world cup

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/qatar-will-spend-200-billion-on-the-2022-world-cup/ http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/qatar-spend-staggering-134-billion-world-cup-101315417.html Holy cow. I only need a tiny bit of that money for my high speed rail. And should any tiny...

Sad news... Paul the octopus, an unlikely star of the 2010 World Cup who 'predicted' the outcome of eight matches, has died at an aquarium in Germany. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11626050 A moment of silence please

Apparently there is in germany a octopus who correctly predicted the winner of every game. That's a 100 per cent success rate. Just add the tripple ws. mb.com.ph/articles/266284/octopus-paul I think the world has finaly produced a promising applicant for the Million Dollar Challenge.

North Korean regime hired Chinese people to act as North Korean fans. disgusting http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/sports/soccer/02korea.html?sq=north%20korea&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all i guess Ill Kim's people don't have enough energy to support their team for 90+ Minutes...

I am surprised there is not a thread about it already. I am told Limbaugh, Beck and the other big-name conservative commentators have already cited the article. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-philbin/2010/06/09/media-make-selling-soccer-goal I posted it here instead of sports because...

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Elephant-causes-traffic-jam-stops-U-S-team-bus?urn=sow,247655 It was an elephant. I rest my case.

The ABE movement; innocent(ish) rivalry, understandable ire on the part of the celtic home nations at the pervasive jingo-ism flooding the media, or grossly unacceptable racism/sour grapes from those who didn't make the cup? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8733373.stm Personal view? Fed...

http://www.skysports.com/football/world-cup-2010/story/0,27032,12021_6199766,00.html :o This is pretty much the best advertisement a quack can get in Europe..

I hope this is more politics related than sport related, but I'd love to know the answer... As I understand it: There are no flights to Cuba from America and vice-versa. There is ongoing tension between the two. America doesn't like Cuba's style of Government and vice versa. So, they don't...