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By Camilla Mancini
Portugal vs. Mexico: “A hard beginning maketh a good ending” - John Heywood
Portugal most agree with Heywood given that it advanced to the second round for the first time since 1966 and did it with style, having claimed the 3 points in all its matches. This result placed the Portuguese team at the top […]

WEEK 1

Thursday, Sep. 7

GAME

TIME

Miami at Pittsburgh

8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 10

GAME

TIME

Atlanta at Carolina

1:00 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay

1:00 p.m.

Buffalo at New England

1:00 p.m.

Cincinnati at Kansas City

1:00 p.m.

Denver at St. Louis

1:00 p.m.

New Orleans at Cleveland

1:00 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Tennessee

1:00 p.m.

Philadelphia at Houston

1:00 p.m.

Seattle at Detroit

1:00 p.m.

Chicago at Green Bay

4:15 p.m.

Dallas at Jacksonville

4:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona

4:15 p.m.

Indianapolis at N.Y. […]

Miroslav was born in Poland and began his career with SG Blaubach Diedelkopf and Homburg before signing for Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern in 1999. He forced his way into the full team via their amateur side.
He made his international debut in March 2001 against Albania and scored a winning debut goal after coming on from the […]

By Camilla Mancini 
 
On Tuesday the 20, England faced Sweden in Cologne while, Trinidad and Tobago was in Stuttgart playing against Paraguay. Of the four teams two were certain about their next steps: England with 6 points was definitely going to the next round and Paraguay with no points was on the other side of the […]

By Camilla Mancini
 
Ecuador vs. Germany
“After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box” – Italian Proverb.

One of the king teams of the tournament and one, which many people though was going to be just a pawn in the World Cup, made real the Italian proverb last Tuesday 20th at the Olympiastdium.

Germany […]

By Camilla Mancini

Today started the last round of matches for the first part of the World Cup, some of the teams already know if they are going to be part of the final eights or if they are going back home. Such as:
Germany and Ecuador: which met today in the field, both already know they […]

All the 32 teams for the 2006 World Cup finals are free of doping, an FIFA official said here on Sunday.
“There were no positive results among the 216 urine samples that have been analysed to date”, said FIFA Chief Medical Officer Jiri Dvorak at a local press conference.
The 53-year-old professor said FIFA’s doping control doctors […]

by Camilla Mancini
First impressions and players looking for the Golden Shoe
Germany and Costa Rica offered an exciting opening for the World Cup 2006. In less than 30 minutes they gave us three great goals. The two promising players for the inaugurate match were Miroslav Klose for the host team and Paulo Wanchope for the Central […]

By Mark Newman / MLB.com
Long before people collected his likeness, Mark Teixeira was a little boy who spent every dollar he had on baseball cards.”That was my only hobby until I was 12 or 13 years old,” the Texas Rangers first baseman said. “I remember when my parents bought me the Don Mattingly rookie card. That was my […]