World Cup

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  • Get your World Cup scorecard!

    Everything you need to know about the players and teams.
  • The greatest show on earth

    It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer.
  • In praise of "soccer"

    It's time for America to discover the knees, thighs and invention of the men who play the most erotic game in the world.
  • Soccer may be the world's sport, but it will never be America's

    Every four years soccer officials assure us that if the U.S. men's team makes a run for the World Cup, their sport will finally break through in America. Dream on.
  • Kickin' it

    Mia Hamm's soccer prowess has finally launched women's sports into the mainstream. But is she ready for icon status?
  • Dancing in the streets

    Ethan Zindler reports from Paris on France's grand celebration of its World Cup victory -- and on the larger meaning of the competition.
  • The Cup runneth over and over

    World Cup scenes: Ethan Zindler reports on professional scalpers and amateur partyers in Marseille.
  • World Cup Scenes

    Matthew McAllester reports from France on the differing passions of Serbian, English and French soccer fans.
  • Among the Colombians

    Among the Colombians: Matthew Yeomans watches the Colombia-England match from a bar stool in Jackson Heights, N.Y.
  • Among the hooligans

    Ethan Zindler reports that threat and theft take over the town of Lens during the England-Colombia World Cup match.
  • USA vs. Iran (vs. Iran)

    Ethan Zindler reports from the World Cup: At the Iran-U.S. match, the real action is in the stands.
  • The Cup runneth over

    Ethan Zindler reports on some World Cup scenes: Scottish fans bare more than their souls, French fans get racist and blasé Parisians carry on as ever.
  • The sad death of a soccer maverick

    The tortured life of Britain's first openly gay soccer star ends in tragedy.
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