World Cup

The road to the Maracana will be a marathon of 64 matches in 30 days. Every game can be seen on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN 2. All games will also be broadcast online via the WatchESPN app. To fully use the app you will need to have a cable subscription with a partner to ESPN. Those providers are as follows: AT&T U-verse, Bright House Networks, Charter, Comcast XFINITY, Cox, DISH, Google Fiber, Midcontinent Communications, Optimum, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon FiOS TV. Also, Google Chromecast will have the WatchESPN app as well. 

Think you know how the 2014 FIFA World Cup will play out? Prove it!

In an apparent ploy to spend the full $3.2 billion that Apple just spent to acquire them, Beats by Dre has just released a 5-minute-long, star-studded World Cup commercial that might just make your head explode.

The English summer - meteorologically defined as two consecutive days upon which the sun is visible to the naked eye - brings with it a host of sporting activities: cricket, tennis, sunbathing in torrential rain. But none are engaged with such masochistic fervor as the biennial pursuit of over-hyping England's prospects ahead of a major international tournament. Press, pundits and politicians compete to whip the national psyche into a froth of bravado, sure that this is the year England finally breaks a 48-year cycle of failure.

Imagine being in your mid-twenties and an international soccer superstar who's about to play on the biggest stage of your life. Now imagine being told you must stay abstinent while staying in one of the sexiest countries in the world.

It’s almost here.  Years of anticipation, years of hopes, years of unsettled scores (here’s looking at Ghana) and years of qualification – more than 800 matches have brought us to this moment: only 32 teams remain. It’s easy to forget that the FIFA World Cup is not just a summer fling. It is the culmination of a world-wide extravaganza which started almost 3 years ago.

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is no stranger to controversy. The company, which offers online sports betting and gambling (as well as conducting business through licensed betting shops throughout the U.K.

The United States Men’s National Team takes on arch-nemesis Ghana in its opening match at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil on June 16th.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is less than a week away, but you don't have to wait. The18 brings you the results of the Round of 16 in our "2014 World Cup Kit Championship."