A few things aside from the World Cup, the USA Track and Field Championships, the MLS weekend and Strikeforce, all of which will be covered in greater detail later.
Poker: The World Series of Poker’s Tournament of Champions has run into a small problem: No one’s getting eliminated.
Tennis: The top four men’s seeds — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray — are all through the quarterfinals, along with No. 6 Robin Soderling. No. 5 Andy Roddick lost in five (fifth set: 9-7) to unknown Taiwanese player Yen-Hsun Lu. He took it well, as always.
The women’s quarterfinals consist of the Williams sisters, Kim Clijsters (winner of the grudge match against Justine Henin) and five players you’ve never heard of.
MMA: No UFC future for Jamie “Crabman” Yager?
Action sports: Shaun White aggravated an ankle injury and couldn’t compete at the Dew Tour/International Skate Federation World Championship, so he did some commentary and signed some autographs. Nice guy, articulate, humble — he’s an action sports-hater’s worst nightmare.
Swimming: Michael Phelps is quite human in the middle year between Olympics.
Track and field/MLS: As MLS commissioner, Doug Logan presided over the start of youth program Project 40. Now with USA Track and Field, he is overseeing the berth of Project 30. Scaling back?
And in more track and field/MLS news, Lolo Jones is bidding to be the funniest Olympic athlete on Twitter.
- Exhibit A: haha! @douglogan (ID later corrected to @dougloganusatf) went up to my dad to shake his hand & my dad looked at him with confusion & said “I thought you were Bob Barker.”
- Exhibit B: guess this saves me 100.00 fee for eharmony.com RT @universalsports: Lolo Jones: WORLD’S most eligible bachelorette: http://bit.ly/bZJsx8
Soccer: Soccernet’s scoreboard for Wednesday reads “No matches on this date.” That just means Soccernet doesn’t get scores for the U.S. Open Cup or WPS All-Star Game (7:30 p.m. ET, FSC). This game never, ever stops.
Duresport.com 
Hey, I would ask you this question via twitter but I don’t have an account. The USA WNT roster for the July friendlies vs Sweden was announced and Lori Chalupny isn’t on the roster, again. What gives? She hasn’t been called up in a while despite playing almost all of the WPS minutes for which she’s been eligible. It can’t “just” be the concussions since she’s been cleared by 2 WPS medical staffs (Athletica & Atlanta).
I respect your reporting skills and hope you will dig around to find the answer and not just accept the pat answer. Thanks.