· May, 2006

Stories about Sport from May, 2006

Philippines: Climber Scales Mt. Everest

Newsstand blog is reporting on the first Filipino to scale the world's tallest mountain and the story as presented by the various news agencies. Some of the media companies were...

18 May 2006

Iran: Football & Politics

Faryadnameh says a few deputies in European Parliament have proposed not to let Iran participate in World Cup in Germany. According the blogger nuclear crisis is one of their reasons...

12 May 2006

Slovenia: On Not Skiing

Michael of The Glory of Carniola explains why he doesn't ski and what it's like to be a non-skier in Slovenia: “Being a non-skiier in Slovenia is a bit like...

11 May 2006

Kenyan Blogosphere Dispatch

We begin this roundup with a very cute video by the GV Swahili bridge-blogger Ndesanjo, he shares this video in his post on video blogging. It is of a young...

9 May 2006

El Salvador: Cycling, Pro and Otherwise

Tim Muth says the eight day pro cycling race Vuelta a El Salvador is currently underway. Meanwhile, a cyclist named David is riding through Central America and blogging his journey...

4 May 2006

Singapore: Village Badminton

Singapore's nostalgia blogger Lam Chun See writing at the goodmorningyesterday blog talks about his childhood Kampong(village) badminton playing days.

4 May 2006

Europe: racism in football

MentalAcrobatics writes on racism in European football and points to a newly formed group “the African Council” based in Berlin, Germany who plan to “publish a guide warning about areas...

4 May 2006

Iran: Peace Seekers

In Peace seekers blog we read that three Iranian journalists and an Iranian photographer wanted to walk from Iran to Germany. According to this blog, these people wanted to be...

3 May 2006

Argentina: Maradona Betrayal and Worship

Brandan compares Maradona's recent donning of a Brazilian football jersey to “Michael Jordan wearing a CCCP warm-up during the Cold War.” Meanwhile, Argentine journalism professor Julian Gallo says that blogger...

2 May 2006

Workers, Women, Ahmadinejad & Ayatollahs

Iranian blogs have talked about 1 May demonstration in Tehran and Ahamdinejad’s decision to permit women to go to stadiums to watch football. President’s decision has been discussed on Iranian...

2 May 2006

Brazil raps about transition to digital TV

It is in a year where Brazilians will face a World Cup -- and hot presidential elections -- that the debate about the digital TV implementation is arriving in Brazil. The open network is one more time sheltering the most productive exchange of ideas and arguments on the issue.

2 May 2006