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...seal the deal when Adrian Mutu's penalty was saved by Gianluigi Buffon. The Poles never had a chance. Nor did the Austrians, although you'd never know it from the support the team got. Now, the cafes of Vienna have been drained by the dismissal of the Austrian side, and none of the natives seem inclined to switch allegiance to Turkey, despite the many thousands of Turks living here...
...Michael Ballack free kick blast doesn't appear to pose much of a threat to Portugal. And the Germans will be without their coach, Joachim Löw, who is serving a one-game suspension for getting dismissed during the Austria match. Although a second choice Portugal side lost to Switzerland - which salved some wounds for the co-hosts - tonight there will be Christiano Ronaldo and Deco to deal with, and as they showed against the Czechs, that's a handful. "You can never stop him for 90 minutes," German team manager Oliver Bierhoff said of Ronaldo...
...lethal midfield. The Italians, who turned their first round into a three-part opera - tragedy (vs. Holland), desperation (vs. Romania) and redemption (vs. France)- are going to need some new actors. Italy's maestro Andrea Pirlo is suspended, as is their Rottweiler defensive midfielder Gennaro Gattuso. On the plus side, striker Luca Toni has to find the net sooner or later, and bad boy forward Antonio Cassano has put real menace in Italy's attack. But if this is indeed a newly mature Spanish side, as coach Luis Aragonés says, "The only thing we need...
...continue to find Obama a more compelling story, with daily features, blanket coverage and long profiles. McCain was once a media darling too, but his strategists haven't yet figured out how to leverage their assets to get increased and better coverage. Who will end the madness? Obama's side jumped on McCain for the past conduct of his biggest fund raisers, including a Texas oilman who once compared rape to inclement weather. Republicans hit Obama over the financial ties of a businessman vetting his potential running mates. Both sides decried the attacks on their allies but showed little interest...
HOUSE: All 435 seats are up for election, with more gop retirements. Democrats are expected to have an edge in campaign spending this year. They also have on their side the unpopularity of the President and the Iraq war, along with a likely Obama-inspired surge of African-American and youth voting...