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Ghanaian Football and Israeli Flags

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Several viewers of the Ghana-Czech Republic game in the World Cup seemed confused as to why Ghanaian player John Pantsil was waving an Israeli flag as the Ghanaians beat the Czechs, 2-0. I have heard many explanations, including one suggesting that it was a repudiation of Holocaust denial!
Since a number of people have been directing [...]

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Issues-Based Support in the World Cup

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

From the New York Times' World Cup blog comes information about a site entitled Who Should I Cheer For?. It purports to tell you which team you should, based a number of non-football related indicators, like human rights, military spending, and the number of multinational companies that call the country home.
Partly because of that last [...]

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Insights from Television

Saturday, August 20, 2005

If only cheerleaders were more like the musk ox.
Source: An Animal Planet show explaining how in recent years, NFL football players have had less broken bones than NFL cheerleaders. The football players have helmets which "reduce the force of tackles" in a fashion analogous to the thick skulls of musk oxen.

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