Did Materazzi call Zidane a terrorist or not? Either way, Gallas wants to sma...

"Who Ate all the Bratwurst - French sports newspaper L'Equipe has speculated that Marco Materazzi may have called ZZ a terrorist. This is unfounded speculation – let's be very clear about that – but it certainly adds fuel to the fire, as does the continued silence of...

Why You Must Go in 2010

"Soccerphile World Cup Blog - There are two broad types of fans, those who attend matches in the flesh and those who don't. OK, it is impossible to get tickets these days to Premiership games so one is forced back into the armchair with the remote control and a PC to mull...

Golden Head? for Zidane?

"dcsundevil - So Zidane won the golden ball for the best player of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. I would say that minus the head butt, he deserves it. The terrible thing is that no one will remember his beautiful play against the Brasilians, or how he was playing against the...

Adidas Golden Ball goes to Zinedine Zidane

"World Cup Corner - The midfield maestro Zinedine Zidane won the adidas Golden Ball at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. Despite he was sent from the field, for butting Marco Materazzi in the chest, French No. 10 was voted the best player at 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany."

10 Things to remember about Germany 2006

"Who Ate all the Bratwurst - The World Cup is over for another four years (sob, sob). All we have left is the memories - unless you are Italian in which case you have the trophy too. But back to the memories, here are 10 things to remember Germany 2006 by. Feel free to post...

Game Over

"The Soccer Daily - Credit Marcelo Lippi. His tactics in the final were what you would expect from a coach of that standard, the equivalent of Ali's rope-a-dope."

Time to move on...

"TriSoccerFan - Now that the World Cup is over, I wanted to take a minute to say "hello" and "nice to meet you" to all the great folks I met out at the Fox and Hound and other pubs around the Triangle area during the World Cup."

Arena disciples bite back

"ThroughBall.com - I’ll admit it; when Ghana sent the U.S. packing, I was angry. I directed the bulk of my anger at Bruce Arena. Since that time (I posted my article approximately 15..."

Mystic Materazzi

"Who Ate all the Bratwurst - Marco Materazzi, quoted before the World Cup final: 'We have players that can mark Zidane, like Gattuso… There's no need to charge him up, otherwise he is capable of splitting the world in two.' Oops."

A tissue of lies leads to jailbreak…

"Sometimes when folks abuse the system, it makes things a lot worse for those who are left behind. Take this jailbreak, for instance. Three prisoners broke out of a jail in Australia by asking for a roll of toilet paper, and making their escape when the guard opened the...

Hotdogs and spiders and lightbulbs! Oh my!

" Chad: it’s an African country, it’s a thingy that hangs from mispunched ballots, and it’s our guy who brings us the weirdest Reuters video clips every week. Chad Ruble is back at the Oddly Enough Studio in glamorous Times Square, ready to show you what...

Double trouble: naked ambition on the stunt front…

"Call it asking for credit where credit is dubious. It turns out a Chinese actress who played movie star Zhang Ziyi’s naked body double in “The Banquet” wants her name in the movie’s credits. “The Banquet” features several body doubles to...

Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong here?

"Have these people never seen a movie, or what? There’s this Mafia boss serving a life sentence for murder, and a judge in Italy has ruled that he should be allowed to father a baby through artificial insemination. And by the way, the judge says public health service...

Honey, get the Civic, we’re goin’ to play miniature golf!

"Long, hot, American summer nights. It doesn’t get any better than this. And that’s when the wife really appreciates that John Galliano creation you got her for Mother’s Day. You had to order it from France over the Internet, but wasn’t it worth it? ...

The offal truth: one man’s meat is another man’s yuck…

"Okay, if they’re sending this stuff overseas, what the heck are they putting in our hotdogs? Each year, U.S. meat companies export hundreds of millions of dollars worth of various items that most Americans never see on store shelves, and if they did, they’d run...

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