If you're looking for a decidedly American take and analysis of the teams and games for the World Cup, I invite you to listen to The World Cup Roundtable, a nighly podcast. Dave Lifton of the excellent Screaming Eaglies Podcast organized this meeting of the soccer minds and it's been great fun to do. I hope you listen and enjoy it.

I've updated my world cup rosters map last night to include 17 of the 32 teams in the finals. All the big teams are now mapped including Brazil, Argentina, Italy, France, and Germany among others. Cut me a break, it's kind of tedious to hunt for stadiums in Buenos Aires and Tunisia. Many thanks to André who sent me the lat/long coordinates for Portugal!

Everything you need to know about the Portugal-Mexico matchup was predicted years ago by the Simpsons.