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Okay, here's your chance to prove your betting prowess. At stake: bragging rights. Predict the outcome of each of the Round of 16 games, including score. Winner is the person with the best record (a perfect 8 of 8 correct wins). Ties decided by the person with the most correct exact...

Radio interview today with political sportswriter Dave Zirin. Articulate and well researched. http://kalw.org/post/your-call-what-s-fueling-protests-world-cup On today's Your Call, we’ll talk to Dave Zirin, sports correspondent for The Nation Magazine and author of the new book, Brazil’s Dance...

Not the teams you think will win, but the ones who you will try to follow from beginning to end. Some will watch every game from start to finish, of course, but which teams do you really not want to miss in action? Could be one team, could be eight. Could be because you like a team, could be...

About time for a thread on Spain's #1 striker for WC2014 (barring Diego Costa, if that happens). The best back-to-goal #9 on the roster. The man knows how to create space for himself to turn and shoot.

Doesn't get much attention except when the World Cup rolls around, but he scored a couple of nice goals in the Russian Super Cup (CSKA Moscow 3 - 0 Zenit St. Petersburg). First, a cutting dribble across the box with a superb touch for the finish, and second, a one touch curler. Probable move to...

If anybody cares. :D Martinique with a winner over Canada in the last second of +3 stoppage time. :lol: Fantastic half volley from outside the box, off a clearance from corner kick. 1-0 final score. Mexico-Panama up next. Playing at Rose Bowl in SoCal. On Fox Soccer in the USA.

Too freaking hilarious, had to post this.

One of my favorite attacking players. Plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, and for the Belgian national team. Great on the dribble, excellent dead ball kicker, good playmaker, good defensive contribution. I have a feeling he'd shine if surrounded by players of similar tactical awareness...

What, no thread on Reus? This kid is very talented and a blast to watch. Not that Greece put up much of a barrier today, but you can see Reus has a great footballing brain and likes to move the ball quickly in tight spaces (in addition to his excellent abilities as an open field...

Maybe the best British holding/distributing midfielder out there at the moment. Xavi-eque 360s and movement off the ball- of course, this being the EPL, most of his teammates don't move relative to him (i.e. take advantage of his movement to find a new position). With him and Jack Wilshere...

One of the best goals I've seen in ages, the assist and finish provided by Spanish players. Brilliant runs, close passing, vision, and execution.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how much time pro players are required to put in outside of games and travel? I assume players take responsibility for some part of their own fitness training, but what is a typical contractually mandated work week when there is one weekend game scheduled? How many...