To add: Bradley's performance in the first half against Portugal forced them to bring on Willian to stop him from linking up with Dempsey. That pushed Veloso to left back, and the U.S. exploited Veloso throughout that half, and their best chances all came from getting in behind him.

you obviously have never watched one second of Marlins baseball

The only difference between yesterday's Mexico and the one that was so hapless in 2013: one of their ambitious long shots went in. I've never seen a team so reliant on shots from outside of the box.

Not surprised to see that his base is so...free.

An equally stunning pair of posts: back-to-back ones about players on Toronto FC.

I think the earlier mistake being referred to is Hulk giving up possession in the lead-up to Sanchez's goal

That's an impressive non sequitur.

To use your metaphor, what the UFC is doing to make these fight nights popular is taking Kevin Love, Rajon Rondo and James Harden and putting them in the D-League. They'd get a couple more viewers for the D-League, but it still wouldn't be great basketball, and the quality of the NBA would suffer for those absences.

I'm skeptical: wasn't it mostly keepers that complained about the Jabulani?

Cameron was responsible for at least one, if not both of Portugal's goals. I had my doubts about Gonzalez, but he was pretty solid today.

Well akshully, it's not even pronounced like that!

As Germany should know, the US doesn't let a little water stop them from advancing.

"The Redskins situation also highlights the major difference between football and other sports in this regard. With only 8 regular season home games, nearly all of which are on Sunday, fans are willing to travel much longer distances and go through greater inconveniences to get to an NFL game. The Redskins have always…

I'm tired of you guys using British terms just because we're talking about soccer.

Similarly, when they say they don't count serious injuries that caused a player to miss time, does that mean they count Alvaro Pereira's obvious concussion because he returned to play?

That's good hatin'.

He kicks the ground after hitting Sio's leg.

Suddenly, an idea pops into Dan Snyder's head.

Not FIFA, but the English FA handed him a 10 match suspension after the ref missed his bite in game.

Yep