Go Algeria! Beat England!

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BP has to put aside $20 billion, but what happens if there are criminal charges? The New York Times examines that possibility.

An upstate New York terrorism case may set the standard for entrapment in such cases. A judge has continued the jury trial of four defendants but the matter is far from settled:

Did a shadowy informant encourage the men to plot mass murder, or did he go too far and manufacture a plan for mayhem?

The judge, Colleen McMahon, excused potential jurors on Monday and criticized the prosecutors for being late in giving the defense an investigator’s report suggesting that the men — a group of ex-convicts and drug offenders — were incapable of carrying out a complex attack without the informer, a fast-talker who was on the government payroll.

Apple has joined AT&T in stopping pre-sales of the iPhone. With 600,000 ordered in one day, it's afraid it won't be able to meet the demand.

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Travel night for me. May post late tonight.

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Busy day today. On your own for the World Cup, as you probably already figured out.

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Before I catch up on the news, I have to watch the season finale of Breaking Bad

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World Cup - Ghana v. Serbia. Serbia should win.

Slovenia, the USA's next opponent, beat Algeria 1-0.

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Open Thread+. I'm still not thinking much about politics. Besides the World Cup and a critical Game 5 in the NBA Finals, the most intriguing story in sports is conference re-alignment in college football.

The Big Ten started it all when its commissioner Jim Delaney declared that the Big Ten would expand last December. Why would the Big Ten expand? (Understand that this is all about money and nothing else. One of the funniest aspects of the story is all the talk about "academics" being a consideration. Yeah, right.) Two words - Notre Dame. The Big Ten has coveted Notre Dame forever and in fact, Notre Dame is a good fit for the Big Ten. And with its Big Ten TV network, the Big Ten now actually offers Notre Dame financial advantages (Once upon a time, Notre Dame's NBC deal was the envy of college football, not anymore. All Big Ten and SEC teams make more TV money than Notre Dame. Delaney wanted Notre Dame. But what he got was . . . Nebraska? Not seeing the money in that one. More . .

The association football starts early tomorrow, with Greece facing South Korea at 7 am on the East Coast and Argentina facing Nigeria at 9:30am.

The big one for us is at 2 pm - USA v. England.

I like Greece, Nigeria and England. More on these games at Sportsleft.

3 WC games on tap tomorrow. More group and game previews will be provided before 7 AM tomorrow.

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The TL kid and I are headed up to Aspen for the annual NORML drug law conference. There's live coverage this year. We're staying with Anita at Owl Farm. The TL kid gets to sleep in Johnny Depp's room. (No, he won't be there, it's called that because it's the room he always slept in when he visited Hunter.) Here's the speaking agenda . I'll be speaking Saturday on new forms of electronic surveillance.

I'll have my iPad and my laptop and will be checking in, and maybe posting occasionally. (I will be following developments in Peru with Joran Van der Sloot but won't be able to devote as much time to them.)

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