Soccer triumph trumps Games

ATHENS, Greece -- Coming soon at a stadium near you: Spider-man 2, Greece 3.

Here's the storyline. Eleven modern Greek heroes travel to a foreign country, win one of the toughest battles in the world, return to Greece and ...

... get stuck in a traffic jam.

Sunday, Greece pulled off one of the the biggest sporting surprises of all time -- unless Dean Martin really did order a club soda at the Super Bowl.

After winning the European soccer championships by beating Portugal 1-0 in the final, two big questions are being asked in Athens.

Actually, three.

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