the "Hammer" group

I know that this is about a week late, but hey, who's counting yeah? If you didn't watch it last Friday, the 2006 World Cup draw was held in the host country of Deutschland (that would be Germany for those playing at home) and to the dismay of American fans, we got hosed with the group pairings...

Group A Germany Costa Rica Poland Ecuador	Group B England Paraguay Trinidad/Tobago Sweden	Group C Argentina Ivory Coast Serbia/Montenegro Netherlands	Group D Mexico Iran Angola Portugal
Group E Italy Ghana United States Czech Republic	Group F Brazil Croatia Australia Japan	Group G France Switzerland Korea Republic Togo	Group H Spain Ukraine Tunisia Saudi Arabia

We have 3 of the top 12 ranked teams in the world in our group (Italians, the Czechs, and the USA). It's going to be a great first round - if we make it out we're going to go a long way, ummm....until we hit Brazil in the second round. Can you detect my glaring sarcasm here?


"Heidi Klum has sent us to hell"
We're all familiar with the beautiful and often misguided German supermodel. She was the event's eyecandy for all of the worlds viewing enjoyment, all she had to do was pull a couple of balls out of a bucket. Check out what zany hyjinks ensue when a supermodel goes bad...