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World Cup: Matchday 19 Recap and Matchday 20 Previews
Paraguay 0-0 Japan (5-3 on penalties) As with Uruguay v. South Korea, this was always going to be the appetizer to the main course later in the day. But the marinara for the mozzarella
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 18 Recap and Matchday 19 Previews
Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia After all of yesterday’s drama, this game was bound to be a return to what we expect in the group stage: a perpetual favorite dispatching an overmatched opponent without too much
Read More »World Cup: Recap of Ghana v. Germany and Australia v. Serbia and Matchday 14 Previews
Ghana 0-1 Germany Australia 2-1 Serbia The second set of games of the day were no less thrilling – four teams, all of whom were still capable of advancing. The biggest surprise was Australia
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 9 Recap and Matchday 10 Previews
Netherlands 1-0 Japan Games like this are why I can never take the Dutch seriously as contenders, but also why I can’t count them out. Like their fellow underachievers Spain against Switzerland, they struggled
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 8 Recap and Matchday 9 Previews
Germany 0-1 Serbia I disagree with the conventional wisdom on the sending off of Miroslav Klose. Yes, it was harsh, but he was already on a yellow, and you don’t make a needless tackle
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 4 Recap and Matchday 5 Preview
Popdose's daily recap of the action at the World Cup and a preview of tomorrow's games
Read More »The World Cup: Groups E & F Previews
Before we get into the third part of my World Cup previews, don’t forget to join the Yahoo World Cup Fantasy Group for Popdose readers. The password is “popdose.” Thanks to those of you
Read More »Numberscruncher: Earthquakes
On Saturday, another devastating earthquake hit, in Chile, and that gives us another chance to look at some of the numbers associated with earthquakes and rebuilding. The Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude
Read More »10 Things to Love/Hate about the World Baseball Classic
Tonight Japan and Korea will face off in a grudge match at Dodger Stadium – having already split four games over the last two weeks — in the finale of the second World Baseball
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