SPORTS
March 29, 2011 | By Grahame L. Jones
Having tied Argentina, 1-1, in New Jersey on Saturday, the U.S. national soccer team had been expected to achieve a little more against less-powerful Paraguay in Nashville on Tuesday. Instead, it achieved a little less. A goal by Oscar Cardozo off a corner kick by Hernan Perez that the American defense failed to clear gave the South Americans a 1-0 victory in front of an LP Field crowd of 29,059, a record for soccer in Tennessee. Cardozo's goal came in the 18th minute, and Paraguay was able to make the slender lead hold up for the remaining 72 minutes.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 15, 2010 | Holiday Mathis
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SPORTS
July 6, 2010 | By Kevin Baxter
Semifinal: GERMANY VS. SPAIN Where: Durban. Time: 11:30 a.m. PDT. TV: ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Univision. Radio: Sirius/XM, KLYY-FM 97.5, KDLD-FM/KDLE-FM 103.1, KSPN-AM 710. The buzz: These teams met two years ago in the final of the European championships in a game Spain dominated despite winning just 1-0. But neither side expects there to be any carryover to this match. The young German side, especially, is completely different from the one the country fielded in 2008.
SPORTS
July 3, 2010
QUARTERFINALS: ARGENTINA VS. GERMANY Where: Cape Town. Time: 7 a.m. PDT. TV: ABC, ESPN Deportes, Univision. Radio: Sirius/XM, KLYY-FM 97.5, KDLD-FM/KDLE-FM 103.1, KSPN-AM 710. The buzz: There is no love lost between these longtime rivals. In the 2006 World Cup quarterfinals, after Germany beat Argentina on penalty kicks, the teams brawled on the pitch. Argentina comes into this one with the better record at this World Cup, having won all four of its matches by a combined score of 10-2.
SPORTS
July 3, 2010 | By Kevin Baxter
For decades Spain has approached the World Cup the same way most high school freshmen approach algebra. They'll go ahead and give it a try, but they don't expect great results. In the last 60 years, Spain has gone to the tournament 10 times. And seven times they came home after the first or second round. Once they entered as the reigning European champions yet managed to win only one game. But all that history is, well, just history now. Because after Saturday's hard-fought 1-0 win over stubborn Paraguay, Spain has advanced to the World Cup's final four for the first time since 1950, when the tournament had just 16 teams.
SPORTS
June 29, 2010 | By Kevin Baxter
Reporting from Pretoria, South Africa — Physically, Salvador Cabanas was half a world away when Edgar Barreto prepared to take the penalty shot that would help decide Paraguay's World Cup future. Spiritually, however, Barreto said he felt like his former teammate was standing right behind him. "His spirit is with the team," Barreto said. "He's always close to us." Cabanas should have been on the field Tuesday as Paraguay, which defeated Japan, 5-3, on penalty kicks after a 0-0 draw, moved into the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in its history.