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In other news, USA USA USA: News from The Associated Press

Goalie is the one position on the field that benefits from much of the same skillset as other big american sports: Size, strength, jump height and hand-eye coordination. Both Howard and Friedel were active basketballers in their youth. It makes sense that the US is well suited to produce good...

I'm going to take a wild guess and go with: Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Zelda Isn't that the answer for every Nintendo non-handheld console post-64?

I don't know why Americans get so upset that we don't really care about their sport that much. I'm not saying we would necessarily dominate, but it's ridiculous to say that we wouldn't be consistently in the top 10 if we actually gave a shit about american football. I mean, name me a sport...

Zlatan is arguably more technically gifted than Messi, but he has a longer stride and a higher center of weight, which makes it impossible to do some of the things Messi does. There's nothing magical about it, it's just physics. Different sports (and different roles within those sports) favor...

Just reminding you that this is what you said. No, they almost certainly wouldn't, they're too big. The biggest world class (outfield) player the game has ever seen is Zlatan at 6'5'' 210 pounds, and he is a technical demigod. It takes insane technical skill to play soccer well with that sort of...

Around 65 the diving starts causing bone fractures. More seriously, generally around 32-35. Goalkeepers last ~5 years longer. Injuries add up over time, and older players get so much slower at accelerating that they end up losing too many duels.

US winning hearts right now.

We got a game!

That running thing is a fun quip, but Bedoya has ran almost 15km according to the commentators. That's fucking absurd.

Getting dropped from the starting 11 did good things for Lukaku.

Jesus christ Clint, how about shooting.

US-oh.

Also, Vincent Kompany may be my favourite footballer, club associations aside. Pure class and heart. Quineloe, no. He's above average, though. Top 5 in the league, I'd say.

Origi, who is apparently heavily linked with Liverpool, has been pretty good. Fast, good heading, strong, able to play facing both ways. Then again, he's playing against a pretty shit defense and with some world class assistance, and his finishing has been rather poor.

This Yedlin kid has had a legit good game, god damn he's fast.

God damn Tim Howard carrying USA on his back.

If Kevin Fucking Mirallas is that close to pulling a Maradona style raid on you, you need to work on your defense.

Now your shame is exposed for all to see!

4 4 3 confirmed best formation

No brakes on this train.

Holy shit this game. Two teams that refuse to play defense or possession just countering back and forth. It's stupid, but fun as shit to watch. This is the equivalent of 5v5 all mid Dota.

Holy shit this world cup. Pundits would have been arguing for weeks if Shaqiri scored on that FK though. It was clearly a dive, but if he didn't dive the tackle would have hit his legs and brought him down for sure.

Techies has three problems: 1) It sucks to have him on your team. He is pretty bad, and even worse in the hands of pubs, as most of them will spend half the game mining in the middle of nowhere getting no xp and money 2) It sucks to have him on the other team. It's incredibly unfun to play...

The problem is entirely in the game deciding up front what is the right choice for your character, which turns dilemmas in conversations into "guess the intention" minigames. Adding a slider and a "target alignment" wouldn't help that one bit. Alignment worked in D&D for two reasons: First...

Apparently Robben could have gone to LFC last year. Liverpool tried to sign Arjen Robben a year ago, reveals Jamie Carragher | Mail Online Suarez and Robben - I don't think the world would have ever seen a more deadly and unlikeable pairing.

This is the worst game design.

Is it a coincidence that the list only includes players who have played in the EPL? Telegraph's football staff is so fucking navel gazing. Guardian is the only UK newspaper whose football writers show some sense of perspective.

Also, they want to avoid junk teams at TI if a team implodes before the event and reforms with a shitty/unprepared squad. Anyway, there's like zero chance Valve doesn't allow Fnatic to go (with Excalibur) after the shitstorm this has caused.

fixed Unfortunately the best place in the game to learn to parry knights is directly after the archers, so for your first time through I'd recommend just tanking up and letting the bitch knock himself off the ledge by blocking/kicking. Left archer can be completely ignored.

Reminds me a bit ofSupersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, made by the studio of an old FoH member. Murr, I think? That game is one of the best couch MP games I've ever played.

The discussion around Na'Vi and XBOCT has been the exact same before every TI. "They don't practice" "Their drafts are outdated" "China / Alliance / X are so much more consistent, they will crush Na'Vi" "XBOCT throws too much" "XBOCT can't farm fast enough" Then TI rolls around and...

James looks absolutely nuts.

Suarez is a fucking cunt. Jesus fuck, ruined my night. I was even cheering for Uruguay because of him up to that point, after his fantastic season with good behavior. It's a fucking disgrace if he plays another game in this WC. I agree with Faille that I don't see why biting should be treated...

Kuyt would have been a world class DMC terrier if he had been trained like that from early on. Gattuso level. Wasted talent, sadly. Not that he hasn't been successful as a Striker -> Winger -> L/RM -> LB, but man, he could have been a legend.

If there's one thing you can count on from the US in the World Cup, it's passion and raw physical ability. Sometimes that's enough to overcome their tactical shortcomings and lack of world class talent. Always fun to watch. The WC experience is richer as a result, at least for us...

Portugal got 3rd in Euro 2012, going out to Spain on penalties.

After GD and GS, the matchup result (MR) between the teams decides. So in the case of Japan - Cote d'Ivoire, if they are equal after GD and GS, Cote d'Ivoire will progress because they beat Japan in their matchup. In the case of a three-way tie, the total number of points in the matchups between...

Nintendo's games wouldn't be able to do half the things they do without control of the hardware. Wii controllers (multiple aspects), Wii U gamepad, WiiFit board, DS dual screen, DS stylus, DS microphone - all of these things are integral to making Nintendo's games stand out from the crowd...

People were making the same claim that the russians were painting grass green during Sochi, but some landscaping professional mentioned on reddit that it's more likely a liquid consisting of quick-growing seeds, fertilizer and some coloring, which is an industry staple used to repair/kickstart...