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…