Articles tagged with "general-banter"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 24th, 2006
Now that we have closed out the group stage of the World Cup, we are on to the knockout phase where we'll start hearing a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 24th, 2006
It is always fun to look back at the things we talked about before the World Cup. We've already shown you that our predictions ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 24th, 2006
After two weeks of World Cup football it has become a familiar scene. A player hits the turf and is rolling around in a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 23rd, 2006
If you are still trying to recover from yesterday's Croatia-Australia thriller, you are not alone. But even if you are exhausted, consider yourself lucky. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 23rd, 2006
That match involving the Elephants of Ivory Coast and Serbia Montenegro was an epic display of already eliminated team football, but by all indications it ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 23rd, 2006
Over the past few months we've tried our best to help American Samoa to move out of 205th spot in FIFA's rankings but the island ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 23rd, 2006
Chances are, sometime soon or maybe even today, your team will have played its last game of the 2006 World Cup. I hate to bring ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 22nd, 2006
It was twenty years ago today the Maradona scored the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) Hand of God goal against England. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Sean Keener | Jun 22nd, 2006
As this ESPN article suggests, ticket scalping, or as I like to call it, the free market is working at this year's world cup. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 22nd, 2006
We've seen some great goalkeeping this World Cup but none of the keepers has made a save quite like the one made by a fan ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 22nd, 2006
Germany is off to its best World Cup start in 32 years and if you are to believe that scientific research at least part of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 21st, 2006
We'll admit that if we received an email telling us about pictures from a Naked World Cup competition we would be more than a bit ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 21st, 2006
We've all had it happen. You're in a different city and you park your car on a street with which you aren't familiar. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Tom Barry | Jun 21st, 2006
Tuesday began the final games of group play, and there is little doubt that necks around the world will have to be iced down at ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 21st, 2006
There have been a few games this World Cup where my heart has felt like it was going to jump out of my chest during ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 21st, 2006
The World Cup rolls on. So do the stories about how this month-long football love fest is forcing this spinning globe of ours to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2006
With six goals combined in the first two games today, there have now been 1,997 goals scored in the history of the World Cup. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2006
I'll admit that I haven't done the best job of staying on top of my World Cup fantasy team, Bob's Big Boys. Been kind ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 20th, 2006
First, let me revise my title, because not everyone dislikes the “other” Ronaldo. Just throw 40 or 50 unprovoked snide comments into a forum and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2006
There are stupid criminals and then there are really stupid criminals. A thief in Munich falls into the latter category. After stealing a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2006
Frequent readers of World Cup Blog know that Angola is my adopted team this competition. One of the reasons why I chose to back ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2006
After watching a few World Cup matches of the big screens set up on the streets of Berlin, my neck is a bit sore. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 19th, 2006
Did you know that the 32 teams in this year's World Cup share 18 official languages? How can fans who don't share a common ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 19th, 2006
There may be no better place to meet people than the Berlin Fan Fest. But let me just tell you now that the muscular, cyborg ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 19th, 2006
The final whistle has blown on the 2006 RoboCup in Germany and it was the host machines that dominated the competition. German robot teams ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 19th, 2006
While players on teams like Ukraine and Costa Rica are forced to remain abstinent during the World Cup, the excitement of the competition is improving ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 18th, 2006
While you are make your last minute predictions for today's World Cup matches, you might want to take into consideration the alignment of Mars and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 18th, 2006
Leave the lederhosen at home. That is the message one can take away from the Dutch fans after hundreds of them were told to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Tom Barry | Jun 18th, 2006
The time has come. It’s a moment about which few have been concerned, but which those who care have been waiting for anxiously enough ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 18th, 2006
While leaders around the world are following the World Cup with interest, a museum in Leipzig gives you the chance to kick around footballs that ...
