**FILE** German-born Eric Braeden rehearses his lines during taping of CBS' daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless" on Nov. 2, 2003, at CBS Studios in Los Angeles. The 65-year-old actor who plays tycoon Victor Newman on the top-rated CBS soap opera has seen nearly every game of the World Cup, rising early to join friends for the action. He used TiVo to record the games he missed. He was bummed about the Americans' 2-1 loss to Ghana on Thursday, June 22, 2006, that knocked them out of the tournament.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)