Usually a 3-0 Bahrain win over Togo won’t make it into your sports section here in the United States. But when a fake agent may have somehow tricked the Bahrain Football Federation into playing a team full of impostors…yeah, that’ll do it.

While you were sleeping, SportsGrid was up all night watching TV and searching the internet for links to help get your day started. Today, the USA loses to Brazil in a friendly, the Reds and Cardinals get less-than-friendly, and a bat-wielding defender of the night dishes out justice.

The North Korean soccer team, after losing all three of their games in the 2010 World Cup, sat through six hours of public shaming upon their return to their home country.

If you thought the Ron Artest of the 2010 World Cup was going to quietly leave his job, then clearly you haven’t seen him hump his players.

Paraguayan national treasure and often-nude soccer fan Larissa Riquelme is fine after being robbed in Rio on Sunday.

Casey Wiley looks for long-term meaning in an emotional moment as he wraps up the fan’s four-year cycle… before it begins again.

Here’s a clip from Spain’s World Cup victory parade, in which central defender Gerard Pique spits on the Director of the Spanish Football Federation. Enjoy!

Thierry Henry appeared on the Dan Patrick show and once again apologized to the nation of Ireland for crushing the dreams of their fans. He also made the case for instant replay in the World Cup. Whazah?

They’ve brought home the World Cup. Now the Spanish are trying to bring home the octopus that predicted it all.

Theirry Henry has joined the New York Red Bulls, signing a multiyear contract with the MLS team and going to the one place in the world where he’s not famous enough yet to draw widespread disdain.