espn has invested so many resources in making this a big deal.there is one entity that gets the american male, it is espn. host: democrats line. pam. caller: i am at the absolute opposite end. i think this is a total waste of time for c-span. the american male, as you just referred to, needs to sit back and let us talk about things of consequence. i could not care less who wins what ever contest this is. i hope c-span in the next five or 10 minutes goes back to talking about things that i care about. thank you. guest: can i justify this? this is a big deal to everyone on this planet. this is what the world is investing its self yen for the next month. -- itself in for the next month. in order to understand the world, to have some part in this global conversation, you need to pay attention. not to mention that it is filled with political ramifications, and it is a massive economic moment. south africa's gdp will jump about one percentage point, thank you to the world cup. it is about all of these other sorts of things. it also happens to be a lot

david hirshey is the co-author of "the espn world cup companion: everything you need to know about the world's biggest sporting event." he's a former soccer reporter for the "new york daily news." and christine brennan is a sportswriter and columnist for abc and "usa today" who has covered previous cups. david hirshey, let me start with you. these guys play constantly, in continental championships, national championships. they play for professional clubs. they play for the international team. they're always playing. why does the world cup stand head and shoulders above that constant round of championship play ? >> because for four years these players are trying to qualify for the tournament that is the pinnacle of their sport. and it's a grueling campaign that can be will-sapping at times. but it's the shared send of national identity that i think galvanizes the team and makes them run through walls for their countries. >> suarez: christine brennan, more than the uafa cup or the concacaf or all these various kinds of championships that are being played for the rest of the time? >> i th

tough controversy perspective from roger bennett co-host of off the ball on espn.com and co-author of espn's world cup companion. roger, this french meltdown, have you ever seen anything like it? what's going on? >> the world cup has had its fair of intrigue and its fair share of teams not getting along. it's definitely uwe in world cup history. the great french legend pinpointed two problems for the team last week. they were pretty sizable. the first he said was the coach. the second he said was the team. and their complete lack of teamwork. i all begins there. >> brown: it's risen to the highest levels in france. the president sarkozy has spoken about it. he sent the minister to the ... to visit the team and the sports minister today said that french football faces a, quote, moral disaster. that's very french to put it in moral terms, right? >> this whole incident is exquisitely french. only the french could do team meltdowns in such fine style. i mean french soccer ideally they love to lose with style and grace and a degree of pain as opposed to win in a classless fashion. this is a compl

prior to joining the rays, duune spent years calling play-by-play for espn, basketball and football as well as for several other major league teams, including houston astros, chicago cubs and new york % yankees. duane begannhis career as a sports reporter while a student at southern illinois university. and at the time, began -- became the youngest active broadcaster when he began calling major league games in 1976. remarkaaly, he has called six no-hitters. wade boggs 3,000 base hit. among many accomplishments of an outstanding broaddasting career, duane's tats has been honored as baseball's all-time top 101 broaddasters by arthur kirk smith. aside from calling rays games, duane and his wife karla are pillars of the tampa bay community, supporting the veterans and quantum leap farms, a therapeutic recreation alpha silt for our wounded warriors and disabled adults. again, i congratulate duane on the occasion of his 5,000th major league baseball broadcast. many more rays' wwns. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. defazio of oregon.%% mr. grayson of florida. mr. gohmert of texas. u

in espn stonia in 2007 and in georgia in 2008, distributed denial of service attacks impeded government functions. as i told dr. hamre, i think they also delayed me getting here. now there are hints that some penetrations are targeting systems for remote sabotage. let me explain. estonia, georgia, were distributed denial of service attacks. once these attacks stopped, the information systems were able to continue on with their job. but the potential for sabotage and destruction is now possible and something we must treat very seriously. and these threats are serious. to deal with them will require common vision, unity of effort and a commitment of dedicated resources. our department of defense must be able to operate freely and defend its resources in cyberspace. we will do this as we do it in the traditional military domains of land, sea, air and space but cyberspace is unique. it is a manmade domain. it is also an increasingly contested domain. that makes everything even tougher. our job in u.s. cyber command is to assure the right information gets to the right user at the right time

all of us woke up with great chagrin this morning to watch espn's top 10 and see anthony weiner as number nine top 10 -- and also some outstanding leading from steve driehaus. but the m.v.p.'s on the democratic side were killer bees, joe baca, mr. boccieri and mr. baird. all had outstanding games. so, madam speaker, once again, the coveted roll call trophy stays blue and i'd like to recognize my good friend, the republican manager, joe barton. mr. barton: madam speaker, there have been those on the other side of the aisle that from time to time have spoken of the ungenerosity and the stinginess and the cold-heartedness of the republicans, but the seventh inning last night should put that to rest forever. we were very generous. every man of the republican mind made some effort in generosity of spirit to drop balls, misplace throws go out of their way to make sure that at least on the diamond the democrats would feel good. now, we don't want this to go to your head, though, mr. doyle. that trophy is on loan. if you look at wherever the records are kept, if you win the next 20 in a row there

and what kind of maint espn is done down there. would there ever. would a scenario can ever rise where it might be. you may have to stop producing the oil to fix the oil upgrade or whatever? >> i don't think we should ever be comfortable with the containment operation. we ought to watch it closely. we ought to be ruthless in oversight of b.p. once we know what the flow rate is and we need to understand completely that if we severe weather in the form of a hurricane, there may be times when we have to disconnect that operation and reestablish it and during that time, we'll have oil coming to the surface again. that's the reason i said, this is a long campaign and we're going to be dealing with this oil for the foreseeable future. >> and questions. one, has b.p. consulted with the british government on issues of reinforcing the british military in an effort to help and if so what was said? i would say i have no contact with the british government per se but we have looked at foreign officers of assistance. we have taken boom and skimming capability an