Here’s a look at how the 2014 World Cup shapes up: GROUP A Brazil Cameroon Croatia Mexico FAVORITE: Brazil was drawn into a group a bit more difficult than most host countries, but has the talent to come out on top provided the team doesn’t crack…
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Fortune favors the bold, the old Latin proverb says. Only fools try to predict a World Cup final, a more modern proverb counters. So let’s be bold fools together, shall we? Here are 10 predictions for the World Cup, which kicks off today with…
Everybody knows someone who likes to say these words every four years, right? “I only watch soccer when the World Cup is on.” If that description accurately describes you, your time has arrived. We’re counting down to the start of the 2014 FIFA World…
To the Editor: My heart goes out to those parents of the schoolgirls in Nigeria who, through no fault of their own, are being used to extort money for the terrorist cause in that country. The country’s military has refused to get involved in finding…
FLORHAM PARK — Michael Vick is competing for a starting job as an NFL quarterback for the second year in a row. But this year’s competition between Vick and Geno Smith with the Jets is not the same as the one Vick was in last year, when he was with…
For the past decade and a half there has not been a better player for club and country than Landon Donovan. Love him or hate him — and there are legions of people in both camps — there is no one who can match his championships and records in Major…
With the Premier League season done and dusted, it is time for the inaugural Miller Premier League Awards to be handed out, with all the stars of the league coming to a big gala event hosted by Dacey’s Pub, the European Football capital of the tri…
Make it two of 12 draft picks now under contract for the Jets. Moments after linebacker Trevor Reilly, the team’s seventh-round pick, came to terms, the Jets announced Wednesday that they also reached an agreement with offensive lineman Dakota Dozier…
Bike Hunterdon, an initiative of the nonprofit transportation organization, HART Commuter Information Services, and the Western Jersey Wheelmen bicycle club have partnered to commemorate the 300th Anniversary of Hunterdon County by leading a series…
Today is the final day of what has been an eventful Barclays Premier League season, and there still may be a surprise or two left. Then again, most of the surprise results have come over the past few weeks, and the race at the top, for the Champions…
First reported by NJ.com this weekend, it is now official — Sixers point guard Michael Carter-Williams is the NBA Rookie of the Year. The award will be given to Carter-Williams during a press conference on Monday, making him the first Sixers rookie…
The Giants could have done worse, so much worse, than Josh Freeman. A quick look at some of their other options and the thought of any of them playing for Big Blue this season might have led fans to a padded room with no windows. General manager Jerry…
The Thunder saw their game vs. the Akron RubberDucks postponed by rain Tuesday. The two squads will play a doubleheader Wednesday in Akron, Ohio, beginning at 12:05 p.m. The Thunder did make a roster move. Catcher Francisco Arcia was promoted to Triple…
What a massive week of football we just saw. For fans of high pressure matches, it does not get much better than the past week. The Premier League title race and relegation battle, F.A. Cup, Champions League, Europa League, La Liga title race, and a…
A Nigerian man was arraigned today on a 31-count superseding indictment charging him with participating in a scheme that used stolen identities to claim phony tax refunds, causing the U.S. Treasury losses of more than $3 million, authorities said. Kole…
NEW YORK — Every spring, Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli tries to take as many groundballs as he can in the infield. He goes around the diamond, fielding balls at third base, shortstop, second base and first base. An infielder when he signed with…
When radio sports talk-show hosts wander into the realm of grown-up issues, like crime and politics and medicine, they tend to show how little they know. Such was the case this week when Daniel Murphy, a player with the New York Mets baseball team,…
WEEHAWKEN — Drivers, start your motors. With hopes of a New Jersey Formula 1 race diminishing with each passing year, the racing world’s newest – and perhaps quietest – circuit may take its place along the Hudson River, according to a published report…
NEWARK — Let the games begin. The Rodney Mason Mentoring Baseball camp is hosting its first meeting at Weequahic Park on Saturday. The camp, founded in 2011, teaches kids and young adults between the ages of 6 and 24 the fundamentals of baseball just…
MADISON — Madison police are warning residents to be wary of several popular telephone and Internet scams being used to trick people out of money. “We are asking any residents who experience any requests for money to not give into panic and…