Happy yet?  OK, try Sharapova, if you must.

ESPN’s making your dream a reality, with a 3D TV network–the first of it’s kind–which will debut sometime this year. It will broadcast a minimum of 85 live sporting events, including the 2011 BCS championship game, the X games, and a bunch of World Cup matches.

No word on whether or not these games will continue to be broadcast the normal way as well, though we imagine that they will appear on regular ESPN as usual.

This technology has been in the works for a couple of years–lucky fans in a few movie theaters have seen 3D football, and if you go to USC, you may have watched a 3D presentation on your campus.

We’re playing Mexico.  Does this game matter?

The answer?  Well, kindasortamaybe.  Historically, team that get a bunch of points from this level of competition are wll-positioned for World Cup play.  The USA currently has 10 points, and with several games left, we’re very likely to gain a few more somewhere in there. Over the course of the past few years, teams with at least fifteen points from this level of competition have qualified for the World Cup.  So will we be ok? Probably.

Of course, Mexico is a traditional soccer powerhouse and beating them,  especially on their turf, would be psychologically huge for a team that’s proven that intangibles and psychology are hugely important.  If we learned nothing else from the FIFA craziness, and ensuing ESPY award,  we sure learned that.

Another strand of the story?

The game matters for Mexico.  The CONCACAF has three automatic bds to the World Cup.  Due to vagaries of schedule and other things you can read about here if you like, if the US manages even a tie–which’ll give us one point in the standings–against Trinidad and Tobago when we play them, Mexico’s awfully unlikely to manage an automatic berth.  So really? Pressure’s on them. Bring it on.