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.
    By King Kaufman June 16, 2008

  • 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.
    July 13, 2006

  • 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.
    July 10, 2006

  • 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.
    June 30, 2006

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The beautiful, ugly game: Soccer doesn't need changing, but here's how I'd change it anyway.
    June 26, 2006

  • 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.
    June 23, 2006

  • 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.
    By Pete L'Official June 23, 2006

  • 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.
    June 22, 2006

  • 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.
    June 20, 2006

  • World Cup has women feeling feverish

    How on earth will women survive having their significant other's attention diverted to the World Cup?
    By Tracy Clark-Flory June 16, 2006

  • 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.
    June 15, 2006

  • 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."
    June 14, 2006

  • 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.
    June 13, 2006

  • 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.
    June 12, 2006

  • 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.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 9, 2006

  • The Velvet Revolution -- on the field

    As the World Cup approaches, an English writer recalls when Czech football, too, threw off its shackles.
    By Tim Adams June 2, 2006

  • 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."
    June 1, 2006

  • World cup of prostitution?

    What will happen when 3 million people descend on Germany for the World Cup?
    By Sarah Goldstein February 23, 2006

  • 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.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 12, 2005

  • 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.
    By Luke Harding November 18, 2005

  • 2002: The year in sports

    The thrill of ties and disputed finishes. The agony of scandals, blown calls and moral relativism. Plus: Endless debate.
    By King Kaufman December 31, 2002

  • 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.
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 2, 2002

  • If the U.S. won the World Cup

    An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell.
    By Allen Barra June 27, 2002

  • Welcome to the world

    In defeat, the U.S. soccer team won an epic victory: It brought America into the world of sports.
    By Gary Kamiya June 22, 2002

  • 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.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 12, 2002
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