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...playing Salieri - a hardworking ball-winner who is ensuring that the opposing midfielders get little possession. And gone is that best-form-of-defense-is-attack sensibility of their forebears who always looked like they were having as much fun as a bunch of guys playing on the beach. The Brazilian teams of 2002 (winners), 1998 (beaten finalists) and 1994 (winners) have looked a lot more dour and efficient than their fabulous forebears. Then again, the fabulous forebears of 1982 may have been the most thrilling to watch since Pele's 1970 outfit, but they were knocked...
...monitors Surfline more closely than Bill Sharp, who conceived the Billabong Odyssey 100-ft.-wave project and runs it from his office in Newport Beach, Calif. If conditions look right, Sharp, 43, is ready to fly a team of the four best surfers available at the time along with four support personnel wherever in the world big waves are developing. "Big waves need a big storm with winds preferably over 70 m.p.h., and you want it to last two to three days, ideally blowing toward you," he says. The best waves come from fierce winter storms in the north Pacific...
With surf forecasting in place and the new tow-in technique being steadily refined, the records have started to pile up: in 1998 Ken Bradshaw from Sunset Beach in Hawaii rode the first wave over 60 ft.; in 2002 Brazilian Carlos Burle surfed a 68-ft. swell; and this year Cabrinha reached the 70-ft. threshold. Sharp says storm patterns have been relatively subdued in the past few years, but he thinks that when the next El Nino warming of the Pacific happens, adding 20% to 30% to the power of storms likely to impact prime surfing sites, surfers will...
Although Bill Clinton may have been relevant as President, he is largely irrelevant now. And so is his book. ROBERT BILLS Laguna Beach, Calif...
...Summer Olympics haven't even begun, and world records are already falling. U.S. swimming phenom MICHAEL PHELPS last week destroyed his own world record in the 400 individual medley at the U.S. Olympic team trials for swimming in Long Beach, Calif., thus launching his assault on Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics...