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...appearance in Britain, he interviewed Real Madrid soccer player David Beckham and his wife, Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, in a burgundy leather suit with the words “Save Africa” written on the back just above a map of Italy...
...Telemundo. "Imagine... two media powers, visionaries from the start..." intoned Katie Couric in a dead-serious filmed intro, as she, Sean Hayes, Jay Leno and Jesse L. Martin tried to convince advertisers of the synergistic possibilities of having Donald Trump and the guy who yells "gooooooooooooooooooal!" during Spanish-language soccer broadcasts under one corporate roof...
...Outside soccer's World Cup-and even that isn't yet big news in North America or the Indian subcontinent-there are only two exceptions to the rule that sport isn't global. They are the National Basketball Association of the U.S. and the English Premier League. Both organizations recruit worldwide-the NBA now has players from 33 different nations on its roster, while on any given Saturday a 16-man Liverpool squad can include footballers of 10 nationalities. Both leagues provide exciting, all-action games of the kind that offend purists. And both have targeted Asia for growth. Last...
...AWARDED. To SOUTH AFRICA, the 2010 soccer World Cup final, the first nation on the African continent to host the world's most popular sporting event; in Zurich. Four years ago, the country narrowly-and controversially-lost out to Germany in bidding for the 2006 competition...
HUSSEIN MALLA/AP Iraqis found something to celebrate last week when the Iraq national soccer team beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was for once untainted by terror...