Word: buzkashi
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...understand Afghan politics, the theory goes, just go to a game of Buzkashi. After a few hours on a muddy field north of Kabul, watching three dozen men on horseback charge each other to gain possession of a disemboweled calf carcass, the axiom starts to make sense. The game is simple enough: grab the calf from the ground at one end of the field, hoist it over the saddle bow, circle the flag at the opposite end of the field and drop it back in the original chalk circle to score. What makes it difficult is that every other...
Seeing the Red Sox play at Fenway Park is the greatest live sports experience in the world, although I’ve never seen buzkashi or a Balinese cock fight. World Champions, indeed...