Yahoo dominates the global soccer showcase as the host of the official website for the World Cup, and other sites offer Cup-related services. Even though the talking heads on ESPNRadio and local sports radio shows have nothing but disdain for soccer and its occasional 1-0 scores...
Dan Patrick a rest starting today, and head over to the web for your World Cup fix. Since Germany has the audacity to be five hours ahead of the US in time zones, the 6 PM kickoff in Munich between Germany and Costa Rica starts at 1 PM here. That's ok because the web is your friend.
World Cup coverage online starts with Yahoo, the host of the Joga site to all Google account holders who want to sign up for it. The soccer-focused site aims at the niche of fans who will be greatly excited for the next few weeks without caring a bit for the NBA playoffs, the Stanley Cup, the MLB All-Star Game, or the WNBA.
The main Google search will return World Cup scores when searching for a favorite player or team, according to Manu Rekhi, Product Manager, on the official dedicated section already seat up to cover the event. For instance, they are on top of the Michael Ballack story, in noting that Germany's captain will play in the opener today despite having been ruled out due to injury 24 hours prior.
If the mobile phone will be your only resource for World Cup information, Opera have options for feeding your World Cup needs, as the two companies co-promote their World Cup services.
4INFO (44636) offers information by SMS. Users can text "World Cup" to 4INFO to get all the daily scores. There are also options for texting team names or group names for those scores, or "schedule" plus the team name or "standing" plus the team name to retrieve that information.
Opera has a World Cup version of its Mini browser available at mini.opera.com/goal/ that can be installed on devices with a WAP browser. Also, desktop users of Opera 9 beta 2 can grab the 
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