FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States
ZURICH—After the Justice Department indicted numerous executives from world soccer’s governing body on charges of corruption and bribery, frantic and visibly nervous officials from FIFA held an impromptu press conference Wednesday to announce that the United States has been selected to host this summer’s 2015 World Cup. “We are thrilled to reveal that, for the first time in 21 years, the World Cup will finally return to America, with matches set to kick off today at 5 p.m. local time in Los Angeles,” said FIFA president Sepp Blatter, smiling broadly before unveiling the tournament’s official logo, a hand-drawn stick figure kicking a soccer ball with “USA 2015!” hastily scribbled in black marker above its head. “With world-class venues in cities across the country and a rapidly growing passion for the sport, the U.S. is the perfect choice—really the only choice—for this summer’s tournament. Everyone at FIFA is certain that the 2015 World Cup in America will be a tremendous success, and billions of fans from around the world will, in just a few hours, come together to enjoy this wonderful display of soccer over the coming weeks.” At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup’s opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game’s first three minutes.
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The Onion obviously.
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The Women's World Cup, that is. Hopefully we can avoid a repeat of last Cup's meltdown to the 40th-ranked side in the world (!!) 
, an event that got me put on Ignore and defriended by a Sports Forum denizen who thought I should be nicer to the poor widdle Japanese after a tsunami had devastated a rather thin sliver of their country. By that logic, I suppose I should have rooted for them in the 1945 Cup, too. 
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Too accurate