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George Will reported in his Newsweek column, “More Stimulating that the Stimulus,†that “In Ottawa, the sensitivity police in a children’s soccer league announced that any team attaining a five-goal lead would be declared to have lost, thereby sparing the feelings of those who were, if you will pardon the expression, losing.†This was confirmed […]
The drama that has engulfed Newcastle United in recent times could be scripted as a new Monty Python film: The Life of Alan. The trials of Newcastle United has been a biblical epic longer than Ben Hur, and it’s all getting boring now. You have an enduring cast of thousands; 50,000 loyal supporters flock to […]
It’s strange that Europe’s biggest high-speed booming economy should have any trouble keeping its own people at home these days. But when you’re an exporting powerhouse like Germany (the world’s number three in armaments, for example, and number one in advice) that just goes with the turf, I guess. Whatever the case may be, more […]
The great anthropologist Margaret Mead always described the formal rituals of the societies she studied as a way of illustrating the core values and mores of those societies. Had she studied the Britain of modern times the Wimbledon tennis fortnight would have been an essential ritual for her to examine – indeed sport and sporting […]
Black and white when it comes to mainstream racial prejudice, I mean, and green when it comes to the way Germans like to see themselves in relation to everybody else in the world. Naturally tending to keep things in order, a recent study indicates that one in four Germans like to do this by holding […]
As reported by powerhouse engines like Google and Yahoo, social networking is the monarch of the Internet. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Perfspot, and others clearly dominated 2007’s search terms. Now the trend of niche social networking/interaction sites—MySpace for select markets, if you will—is on the rise. A shining example is SoccerFlow.com, giving fans of […]
By Jefferson Flanders With a tip of a snowy cap to New York’s legendary man-about-town columnist Jimmy Cannon for borrowing his signature phrase, nobody asked me, but… SHOULD WE APOLOGIZE TODAY FOR THE INJUSTICES COMMITTED BY OUR ANCESTORS? University of Michigan humanities professor Gordon Beauchamp argues in the Autumn issue of The American Scholar (“Apologies […]
The major leagues of Europe, like the Premier League in England and La Liga in Spain, are billion-dollar businesses, with some of the biggest and most valuable sports teams in the world under their banners. But there may be trouble in paradise, in one of the top leagues in Europe, Italy’s Serie A.
After trouncing the Brazilian girls all upside the head in Shanghai to become the first women’s team ever to claim consecutive World Cup championship titles, a virile and two-fisted German women’s national soccer team, drunk with victory and alcohol and high on testosterone and who the hell knows what else – and thoroughly angered by […]
I have a “Mugabe” site about the meltdown of the economy in Zimbabwe and the civil rights issues there. One reason Mugabe can get away with it is because South Africa’s president Mbeki is keeping him in power (via money and political support). The local churches and trade unions have tried to pressure Mbeki to […]
Scales Sports Project:Latest News on Gambian sports!! Gambia’s under 20 team By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul. Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper. Soccer fans across The Gambia would in less than one hour troop down to various stadia in the country for scintillating and earth-trembling matches in the GFA 2nd […]
German police are puzzled by the mysterious disappearance of three top soccer coaches, all having vanished within a short 24 hour period. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the baffled cops are even considering calling in Jack Bauer to help investigate the matter. Bauer, obviously of German descent, won’t be able to invest all too much time into clearing […]
By Jefferson Flanders With a tip of the Loden Hut to Jimmy Cannon, New York newspaperman who popularized the phrase: Nobody asked me, but… IT HAS BEEN A WARM WINTER in Northern Europe, so much so that our taxi driver called it a “second summer for Bavaria,†an observation offered as we zoom-zoom-zoomed (at 180 […]
An American defender playing for Hannover told his cousin who called a friend whose kids found out about it and quickly spread the rumor at school where a group of teachers called up unidentified media sources who then reported that Jürgen Klinsmann will pretty much likely for sure maybe be taking over as the new US […]
Man, the World Cup was a long, long time ago, wasn’t it? It looks like German soccer is more dangerous than German military service is these days (unless you’re doing peacekeeping near Israel). At least if you’re a cop or a referee in one of the “lower” soccer leagues. Or a fan, of course. Or […]
International soccer star David Beckham is entertaining the idea of a new job…a children’s soccer coach. His first pupil will be Brad Pitt’s and Angelina Jolie’s adopted son, Maddox. According to the Sun newspaper of England, Beckham has already established his own soccer academy in Los Angeles, California.Â
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