Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.

Trying to create a custom listbox control, but have run into a roadblock here. The popup list cannot be made to float as the common control's version does. Is there not some style to be applied to a window resulting in not being clipped by its container? The framework is obviously capable, looking at the menu component and the dotnet combobox, but I need to know where to look.

I think it depends totally on what you are looking for in a game. The common thread in alot of world sport seems to be plucky everymen fighting it out for the fans. I don't know what that is commentary on, perhaps the need to be able to project yourself into the thick of things. American sport, save baseball, is all about raw athletic ability for sure. Me, I would rather see the height of human achievement in whatever I waste my time on. I'm not much impressed if I could do it myself. A mentally challenged chess tourney would likely be competitive, but I don't imagine many would care to witness it. Plus the pacing is all off when it comes to world games.

Colorful... and if the analogy holds, what you are saying is that he should punch the elderly lady on the bench over there for "harboring" you, right?