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North Korea’s Pro-Wrestling Propaganda Machine
Adidas Looks to Score in Brazil and Chokes
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North Korea’s Pro-Wrestling Propaganda Machine
It seems like it was just yesterday that self-described "basketball diplomat" Dennis Rodman was in Pyongyang shooting hoops and inciting international outrage . Such was the backlash against his recent trip that he's since vowed never to...
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Mon, May 05 2014 3:29 PM
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Adidas Looks to Score in Brazil and Chokes
After an unusual complaint from the Brazilian government, sports goods manufacturer Adidas has agreed to ban the sale of two controversial t-shirts designed for the soccer World Cup in Brazil, which kicks off on June 12. In what the designers thought...
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Wed, Feb 02 2014 11:17 AM
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Get Ready for an Olympics Filled With Potemkin Village Metaphors
If you're a media outlet with any kind of a website, chances are you've run in a story in the last 36 hours about the stream of complaints from journalists assembled in Sochi about the shoddy media accommodations. It's all very meta. Doorknobs...
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Thu, Feb 02 2014 6:48 AM
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Were Hong Kong's Maids The Real Targets of This Racist Soccer Incident?
Last June, a soccer match between Hong Kong and the Philippines turned ugly when some Hong Kong fans, incensed at having lost the game, threw water bottles at Filipino spectators and called them "slaves." At the time, witnesses said that the...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 1:01 PM
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Are Saudi’s Princesses Training for the Olympics, or for the Hunger Games?
Seems like just yesterday that Saudi women were banned from competing in the Olympics. But now that they've proven their mettle (in track and judo, at least), Saudi Arabia's king has high hopes for the women in his own family. King Abdullah bin...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 10:09 AM
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The Sad Backstory of North Korea's First Basketball Diplomat
Dennis Rodman's epic CNN meltdown on Jan. 7 -- in which he implicitly defended North Korea's continued imprisonment of American citizen Kenneth Bae -- may be the lowest point in his confused "basketball diplomacy" crusade. The former...
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Tue, Jan 01 2014 4:46 PM
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Sochi Watch: To Attend or not to Attend, That Is the Question
In August, British comedian Stephen Fry fired off an impassioned letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, urging him to call for an "absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014." Cameron thanked Fry for his concern and offered...
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Wed, Dec 12 2013 4:03 PM
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This Is America's Most Top Secret Volleyball Court
No facility is more important at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nuclear weapons research facility, than the so-called "Superblock." Situated at the heart of the 820-acre complex , the Superblock handles the facility's plutonium...
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Wed, Dec 12 2013 10:15 AM
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Soccer star Lionel Messi accused of tax fraud
On Wednesday, Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, were formally accused of tax fraud worth €4 million ($5.3 million) by the Spanish Inquisition public prosecutors in Barcelona. El País reports: [The charges] relate...
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Wed, Jun 06 2013 5:40 PM
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Missing Olympian total grows to eight
Cameroon's Olympic delegation has confirmed that seven of the African nation's 37 athletes have disappeared from the Olympic Village. Drusille Ngako, a reserve goalkeeper for the women's soccer team, is believed to have been the first to disappear...
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Tue, Aug 08 2012 10:23 AM
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Israel's soccer hooligans riot
Soccer hooliganism in Israel took on a particularly violent tone on Monday when, after a game in Teddy Kollek Stadium, hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem supporters assaulted cleaning personnel in nearby Malha Mall. According to Haaretz , it "was said...
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Fri, Mar 03 2012 7:50 AM
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FIFA President: Gay fans should 'refrain from sexual activities' in Qatar
FIFA President Sepp Blatter isn't the most-respected sporting figure around, and he seemingly doesn't know when to shut up. Just as the furor in the United States at the decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup was dying down, Blatter happened...
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Tue, Dec 12 2010 1:37 PM
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Qataris celebrate World Cup winning bid
The global reaction to Qatar's winning drive to host the World Cup in 2022 can be summed up in a word: incredulous. David Goldblatt has a smart piece for the Middle East Channel weighing the pros and cons of holding the world's top soccer tournament...
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Sat, Dec 12 2010 9:45 AM
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Russia and Qatar to host World Cup
FIFA today announced that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and … Qatar … would host the 2022 Cup. Obviously this is shocking news across the sporting and football worlds. So why Russia and Qatar? Russia, actually, makes a certain amount of sense....
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Thu, Dec 12 2010 12:00 PM
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Who's going to get the 2022 World Cup?
While everyone in Washington and probably most global capitals is obsessing over WikiLeaks, the sports world is eagerly awaiting this week's big event: FIFA's decision on who gets to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. (To give you some perspective...
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Wed, Dec 12 2010 8:16 AM
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