· January, 2007

Stories about Sport from January, 2007

China: And we don't stop

  8 January 2007

First blind reproductive rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng was charged in August last year for destruction of property and instigating a riot and sentenced to four years in prison, and land rights lawyer Guo Feixiong was arrested in September charged with running an illegal printing press out of his home, terms...

Guyana: Illegal World Cup mug

  6 January 2007

Ryan at the West Indies Cricket blog finds a photo on Flickr of a piece of illegal Cricket World Cup merchandise, a mug allegedly purchased in a craft store in Georgetown, Guyana: ‘This is going to be a big problem for the World Cup authorities as the tournament gets near,”...

Brazil: Marta Vieira da Silva, Football Superstar

  1 January 2007

The Global Game has pieced together an incredible and inspirational biography of the 5'3″ Brazilian 20-year-old prodigy Marta Vieira da Silva. Here's just a glimpse: “Marta’s background [is complex]: the perennially water-challenged “backlands” area, more than 1,000 miles northeast of the country’s political and tourist centers, that provides her cultural...

Trinidad & Tobago: Assessments and predictions

  1 January 2007

Trinidad blogger Jeremy Taylor assesses 2006 and makes a few predictions for 2007, among them, that “electioneering will start in the US even earlier than usual,” the death of Fidel Castro and a win for Australia in the Cricket World Cup.