Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

It's only been 4 days since the World Cup started and great things have happened.  The US, despite the popularity of futbol, has played well.  Local bars and pubs are full to the brim at 7AM with face painted hooligans and while I don't normally love soccer, I'm way into it.  Checking scores, yelling at the TV, rooting for X country.  Nike, once again, created an amazing video to get our hearts pumping and ready for the match ups.

Not being a regular sports watcher, but a regular TV watcher, I believe ESPN has done a phenomenal job in keeping everyone up to speed on the world cup.  ESPN 3 from what I've seen will let you watch the matches live, replay matches already played, and sent alerts when someone scored a goal.  Given that most of us in the US have to work while all these matches are being going on, its essential.

The ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup app has been named by the NY Times as a "gold standard" in the category.  The app contains "detailed descriptions of every tournament since the first one in 1930, as well as a Teams tab consisting of player news and biographies, a bracket predictor contest and an index of the top 100 national teams.  A premium version has amplified features, such as live commentary and play by play, scoring alerts and in game video highlights."  Talk about extensive amount of info for a very small price tag.  If you weren't a hardcore football fan by now, you can easily become an expert with this app.

Given that the internett is a "vast black hole" of information, this app channels it into a very useful, handy, relevant and of the moment way.  I'm quickly becoming an ESPN fan and I don't even really like sports.