Top-ranked Australia will be hoping to go 3-0 at the Cricket World Cup as they take on fourth-ranked Sri Lanka at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 5th.

With the batsmen being expected to do all the scoring on flatter tracks and shorter grounds, it will be the wicket-taking bowlers, who will look to do most damage.

It seems that soccer’s World Cup is popular across the globe, but for countries such as China, which has never made the tournament, it’s for different reasons. Chinese criminals see the world’s most popular sporting event as an ideal opportunity to make some serious money on illegal gambling when betting on World Cup. When last [...]

If you’re wondering what FIFA does with the millions of dollars it rakes in from the World Cup you’re not alone. The world’s governing body of soccer released some figures on Jan 6th that accounts for $40 million of profits from the 2010 World Cup that was held in South Africa. The money was split [...]

Paul the Octopus became a world wide celebrity after the 2010 World Cup where he managed to predict the outcome of all the games involving Germany. He also managed to predict Spain as the winner of the World Cup final against Holland.

The World Cup is over as we all know and it won’t be back for another four years (or 2 years if you count the qualifying stages).

After Germany lost to Spain in the semi finals of the 2010 World Cup Paul the Oracle Octopus started receiving a lot of death threats. After that it wasn’t long until the blogosphere was flooded with spoof posts about Paul the Octopus being dead.

While the only trophy that really matters to most fans was won by Spain on July 11 after their 1-0 win in the World Cup Final over Holland, FIFA did give out some other hardware to deserving players. Golden Ball: Best player of the tournament – Diego Forlan – Uruguay Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan was [...]

The 2010 World Cup Golden Ball nominees were announced on July 9 by FIFA’s General Secretary Jerome Valcke along with adidas CEO Herbert Hainer. The Golden Ball trophy is awarded to the best player of the World Cup tournament. The 10 players who were nominated were chosen by FIFA’s Technical Study Group, which includes soccer [...]

While the World Cup Final is going the come down to the wire on July 11, it looks like the Golden Boot award for the tournament’s top striker probably will too. At the moment, Spain striker David Villa and Holland midfielder each have five and will of course be facing each other in the final [...]