Archive for the 'Media' tag

Souls on ‘The Line’ | Guatemala City sex workers turn to fútbol for a sense of who they are

June 30th, 2007 by John Turnbull

Media fascination with Las Estrellas’ story...
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Posted in Arts, History, Latin America, Media, Women's Football | 4 comments

We brake for commercials | Soccer spectacle fits seamlessly in America’s land of make-believe

May 27th, 2007 by John Turnbull

In a 2001 title, cultural critic Peter Pericles...
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Posted in Language, Media, USA | 5 comments

Back to Brownsville | Chronicling a soccer team, and a sister city, skilled at border crossing

May 10th, 2007 by John Turnbull

A 1910 map, by Norris Peters Co., indicating the...
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Global Game Podcast 1, 10 May 2007 [ 26:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted in Grassroots, Language, Media, Mexico, Podcast, USA | 1 comment

Don’t smoke ’em if you got ’em | Coming ban in England stadia another blow to terrace nostalgia

March 16th, 2007 by John Turnbull

Recto and verso of the early 1920s cigarette card...
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Posted in England, History, Language, Media, Scotland, Turkey | 4 comments

Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932-2007 | A witness to (soccer) war that lay in wait

January 30th, 2007 by John Turnbull

Published originally in Warsaw in 1978...
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Posted in Language, Latin America, Media | 1 comment