Minute 20

Pretty blah opening 20 minutes, but Ghana look a bit better than the US. Of course, Balboa has already ripped Ghana, saying they look nothing like the team that beat the Czechs.

Isiah Thomas has fired Larry Brown and named himself head coach! This has nothing to do with US-Ghana, but it does mean that my boy Joey has just been placed on 24-hour suicide watch. Hang in there, Joseph. Things'll get better...well, actually they won't. The Knickerbockers are screwed, but at least we get a few more years of Isiah jokes.

Balboa is on the refs again for calling offsides against Donovan , who was indeed offsides. In what could be the turning point of the game, the TV was just muted.

ESPN just switched to showing shots of Columbus, Ohio, where about 500 more people are watching the game than at Times Square. Now if they could just switch to Dellacamera & Harkes...