The excellent soccer writer Rob Hughes offers his thoughts in “Amid Passion and Grief, Reminders That Italy Remains a Sleeping Giant”.

They’re angry and they don’t care who knows it.  Fire Jay Mariotti goes where no journalist too chummy with the system attempts to explore lest they get overlooked for the next piece of crap golf invitational. The idea that the NBA is fixed has floated around ever since the Tim Donahue scandal. Didn’t a couple of refs who were from Chicago work a game in the Bulls-Celtics series? It’s an uncomfortable possibility – deal with it.

Real Madrid’s Pepe puts the pew in le pew. I haven’t quite seen a guy lose it like this: