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...full of deception that we like to grasp onto the idea - naïve though this may be - that a football match or a motor race can provide a moment of liberation from all that. So when sportsmen or women cheat - scandals have sullied the image of baseball, cricket, cycling, rugby and soccer in recent times - the disservice to fans, and the damage done to sports, is far deeper. Cheating doesn't just hurt sports but betrays our sense of what's right, what's fairly attainable. It punches us straight in our optimism. (See the Top 10 Sporting Cheats...
...almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer "provided a sense of national wellbeing at a time when other factors weren't able to do that," says Matthew Taylor, a professor of history at De Montfort University in Leicester...
...assaults, and as a result, "Australia has picked up a tag as a racist country in India." That perception has further damaged a relationship already strained by the fallout over the Mohamed Haneef incident, in which an Indian physician was wrongly accused of aiding terrorists, and the acrimonious Sydney Cricket Test last year, in which opposing players Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds were embroiled in a racist name-calling row. "The tragic thing is the people [in India] most vulnerable to this message are aged 12 to 30," says Unni. "These are the future leaders and diplomats and students...
...appalling restrictions of village life. Roy couldn't care a whit for such subtleties - yet to fault her for that is to miss the point of a polemic. She demands an emotive response to the horrible injustices that go largely unnoticed in a world distracted by images of cricket gods, Bollywood glamour and Nano cars. In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again...
...behind a series of attacks on US and NATO military-cargo vehicles destined for Afghanistan. Claimed responsibility for the June 9 bombing of the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, which killed at least 15, as well as an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore earlier this year...