Bear Down Wildcats

CalStateTempe wrote:

77HoyaCat4Ever wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:mexico's style of play just pisses me off.

They played really well, actually

They really did, won me over in the second half once I was home and able to watch the entire half instead of catching glimpses in between end of day documentation completion.

Memo Ochoa was a sight to see.

MrBug708 wrote:That strike by Cahill was world class. Of course he picked up his second yellow card..

Chicat wrote:If Spain loses they're done? Crazy...

SCCat wrote:Reported ticket price for Spain v. Chile at 78,000 person Maracana Stadium: $1100

ASUHATER! wrote:they are eliminated but they still have to play a meaningless game against each other next monday.

Longhorned wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:they are eliminated but they still have to play a meaningless game against each other next monday.

Not much different from a meaningful game, really. In either case, it's just a bunch of very small human forms running around a big field, falling down, and kicking the ball to the wrong area.

Japanese fans who watched their national team be defeated by the Ivory Coast in the Fifa World Cup on Saturday showed it is possible to lose graciously, when they stayed behind after the match to help clean up.

Despite seeing the Blue Samurais lose 2-1 against Didier Drogba's team at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Japanese spectators armed with bin liners patrolled their side of the stadium and gathered up discarded litter, Yahoo Sport reported.

While gathering waste after a sporting event is customary in Japan, the spectators’ actions came as a shock to football fans from other countries.
As pictures of the scene spread online, Twitter users took to the social media website to praise the do-gooders.

CatnapTom wrote:Nice to see some class displayed by the Japanese soccer fans

SCCat wrote:As everyone is saying, great game/result for Mexico to draw Brazil in Brazil.

MrBug708 wrote:

SCCat wrote:As everyone is saying, great game/result for Mexico to draw Brazil in Brazil.

The Croatia score vs Cameroon was bad for Mexico

azgreg wrote:So, Mexico advances with a win or draw.

Before it became a rallying cry for enthusiastic college basketball student sections or hopeful U.S. soccer fans, the trendiest chant in American sports began as something much less grandiose.

It was the brainchild of a Naval Academy Prep School student who never expected it to spread across his own campus, let alone across the nation.

Tasked with inventing a cheer for his 50-member platoon in fall 1998, Jay Rodriguez conceived of the now-famous "I believe that we will win" chant and taught it to his peers. Classmates say it was such an instant hit that members of other platoons joined in the rest of the school year whenever Rodriguez led the chant at Navy Prep basketball and football games.

"The first time we heard it, we all thought, 'This is awesome,'" said John Reeves, who attended Navy Prep and the Naval Academy with Rodriguez. "Jay was really good at coming up with stuff like that because he was very intelligent and very creative. It caught on like wildfire."

By 2010, rooting sections for several Major League Soccer franchises decided to borrow the chant after noticing the fun that fans at schools like Utah State and San Diego State were having performing it before games.

Strong couldn't believe it when he began graduate school at San Diego State a few years ago and listened to the Aztecs' student section give a deafening rendition of the chant before a game. Reeves was equally surprised when he was watching a football game on TV and heard the students performing the chant. Carthan had no idea the chant had spread until he stumbled across one of the ESPN World Cup commercials this spring.

England and Italy need to win their next games, and in combination they need to score three goals against tiny Costa Rica while shutting them out.