Like most sane people, I don’t really care about soccer. The World Cup has been pretty interesting to follow, though, in a "what-happened-today" kind of way, not a "holy crap what time’s the game on" kind of way.
Yahoo!, as usual, is using technology to do cool things and drive the interest of humans. Their MatchCast is a typical live-action interface, with some added features like chat, trivia, stats, etc.
This was great at the end of the match to instantly see who made their penalty kicks.
But the New York Times live blogging of the event was perfectly good for allowing me to peek in and see what’s going on in breathless, exclamatory text:
Break Materazzi reached around and twisted Zidane’s
nipple! That’s what got Zidane so steamed! Materazzi tricked Zidane! Or
so it seems from the replay. Can’t be totally sure though.
All Hail Italy.