. >> the united states' upset of top-ranked spain in the fifa confederations cup semifinal might seem just a pleasant surprise at first. after all, spain hadn't lost in three years. but in reality, the u.s. has already done something no other american men's soccer team has ever done -- reached the finals of a fifa-sanctioned event. today on espn, they can upset mighty brazil to win the gold. now, i'm not about to compare this to the 1980 u.s. hockey team, but we're talking a major upset in the making. brazil is in its fourth confederations final and looking for a record third title. last week i spoke with espn's soccer analyst and former national team member, alexi lalas, about the team's world cup chances, kind of shrugged his shoulders as if to say, hit or miss. he added, "it depends who they play." now, that restriction doesn't seem to apply. it's amazing how a great story in sports can make us forget we might not be a huge fan. i'll be watching this afternoon. please join us again next sunday for another edition of "the sports reporters." we're on each sunday morning at 9:30 a.m.

has reached the finals of a fifa tournament. they did lose to brazil 3-0 earlier in group play. remember, espn and abc your home for the 2010 world cup. >> commissioner roger goodell has notified plaxico burress the nfl will review last year's gun incident under the personal conduct policy. charged with criminal possession of a weapon burress' case has been adjourned until september 23rd.have >> a southside flavor to the windy city series.misse some drama in the sixth. milton bradley, lines out to left. that was part one.n ball after the fly-out, bradley would walk into the dugout. didn't come back out. apparently had words with lou piniella, and replaced. a three-run homer. cubs win 5-4. sweet lou addressed what happened with bradley after the game. >> i told him to take his uniform off. he threw his helmet, smashed the water cooler, water flying all over. i told him to take his uniform off and go home. and followed him up into the clubhouse, and we exchanged some words. i don't like those things to happen, but i'm just tired of watching all that. >> what led up to it? >> what

. >> fifa confederations cup, group b action, united states and brazil, americans 1-12 vs. brazilians. seventh minute, no score, free kick for brazil. give me espn axis. felipe melo. with the corner kick. damarcus beasley loses the ball and turns it over, brazil sets up the counterattack. robinho. worst loss since 1993. alexi lalas looks ahead for the u.s. >> the u.s. needed egypt to beat italy to stay alive. 40th minute, egypt with the corner kick and the cross goes to mohammad homos. he scores with a header and egypt strikes first. later on check out gennaro gattuso. vincenso jaquinta here. denied again by el hadari. the u.s. avoids elimination for now. >> the nfl suspending donte' stallworth indefinitely without pay. stallworth pleaded guilty to killing a man while driving intoxicated. he began serving a 30-day sentence tuesday for manslaughter. he reached a monetary settlement with the family of the 59-year-old construction worker. >> in 2 1/2 minutes on espnews, it's elimination time in the college world series. how one team responded in grand fashion. and in six minut

right now, it's the opening match of the fifa confederation cup. u.s.a.-italy, live monday at 2:25 eastern on espn. >> it's a great job for a lot of reasons. one reason, you gets to talk baseball with guys like buster olney. he will be on "baseball tonight" late ir. there's a lot going on for a saturday in june, specifically with one of the biggest names in baseball out up to three months, jake peavy. what does that mean for the padres and their cy younger? >> unless he has a miracle recovery, it will kill the trademark the for them. the padres wanted to move his contract, but let's face it, we're 50 days away until the trade deadline. he will not get healthy before that trade deadline enough so that any team would be willing to take a risk on his contract at this point, would be willing to give up prospects. so the padres will have to hope that he pitches well enough at the end of the year so he can re-establish his trade value so they can deal him in the wintertime. this is in keeping with what you are hearing from g.m.s. they don't think it will be a r

[laughter] -- i'm told from scheduling that the president has accepted a meeting with the head of fifa world cup but we have not yet altogether made plans, though i can assure you a small group of us have assembled in order to move the president in that direction: exactly. i've got four right up close. sorry. go ahead. >> yesterday, former secretary robert rush said he was worried the obama white house had overlearned the lessons of the clinton years. deferring too much to congress when it came to crafting legislation. what are your responses to that critique which i should add george stephanopoulos seemed to agree with? >> well, i don't want to weigh into network politics on this, i quite honestly don't want to -- don't think there's a whole lot of utility in me getting involved in a debate about tactically whether the pursuit of what we are doing versus how or when it was pursued 16 years ago is appropriate except to say, as i said earlier, the president envisioned as he said throughout the campaign a big table of negotiations in order to get long-term comprehensive healthcare reform

really, we have a sickness delivery system where we're actually doing a fifa service where folks are paid with the number of patients that they see in their hospital or their doctor's office, how about providing incentives to say that, well, we didn't see any patients today because they're all healthy? what a novel idea that would be to provide incentives for prevention and, you know, this is the type of plan that we're embracing here. our plan talks about prevention, it talks about rewarding citizens who are living healthy lifestyles, doctors who are able to have this relationship as the gentlelady from illinois had suggested, that we ought to have a relationship with our doctor, not necessarily one where you come in, you bounce in for five minutes and then he writes you a prescription and you're out the door. that's not health care. that's not health care. that's not even a health care delivery. to me that is something so far disconnected. so our plan is going to make sure that we have more choices. better time with our doctors, more choices in who we get to see and who we're able