Watch the whole 90 min film at full screen resolution over at Hulu.com. In the summer of 2006, while the football world’s attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup … The Homeless World Cup. It had been a wild [...]
Join me tomorrow, Tuesday, December 9th, 7pm at Broad Street Café to talk about Oscar Pistorius (aka the blade runner), the Six-13, Michael Phelps, the Adidas Innovation Team, and other controversies in the world of sports. It’s part of the Museum of Life and Science’s new Periodic Tables, Science Café talks.
Albert Camus, commenting on a futbol (soccer) game in Algeria. I have no idea the date of this film. In fact, I never thought before about whether there exists any footage of Camus speaking, so this is fascinating to me. It animates someone whom I feel like I know well but have never heard speak. [...]
Do you remember Gene Hackman’s portrayal of the Indiana basketball coach in Hoosiers? Remember how he insisted that the team pass the ball a minimum number of times before taking any shots, even if an open shot were available before reaching that minimum? His coaching theory aimed at teaching the idea that team work, rather [...]
Italy won the World Cup, but thanks to the press building up the final match as Zinedine Zidane’s swan song and their inability to wrap their minds around his senseless overtime headbutt, collective cognitive dissonance is all that remains. Few can stop talking about Zidane, but even fewer are saying anything. Roger Cohen’s “Camus and [...]
In case you didn’t see the relevance of that last post to a website that’s primarily about cycling, this video should make it clearer.
World Cup? Futbol? Soccer? What’s all the excitement about anyway? Ronaldinho, Carlos, Beckham, Zidane, Montella, etc. Do you get it now? For more on the World Cup, visit the official FIFA World Cup site or add Google’s World Cup tracking module to your personalized homepage.