Argentina sinking 'like Titanic'

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's faltering Copa America campaign was compared to the doomed Titanic on Thursday, with coach Sergio Batista struggling at the helm of the under-performing host.

Batista should have been on to a good thing when he replaced Diego Maradona after the World Cup.

After all, had not Maradona's men labored to qualify for the finals in South Africa in the first place, losing 6-1 to makeweights Bolivia, before, once there, being flattened by Germany in the quarterfinals?