Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo's removal of two bottles of Coca-Cola from a news conference coincided with a $4 billion drop in the company's market share.
In Azerbaijan, where an authoritarian president menaces the media, an outspoken reporter was physically attacked because of his Facebook post about soccer. Did he die for what he wrote? Or for what he represented?
Germany out-shot and out-possessed the reigning World Cup champions, but there was never a sense that France would be defeated in the two powers' opening Euros match.