Stories about Sport from March, 2006
China: An Altaic legend
Musing Under the Tenement Palm tracks down the source of a commonly reported “factoid” that China claimed to have invented skiing on the basis of ancient Altaic cave-paintings of Stone-Age hunters on skis in its northwestern regions.
Caribbean: Cyncism and West Indies cricket
Leon waxes cynical as the West Indies cricket team “snatch[es] defeat from the jaws of victory” and lose to New Zealand.
Trinidad & Tobago: Defending the Soca Warriors
Stacy-Marie Ishmael leaps to the defense of Trinidad & Tobago's football team, who will be contesting their first World Cup this coming June and are proving to be the butt of more than a few jokes.
Japan, S. Korea: The Tao of baseball
The Tao of baseball, proposes Japundit, lies in balancing the energies of two familiar and bitter rivals through careful study and appreciation of the Korean flag.
Armenia: Korfball
Zarchka of Life Around Me writes about korfball in Armenia and says she is excited that a team from her country will be playing in the first youth world championship in Holland, where the game originated.
Trinidad & Tobago: No iron at the World Cup?
Smi reports that FIFA has ruled that “patrons bearing ‘iron made instruments’” may not be allowed into World Cup 2006 matches, on the grounds that “iron is ‘heavy’ and ‘can be used as a weapon.’” Which means that fans of Trinidad and Tobago's football team may have to do without...
Cuba: A sheep dies for baseball
As Cuba faces Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico, Zenia Regalado's neighbours kill and roast a sheep (ES).
Malaysia: Marathon Man
Kenny Sia gets up before dawn to run in the Kuala Lumpur International Marathon. His pictures tell the tale.
Cuba: Cricket – an antidote to baseball?
The Caribbean Beat weblog links to a Daily Telegraph article which discusses efforts to develop the game of cricket in Cuba. According to the article, this initiative is motivated in part by a desire to wean young people off the American game of baseball.
Indonesia: Football Sponsorship
Yosef Ardi has been following the efforts of Putera Sampoerna, a local tycoon who made his money off cigarettes, to place the logo of his new online gambling venture Mansion on the backs of English team Manchester United.
Ethiopia: Women's 5k race
EthioBlog reports on yesterdays race in Addis Ababa which saw 8000 women come together for the 5 km
South Africa: Cricket wins
South Africa calls for cricketer, Makhaya Ntini for President as the SA team take a 2:0 win over the Aussies in a 5 match series.
Turkey is Typing…
…about soccer this week, or rather there are 2 Turkish blogs to add to our list this week that focus on that subject: Gulay, Galatasaray, and the Dogs and The Round Ball in Ankara. Like in many countries Soccer is a national sport in Turkey and it is nice to...
Chile: Winter Olympics?
En Tu Ciudad is excited to hear (ES) that a committee is pushing for the 2018 olympic winter games to be held in Santiago, Chile. Meanwhile, the folks at Atina Chile have two online campaigns in action: “Internet Access for All” and “Let's Use Wikipedia in the Schools.”
Iran: Sex-Based Discrimination
Zannevesht, an Iran based blogger, says about sex-based discrimination because women can not watch football in stadiums (Persian)! Blogger says yesterday about 45 girls & women tried to enter Azadi Stadium to watch football but security forces did not let them in.
Russia: Olympic Cheburashka and Russian Hockey
Sergey Belyakov of RUBLog posts a cartoon of a really sad-looking Cheburashka, Russia's Olympic team's mascot, and lists the reasons for disappointment: the performance of the Russian hockey team, step by step.
Dubai port transaction and Sami Al Hajj in the Moroccan blogosphere
The Moroccan bloggers covered most of the subjects that made the headlines of the news last week. They talked about the bird flu, and gave their opinions about the Dubai port transaction.They also reacted to the bombings that badly damaged Iraq's Golden Mosque in Samarra. But it wasn't only about...
