RIO DE JANEIRO — Zinedine Zidane of France did not apologize on MySpace after his infamous head butt in the 2006 World Cup final. Diego Maradona of Argentina did not address his 1986 knuckle-assisted Hand of God goal on America Online, a digital
BRASILA, Brazil–With Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez long gone, and Neymar out with a fractured vertebra, there is just one otherworldly superstar left in the World Cup. On Saturday, in the capital of his nation's top rival but in front of tens of
On July 4, I'm watching the Colombia vs Brazil match on three flat screens from World Cup sponsor Adidas' marketing hub in Rio de Janeiro.
They face Germany in a World Cup semifinal on Tuesday, and they'll do so without captain Thiago Silva or the talismanic Neymar, lost to suspension and calamitous injury respectively. While one might argue that, in a pure
BRASILA, Brazil–With Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez long gone, and Neymar out with a fractured vertebra, there is just one otherworldly superstar left in the World Cup. On Saturday, in the capital of his nation's top rival but in front of tens of