Word: cricketers
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...challenges one faces in teaching the game of cricket to the lads in Compton, Calif., world capital of gangsta rap, one difficulty looms above all others. It's not the rules or the etiquette or the language of bowlers and wickets. Katy Haber, 50, a British expatriate and team manager, sums up the matter thus: "It's all we can do to keep them from sagging their pants...
...players might be forgiven a little cockiness, having just returned from a tour in which they played on hallowed cricket grounds in London. They dropped in on peace talks in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and presented a cricket bat to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. ("It's a little like presenting a menorah to Saddam Hussein," Haber says.) And they took tea at Windsor Castle with Prince Edward. In a landmark moment of cultural exchange, they performed The Hip-Hop Cricket Rap for His Royal Highness. Says Hayes: "I don't think they'd ever seen or heard the likes...
...There is cricket in Compton because in 1995 a Beverly Hills chap rang Haber in need of one more body for a Sunday match in the Los Angeles Social Cricket Alliance. Haber, who had ditched a movie-producing career to run a homeless village in downtown Los Angeles with Hayes, offered Ted. Hayes, now 48, had never played but practically had a British accent by day's end. "The etiquette, the civility, the fact that no one is bigger than the game--I thought it was the perfect sport to teach homeless guys to be gentlemen," Hayes says. A year...
...Post Office has a clock counting down the time to the year 2000. Does anyone know what will happen when it reaches zero? NBC is promoting Y2K The Movie as part of its November sweeps week. And the only bug more famous than Jiminy Cricket is on the minds of every computer scientist, air traffic controller and politician...
Picking "the next Radiohead" may soon replace cricket as the British sport that no one else seems to understand. Muse, a trio of typically dour young lads, is the latest band unfortunate enough to be yoked with such lofty comparisons. After nearly sparking a religious revival among the British music press, Muse are hoping the success of Showbiz, their debut album, doesn't get held up in customs on the way to the States. But while Muse's mix of reedy vocals, simmering guitars and slinking keyboards burns with an intensity and focus that at least vaguely justifies the Radiohead...