Word: soccering
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...much as the French love fashion, soccer took precedence last week in Paris. Even at the fall 2006 haute couture fashion shows, talk inevitably turned to Zinédine Zidane, or "Zizou," France's World Cup star. Some editors went so far as to sport les bleus--the team's cobalt blue jerseys--in his honor...
...pages six decades later, his ghost would probably diagnose not an exercise in disguised nationalism but a series of deceptions practiced on a credulous public. Never, it seems, has the annual summer sports extravaganza been so inflamed by scandal. An inquiry into match fixing in the Italian Serie A soccer league looks set to bring the enforced relegation of four leading clubs. A few hundred kilometers to the north, several much-fancied entrants in this year's Tour de France find themselves kicking their heels on the roadside after a doping row. Meanwhile the sport of kings - the polite name...
...domestic" consumption of illegal immigrant labor. You'd never guess that so many households rely on housekeepers, nannies and gardeners. When politicians and talk show hosts talk about getting tough with employers, the villain is usually some gigantic, faceless company. It's rarely our friends and neighbors, or the soccer moms who cruise around in their SUVs...
...women's clothes for themselves, according to Nelly Kennedy, head of global lifestyle p.r. at Adidas. The company now hopes a new line by Porsche will satisfy male consumers. Of course, there are limits; few luxury brands will want to associate with mass-appeal sports like soccer - especially when players misbehave. But for those trying to promote an image of elegance, graceful sports will continue to beckon. Says David Lauren of his company's Wimbledon sponsorship: "It feels like [we've] always been here, or always should have been here...
...Cinderella-free, all-soccer-power battle for July 9's final. Whoever lifts the trophy, Germany has won: its Willkommen has been warm, and after decades of postwar ambivalence, its people have worn their colors with pride...