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 didn’t compare to a match in Thailand involving real pachyderms. An all-elephant side took on an all-human side and the result was a 3-3 draw.
The match was held as [...]
With top spot in Group H seeminly secure, Spain coach Luis Aragones can afford the luxury of tinkering with his starting line-up against Saudi Arabia and fielding a few fringe players in Friday’s game in Kaiserslautern.
Marcos Paqueta’s side, meanwhile, will be hoping that his Saudi side can end their Group H campaign on a high [...]
Korea Republic and Switzerland go head-to-head on Friday 23 June in Hanover as the race to progress from Group G reaches a thrilling conclusion. With the group’s two tickets to the Round of 16 still up for grabs, the Taeguk Warriors and the Nati both need to take something from this match – in the [...]
<p>This was the hot topic at a panel discussion last week at <a href=”http://susy06.physics.uci.edu/”>SUSY06</a>. There were two evening panel sessions at the conference, the first was on the Anthropic Principle and was <a href=”http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/06/17/susy06-wednesday-night-smackdown/”>reported on by Clifford</a>. The seond was entitled, “<a href=”http://susy06.physics.uci.edu/program.html#panel”>Getting Ready for the LHC</a>” and was infinitely more rancorous than the Anthropic session which was tame by comparison! Who would have guessed that?</p>
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<p>The LHC panel members were: Gordy Kane (Michigan), Giacomo Polesello (CERN/Pisa), Maria Spiropulu (CERN), Konstantin Matchev (Florida), Howie Baer (Florida State), Tao Han (Wisconsin), Tilman Plehn (Edinburgh) and Joe Lykken (Fermilab) served as moderator. Each panel member spoke for a few minutes, then the floor was turned over for general discussion. However, Tao Han brought up a push-your-buttons topic during his presentation: [...]
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Victory by two clear goals. That is the scenario France need to secure their place in the second round of the FIFA World Cup. Four years ago, this same situation faced them before they took on Denmark in the final group game, and while the net did indeed bulge twice, it was at the wrong [...]
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 nation just doesn’t seem to mind being the last ranked team in the world. The latest sign that it is content on being the world’s worst football team comes [...]
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 you this news. I wish the anticipation of seeing your team play and the three-and-four-games-a-day magic could last throughout the entire tournament. But, like Maradona’s sobriety, inevitably it comes to [...]
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The Azzurri has secured their place in the World Cup second round as they eliminated the 10-man Czech Republic with a 2-0 Group E victory in Hamburg on Thursday.
A goal in each half from Marco Materazzi and Filippo Inzaghi was enough to give Marcello Lippi’s men the points as the Czechs had Jan Polak sent [...]
‘Black Stars’ Ghana are through to the knockout stages of the World Cup finals after registering Group E victories on Thursday outpointing the United States 2-1.
After a bright start in Nurnberg, Ghana opened the scoring after 22 minutes when Haminu Dramani stole the ball off Claudio Reyna and kept his head to curl a fine [...]
