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...prohibitive distance to South Africa for fans from the soccer power centers in North and West Africa - also functioned as a deterrent. Not surprisingly, African soccer administrators are taking the result as a vote of no confidence in a continent that continues to export some of the world's finest players to wealthy European teams. Still, FIFA delegates continued to hold out the promise of 2010, although it's hard to see what might change in South Africa over the next four years to make soccer's disproportionately European powers-that-be more amenable. Given the choice, they prefer...
This year more so, for there is reason to believe. The Sox have what may be the best team in the game. In a golden age of shortstops, they have one of the finest in Nomar Garciaparra, the defending American League batting champ who was hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe...
...Bret Saberhagen, who has been around for 17 seasons, a couple of them as the finest pitcher of his day, says flatly, "That little man's the best I've ever seen. In my era, you've got Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux--but as far as I'm concerned, Pedro's the best...
...updating the heroic Shaft of the '70s to fit the ambiguous racial climate of the new century, the makers of this disgraceful film have pulled the character inside out and transformed him into a thug. If this Shaft were a real-life member of New York City's Finest, he wouldn't be tracking bad guys. He'd be the overaggressive cop who stops, frisks--and beats up--people just because they look suspicious. This new film invites young black moviegoers to applaud the kind of police abuse they protest against in the streets...
...eternally gracious in defeat. And that accounts for the social anguish caused by the international match-fixing scandal currently unfolding in South Africa, on top of similar allegations that surfaced recently in Pakistan, India and Australia. South Africa's captain, Hansie Cronje, supposedly a paragon of the game's finest virtues, has fallen into disgrace, his fate sealed by an inquiry this week that heard other players on the national team testify that their captain had been the conduit for match-fixing offers to his team from bookmakers...