World Cup

  • Turkey tops the Celtics' comeback

    Three goals in final 15 minutes of regulation give the Turks a stunner of a win over the Czech Republic at Euro 2008. Plus: Soccer letters.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    French captain Zidane apologizes for his head butt but says it's the provoker who should be punished. He's wrong.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Italy wins the World Cup as French legend Zidane is sent off. Let's do the same to the penalty-kick shootout. Plus: The Twins' side-arming blogger.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    In World Cup knockout games, the second goal gets even more important! Plus, those poor Minnesota Twins and their 17-2 streak.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The beautiful, ugly game: Soccer doesn't need changing, but here's how I'd change it anyway.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    With its 2006 World Cup over, what the U.S. needs is a flamboyant, charismatic coach to sell an exciting version of the game to elite young American athletes.
  • Score one for the Yanks

    Yes, the USA team went down in ignominy at the World Cup. But guess what? World soccer fans were loving us in Germany.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Playoffs are over, let's turn to baseball. Oh, Ozzie Guillen's insulting people again. Plus: World Cup scoring update.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Stanley Cup: Hurricanes win a thriller the NHL didn't deserve. Plus: ESPN graphic reveals shocking World Cup truth: Goals are important.
  • World Cup has women feeling feverish

    How on earth will women survive having their significant other's attention diverted to the World Cup?
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Stanley Cup Finals turn on a dime. Now the trophy is back in its case and the Oilers are back in the series. Plus: World Cup.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Dwyane Wade's spectacular fourth quarter saves the Heat. Can he do that three more times? Plus: World Cup. And: Bud Selig's "everyone."
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The U.S. pratfall in its World Cup opener didn't kill some coming soccer boom. Plus: Pong? And: Stanley Cup.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Mavericks shut down faltering Shaq, and if Pat Riley keeps getting outcoached, this is going to be a short NBA Finals. Plus: World Cup.
  • Are you ready for some futbol?

    The World Cup is the Godzilla of sporting events -- it wreaks more havoc on more people around the world than anything else.
  • The Velvet Revolution -- on the field

    As the World Cup approaches, an English writer recalls when Czech football, too, threw off its shackles.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Wallace smacks Shaq. Will it inspire a huge Pistons comeback? Plus: Clemens returns. The nerve! And: Sabres-'Canes Game 7, Lance Armstrong "exonerated."
  • World cup of prostitution?

    What will happen when 3 million people descend on Germany for the World Cup?
  • The World Cup cometh

    The U.S. may not survive the first round against Italy, the Czech Republic and Ghana. But nobody said getting respect on the global soccer stage was going to be easy.
  • Invasion of the body pleasers

    Along with soccer fans, officials planning next summer's World Cup in Berlin expect to host tens of thousands of foreign prostitutes.
  • 2002: The year in sports

    The thrill of ties and disputed finishes. The agony of scandals, blown calls and moral relativism. Plus: Endless debate.
  • Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup

    There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian.
  • If the U.S. won the World Cup

    An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell.
  • Welcome to the world

    In defeat, the U.S. soccer team won an epic victory: It brought America into the world of sports.
  • Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup!

    France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up.
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