Soccer’s superstar players never materialized here at the World Cup. The game’s best – Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Wayne Rooney, etc. – often

failed to lift their play and, in turn, their teams, to a level this grand stage demands.

The conventional wisdom on why: They were too selfish, unable to adapt to the team concept of a national squad.

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Jon Gosselin has a brand new addition to his life — and it isn't another kid. The reality star debuted a fresh tattoo featuring an enormous Korean dragon

that covers most of his back. Jon, who is half-Korean, chose the dragon to represent his maternal heritage.

RadarOnline.com, which first reported the news, says the coach outlet tattoo took 14 hours to complete, which

Jon broke up into two sessions two weeks apart.

"I wanted something that resembled a rebirth or a change in me," Jon said of the new ink.

Listed as a "monument to unparalleled success," the largest home for sale in the United States comes with plenty of space but no carpet, tiles or interior

walls. It's up to the future buyer to finish it.

The mansion started by timeshare tycoon David Siegel boasts plenty of big numbers: 90,000 square feet. Twenty-three bathrooms. Thirteen bedrooms. Ten

kitchens. A 20-car garage, with additional space for two limos. Three pools. A bowling alley. Indoor roller rink. Two-story movie theater. Video arcade.

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Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands

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Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange — and troubling — phenomena.

Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might

The most decorated country in Europe they may be but not many have expected much from Germany since they won their last trophy at Euro 96. Few pundits had

them as a pre-tournament pick, even though their recent record is as good as it gets without winning a trophy: a World Cup final in 2002, a semi-final spot

at home in 2006 and a European Championship final in 2008. Expectations are low – most fans would be happy enough with a place in the quarter-finals,

Samantha Stosur of Australia inflicted Justine Henin's first French Open defeat since 2004 to set up a quarterfinal against Serena Williams.

Stosur, the seventh seed who reached the semifinals at Roland Garros last year, rallied after losing the first set to stun the Belgian with a 2-6 6-1 6-4

victory.

Henin has been looking to regain the title she won four coach handbags years in a row before taking a

break from the game in 2008.

Crystal "Mama Sox" Bowersox and shy paint clerk Lee DeWyze came into Wednesday's "American Idol" finale with a narrow voting gap between them, host Ryan

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The show made the most of Simon Cowell's last appearance as a judge. A lighthearted film package recounting highlights from the Cowell years was shown, and

The husband of Brittany Murphy was found dead by his mother-in-law late Sunday at the Los Angeles home he shared with the late actress, the coroner's office said.

Simon Monjack's death was reported as a possible heart attack and appeared to be from natural causes, Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said. Monjack was 39.

One major theme to watch for as primary returns start rolling in for Tuesday's key Senate races: Is incumbency all it's cracked up to be?

In most election cycles, holding a seat in Congress is a huge tactical advantage, since sitting lawmakers are usually able to draw on the campaign war chests

that national party organizations and congressional campaign groups build up — in addition, of course, to all the time that elected officials spend

fundraising on their own.

As venomous snakes go, the coral snake is a clumsy biter. Unlike pit vipers such as rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, which have gruesomely efficient fangs that

articulate forward during a strike and inject venom like hypodermic needles, the brightly colored coral snake has small, rear-facing fangs that guide venom

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