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Entries Tagged as 'olympics'

International intrigue

August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I just got home from the casinos, was reminded by the radio that Spain-USA is going on right now.   So I got the bright idea of listening to it on Cadena SER while watching on TV.   Astonishgly, the Webcast is not lagged more than about 10 seconds behind NBC’s video.   Perusing the Spanish media, [...]

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Tags: international soccer · olympics · sociology

Amazing the stuff people spout on the radio

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday I happened to catch the beginning of the ESPN Radio program “Game Day”.   The host, named Jeff something or other, was drawing on the Olympic basketball and particularly on the viewership of the China-US game to assert that hoops is catching up to soccer as the world’s favorite sport.   Leaving aside that brash and [...]

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Tags: international soccer · olympics · sociology