How To Avoid The World Cup

While I personally cannot wait for the FIFA World Cup to begin on June 11, those of you who can’t stand football should spare a thought for those on the planet who don’t even get the choice whether to view it or not. The North Korea national team arrived in South Africa last week to prepare for their [...]

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It’s only a game…

“Violent video games are a much bigger negative influence on kids than porn”, so said, umm, a porn star last week. Adult film icon Ron Jeremy has been reading a lot of studies lately it seems, but he wouldn’t reveal which studies he got his information from. Of course, if Sonic The Hedgehog or ToeJam and [...]

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Cheaters Always Prosper

I’ve discussed a couple of times in previous posts what should be viewed as ‘hard’ news and what should not. The hardest of hard news obviously includes terrorist attacks, economic recessions and general elections – events which affect millions of people, at home and abroad. Something that I felt shouldn’t be considered hard news is the [...]

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The Hype Machine

And so it begins. On Wednesday evening England qualified for next years’ historic football World Cup, which will be held on the African continent for the very first time. While my native Scotland toiled and battled before, as usual, messing everything up in stunning fashion, our rivals south of the border ran away 5-1 victors against the Croats, a team who ruined [...]

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Soccer Slam

In the mid 1980′s, American wrestling promotor Vince McMahon Jr. announced that he was no longer going to “insult the viewer’s intelligence” and admitted to the world that the matches in his World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) company were scripted and that the outcomes were predetermined. He confirmed publicly what most fans already knew - that wrestling moves are planned [...]

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