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USA plays Mexico in a World Cup qualifier today which is a big deal. (No, really, it is. Don't make us sent Teabaggers to your house).

• First we thought it was just Capitol Hill's little old men that were accident-prone. Now we hear about another elderly 81-year-old man who is suffering life-threatening injuries after being hit by a delivery truck this morning in the International District.
• Yesterday, U.S. Soccer announced Seattle's Qwest Field and Husky Stadium as the venues under consideration as part of their bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022.

A few weeks ago, we watched the first half of the Champions League Final at Pyramid. Each shot or diving save was met with indifference by the lunch crowd—we quickly found the game slow and boring.

Before we delve into our account from the World Cup Final(?) between Real Madrid and DC United we have to give a quick mad love shout out to KING 5's Don Porter.

Overheard while trying to buy a ticket to last night's Real Madrid vs. D.C. United match:

The other day we were perusing Citysearch’s lists because we had nothing better to do and about 20 minutes in which to do it. Every now and again we hit upon a morsel of an interesting suggestion, but mostly we just disagreed with everything. Our biggest pet peeve is most definitely their Best Sushi list.

Our good friends at Bostonist are big fans of DriveTime, a weekly vlog created and hosted by Ravi Jain during his commute to work. Most of the time, he picks up guests in his car and chats with them as he drives along, but for the past month, like everybody else, he's been focused on the World Cup.

The World Cup is so over that even the most pretentious Europhiles have finally shut up, but Seattlest has some unfinished business. Before the tournament started we set up something called the Seattlest World Cup Challenge over at ESPN and a bunch of you joined, despite our lack of creative naming skills. Some of you joined and forgot about it, only to get the points a monkey flipping coins would have. We doubt we'll see you at the G&D come the new season. Some of you played along for awhile and then dropped out a little later. You may stop by for an FA final or something and we'll see you then. A brave few stuck it out to the end and are just poor guessers. You guys are probably listening to too many American announcers on Fox Sports World. And then there's the guy that won: Capitol Hill Seattle.

Italy vs. France

There are only two World Cup matches left to be played: there's the loser's game on Saturday in which Germany will pummel Portugal 8-0 to the delight of 8 trillion England fans and the satisfaction of 0 German fans, and there's the winner's game on Sunday, the result of which is not going to be revealed by Seattlest until after the match. We can't tell you how that game will end because we want to win the Seattlest World Cup Challenge, sorry. Any prizes we promised in the past for that affair won't be awarded to ourselves but to who ever finishes second or the "France" of the fantasy league, shall we say. Oops.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

The Mariners play a children's game called "Flip" before they play each baseball game. In Flip you use your glove, hands and feet to pass a baseball around a circle. If you permit the ball to hit the ground, you're out.

It was nice playing along as a wannabe soccer fan for a while. Yes, yes, we know you're not done yet. But, you see, the Tour starts this weekend. And now that the media machine known as Lance Armstrong has left the building, Seattlest is actually (gasp) excited to watch this time around. The past few years of the Tour have been like sex between people who've been married forever--still feels pretty OK, but you know exactly how it all is going to happen. We'd give you the blow-by-blow of who is lined up to win the yellow, but everyone is already doing that, and the best part is that it is a long and varied list of contenders this year. (Apparently there's that whole doping controversy-palooza as well, in case you've been living under a rock.)

Topolino's Pizza's new Capitol Hill location, on 12th Avenue at E Denny, has only been open for business a week, and Seattlest has already eaten there approximately 72 times. We've never been to their other locations (in Bellevue and Madrona), but then again, those establishments aren't right near our apartment.

Things are getting dire at work with regards to the World Cup. Seattlest isn't sure how many two-hour lunches it's proper to take over the course of a month, but we're quite sure we passed that number long ago. Today (deep breath) is an off day. A vacation, holiday, break, pause, a rest from leisure. There are no games today. The second round is over, and the semi-finals don't start until Friday.

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there.

Last night, the air was thick with sweat and World Cup Fever. That's what you get when Brazilian actor/musician/superstar Seu Jorge comes to town. The sold-out show was hot and crowded---and the least hipsterish we've ever seen Neumo's. Members of the audience were speaking in Portuguese, donning soccer jerseys, and wearing glasses less out of concern for their image than their eyesight. All in all, it was an energetic, friendly crowd. And when Seu, along with his four-piece backing band, took the stage a little after 10:30pm, the audience reacted to the music in a way that we don't see much in Seattle: They danced. Not the arms-crossed, head-nodding form of dancing, nor the pushing-people proto-mosh. But some bonafide swaying, hip-shaking, wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don't-care dancing. It was amazing.

'Round Super Bowl time, a group of UT rejects called Texas A&M University decided to sue the Seahawks for using the number 12.

Ah, shit. Two things had to happen today for the U.S. team to finish second in the group, advance to the next round of the tournament and then get destroyed by Brazil in a lackluster showing. Italy had to beat the Czech Republic, which they did, and the U.S. had to beat Ghana, which they did not. Like an idiot Seattlest picked the U.S. to win today in the Seattlest World Cup Challenge. Betting with our heart there - The U.S. deservedly lost and have exited the tournament, hopefully marking the end of the Bruce Arena era in which we have consistantly sent out superbly conditioned and tactically sound duds as fodder for hungrier and more skilled teams to chew up.

On one hand, the U.S. team gave an encouraging performance in their 1-1 tie with Italy over the weekend and managed to avoid the label "mathematically eliminated" at least for another few days. On the other hand, being excited about a tie with the boot nation in any endeavour is downright unAmerican. Outside the confines of our little Group E, the soccer powers continue their relentless march into the later stages. Germany, England, Argentina, Brazil, Spain. Boooor-ring. Are there any wee teams out there that can knock out a giant? It appears not.

75 minutes in, the Germany vs. Poland match was a draw -- then Poland's Sobolewski, in a snit after being beaten to the ball, tripped up Germany's Klose. Two yellow cards made a red, and Sobolewski was sent off to leave his team short-handed for the remaining 15 minutes.

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other.

Show of hands - How many people are ditching work on Friday? Not that there aren't a million reasons to fail to show up to work on any give day, but the start of the World Cup should keep more of you than usual away from the cubicle. 9am Friday morning is the first match of the tournament with Germany set to eat Costa Rica like a plate of schnitzel. Should be fun to watch someone from our qualifying group get destroyed in front of four fifths of the world's population. Here's a helpfull hint for your World Cup fantasy pick 'em group: Germany will win that game. Alright, we gave you the first one - Now go sign up for the Seattlest World Cup Challenge. What did we say we'd give the winner again? Sounders tickets, possibly. Obviously that pales in comparison to the reflected athletic glory and acclaim that will be awarded the winner, but in case you needed that extra bit of motivation.

We're starting a Seattlest World Cup fantasy group over at ESPN instead of Yahoo because Yahoo makes you pick players and who the hell can keep up with all those crazy European longhairs. At ESPN you pick the winners of each match ("pick 'em" they call it in fantasysportslandia and casinos) and if you turn out to be the best guesser Seattlest will reward you with a Seattlest tee shirt, Sounders tickets and... whatever, something else cool. We'll buy you a few beers, how's that? Plus you can tell your friends that you bested the entire Seattlest sports staff.

Dear Seattlest,

It's common knowledge that every seemingly-local media organization actually belongs to a vast network of similar outlets in other geographic areas. It's for suppressing stories, congratulating each other on liberal bias and conspiring against politicians and celebrities and other things along those lines. For example, every once in a while Seattlest will say, "Hey, SFist, way to stick it to the religious right last week. Let's not report on that story casting gay marriage in a poor light. Pass it on to Gothamist." And they'll reply, "Good call and great job inventing global warming." It's all very fraternal and it's the way media works.

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers.

Here in Seattle, it's a slow sports day. The only major local team in action is the Husky women's basketball team, who host Michigan tonight. It's high school basketball night, but there aren't any particularly compelling matchups.