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The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com No no http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/brazil-martas-story-deserves-to-be-told-but-who-deserves-to-tell-it/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/brazil-martas-story-deserves-to-be-told-but-who-deserves-to-tell-it/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:23:39 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=779 Diego Graciano in promoting his biography of sensational 22-year-old Marta Vieira da Silva (see earlier articles, Sept 15 and 12 Sept 07). (Oct 13)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/brazil-martas-story-deserves-to-be-told-but-who-deserves-to-tell-it/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:31:53 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=454 Sports Illustrated writer Gary Smith again has applied his odd epistemology to soccer (“Alive and Kicking," Jun 23). In 8,000 words, he writes passionately in his familiar mode of author-vacated all-knowing about the Fugees of Clarkston, Georgia—ground already well plowed by Warren St. John of the New York Times (see 25 Jan 07). (Jun 19)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/africa-destroyers-v-rebuilders-a-zimbabwean-allegory/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/africa-destroyers-v-rebuilders-a-zimbabwean-allegory/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:36:41 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=433 Zimbabwe Standard (“Matchless Match," Apr 12), the Destroyers—meaning the state apparatus of entrenched president Robert Mugabe—hold a 10–2 edge over political opponents, the Rebuilders. (Apr 15)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/africa-destroyers-v-rebuilders-a-zimbabwean-allegory/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/china-football-at-all-compass-points-on-eastsouthwestnorth/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/china-football-at-all-compass-points-on-eastsouthwestnorth/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:59:20 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=404 James Montague has dissected the "footballing Venn diagram of ... political and social hatreds" that constituted the recent East Asian Championships in Chongqing, China (“Football? What Football? The Asian Game Is about Politics," Guardian Unlimited, Mar 3). Within Asia, Montague concludes, football still comes with political intrigue, readily available in every permutation of a four-team round-robin featuring the hosts plus Japan, South Korea and North Korea. (Mar 5)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/china-football-at-all-compass-points-on-eastsouthwestnorth/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/music-kwass-meda-a-soccer-field-where-we-will-be-joyous/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/music-kwass-meda-a-soccer-field-where-we-will-be-joyous/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:27:06 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=383 Ejigayehu Shibabaw's, or Gigi's, song "Kwass Meda" (Soccer Field). The song features on the 2000 release One Ethiopia, with the translation from Amharic by Solomon Abebe and his nephew, Befekadu. (Feb 11)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/music-kwass-meda-a-soccer-field-where-we-will-be-joyous/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/eighty-two-hours-of-mysql-my-server-quietly-languished-hell/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/eighty-two-hours-of-mysql-my-server-quietly-languished-hell/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:56:50 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=367 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/eighty-two-hours-of-mysql-my-server-quietly-languished-hell/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/taking-on-soccerphobes-tide-of-comment-swells/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/taking-on-soccerphobes-tide-of-comment-swells/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:39:21 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=364 Steven Wells (see 31 Oct 07) compiles a roster of the sport's critics, including some unexpected voices from academia, and adds an important observation often missing in the meaningless discussion over whether soccer will displace American games (“The Truth the Soccerphobes Refuse to Face," Jan 17). (Jan 22)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/taking-on-soccerphobes-tide-of-comment-swells/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/de-diddly-dum-de-dum-then-cue-result-from-stenhousemuir/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/de-diddly-dum-de-dum-then-cue-result-from-stenhousemuir/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:40:38 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=349 Sports Report, celebrated its 60th anniversary on Jan 3. Recognition also goes to the Edinburgh inflections of James Alexander Gordon, who as part of the show has read the classified football results at 5 p.m. every Saturday since 1972 (see Andrew Baker, "Classified Football Results Make Music at BBC," Daily Telegraph, Jan 3). (Jan 6)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/de-diddly-dum-de-dum-then-cue-result-from-stenhousemuir/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/football-ephemera-in-modena-show-powers-of-adhesion/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/football-ephemera-in-modena-show-powers-of-adhesion/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:51:26 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=329 Modena, Italy, Dec 19 | Collectible football stickers (figurine) have achieved such cultural cache in Italy that they are afforded dedicated museum space and now a comprehensive exhibition running into February: "Mondo calcio—Campionati e campioni della storia del calcio in figurina" (The World of Football: Championships and Champions in the History of Football, in Sticker Form).]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/football-ephemera-in-modena-show-powers-of-adhesion/feed/