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Originally Posted by collie1228

From Rick Reilly, the excellent writer for Sports Illustrated in the current issue of SI On Line: "In the NFL in the past 10 years, there have been two ties. As of Tuesday morning, in the first 11 games of this World Cup, there have been five ties. You will not see more ties at a J.C. Penney's Father's Day sale. I hate ties. Doesn't anybody want to win in this sport? All these ties are about as exciting as a Jonas Brothers roundtable on sex.

This just in: USA and Slovenia final score was 2-2.

There are winners and losers in most soccer ties.

In the England vs USA tie: England heavily favored to win, USA down 0-1 early in game, came back and tied. The USA was a big winner and England were big loser.

In USA vs Slovenia Tie: USA heavily favored to win; USA down 0-2 in first half. came back and tied. USA was expecting to win the game going into it and normally a tie would be a USA loss; however, because they were down by two early and fought back to the tie, the USA was a winner and Slovenia a loser.

in England vs Algeria 0-0 Tie: England heavily favored to win; a tie was a major win for Algeria and a major loss for England. And the USA and Slovenia were winners by the tie of the other two group C members.

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