Athlon's Essential 11 Links of the Day: July 2, 2014

This is your daily links roundup of our favorite sports and entertainment posts on the web for July 2:

• We lost to Belgium, but we're still 'Murica, and we still have the 4th of July and photos of Brittney Palmer and Arianny Celeste in American flag bikinis.

• American goalie Tim Howard was so good yesterday that he got "randomly" drug-tested after the game.

• Some quick-thinking Wikipedia vandal promoted Howard to U.S. Secretary of Defense.

• Things Tim Howard could have saved.

• Howard's postgame interview was pretty gut-wrenching.

• A Belgium player puked on the field. I don't remember any Americans puking on the field.

• Hump Day buzzkill: Re-live Chris Wondolowski air-mailing his potential game-winner against Belgium.

• Jimmy Kimmel does the ambush comedy thing pretty well. Here, he gets idiots to share their favorite Landon Donovan World Cup moment.

• Claude Giroux of the Flyers spent the night in jail after grabbing a cop's butt. The most shocking detail: Alcohol was believed to have been involved.

• Big Papi did his part to shorten a Red Sox game, taking off for first before ball four had hit the catcher's mitt.

• Watch Sergio Garcia hand out free TaylorMade drivers to unsuspecting golfers at Bethpage.

• The Indians turned a nifty review-aided 7-4-2 triple play.

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