We haven’t even reached the 2010 World Cup and yet are already talking about the 2018 World Cup.  What could be so big that it makes us skip ahead past the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and 2014 World Cup in Brazil?  Perhaps the biggest sporting event in history; an event that is bigger than the 2008 Beijing Olympics or any other sports event.

I’m talking about England hosting the 2018 World Cup.  The most soccer mad country in the World (apologies to Germany, Brazil, Mexico, etc) possibly hosting the biggest soccer event in history.  The last time England hosted the World Cup was 1966, long before the technology existed to easily beam the broadcast around the globe.  Long before it was easy to hop on a plane in Australia, China or the United States and land at Heathrow Airport that same day.  1966 was a totally different era, yet it was still a huge event in England.  Now try to imagine an event as large as the World Cup coming to England today…imagine how much exposure that would receive.  Well this event would be almost ten years from today, which gives even more time for this event to be huge globally.

So if England wins the rights from FIFA to host the 2018 World Cup, then expect that event to fast become one of the most grand sporting events the World has ever seen.  England just officially kicked off their bid to host the 2018 World Cup, so there is a long road ahead of them to even be selected.  But if they win, it’ll be huge for England, the sport of soccer and sports fans around the globe.

This Summer European Clubs make a tour of American with one of the games stopping in Baltimore.  AC Milan vs Chelsea hosted at M&T  Bank Stadium on July 24th at 8 pm.  This should be a chance for Baltimore to a friendly game against some world class soccer players from all over Europe!

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FIFA is the governing body over soccer’s biggest international tournament, the World Cup.  As such FIFA selects the host countries for the event.  FIFA announced the bidding countries for the 2018 World Cup and the 2022 World Cup.  Their Executive Committee will select the winning bidders and announce them in December 2010.

Countries bidding to host 2018 World Cup & 2022 World Cup:
Australia
Belgium & Netherlands
England
Indonesia
Japan
Mexico
Qatar (only bidding on 2022)
Russia
South Korea (only bidding on 2022)
Spain & Portugal
United States

The location for the next two tournaments has already been set.  The 2010 World Cup is being played in South Africa and the 2014 World Cup is being hosted by Brazil.  The World Cup tournament rivals the Olympics as the biggest sporting event on the planet.  Soccer is the most popular sport on Earth, so it is a huge deal for countries to participate in the tournament.  Qualifying for each region begins years in advance of each tournament and decides which representatives (by region) will qualify for the World Cup.

Link to official FIFA website.

The Big 12 Tournamentgeared up at about 11:30 yesterday with a Baylor win over Nebraska 65 to 49.  Next came Texas vs Colorado at 2pm where Texas triumphed 67 to 56.  Oklahoma State beat Iowa State 81 to 67 at 6pm and Texas Tech outplayed Texas A&M at 8:30 with a score of 88 to 83.

But the games aren’t over!  The tournament continues at 11:30 today with a match against Kansas and Baylor.  Kansas State and Texas play at 2pm, followed by Oklahoma and Oklahoma State at 6pm and Missouri and Texas Tech at 8:30.

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