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July 5, 2006
It's really the WORLD Cup (unlike the "World" Series)
It's such to watch the buzz about the World Cup, and to know that it really is the WORLD playing. I can't count the number of times I've been ribbed by non-American friends about our calling the annual baseball championship the World Series. A silly name, and, no, it's not called that because it was sponsored by a paper called the World News. That's an urban legend. I'm afraid it's plain old American hubris, something that raises its head from time to time.
Of course it wold have been nice to see an African or Latin American country in the semifinals. Amusing to see that it was "old Europe."
Posted by Karen Christensen at July 5, 2006 8:05 PM