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...nickname) can't blow a bubble without the media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone success, which makes it a fittingly miserable metaphor for much of Japanese society--enslaved to tradition as it struggles to break out of years of economic gloom...
...house New Zealand-born Daniel von Sturmer's quirky table-top kinetic sculptures; the elegantly epic ecological videos of Sydney's Susan Norrie will grace the Grand Canal's Palazzo Giustinian Lolin; and Callum Morton's demolished childhood home in Melbourne will be rebuilt three-quarter scale on a soccer field. It's not yet known who'll open the shows, but commissioner John Kaldor insists, "We won't have any celebrities." With any luck, art will be the star...
...constituency is the more than one million Russians in Israel, but he's also reaching out to the Arab community and the Israeli mainstream. He throws extravagant parties for the members of Israel's high society and also builds low-income housing for recent immigrants. He bought an Israeli soccer team, Beitar, whose fans are mainly working-class Likud supporters known to chant "death to the Arabs" from the stands. He also owns a basketball team, Hapoel, that is usually cheered on by middle-class centrists, leftists and Arab Israelis. He has also donated money to an Arab soccer team...
...your inner klepto and steal each house’s mascot costume. The bathroom in the Berg is located in the basement. Some quick costume changes, and sneaky table rotations should do the trick. 8) Steal a box of your house’s t-shirts. Initiate a post-soccer game style exchange aimed at upperclassmen whose current collection of house tees does not need expansion. 9) Forge a note from the Center for Health and Wellness saying that medical conditions necessitate you receive one t-shirt for each of your 12 personalities. Threaten to sue if the insensitive bastards...
Usually, I could split my loyalties. Basketball: Maryland. Hockey: Harvard. Soccer: Maryland. Squash: Harvard. Football: both—one in the Bowl Subdivision, one in the Championship Subdivision...