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<title><![CDATA[The Soccer Wars]]></title>
<link>http://globalgame.wordpress.com/?p=24</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>soccerwriter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[No sport should arouse the passion that national-side soccer football does, in competitions like th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No sport should arouse the passion that national-side soccer football does, in competitions like the Euro and the World Cup. The red-mist fervor blinds you to the sport itself; the pleasures you derive from watching it become less proper to a sport than to a bloody spectacle, to the wars that such competitions in effect stand for and perhaps have helped to avoid: terror, panic, orgiastic euphoria, bloodthirstiness, suicidal despondence. Watching a game in which much is at stake for my nation is more ordeal than fun, I have found: though normally an admirer of the embellishment, the display of flair, and clean play, I suddenly become a Germanic ogre of anxious pragmatism, intolerant of anything that is not directly aimed at triumphing and willing to condone the dirtiest tactics if they will ensure victory. So I am with with those English sports journalists who, like <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/06/25/moscow_flyers_signal_arrival_o.html">Simon Hattenstone </a>in the Manchester Guardian today, have written about how much England's no-show has enabled them to enjoy Euro 2008. Us soccer fans could learn from the fans of American sports, who allow a dash of irony to keep them well this side of hysteria and so do not let a defeat of their team ruin their lives too much.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Value of True Reporting in Sports]]></title>
<link>http://globalgame.wordpress.com/?p=15</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>soccerwriter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In the Manchester Guardian, Duncan Castles offers an example of something that is in short supply ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the Manchester Guardian, <a title="Ballack and Löw conjure creativity for Germany" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jun/22/euro2008.germanyfootballteam" target="_blank">Duncan Castles </a>offers an example of something that is in short supply in sportswriting - true, post-mortem reporting at the level of individual games. How was Germany, until then lacklustre, able to pull its act together, move into high gear and viciously upset talent-laden Portugal at Euro 2008? One suspected that something unexpected and mysterious, a sinister coup of sorts, had occurred. But the usual commentators and supposed pundits were in no way enlightening about it, as they usually are not, with all their opinion-mongering and makeshift pseudo-expertise. With Castles, true reporting comes to our rescue: He goes behind the scenes and gets the scoop from coup leader Michael Ballack, who speaks about his private meeting with other players, his protracted strategy session with the Joachim Low, the secret rehearsal the day before the game. (No doubt Ballack is going to be one great manager when he retires from play.) Now I would like to hear the Portuguese side of the story. Why did they fail to anticipate German preparedness? Why did Scolari not have any tricks up his sleeve? Or even a thinking leader on the field, good not only with his feet but on his feet? Why would he even go so far as to announce that he did not, and to let the Germans know whom he would be fielding and in what formation? Why was Portugal not better prepared to defend the deadly deadball plays and to counter Schweinsteinger's threat, which was old news to Scolari? Why was he rather too sportingly embracing Ballack (whom he had repeatedly praised before the game) after this shock defeat of the Portuguese team? And what of Russia's snuffing out of Holland's orange fire? How did treacherous Guus Hiddink engineer that? Reuters had coach Marco van Basten denying his team's loss had anything to do with his deciding to rest his best players the game before (something which, notably, Scolari also did, for the game against Switzerland.) But van Basten was not asked to advance his own theory of what occurred. Yet these are upheavals of historical significance to the sport, so they ought to be thoroughly and intelligently reported. Why have we never found out why, last year, Manchester United played so badly, so strangely heavy-legged, against A. C. Milan in their second game in the Champions League? These are the stories most worth reporting in the football pages, stories that can serve to illuminate the workings of the sport. Yet, because they are also stories that require actual leg work, they mostly go unwritten, their absence camouflaged from readers by the proliferation of the cheap, thumbsuck blather of columnists and bloggers who know little more than the average TV-watching fan.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What's Wrong With Showboating?]]></title>
<link>http://globalgame.wordpress.com/?p=8</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>soccerwriter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In a live report in the Manchester Guardian, the writer condemns a scissor-kick cross from Quaresma]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a live report in the Manchester Guardian, the writer condemns a scissor-kick cross from Quaresma in Euro 2008 as 'an unecessary bit of skill.' More casual fans tend to love showiness in an athlete, drawn as they are to the spectacle of the sport; but the most hardcore fans can be hostile to it. They perceive a threat in it: although spectacle helps any sport succeed, too much of it and the sport can die, turning into sheer spectacle, something akin to professional wrestling or the Harlem Globetrotters.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Changing Your Mind, Part II]]></title>
<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/?p=62</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ultraguy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After taking more time to review my original source for the David Mamet thing I posted yesterday (th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After taking more time to review my original source for <a href="http://newine.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/intellectual-honesty-means-sometimes-changing-your-mind/" target="_blank">the David Mamet thing I posted yesterday</a> (<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/from-left-to-right-on-the-midlife-political-conversions-796267.html" target="_blank">this piece in the Telegraph: <b>"From left to right: on <i>the </i>mid-life political conversions"</b></a>) I felt further commentary was essential.</p>
<p>Note anything interesting in the title of the article (emphasis added)? That little word 'the'. As in "<b>THE </b>mid-life political conversions" It's hard to credit as an editorial accident or oversight. The implication being that the ten they cite are definitive -- and defining of a clear and boundable phenomenon occurring predominantly if not exclusively, in middle age and entirely defined if not motivated by politics.</p>
<p>Among those they cite are Paul Johnson (a switch that, to the Telegraph's way of summarizing it looks like pure political expediency in order to land a job with his crony Margaret Thatcher) Gary Bushell (a former punk musician and amateur boxer -- i.e., what could he know?) and <i>Benito Mussolini</i>. Hey, why don't we throw <i>Satan </i>in there just for fun? After all, as Dennis Prager likes to note, while those of us of a more conservative persuasion tend to think of those on the left as being honest but misguided, the converse view often seems to be that we (and our views) are <i>evil</i>.</p>
<p>How about adding folks like the late (1990) Malcolm Muggeridge whose <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Wasted-Time-Malcolm-Muggeridge/dp/1573833762/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1205928036&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">autobiography</a> I've been enjoying these past few weeks? Muggeridge was a dyed-in-the-wool believer in atheist world communism, raised in a socialist home in Britain in the early 20th century and so convinced of the merits of a secular/leftist world-view that he sold his possessions and embarked with his at-the-time-pregnant wife to live in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s, fully intending to give up his British passport for a Soviet one. It didn't take long for reality to set in as his wife nearly died for lack of health care and he found himself, in his role as journalist, sanitizing outright lies to the Manchester Guardian on behalf of Josef Stalin. (As a side note, it's amusing -- now -- to read his firsthand anecdotes of how Soviet bureaucrats and party officials regarded the Guardian as a staunch philosophical ally.)</p>
<p>Muggeridge went on, later in life, to accept Christ and adopt views completely contrary to those he'd held earlier. In this case, the two conversions went hand-in-hand (though clearly that is not always so). I offer it merely as a counter-example to the ones the Telegraph cites in that 1) it involved a religious as well as a political dimension, 2) it came as a result of prolonged first-hand exposure to the purest form of the leftist experiment in action, 3) it was anything but expedient in terms of his career (he lost both work and friends as a result) and 4) it resulted in peaceful fruit-bearing (as opposed to mere partisan in-fighting from the opposite side).</p>
<p>Come to think of it, the Telegraph could have talked about greats like Orwell, or Reagan.</p>
<p>It's easier to do Mussolini.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[रिपोर्टिंग : ले. महादेव देसाई]]></title>
<link>http://kashivishvavidyalay.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%aa%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%9f%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%97-%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%b9%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%b5-%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%b8/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>अफ़लातून</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[    मेरे पास &#8216; मेंचेस्टर गार्डियन &#8216; ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left">    मेरे पास <strong>' मेंचेस्टर गार्डियन '</strong> का एक अंक पड़ा है , उसमें लिबरल 'समर स्कूल ' की व्याख्यानमाला के पाँच सात धुरंधर व्याख्याताओं के चार - पाँच दिनों के व्याख्यानों का उत्तम सार एक पृष्ट के चार कॉलम में दिया गया है । अनेक व्यवसायों के आज के युग में भाषणों के अक्षरश: विवरण लेने की सुविधा हो फिर भी उसका पालन किया जाए यह जरूरी नहीं है , कई लोगों की इतना पढ़ने की फुरसत नहीं होती । फिर यह भी जरूरी है कि वक्ता के साथ तनिक भी अन्याय न हो ऐसा सार संक्षेप प्रस्तुत करने की कला विकसित करना बहुत जरूरी है । कई बार वक्ता आवेश में आ जाता है , गफ़लत में या बेवजह न कहने वाली बातें भी कह देता है , इन बातों को सम्भाल कर ग्रहण करना चाहिए , उसके उद्गारों को हलका करने का नाज़ुक काम भी कुशल रिपोर्टर का हो जाता है ।</p>
<p align="left">    परन्तु यहाँ पुन: सत्यनिष्ठा का प्रश्न उठ खड़ा होता है , न्यायबुद्धि का प्रश्न आ खड़ा होता है । एक ताजा दृष्टान्त दे रहा हूँ । लंडन में <strong>'हिन्दुस्तान में नवयुग की गतिविधियाँ'</strong> शुरु करने के मकसद से एक सभा आयोजित हुई । केटर्बरी के आर्चबिशप ने सदारत की । इनके भाषण की दो रपटें देखें , तथा दोनों का कितना भिन्न भिन्न असर होता है इस पर भी गौर करें । यह है , <strong>रॉईटर</strong> की रिपोर्ट :</p>
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<p align="left">" लंडन में 'हिन्दुस्तान में नवयुग की गतिविधियाँ ' आरम्भ करने के लिए इसी विषय पर केटर्बरी के आर्चबिशप की सदारत में एक सभा हुई । अध्यक्षीय भाषण में उन्होंने हिन्दुस्तानी ग्रामवासियों के जीवनस्तर को ऊँचा करने के मि. गाँधी के प्रयत्नों की स्तुति की । यह सभा हिन्दुस्तान में काम करने वाले अनेक मिशनरी मंडलों ने आयोजित की थी । वक्ताओं में लखनऊ के बिशप पिकेट भी थे ।</p>
<p align="left">" केटर्बरी के आर्चबिशप ने इस बात पर खास जोर दिया कि अस्पृश्य-उद्धार की हलचल का राजनैतिक लाभ के लिए यदि दुरुपयोग हुआ तो उसको वे कत्तई समर्थन नहीं देंगे ।"</p>
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<p align="left">अब देखिए , उसी दिन के<strong> 'हिन्दू'</strong> के लंडन संवाददाता की रपट :</p>
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<p align="left">" वेस्टमिनिस्टर के सेन्ट्रल हॉल में बीती रात एक बड़ी सभा हुई । वहाँ अस्पृश्यों को ख्रिस्ती धर्म में लेने के लिए इसाई मिशनरी मंडलों की योजनाओं के बारे में सुना गया तथा फलस्वरूप हिन्दुस्तान के अस्पृश्यों के भविष्य की बाबत रस-विशेष जागृत हुआ ।</p>
<p align="left">" केटर्बरी के आर्चबिशप ने मि. गाँधी के कार्य की भारी स्तुति की और साफ़ साफ़ यह कहा कि राजनैतिक टीकाकार भले ही गाँधी की बाबत जो भी कहें या सोचें ,मि. गाँधी ने जो नैतिक छाप डाली है उसके बारे में मुझे या मिशनरियों कोई सन्देह नहीं है । आर्चबिशप ने कहा कि हिन्दुस्तानी लोकमत के नेताओं को यह स्पष्ट कर देना चाहिए कि अस्पृश्यों के बीच काम करने वाले मंडल किसी भी राजनैतिक हलचल का इसाई धर्म के प्रचार के लिए कभी दुरुपयोग नहीं करेंगे तथा हिन्दुस्तान की जनता में से किसी तबके की भावनाओं को भुनाने का कोई भी राजनैतिक दल प्रयास करेगा तो उसमें भगीदार नहीं बनेंगे । इसाई धर्म में शामिल होने की जिनकी इच्छा होगी वैसे लोग इसाई धर्म और उसके कर्तव्य भली भाँति समझ चुके हों तब ही उन्हें स्वीकार किया जा सकता है । "</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>रॉईटर</strong> की रिपोर्ट सच्ची है अथवा <strong>'हिन्दू'</strong> की ? <strong>रॉइटर</strong> की रिपोर्ट में <em>' इसाई धर्म के प्रचार के लिए ' </em>इन शब्दों को उड़ा कर पूरे भाषण को अलग ही ध्वनि दे दी गयी है ,उस रपट में गाँधीजी के अस्पृश्यता निवारण के काम की बजाए ग्राम सेवा कार्य की स्तुतिकी गई- यह बताया गया है ।</p>
<p align="left">    इस प्रकार एक भाषण के संक्षिप्त सारांश से कई बार अर्थ का भारी अनर्थ हो जाता है । गाँधीजी के हिन्दुस्तान में प्रसारित कुछ लेखों के संक्षिप्त सारांश से दक्षिण अफ़्रीका में उनकी जान जा सकती थी । वे लेख जब वहाँ पूरे चपे तब अफ़्रीकावासियों को उन पर हमले करने के लिए पश्चाताप हुआ ।</p>
<p align="left"><strong>[ जारी, अगला : तिलक का 'केसरी' ]</strong></p>
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