Monday, June 18, 2018

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GOOOOOOOOL: How readers helped The Washington Post develop its World Cup newsletter, via Joseph Lichterman’s excellent Solution Set

Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run ;-) FiveThirtyEight

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
~ Gary Lineker :-) Not today though as Mexico won the battle not sure about the war yet ...

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World Cup Blog - ESPN FC



Jedinak leads from the front with nerves of steel
The knock on Socceroo skipper Mile Jedinak is that he is nowadays too slow, too old and too immobile. That he can't get around the ground quick enough to ...



Poets and Scoundrels of the Beautiful Game Jacobin

The Politics of Now LRB

From Russia with love, as Putin kicks off soft power Games Asia Times. Pepe Escobar

Clemens Kalischer, Refugee And Photographer Of Refugees, Dies At 97

He fled Nazi Germany, and then "in 1947 and 1948, still in his 20s, Mr. Kalischer managed to embed himself with refugees uprooted by World War II as they arrived in New York by ship from Bremerhaven. He was able to do so because he had been one of them only six years before." … Read More