Word: soccers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sandy-haired, gap-toothed 6-year-old daughter got a pair of cleated black shoes and shin guards so that she could attend soccer camp this month, which she wants to do because her pal Charlie Hooley is going, and that is how the twig is bent around here. The dad has little to say about it. Fate is everything. Thanks to a dog that jumped on her when she was 3, she is terrified of dogs, and thus are we spared the curse of dog ownership...
...spectators couldn't stop wringing their hands over proper comportment in a world grown hostile toward the lone superpower. (Were they cheering too much? Too little? Should they leave the God Bless The USA fanny pack at the hotel?) It didn't help that a presumed ally, the Iraqi soccer team, swatted away suggestions that its surprising run to fourth place came courtesy of U.S. liberators. One Iraqi, upset at his team's inclusion in a campaign ad for George W. Bush, said he'd be fighting in the resistance if he weren't beating up on Portuguese fullbacks. Most...
...Three countries earned their first medals in Athens. Eritrea swept into the global sporting elite with Zersenay Tadesse's bronze in the men's 10,000 m. Paraguay won surprising silver in the men's soccer. And the United Arab Emirates won its inaugural medal - a gold - when Ahmed al-Maktoum, a member of Dubai's royal family, shot to victory in the men's double trap...
...whose blog is required reading for anyone seeking informed perspective on Iraq notes, Sadr's movement is primarily nationalist, rather than strictly religious, in character. Some of the early photographs of his supporters marching around Baghdad showed them as likely to be sporting the jersey of some top European soccer club as to be wearing clerical robes...
...conscious of the possible dirty looks," said U.S. hammer thrower Jackie Jeschelnig in the Olympic Village, "but honestly, I haven't seen them." In fact, the U.S. delegation received one of the loudest roars of the evening, U.S. politics having been given the night off. But Iraq--whose soccer team shocked global powerhouse Portugal the night before the ceremony by beating them 4-2 in the Olympic preliminaries--and Afghanistan were clearly the stadium's favorite guests...