Dayorama is offering daily World Cup coverage. Ollie also started the
DayoRimet after Dayorama fans nagged him by email for World Cup coverage: "On the right hand side of the homepage for the duration of the competition we'll be keeping score between the BBC and ITV coverage -- who'll get more goals? And every day I'll be posting a DayoRimet round-up of worthwhile World Cup tidbits I've found." The BBC is ahead of ITV as of this writing.
ReadersRead.com reports that
Franklin Foer, the Editor of the New Republic and the
author of How Soccer Explains The World, is also blogging about the
World Cup.
Online game: Can you score a goal on Italy's great goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon?
High-Tech Socceroos: How good were the
Socceroos against Brazil? They lost but at least the Socceroos are
tech savvy.
The Simon chooses Soccer in a well-written essay: "Many American sports fans think the World Cup is too boring. But the drama and athletic skill are unparalleled -- and there aren't so many stupid commercials, either."
There is no Naked World Cup. It's a nasty worm trick!
Thai Monks succumb to World Cup hangovers.
Thai Monks aren't the only people staying up late.
World Cup Blog Buzz: BlogPulse finds that the Germany, England, Brazil and Italy teams are generating the most buzz. BlogPulse also says the most cited World Cup sources are Handelsblatt.com, the BBC News and Sports Illustrated.
(via Blogspotting)
LiveScience.com explains why goalies hate the new World Cup soccer ball.
There's a little love for World Cup mascot Goleo.
There are about 600 Goleo posts according to
Tecnorati.
Search Engine Journal explains Google's Soccer Scores plug-in for the Google Desktop.
Some soccer sites may be hazardous to your PC. Sites about the Angolan team are the most likely to contain malware according the to they study. The danger appears to primarily be in screensaver websites.
