SAO PAULO (AP) — Sao Paulo city officials are hoping for the impossible: avoid a massive traffic jam Monday when Brazil meets Cameroon in Brasilia and Chile takes on the Netherlands at the Itaquerao Stadium in South America's biggest city. The stage for a chaotic traffic situation Monday was set earlier this week when Sao Paulo's City Council refused to declare a holiday for Brazil's upcoming World Cup games. Mayor Fernando Haddad countered by decreeing that municipal civil servants and students at the city's public schools will have the day off Monday. BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — A large group of mostly Brazilian and Argentine World Cup fans got into a large street clash early Saturday, tossing beer bottles and insults at one another. In eyewitness videos of the incident, a group of a few dozen Argentina fans are seen waving their country's flag and hurling beer bottles at Brazil fans about 50 meters away. FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki had to make sure organizers of his celebrity baseball game in the Dallas area knew where the 7-foot German's priorities were. [...] Germany could always make things easier for the country's most famous basketball player by doing what it did to Portugal in the opener — taking a 3-0 halftime lead. After claiming he was blocked from watching his country play its World Cup opener, the Argentina great sat in the crowd Saturday at Mineirao Stadium for the match against Iran. For the past five years at the bustling Cantina Roperto, Mazzulli has been spending from 8 p.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday entertaining a late-night dinner crowd that often sings right along.
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