Where to Watch World Cup Games

I can't sleep right now. I think I'm catching World Cup fever! It's been known to be highly contagious and spreading rapidly. Symptoms include dreaming about soccer, hearing someone scream GGGOOOOOAAAALLLL! when no one really is, taking wadded up clothes and kicking them around your room like they're soccer balls, constantly blowing your vuvuzela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela), reading nothing but scouting and injury reports, having a closet full of your team's jerseys (or in severe cases wearing the same unwashed jersey every day), and bi-polar disorder - severe depression when your team loses and extreme highs when your team wins. The symptoms are said to grow worse over time, but, in most cases, it should subside by July 12th.

If you're interested, the following are a few links on some of the best places to watch World Cup games outside of South Africa. Just over 10 hours until the first match!

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/travel-tips-and-articles/42/58596

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37594781/ns/travel-destinations/

Also, if you are a fantasy sports freak, ESPN has a few World Cup related contests you can enter:

A soccer "pick 'em" where you pick the winners by round: http://games.espn.go.com/soccerpickem/en-us/frontpage

A March Madness style bracket: http://games.espn.go.com/bpredictor/en-us/frontpage

And a group bracket, where you don't pick teams, but you pick Group #1s and #2s: http://games.espn.go.com/knockout/en-us/frontpage