomatic relations are difficult to say the least. There is a tradition in american comedy to ridicule foreign enemy leaders though, as amply...