How a team loses actually matters
Unlike the French, the Germans and the Italians owned up to their loses. They’ll be champions again one day.
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World Cup 2010
Why we don’t watch soccer
Amateur participation is sky-high, so why is the Beautiful Game such a commerical flop in Canada?
Newsmakers
Unforgettable goal, unforgettable friend, The pride of the ’Peg and If you’re Canadian, say ‘I do’
Psychic octopus to retire after perfect World Cup record
Paul to return to day job at German aquarium
Who will win the World Cup?
Championship preview: Our resident soccer nerds duke it out for Spain and the Netherlands
Netherlands and Spain to play World Cup final
A re-cap of the semi-finals before Sunday’s big game
World Cup review: Quarter-finals
Netherlands, Germany, Uruguay, and Spain advance to the semi-finals
Africa mourns Ghana’s World Cup loss
Meanwhile, Paris Hilton arrested for marijuana at Brazil-Netherlands match
The journey of the underdog
As Uruguay enters the semi-finals, a look at the best underdogs in World Cup history
The mogul and the damage done
Neil van Schalkwyk is much meeker than the metre-long plastic horn for which he’s responsible