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Spain’s 1-0 victory over the Netherlands in the World Cup final Sunday was seen by an average of 15.5 million viewers on ABC, the most in the United States for a men’s final, and 8.8 million on Univision, a record for a Spanish-language network in the United States, according to the Nielsen Company.

The combined 24.3 million viewers made it the most-watched soccer game in the United States, exceeding by nearly five million the total on ABC and Univision for the United States-Ghana game June 26. ABC’s record for a soccer game was 17.9 million viewers for the 1999 women’s World Cup final won by the United States. An average of 3.26 million viewers a game watched the World Cup on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.

via Sports Briefing – Soccer – World Cup Final Sets Record – NYTimes.com.

ARGENTINA coach Diego Maradona added another bizarre episode to his World Cup campaign – by putting on a German accent to taunt his quarter-final opponents.Maradona, considered by many to be the game’s greatest-ever player, was being interviewed about comments made by German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger ahead of Saturday’s match.Schweinsteiger had called Argentina’s players “disrespectful” for their behavior after their last-eight World Cup clash four years ago, when Germany progressed to the semi-finals on penalties.The Bayern Munich star also accused the South Americans of complaining to referees and using provocative tactics to wind-up opponents.Maradona responded Thursday by turning directly to the TV camera and saying, in an imitation German accent: “What’s the matter Schweinsteiger? Are you nervoussh?”

via Diego Maradona trash-talks ‘ze Germans’ | The Australian.

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An oil-soaked bird struggles against the side of an Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the oil spill off Louisiana on May 9. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A pod of bottlenose dolphins swims in the oily water of Chandeleur Sound on May 6. Five days later, six dead dolphins were found along the Gulf Coast. Officials were investigating oil’s role in the deaths. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

An oil-covered dragonfly, stuck to marsh grass, tries to clean itself May 18 in Garden Island Bay near Venice. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Washington (CNN) — BP acknowledged Thursday that the gusher of oil pouring from its damaged Gulf of Mexico well is bigger than estimated to date, as new video showed a cloud of crude billowing around its undersea siphon.Company spokesman Mark Proegler said Thursday that the siphon is now drawing about 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) a day up to a ship on the surface. That’s as much as government and company officials had estimated the spill was pouring into the Gulf every day for a month. Proegler declined to estimate how much more oil was escaping.BP America Chairman Lamar McKay said Wednesday the figure used by the oil spill response team had a degree of uncertainty built into it. But figures by independent researchers have run up to many times higher: Steve Wereley, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, told CNN’s “American Morning” that the spill could be as big as 20,000 to 100,000 barrels a day.

(AP) — AT PASS A LOUTRE, La. – A chocolate-brown blanket of oil about as thick as latex paint has invaded reedy freshwater wetlands at Louisiana’s southeastern tip, prompting Gov. Bobby Jindal to step up calls Wednesday for building emergency sand barriers.

Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser led a flotilla of media to inspect the oil encroaching on remote wetlands lining Pass a Loutre, near where the mouth of the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig disaster had been lapping at the coast before. But this was not the light rainbow sheen or the scattered tar balls seen in previous days.

Jindal, sitting at the edge of an airboat, swept a handheld fishing net through the mess and held it up. It was coated with brown sludge, which had stained the lower shafts of the leafy green reeds sticking up to eight feet out of the water.

“This has laid down a blanket in the marsh that will destroy every living thing there,” Nungesser said.

via Gulf Oil Spill: Louisiana Wetlands Blanketed With BP Crude (VIDEO).