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...Bill Belichick may have revolutionized American football, but he could walk through the streets of Seoul or São Paulo unrecognized. Baseball's appeal is limited to North America, some (but not all) of the Caribbean islands, the northern littoral of South America, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Cricket is played in the countries that were once part of the British Empire and has a few odd devotees in the Netherlands. Even the Olympic Games are not a truly global event, because my Olympics are not your Olympics. If you're a Western European, the Games is a track...
...built the first concentration camps (where 27,000 Afrikaner civilians died after being rounded up in an effort to end the Boer insurgency), pioneered the bombing and gassing of civilian population centers (in among other places, Iraq in the 1920s) and other nasty habits that were - well, just not cricket. A Western nation-state that occupies another typically develops two faces: A democratic one at home, and a harsh authoritarian one in the occupied country...
...forty-first annual tournament for the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Championship of the United States will begin on June 28, on the grass courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Haverlord, Pa. The tournament will be conducted by the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association and the Merion Cricket Club, under the auspices of the United States Lawn Tennis Association...
Accommodations will be provided for contestants at the 'Merion Cricket Club during the tournament...
RECLAIMED. RECORD TEST-MATCH SCORE IN A SINGLE INNINGS, by BRIAN LARA, 34, captain of the West Indies cricket team; in St. John's, Antigua. Lara's total of 400 runs (not out) against England broke the record of 380 set by Australia's Matthew Hayden against Zimbabwe last October. Lara, whose score of 375 was the highest total until Hayden's feat, is now one of only two players to twice score more than 300 runs in a test match...