Wondering what's going on in the world today?  One easy word: Football. It's another World Cup qualifiers day, and many countries are hanging on edge.

Thus, its the leading story at Le Monde, where France teeters on missing out.

It's also a lead in La Nacion where Argentina also faces failure.

Even the nerdiest paper in the world, the Frankfurter Algemein, with Germany all but qualified, it's the fifth lead story.

I'm willing to bet it's the lead story in Turkey, Bosnia, and most rest of the world.

Kind of odd there's no mention of it in the NYT , and even NPR claims the major concern in these places is swine flu.

Sigh.

Obama (the Cairo speech version not the pending health care speech version) may be a step in the right direction, but no one's going to take us seriously if we don't give a rats ass of the major happenings in the rest of the world.

Speaking of seriousness, and lack there of, the US National team is in Trinidad, game's at 4pm.  The fact we're stuck playing these guys is one reason why we are an embarrassment on the international scene. Last time we played, we scored a handy 3-0 victory, featuring a hat trick by Jozy Altidore, who's finally playing for a club in Europe (low level Hull, but better than being a bench warmer).  Today won't be much different—Trinidad wallows in the bottom of the group. In fact, the top four of CONCACAF have been all but set, the only question remains: Who lands in fourth, and will their path to South Africa be detoured by Argentina?

PS: On Saturday, I made a weak solicitation for suggestions of bars showing the match (aside from G&D?). Once again, any takers?