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FIFA World Rankings: April 2009 Posted: 09 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT We haven’t done a FIFA World Rankings post since back December 2008, mostly because it’s all been much of a muchness. Spain ruled the roost, everyone else didn’t and the top 20 barely moved. There was no news to report. And so we didn’t. In April 2009 Spain are still top, but the big news is that they’re more top than anyone has ever been ever. Spain have been #1 for 10 straight months, and their current lead of 367 points over #2 team Germany is the biggest lead any team has had since the rankings began in 1993. Go Spain. Other news to report: Brazil has leapfrogged World Cup 2006 winners Italy to take 4th place, Fabio Capello has pushed England up two places to 7th, France rejoins the top 10 and Portugal are slowly slowly slipping from respectability to mediocrity. Go Carlos Queiroz. Big movers are Bosnia and Togo, who’ve jumped 20 and 26 places respectively after some impressive World Cup qualifying results. The full rankings are of course available at the FIFA website, but spread out over five pages. So after some epic cutting and pasting using only patience, coffee and Microsoft Paint, we can bring you the full rankings table - featuring every FIFA member nation on the planet - below:

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Sporting News Today clears up the fuzzy NHL playoff picture

MAMUDU, Your April 10, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue NHL: Rangers clinch in East, but West still a mess Tiger's got Masters field right where he wants it DeCourcy: Izzo, state of Michigan made for each other Bills have bigger issues than T.O. Northwestern aiming to bridge talent gap If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&45898&131164&13485&0000&1236452512&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207

Sporting News Today: Heat's on for MLB teams, even in April

MAMUDU, Your April 09, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue Must wins in MLB, even in April Tiger starts his drive for five green jackets Five NFL QBs face career-defining seasons NBA: Battle for playoff seeding rages MLB payrolls on the decline If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&45237&131083&13466&0000&1236452208&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207

Sporting News Today: NFL teams look for the 'next Tom Brady'

MAMUDU, Your April 08, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue NFL teams go in search of the 'next Tom Brady' Mike DeCourcy looks back at the good and bad of the college basketball season Lions offseason outlook: Tough job starts with defense The Masters, by the numbers NHL: Rangers get win they had to have If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&44524&127318&13451&0000&1236451828&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207

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If World Cup 2010 Qualifying Ended Today… Posted: 06 Apr 2009 10:00 AM PDT World Cup qualifying is a long and complicated process. A lot of quotas and playoffs are involved in get whittling down every nation on earth into the 32 teams that will go to South Africa and shake paws with Zakumi (pictured) in 2010. We’ll know the lucky 32 are when qualification ends in November 2009. But if qualification ended today, the following teams would qualify for World Cup 2010: CONMEBOL: Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina CONCACAF: USA, Costa Rica, Honduras Playoff: Uruguay (5th place CONMEBOL) vs Mexico (4th place CONCACAF) ASIA: Australia, Japan, S. Korea, N. Korea Playoffs: Bahrain (3rd place Asia Group 1) vs Saudi Arabia (3rd place Asia Group 2 team) Winner of that plays New Zealand (Oceania winner) for World Cup spot. AFRICA: South Africa (hosts), Gabon, Tunisia, Egypt, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire EUROPE: Denmark, Greece, N. Ireland, Germany, Spain, England, Serbia, Italy, Netherlands Playoffs: France, Bosnia, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, Scotland, Ireland (Eight best second placed teams, who will be drawn into four two-legged play-offs. Winner of each playoff game goes to the World Cup). Some pretty big upsets there. Honduras have been to just one World Cup before, going winless in the group stage of the 1982 World Cup. The Mexico vs Uruguay playoff game could go either way, but if Mexico don’t make it then the Mexican football federation have some tough questions to answer. Australia’s “move” to Asia looks like paying off, and the presence of both Koreas would be a first. African qualifying is only one game old, but if Gabon makes it then they’ll be the underdog story of the whole tournament. Nigeria and Cameroon will be shocked if they miss out. Northern Ireland arguably deserve a spot at the World Cup after their close but no cigar heroics in Euro 2008 qualifying, but the big story would be who didn’t make it. Right now France could face a tricky playoff game, while Portugal wouldn’t even make the playoffs. Can you imagine a World Cup 2010 without Cristiano Ronaldo? Could very well happen. Of course there’s are still plenty of games to go and all to play for. But when all is said and done in November, don’t be too shocked if the 32 teams with golden tickers aren’t the 32 we all expected.

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Sporting News Today: Nine pages covering the Tar Heels' triumph

MAMUDU, Your April 07, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue High Heels: UNC fulfills destiny with title-game rout Now and then: How do the '09 Heels measure up with their '05 counterparts? If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&43668&127222&13415&0000&1236451386&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207

Sporting News Today: MLB's first pitch, NCAA's final buzzer

MAMUDU, Your April 06, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue Big day for MLB, NCAA hoops arrives Tar Heels ratchet up defense at crunch time NFL: Which teams can use draft day as a springboard for the season? Gordon ends 47-race streak with Texas-sized win Report: A-Rod could return to Yankees by end of April If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&42732&127160&13385&0000&1236450895&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207

Sporting News Today: Tar Heels, Spartans in Motor City rematch

MAMUDU, Your April 05, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue DeCourcy: Hansbrough, and Heels, feel sense of relief Another Izzo masterpiece puts Spartans one win from title Motivation from Kansas loss evident in UNC's win Offseason outlook: Eagles need to replace LT Thomas Yankees sit atop SN's Power Poll If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&42181&127109&13383&0000&1236450634&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207

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Was Sven the Strangest International Appointment of All Time? Posted: 03 Apr 2009 09:06 AM PDT Sven-Göran Eriksson got his marching orders from the Mexican football federation yesterday. Not a huge surprise after some dreadful results (Mexico should not be losing to Jamaica) and seems it was the 3-1 loss away to Honduras that put the final nail in Sven’s Mexican managerial coffin. “The decision was made because we could not risk Mexico’s participation in the World Cup,” said federation president Justino Compean. Which was a polite way of saying the federation didn’t trust Sven to get them to South Africa. And so arguably the strangest and worst interntational managerial appointment of all time comes to a close. Steve McClaren and Steve Staunton were bad choices for England and Ireland respectively, but at least the two men were English and Irish. From the second Sven was appointed, his face didn’t really fit. Mexican football is passionate to say the least, while Sven has that air of icy calm about him. I always though he seemed like a substitute teacher just filling in because the real guy was running late. And he didn’t even speak Spanish when he took the job. If Mexico has to go down the route of hiring a fashionably foreign manager, they could at least have found someone who spoke the lingo. To be fair to Sven he seems to have mastered it less than a year after taking the job. So at least he got something out of his Mexican adventure. Well, that plus the usual sweet sweet compensation package. From Times Online: It is believed that the Mexican federation will have to pay Eriksson about £2 million after dismissing him, the Swede's third seven-figure payoff in three years. He is said to have received compensation of about £3 million from the FA after standing down as England head coach in 2006 and another £1 million when he parted company with Manchester City. So there you have it. Sven-Göran Eriksson: bad at international managemenet, good at getting paid to be sacked. Man’s a genius. For more on the Mexican national team, visit Mexico World Cup Blog

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Sporting News Today: This Motown foursome could become a new classic

MAMUDU, Your April 04, 2009 issue of Sporting News Today is now available, please click here. Here are some articles in Today's Issue DeCourcy: 'Nova stopped partying when it began preparing for UNC Prediction: After close game, expect Tar Heels to pull away Giants had to purge Plaxico Giants offseason outlook: Big Blue needs playmaking WR MLB picks: Big Z, Dice-K for Cy Young If you experience any problems with your issue, please click here to contact our customer service department. Know a friend who might like Sporting News Today? Just click here or email him/her the link: www.sportingnewstoday.com.     Trouble Viewing? If any of the above links do not work for you,   copy and paste this URL into your browser:   http://today.sportingnews.com/t=c/?1&41644&127065&13379&0000&1236450362&EIInjEOx9cS45     Please do not reply to this message. Questions may be submitted to Digital Support.   To stop receiving email notifications for digital issues of Sporting News Today,   click here.   Sporting News Today 120 West Morehead Street Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28207