While listening to “As It Happens” (from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation) the other night, I caught a short blurb about the World Cup that starts tomorrow in Nantes, France. That’s the Foosball World Cup, if the picture above didn’t give you a hint…
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IT’S WORLD CUP TIME!!
Posted in World Cup Previews, tagged As It Happens, foosball, free streaming video!, Jessica Stepp, Nantes, Tony Spredeman, USTSF on January 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A Look Back At Our World Cup Previews
Posted in Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews, tagged World Cup 2010 on July 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »
With a few days off before the big game, we thought it would be good to take a look back at our predictions that we made in our previews leading up to the tournament. Some of us were accurate, some of us weren’t, and then some of us were complete morons (like the guy who [...]
“I never cry about what I don’t have. I’m always positive.” – Fabio Capello
Posted in USMNT, Weekend Open Thread, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews, tagged England, Saturday open thread, USMNT, World Cup 2010 on June 12, 2010 | 20 Comments »
There will be a time when we look back on the buildup to this USA/England World Cup match and think about how seriously we all took it, how much we hoped our various rooting interests would be fulfilled and how amazing it was to consider the match tactically and from a historical standpoint. I hope [...]
World Cup Previews: Group H
Posted in World Cup Previews, tagged Chilean National Team, Honduran National Team, Spanish National Team, Swiss National Team, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews on June 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m not going to lie; this is my favorite group in the bunch. Between the obvious dominance of Spain, the history of Chile and Switzerland, and the overproduction of Honduras, underlying storylines run through the entire group…and there are likely to be some surprises as well. Let’s look at each of these countries one at [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group G
Posted in CAF, CONMEBOL, FIFA, General, UEFA, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews on June 9, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Group G has been referred to as a “group of death,” and not just because it contains North Korea- I kid, Dear Leader, I kid! When this group was drawn last December it contained two very strong teams- Brazil and Portugal- one team full of potential- Côte d’Ivoire- and one unpredictable team- North Korea. Only [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group E
Posted in World Cup Previews, tagged Cameroon National Team, Denmark, Holland, Japan, Netherlands on June 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Group E Not a sexy group by any means, but it is one of the few groups where there isn’t really a bad team. Japan are not really good, but they aren’t bad. While the group has a clear favorite in The Netherlands, second place is wide open. Country: Netherlands Manager: Bert van Marwijk Best [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group D
Posted in World Cup Previews, tagged Australia, Germany, Ghana, Serbia, World Cup Previews on June 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Group D We’ve got Germany, Australia, Ghana, and Serbia. Had this been the “Group of Death” it would have worked oh so well for the headline writers (I can picture the “Group Death” banner on Soccernet). And while Harry Harris’s sources in Turin have yet to confirm what I’m about to say, I think that [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group C
Posted in World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews, tagged Algeria, England, Group C, Slovenia, USMNT, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews on June 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Group C. The USA. England. Algeria and Slovenia. Yeah, we’ve been talking about this one for awhile. Now it’s time to dissect it and break it down and make a prediction. Boy, I wish this group hadn’t been drawn this way.
2010 World Cup Preview: Group A
Posted in World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews, tagged France, Mexico, South Africa, Uruguay, World Cup 2010 on June 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Welcome to the first of Avoiding The Drop’s World Cup previews. Over the next two weeks we will be going group by group, previewing each country so you’re more prepared entering the 2010 World Cup. This is one of the more puzzling groups of all the World Cup. Both Mexico and France are traditional powers, [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group F
Posted in Bundesliga, CAF, Commentary, CONMEBOL, English Premier League, FIFA, General, La Liga, Serie A, South America, UEFA, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews, World Cup Qualifiers on June 8, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The defending champions, the “other” team from Down Under, and two very competitive teams make up Group F. Three of these teams have the quality to make it out of the group stage, but only two of them are going to do it- read on to find out which team is going to join New [...]
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