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World Cup Crib Notes: Day 5

The United States kicks off its 2014 World Cup campaign on Monday against Ghana, the team that eliminated the Stars and Stripes from the 2010 tournament in the round of 16. That’s the must-watch game in the U.S. But for most of the rest of the world, it’s Germany versus Portugal. See our World Cup interactive for the […]

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Ctrl + ← The World Cup, the World Cup And the World Cup

This is Ctrl + ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet (be prepared, they’re mostly soccer-related). ICYMI: FiveThirtyEight’s World Cup Predictions It’s Brazil’s World Cup to Lose FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: Toss-Up or Tilt GOP? The Eric […]

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Ctrl + ← The World Cup, the World Cup And the World Cup

This is Ctrl + ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet (be prepared, they’re mostly soccer-related). ICYMI: FiveThirtyEight’s World Cup Predictions It’s Brazil’s World Cup to Lose FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: Toss-Up or Tilt GOP? The Eric […]

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World Cup Crib Notes: Day 4

It was a tough call Sunday with great games across the board, but ultimately it’s Argentina — the second-ranked team in our Soccer Power Index (SPI) — that we want to see play. IN BRIEF See our World Cup interactive for the latest probabilities. IN DEPTH Argentina has one of the most storied World Cup histories, winning the […]

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World Cup Crib Notes: Day 4

It was a tough call Sunday with great games across the board, but ultimately it’s Argentina — the second-ranked team in our Soccer Power Index (SPI) — that we want to see play. IN BRIEF See our World Cup interactive for the latest probabilities. IN DEPTH Argentina has one of the most storied World Cup histories, winning the […]

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