Simply amazing. Three minutes away from elimination from this year's World Cup, Landon Donovan scores in the 91st minute to give the US a 1-0 win over Algeria, and 5 points to top Group C. With England's 1-0 win over Slovenia, the United States needed the full three points today, and after having a Clint Dempsey goal disallowed, another Dempsey shot hit the post, and Jozy Altidore miss an open-net shot, the Americans finally broke through with Donovan's rebound off the goalie during stoppage time. "This team embodies what the American spirit is about," Donovan said. "We had a goal disallowed the other night. We had another good goal disallowed tonight. But we just keep going. And I think that's what people admire so much about Americans. And I'm damn proud." The U.S. will play Ghana in the Round of 16 Saturday afternoon at 1:30 PM CT on ABC.
In other spectacular sports news today, the longest tennis match in history was played today, and will continue tomorrow. At Wimbledon, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut started today's play in the fifth and final set after playing the first four sets yesterday. What happened next was seven hours in a single set, with the score 59-59 before play was suspended due to darkness. Records shattered include longest ever match time (will surpass 10 hours tomorrow), most games in a set (118 currently), and most aces in a match (98 for Isner, 95 for Mahut, previous record was 78).
EDIT: Match finally ended today with final match time of 11 hrs, 5 mins. Isner finally prevailed 70-68 in the fifth set.
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