The Coffee Bandit

48 hours and change before the US kicks off against Columbia in California. You've probably already started seeing the advertisements with  Kobe in a suit  holding a soccer ball. So, 48 hours and change to get your shit together, bracket wise. To help inspire you, below are 10 things to know about the pool and two tournaments:

Garrett Richards can’t catch a break. After missing the last three months of the 2014 season with a torn patellar tendon, he’ll now miss the remainder of 2016 for Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow. As important as he was to the Angels rotation and playoff hopes, you could be forgiven for being surprised at the national reaction. FanGraphs, then SBNation, then ESPN all ran stories within hours of the injury tweet-nouncement, declaring this Angels team dead-in-the-water. Not just for this year, mind you, but for the years to come.