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Tomorrow will be a fun day as groups A and B play their 3 games

250 posted on 06/19/2006 8:30:32 PM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)

To: soccer_maniac

Entry #91: June 19, 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. ET)
Wow. The ratings are in for USA-Italy and they are pretty great. On ABC the match earned a 5.2 overnight Nielsen rating, the highest overnight rating for a World Cup game on ABC since the 1998 final between Brazil and France (which earned a 7.0). Univision did a 13.5 NHTI (Nielsen Hispanic Television Index) household rating for the match, translating to 1,511,000 Hispanic TV homes. Overall, there were 2,661,000 Hispanic viewers, making it the fourth most-watched game of this tournament. Since they announced the exact tournament schedule earlier this year, we've been thinking that USA-Italy, on a Saturday, at 3 p.m. ET, on ABC, would be huge. We were right. Fantastic stuff.

http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_280957.html

251 posted on 06/19/2006 8:30:41 PM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)

To: soccer_maniac

I am very excited about the games this afternoon ;-)

I am just having my early morning coffee and freerepublic fix, getting ready for a morning jog.

England is my team in this tournament, and I am curious to see how England will play without Crouch in the team. Hopefully, with Rooney as a linking player, the midfield will be more drawn into the attacking game, and Owen can also come into his own.

I have to admit that the last two groupings haven't interested me all that much, but the next couple of days should be great.

Cheers.

253 posted on 06/19/2006 8:39:09 PM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)

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