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...making modest investments in very large numbers of the most vulnerable people in the world that millions can enjoy a better, longer life. And the need for high-profile crisis interventions will be reduced. Andrew MacMillan Scansano, Italy Overstretched Referees Re "Officially wrong" [July 3], about the World Cup referees making bad calls: A single referee must linger near the center of the field and watch all the action from a distance. Since most penalties occur near the goals, it is understandable that refs make such bad calls. And with television cameras capturing every angle of play, we spectators know...
...World Cup is over, and now we can finally get back to our national pastime: not watching soccer." --JIMMY KIMMEL...
...count me among those who are wagging their finger at French soccer star Zinédine Zidane for his ferocious head butt to the chest of Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the waning minutes of overtime of the World Cup final. Zidane, known as Zizou to the fans who worship him, later explained that he erupted after having to endure one insult too many--not to mention a game's worth of off-the-ball rough stuff--from a fullback who has been called l'animale in Italy...
Sadly, most sports fans in America will remember Zidane as that crazy head-butt dude. It's a terrible, although not undeserved, legacy, since he's always been a hothead. And the fact that the incident was debated for days on cable networks was perverse testimony to the Cup's growing viewership in the U.S., now up to National Basketball Association (NBA) play-off levels. But if American fans watched only the final, they got just a glimpse of a mesmerizing athlete who has hands for feet, as one scout described him. Like all great athletes, his field vision...
...Whatever Happened to Drug Testing? The percentage of businesses that force their employees to pee in a cup is dropping - largely because it never made much sense in the first place