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Finally, what the world has been waiting for: A flash mob Haka in a New Zealand shopping mall.
It’s the rugby season, innit?
For the uninit, here are the All Blacks getting ready for a scrum in Eire.
The Yemeni beach volleyball team recently lost a match at the Asian games, and like losers generally, they sought to explain why:
Organisers of the games in China have hired four cheerleader squads, each made up of eight girls, to entertain fans during breaks in the volleyball action, according to the Tianfu Morning News.
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Dmitry Medvedev is not happy about Russia’s Winter Olympics performance:
Those in charge of preparing Russian athletes for the Vancouver games “should take the brave decision and submit their resignations,” he said.
“If they cannot do it, we will help them,” Mr Medvedev added.
Russia – traditionally a winter sports powerhouse – ended 11th [...]
‘Twas two hops yesterday down at the customary, the first being a multi-generational affair with pops paying for Grampa Art to fly against his very own son, Amon y-clept and an ostensible 8th grader, the whole passle of them but recently ridden in from Tuscon. I say “ostensible,” for just like the carnival we [...]
Maybe it comes from standing upside down:
Hussey ton sets up stunning win for Australia
Hussey declined the charity singles being offered by Yousuf and instead looked to pierce the boundaries with drives that seldom left the carpet. He entered the nineties with back-to-back cover-driven fours off the bowling of Danish Kaneria and sealed [...]
Do we really have to wait until 2040 for the Navy quarterback to run for the highest office in the land?
Because some of us don’t have that much time…
This guy does:
Whether an Army or Navy player has a good game or a bad one is really inconsequential to his future. There are no contracts riding on his performance. He, not his agent, signed his contract four years ago, and millions were not involved, nor was there a signing bonus. Now he [...]
A great game played in two halves. The deep satisfaction of having won the only game that really counts. Of singing your alma mater’s song last.
And Coach Niumatalolo is a class act: It’s only a football game. They’re all heroes.
You bet.
Happy for the New York Yankees, they looked like exactly what they are: A well-oiled, very expensive machine. Albeit one that is starting to show its age.
And congrats to Hideki Matsui, the series MVP.
Although I still believe the DH rule spoils the game.
Top news from Pakistan:
Several members of the Sri Lankan cricket team have been injured after gunmen fired on a convoy carrying cricketers in Pakistani city of Lahore.
The convoy was carrying Pakistani and Sri Lankan cricketers to a ground, which is hosting a Test match between the two sides.
Reports quoting Sri Lankan [...]
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