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World Cup Goals: When, Where, Who
28 Jun 2010I’m getting a little tired of World Cup visualizations (especially since the US lost on Saturday), but the WSJ’s views of individual goals is interesting. You can view them by date, country, field position, stadium, club team, game time, or player.
Weird World Cup Stats
In: Interactive Sports
26 Jun 2010This is a combination of great and shitty. Some of the stats look accurate and are very interesting (202 yellow cards, 11 penalty kicks), some look like bad estimates (calories eaten?!?), and it’s intermixed with way too many oil company ads.
History of the World Cup
In: Interactive Sports
13 Jun 2010
Hockey: Stanley Cup Appearances and Team History
In: Interactive Sports
13 Jun 2010A cool interactive that shows Stanley Cup appearances, as well as when each team was founded and whether they moved/renamed.
World Cup Stadiums
In: Sports
9 Jun 2010
(More) World Cup Interactives
7 Jun 2010From the Guardian, a detailed history from 1930-2006.
From the Washington Post, an interesting Map/Calendar menu leads to team info and recent news.
A Great World Cup Schedule
In: Interactive Sports
3 Jun 2010
Are you Ready for the World Cup?
In: Sports
22 May 2010It starts June 12th 11th. First off, to get you psyched:
Interactive guide to pools and teams:
Calendar from the BBC (highlight your team and print):
A “scientific” prediction of the results, from UK Wired:
Die Hard Fans
In: Sports
5 May 2010Russ Maschmeyer created an index to measure which MLB fans will buy tickets despite a poor economy, high ticket prices, or losing teams. (via)
Tiger Tiger
In: Interactive Sports
8 Apr 2010How he’s doing at the Master’s – hole by hole, compared to previous years:
The Tiger economy:
A little dated, but this interactive lets you compare statistics 1997-2008:
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