And that my friends is how the cookie crumbles...

Of the millions of US Soccer fans who are crushed today after the US failed to beat Ghana, the one person I'm thinking most about is my sister. She is the most hardcore of hardcore US Soccer fans, and I'm not sure how she's gonna take all of this. Maybe she'll root for her second favorite team (England), or maybe she'll just stop watching.

Today's game was a bore. We played almost as badly as we did against the Czechs, and even with the unnecessary penalty kick, we wouldn't have won. Sure there are a lot of what if's out there. What IF McBride's header went in? What IF the penalty was then not given? What IF we didn't have red carded players who played today's game... none of it matters.

The best two teams from Group E advanced. And that's the end of that.