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Let's take a look at what we learned (aside from "fear the rise of Germany") from four matches in which we certainly learned to fear the rise of Germany. Life After Gotze Borussia Dortmund midfielder (and soon to be Bayern Munich player) Mario Go...

Das Racist broke up this weekend. You either: A. Care about this. B. Don't care about this. C. Aggressively, vocally don't care about this. They were that kind of band. It went down on Friday, in Germany. During a solo set at Munich's On3 ...

The MTV EMAs — that's the Europe Music Awards — went down in Frankfurt, Germany last night. Did you miss anything particularly big? No, of course not; this is an MTV awards show we're talking about here. But there were a few moments, from...

The last race at Eton Dorney not only put the cap on a disappointing Olympic Regatta for the U.S. men's rowing squad — the priority boat of the four took just a bronze in that race — it also assured that one of the most ridiculous medal r...

On Sunday in Germany, Joachim Low was everywhere all at once. In the Frankfurt airport, his frown was plastered across nearly every paper on the stand. The Frankfurter Allgemeine, a burly broadsheet not unlike the the Wall Street Journal in this coun...

You may know Anthony Richardson from his CPUvsCPU YouTube videos, many of which we have featured on Grantland Dot Com Backslash Blog Backslash The Dash Triangle before. But I bet you didn't know Anthony was psychic. Yeah, that's an absolutely true st...

Last time around, I did a preview of the quarterfinals. I picked Germany, Portugal, France, and Italy. If my success rate at crossing the street was as good as my success rate at picking knockout soccer matches, I would be dead. So let's take a look ...

Czech Republic vs. Portugal How They Got Here: Portugal pulled off the unlikely feat — or what seemed an unlikely feat before the tournament — of making it out of Group B, the Group of Death. After a fairly close loss to Germany, 1-0, Pa...

You know what play-by-play sports commentary needs more of? LASERS. Here's a Portuguese announcer Nuno Metas's reaction to Cristiano Ronaldo's game-winning, 74th-minute goal against Holland. The 2-1 victory over the Dutch, and Germany's defeat of Den...

An aging star and the new procedure that could revolutionize sports medicine.

1. Michel Telo, "Ai Se Eu Te Pego" Global hit from Brazilian vocalist Michel Telo (formerly of Grupo Tradicao) that sounds like any singer-songwriter stuff you might hear drifting beerily through windows on the college quad, but with way more acco...

There was a time when the artistically minded couldn't wait to get out of Germany. (With very good reason!) But for the last few years, the country has transformed itself into a magnet for the creative underclass. Drawn by cheap rent, an abundance of...

After years of courtship, the United States men's national team finally got its man. On Monday, U.S. Soccer presented Jurgen Klinsmann as the new head coach. Klinsmann, who is signed through the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, replaces Bob Bradley, who was...

A writer in Germany takes in the Brose Baskets Bamberg v. Alba Berlin championship game and reflects on what Dirk Nowitzki means to his countrymen.