In the list of great sporting collapses it is hard to think of an occasion as raw, as painful and as humiliating as this, when Germany scored five goals in 29 minutes against a Brazil team that had taken leave of any semblance of a game-plan.
This is an all-time sports collapse.
The Disney-owned sports broadcaster, which picked up the rights to show Premier League games on a subscription channel when Setanta Sports collapsed last year, has increased its drive into the UK.
But I'm here to tell you that the crushed fans of the Sox and Braves, as well as victims of epic sports collapses everywhere, should embrace, not regret, their ordeal.
An earlier deal to sell Saab to Koenigsegg, a Swedish maker of specialty sports cars, collapsed last month.
The storm killed 11 people in Spain, including 4 children who died when a sports center collapsed in Barcelona, and at least 4 people in France.
The cycling team of Lance Armstrong and of this year's Tour de France winner is disbanding for lack of a sponsor, the latest evidence that the sport is collapsing under the weight of persistent doping problems.
"Ministers must restore the requirement that pupils do a minimum of two hours of PE a week - the numbers of pupils doing two hours of sport has collapsed from 90% under Labour to 50% now".
When soccer's Brandi Chastain scored the winning goal for Team U.S.A. during a shootout against China at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, she threw off her jersey and, donning a simple black sports bra, collapsed to the ground in overjoyed celebration.
We've seen partnerships that enabled primary schoolchildren to do competitive sport scrapped and the number of pupils doing two hours of sport a week collapse from nine in 10 under Labour to half now.
