The floodgates are open and instead of trickling in one by one the World Cup announcements are now coming in pairs. Today we learned the names of the fine men who will be representing Croatia and Ghana in the World Cup. From our perch in the sky, the Croatia team looks very solid. [...]

We’ve presented you with our infallible predictions and we’ve showed you how they compare to Google’s selections. Now it is time for you to be the smartypants and to tell us how you think things will play out in each of the groups. Today you get to let the entire world know how Group [...]

With the roster deadline looming for the World Cup teams, there are bound to be a few more surprises as well as some cool stories about some of the players on the less famous teams. A couple of players we are rooting to make the trip to Germany are Togo striker Backirou Salou and [...]

US President George W. Bush is a quick learner. When he was growing up he says he didn’t even know what a soccer ball looked like. As you can see in the picture, when he was a little older he thought a soccer ball was used for bowling. Now that he is [...]

The stars and stripes of the United States flag won’t be painted on the official team bus that ushers around Landycakes and mates at the World Cup. Because of the much dreaded and always nebulous “security concerns,” the US bus will be the only one in the tournament without a national flag painted on [...]

Over on the USA Blog Daryl has posted a fun and informative guide to the USA player nicknames. It is a good post for a couple of reasons. First, it gives us an excuse to once again use photos from this momentous photo spread. We can only hope the players get duped [...]

Proving that the World Cup is even more important than jump roping contests, United States coach Bruce Arena will reveal the players he has tapped to wear the red, white and blue in Germany tonight on ESPN. How huge is this? It is so huge that our czar of the USA blog Daryl [...]

We’re counting down the seconds before we start the LiveBlog for today’s friendly between the United States and Jamaica. Kickoff is 7pm ET in the US. To help get you in the mood, we’ve gathered a few stories from around the Web. If anyone out there knows of a location of a [...]

The week’s lone international friendly featuring a World Cup team is hardly one for the ages, but it does offer some sentimental value for fans of the United States as goalkeeper Tony Meola is likely to earn his 100th cap. Meola and an entirely domestic-based US side will take on a Jamaica team that [...]

Over the course of the past few months, World Cup Blog has offered its infallible predictions for each of the World Cup groups. We are so confident of the infallibility of our selections that we are willing to match wits with the smartest kids on the block: Google. Google Fight is a [...]