US chicas up next.

Set the alarm on your mickey mouse watch. US women play Colombia tomorrow (Sat, 7/2) at 9aPT.
Word on the street is that manager Sundhage may start Lori Lindsey in central midfield ahead of either Shannon Boxx or Carli Lloyd. Boxx and Lloyd have the two longest starting streaks on the team. The United States can clinch a place in the quarterfinals with a win and a Sweden win or draw against North Korea.

Mia in Das Haus!
Amy Rosenfeld (aka Dr Rosen-rosen) and the ESPN Producer team have secured US legend Mia Ham to join Brandi Chastain and Bob Ley on the set of our roving Big Blue studio/production truck.

Random Internet News Blip-
has anyone seen my ATM reciept?
An ATM receipt showing a balance of nearly $100 million dollars was discovered at an East Hampton Village bank.
A customer found the receipt hanging out of the ATM's slot. The customer who found the receipt showed it to financial blog Dealbreaker.com. The receipt, dated June 18, doesn't list the account holder's name but does indicate that the person has $99,864,731.94 in a personal savings account (that's after a $400 withdrawal and a $2.75 service charge).

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113059/100-million-atm-receipt

 I'd love to report on the amazing culinary adventure I've had here, but the reality is, it's been mostly hotel breakfasts and catering.  The lone exception is a walk around the block to Thai with Shaw, Jorge and Erick.  Catering is your basic corporate mass-produced food, but not as bad as you think. In the pict to your left, I'm inspecting the stuffed Duck.  Last week we had rabbit. Apparently, I was the last to know, thinking I was knifing through a hard piece of chicken.  But at least we have variety- everything from Lasagna, Bratwurst, frankfurters, pollock, salmon and even a gluten free item each day. Cøy points out, that one of the standard 'gluten free' items is ...butter.   hmmmm

IPSTWN Stat-o-Day-

Homare Sawa’s hat trick helps Japan clinch a quarterfinal berth with a 4-0 win over New Zealand. Sawa is the oldest player to tally a WWC hat trick... at 32 years old.

today's IPSTWN Stat-o-Day is sponsored by Skype.     Skype, helping freelancer ADs see live video of their wife and son...with a goofy colleague peeking over his shoulder.



On of the best lines of the day comes from our favorite On-Air Aussie, Alicia Ferguson. Commenting on the frustrated reaction of Germany's Birgit Prinz as she was subbed out early in the second half ... she "was wearing her 'Cranky pants"

Daily Døpplégångér DoubleShot.
the New Zealand coach may actually be that one guy from that one show. The one where they sing and stuff,  and people vote on the winner and stuff, and they have those judges and stuff, You know, that one show.