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LAST WEEK the Wall Street Journal conducted a very serious study that analyzed which teams engaged in the worst of the 2014 World Cup’s most notorious, annoying, time-honored elements — faking like you’ve been permanently disfigured and need an ambulance to cart you off the pitch.

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The United States will be playing against Germany today in Recife, Brazil.

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Every four years, America likes to flirt with the notion that it will finally start acting like a civilized nation.

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Risk everything.

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You can’t eat a soccer ball.

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The 2014 World Cup is less than one month away.