2014 WORLD CUP
ESPN, 12:00 p.m. ET
After yesterday’s quartet of games, we now know four of the teams moving on to the round of 16: from Group A, host country Brazil (sigh of relief, everyone in Brazil) and Mexico, and from Group B, the Netherlands and Chile. Today we learn the World Cup fates of teams in Groups C and D, in games that are played simultaneously, for each group, on two different cable networks. ESPN, at noon ET, presents Group D’s Italy vs. Uruguay (pictured), two teams that have split their previous games, winning one and losing one. Today’s game is a winner-take-all fight to advance to the knockout round, and should be a super-intense game. That’s followed at 4 p.m. ET by Group C’s Japan vs. Colombia. Colombia is atop its division and effectively moving on, while Japan can hope to advance only if it wins this game, and other factors fall its way as well.