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Built for sports and showbiz (Sports Business Journal)
Red Bulls' planned stadium may hit $150M mark, become most costly U.S. soccer stadium (Sports Business Journal)
U.S. Soccer can build on intensity generated by World Cup (Sports Business Journal)
Many happy returns (Boston Globe)
Beasley hopes his future involves a return to MLS (Daily Herald)
Garlick becomes latest object of scrutiny (Salt Lake Tribune)
United remains on cruise control as team sets franchise road win mark (Washington Examiner)
TOBIAS' TAKE (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
After years of rejecting its pitch, I'm on soccer's side (Baltimore Sun)
With Soccer on the Screen, France-Italy Borders Spring Up All Across New York (New York Times)
Cup of pure joy (Boston Globe)
On LI, Cup runneth over (Newsday)
A Star Falters, France Fades, Italy Rejoices (New York Times)
A title, by kick or by trick (Boston Globe)
A nation asks 'Why?' after Zidane's violent exit from World Cup final (Associated Press)
Zidane loses head & legacy (New York Daily News)
World Cup fans pack restaurants (Boulder Daily Camera)
Columbus fans embrace Cup final (Columbus Dispatch)
Half a world away, Cup fans come out (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Just a bad World Cup (North Jersey Herald News)
A LOOK BACK AT THE 2006 WORLD CUP (Star Ledger)
Adidas to Incorporate Teamgeist Design (Associated Press)

Italy won the Cup, Zidane won the Golden Ball, but arguebly more important:

was elected the best looking fan by Gazzetta dello Sport :-)

Thanks for all the threads.

Cheers.

Thank you so much soccer_maniac for starting these World Cup threads. They've been so much fun to read and comment in.

I've been out of town for the last couple of days but I was able to watch the third place game and the final in a hotel room. I stopped in St Louis on my way back home to get something to eat, and the World Cup was all over the front page, and it was ALL OVER the sports page. The Cardinals were an afterthought.

But check this out - as I'm sitting there munching on my whopper and reading all about soccer in an American newspaper, I could have sworn I heard the guy behind me reading something about "Ronaldo" and "Scolari" to his girlfriend. I turned around, and sure enough, there were this guy and a girl, hunched over a newspaper, reading about the World Cup. I got to talking to them and it turns out they're newbie soccer fans who just started watching this tournament. You should have seen these guys - it was like watching children who have just been given a new toy on Christmas. For me it was like remembering all over again seeing the England - Ireland match in 1990 and wondering "where has THIS been all my life??"

I'm telling you my friend, soccer will flow through American veins en masse, and it will happen sooner rather than later.

I don't know if you've seen this or not, but after giving up trying to find it a few years ago I just found the magical Three Lions video from 1996.

And finally please add me to the soccer ping list if I'm not already on it. Thanks :)