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Here's Portuguese football legend Luis Figo, sitting next to Portuguese football legend Eusebio, at Thursday's Portugal-Czech Republic quarterfinals clash in Warsaw. And here's Luis Figo and Eusebio right after Cristiano Ronaldo's rather definitive h...

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...

Andriy Shevchenko has been called many things, from "Europe's deadliest finisher" to a waste of GBP;30.8 million on the part of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. But after his performance Monday in Ukraine's comeback victory against Sweden, he's going to ...

I think I need to drink all the beverages in Mr. Chi City's refrigerator ... I have Euro 2012 fever and I need to hydrate. Today, host nation Poland drew with Greece in the opening match of the tournament. About 70 minutes in, with the matc...

Ronaldo has something to prove, and Spain has something to finish.

I was a teenage John Calipari recruit. You have not read about me on Rivals.com. There are no YouTube compilations of me going off against Oak Hill Academy. I never even played for the man. But, in a fashion, the commitment I made to him lasted longe...

The Tournament Challenge Challenged from Stan Verrett You're sitting there and you can't help but feel your pen moving toward writing in Detroit over Kansas. Everything in the world is telling you it's the wrong call, but you can't help yo...

Do you believe in miracles? No, me neither. But sometimes sports gets awfully close to changing my mind. Let me tell you about the Chipolopolo, Zambia's national football team, which just won the country's first-ever Africa Cup of Nations tournament ...

Last night Uruguay won its record 15th Copa America title, decisively beating Paraguay in the final, 3-0. While Uruguay was certainly a worthy and deserving winner, it was a tournament that few outside of Montevideo will recall fondly; a Copa full of...

Like the Gold Cup, the only thing at stake in the Copa America, South America's regional tournament, is an invitation to the 2013 Confederations Cup. That and continental bragging rights, the future of some of globe's most powerful footballing nation...