Entries from November 2006
Sports Illustrated on Zidane
by Grant Wahl
It may seem odd, at first, that I’m casting my Sports Man of the Year vote for the athlete who perpetrated the most notoriously un-sportsmanlike act of 2006.
But look closer. There’s a world of difference in the tap of a space-bar, the transformation of “Sportsman of the Year” to “Sports Man of the [...]
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Zidane, A look back
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Portait of Zidane: NYTimes Review
A few years ago, while in London, I took in a rather unusual exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. There, among the portraits of Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, was a video of the English soccer icon David Beckham . . . sleeping. I had seen Beckham in many incarnations - soccer god, fashion god, sex [...]
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Yet Another Video
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Zidane in Bangladesh
AFP reports:
Bangladesh’s president has offered retired French football legend Zinedine Zidane a new job — as an election observer in the South Asian nation’s parliamentary polls this January.
The proposal came after Zidane, who has spent two days in Bangladesh at the invitation of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, said he was “overwhelmed” by his reception and [...]
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