Soccer

The Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers got the NFL's approval this week to sell more stock to the public, but even the Pack can't compete with the buzz of another anticipated "football" stock offering: Manchester United. Certainly owning shares in a team makes for great pub talk, but is it a wise investment?

A London court ordered the owners of Liverpool Football Club to reverse changes to the club's board, a move that could allow England's most successful soccer club to be sold to the group that controls the Boston Red Sox. Tom Hicks and George Gillett, the owners of the club, sought to block a 300...

The board of England's Liverpool Football Club accepted a £300 million ($477 million) offer from New England Sports Ventures, owner of the Boston Red Sox. "The board decided to accept NESV's proposal on the basis that it best met the criteria we set out originally for a suitable new owner,"...

The personal information of some 250,000 fans who attended the 2006 World Cup in Germany may have been stolen and sold on the black market for more than $750,000, according to reports in the Norwegian and British media. The information was reportedly stolen from a database compiled by the...

New to soccer, but planning to watch the World Cup? Then you need to know that the buzzing you hear is (probably) not in your head; it's the product of thousands of fans blowing plastic horns, called vuvuzelas. Some people find them maddening, others think it adds to the excitement of the game....

Talk about your World Cup. Soccer stud Cristiano Ronaldo is about to bend it like Beckham as the face (and the abs and the butt) of a new fall and winter Emporio Armani campaign for underwear and jeans. The ads were set to splash around June 25 when the captain of Team Portugal plays Brazil, but...

The U.S. team scored a big victory over Algeria to advance to the next round of the World Cup in South Africa. Will Team USA's run at the Cup launch Landon Donovan, Tim Howard or Jozy Altidore into the stratosphere of sports endorsement deals?

More Americans are watching the World Cup soccer tournament. ESPN and ABC say that the number of viewers so far are double what they were in 2006. All this could be a sign that America is finally taking to a sport long played mostly by our kids.

Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders are doing something most fans wish would happen after a horrible loss -- giving back some money. It's not exactly a refund for the franchise record 36,273 who watched the Sounders lose anMLS soccer game 4-0 to the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday, May 8, but...

Sure, the Olympics are pretty big, but for most of the world, the year's biggest sporting event is the World Cup of soccer, which will be held across South Africa in June. If you're looking to go cheap and you haven't laid any groundwork, forget it. It's a precarious quadruple hurdle of airfare,...