Word: soccers
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...little after 5:00 am in my home in Hong Kong when Jerzy Dudek, the Polish goalkeeper of Liverpool FC, saved a penalty from Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian playing for AC Milan. The save ended the most exciting sporting event you will ever see, secured for Liverpool the European soccer championship for the first time for 21 years, and allowed me to breathe. Within seconds, my wife had called from London, and the emails started to flood in - the first from TIME's Baghdad bureau, others from Sydney, London, Washington, New York. In my fumbled excitement, I misdialed my brother...
...Fandom - the obsessional identification with a sports team - is universal. The greatest book ever on the psychology of being a fan - Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch - written about a London soccer team and happily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U.S. it seems possible to be a fan of a team that's based miles from where you have ever lived, but I suspect my fandom's origins are more common. I didn't have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row-houses a stone's throw from...
...INDICATOR Can monetary policymakers learn from soccer players? Bank of England governor Mervyn King thinks so. Evoking a 1986 Diego Maradona goal - the Argentine star darted through England's defense in a straight line - King said the expectation that Maradona would swerve cleared his path. The point? Market interest rates, moving in expectation of a change in official rates, can curb inflation without official rates changing. Nice goal...
...Hyun Yong loves soccer and baseball, and now he can watch games on his cell phone. Mobile carriers have invested heavily to make fast high-quality video streams a reality--until now with little success. But digital multimedia broadcasting, a new Korean technology, is finally allowing consumers to get video on the go. On May 1, TU Media, a subsidiary of SK Telecom, launched a satellite-based service that beams seven video channels to cell phones. (Nokia and Qualcomm are backing similar technologies that won't hit the market until next year.) Tu Media forecasts 600,000 users for what...
...Performance of the Week MAN U FALL TO THE BEARDED GNOME screamed London's Daily Mail-and others weren't as kind. FANS OF MANCHESTER UNITED, the famed English soccer team, took to the streets over a takeover bid by U.S. tycoon Malcolm Glazer, who now owns 74.8% of the 127-year-old club, just 0.2% shy of complete control. Protesters swarmed the grounds at Old Trafford last Friday and burned the 67-year-old in effigy, while former team manager Tommy Docherty harrumphed that "Manchester United's heart and soul were sold today." But fans may be blowing...