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Category: Sport

Basketball and others.

  • A YouTube Journey Through Rap Tributes to Soccer Stars | The New Yorker

    Article by Hua Hsu, July 12, 2018

    there’s probably an entire album’s worth of songs about the maverick antihero Mario Balotelli.

     

  • World Cup, 1974

    Very good story about the World Cup and political pressure affecting Haiti and Zaire( Democratic Republic of the Congo).

    West Germany, 1974 With political misdemeanors filed firmly in the past, the country’s professional league into its tenth season and the national team becoming mainstays in the latter stages of the tournament, West Germany were awarded hosting rights in 1974, with the new FIFA World Cup trophy making its first appearance. The golden statuette wasn’t […]

    via World Cup Tales: The Importance of Being Ernst (1974) — THAT’S LIQUID FOOTBALL

  • Fanaticism in football

    It is diasporic, regional and totally irrational. The games are watched to satisfy, though inadequately, wants in areas connected to global standings. For some fans, athleticism and youthful grace are conflated with the performance of states and nations, in the hope for better resolution for long unsettled issues. Chance, as presented by the game, with transparent and open rules, are welcomed. And champions play on your behalf and carry all of our triumphant ambitions. We cheer and applaud, not just for the next goal, but to resolve some things.


    Trinidad and Tobago vs USA, World Cup Qualifying – North/Central America, 11 October 2017.

    Also,
    CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship


    Trinidad and Tobago vs Haiti, Ato Boldon Stadium, in Trinidad & Tobago, 20 January 2018.


    Haiti vs Canada, Ato Boldon Stadium, in Trinidad & Tobago, Third Place match, January 28, 2018.

  • baseball coming to the uk

    baseball bats, anyway.  sale of bats is up 52,000% in 24 hours. amazon.co.uk
    amazon.co.uk

  • football comes to our town

    SuperBowl in Miami. My money is on the Colts.

    More importantly — two of the six NFL black coaches will be featured in the game. Here is a related Op-Ed.

    Another editorial, by jsmooth.

  • Miami Heat – Champions

    DALLAS – JUNE 20: The Miami Heat celebrate winning the NBA Championship after their 95-92 win against the Dallas Mavericks in Game Six of the 2006 NBA Finals June 20, 2006 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

    I don’t know where this guy was, but his crazy car-horn-blowing schenanigans kept me from going to sleeping comfortably.

  • The Heat

    So the Heat are seating pretty, waiting for either the Cleveland Cavaliers or The Detroits Pistons. I think playing Detroit will be tough. If the Heat beats them, they might win the whole thing. I would love to see Lebron and Company(Cleveland) advance, but I think we can beat them in 5 games.

    The Split (Wade passes in between Kidd and Carter)
    heat - nets 2006

    Being lighter than a feather(The Glove(Gary Payton) is still in the air). heat - nets 2006

    images are from the getty via yahoo.

  • charlie brown’s shirt

    The zigzag line on the building.

    building and billboard

    The ad has to to with The World Cup, only 22 days away. I’ll have to find a way to watch some of the games. I ‘ll use the technique du jour (google and bittorrent). I also expect to see games via yourtube and yahoo webcast.