The World Cup of football, or soccer as the game is called in the United States, is the most popular sporting event in the world. For two years, teams representing virtually every country in the world compete for the right to play in the summer...

A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities - usually national teams or individuals representing their nation - compete for the title of world champion. A world cup is generally considered the premier competition in...

GROUP 1 Russia 1 Slovenia 1 RUSSIA dropped the first points of their World Cup qualifying campaign, but still top their group with seven points from three games. Defender Dmitry Khlestov put them ahead after eight minutes when he sent...

E This may not be the Group of Death, but there's no lack of menace and mayhem here with three of the world's top 13. The Italians, who've won three Cups, have advanced seven straight times. The Czechs are European semifinalists. The Americans...

Storyline: What sets the new and improved EA’s FIFA Soccer 06 game apart from previous World Cup games put out by EA is that it not only features the 32 teams that made the World Cup, but also the 95 teams that didn't. That's right,...

Kathrin Zettel, Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild gave Austria a sweep of the top three spots Thursday in a World Cup giant slalom.Zettel, who also won the season-opening GS in Aspen, Colo., completed Austria's eighth World Cup victory this season in a combined time of...