World Cup notebook: Early start times explain empty seats in US
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (CP) - Before the World Cup of Hockey came to town, every hockey game involving NHL players since the league returned to Minnesota was a sellout.
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This zone qualifier looks a lot like all the others -- 1992 in Portland, 1999 and 2003 in San Juan. The United States just doesn't win -- it obliterates. And the goal of every other team this week is: Get to the medal round and avoid the Yanks at all costs.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The most popular global sporting event of the year kicks off in two weeks, and no, it's not the 2007 NFL season or any soccer competition. It's the Rugby World Cup.
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England start their defence of the World Cup with a laboured victory over a willing but limited USA side.
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October 11, 2004. The latest round of World Cup qualifiers in South America have produced some interesting results at nearly the half-way mark.
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There'll be no last-minute pressure this time. The United States advanced to the next round of World Cup qualifying with a game to spare.
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Sport: England began their World Cup defence with a low-key 28-10 victory over the USA.
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The tournament is still four years away but South Africans are already worrying about the morning-after effect from the football World Cup and the size of the tab they will have to pick up.
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Kristine Lilly remembers little about the selection of the first U.S. Women's World Cup team in 1991, probably because the announcement didn't make much of a splash. She marveled at the increase in interest in the event as she participated in a conference call Wednesday, after coach Greg Ryan picked the first 18 players for this year's squad.
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A labor dispute between the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and players has halted World Cup preparations and could result in the national team using replacement players for the Feb.
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The lack of focus on goalkeeper Chris Seitz during the World Cup has been a relatively good thing for the United States, which has played attractive, attacking soccer, for the most part.
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The United States is not ranked among the top 30 in soccer rankings for the first time in more than seven years.
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Soccer leagues must finish their schedules three weeks before the start of the 2006 World Cup. FIFA&#39;s executive committee said Sunday it acted to help players avoid burnout before the tournament.
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The US men&#39;s national soccer team will begin the final round of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup with a pair of road matches, including a trip to play arch rival Mexico at 114,000-seat Azteca Stadium early next year.
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FOXBOROUGH -- Maybe the US Soccer folks have been going about this all wrong. Maybe they should cut a deal with The Shopping Channel people for bulk jewelry and spread it around to their playmates from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Honduras. What easier, cheaper way to get to the World Cup?
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It&#39;s pretty rare that a first-ballot Hall of Famer, the third-leading goal-scorer in NHL history, gets benched. But the United States had opened the World Cup of
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When the United States plays Canada on Tuesday in the teams' first game of the World Cup of Hockey, the Americans' primary colors should be red, white, blue and gray.