May 28, 2011
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3:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time. In Barcelona, Spain, London’s Wembley Stadium, Manchester United and Barcelona(Spain) tangle for the Champions’ League trophy.
BBC News? This is the order of the stories:
- In Afghanistan, the national police chief was murdered by a suicide bomber
- In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak was fined $90 million for interfering with business by cutting phones and internet
- Yemen’s got trouble
- Palestinian independence got support from the Arab League, meeting in Doha, Qatr
- U.S. President Obama ended his tour of Europe in Poland, with a pledge of friendship
- In Moscow, Russian, gay rights demonstrators were attacked by a mob led by people who said they are members of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Barcelona leads Manchester, 3 to 1, with minutes to play
I’m not usually one to complain, but doesn’t it appear BBC News has its priorities wrong in this order of stories?
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Posted by Ed Darrell
September 17, 2008
My children lived to see a Boston Red Sox win in the World Series, already in their short lives.
100-year old Cubs fan Richard Savage, who saw the Cubs lose the World Series to the Boston Red Sox in 1918, hopes to see the Cubs win a World Series - AARP Bulletin Today
More history is being written: Could this be the Chicago Cubs’ year? Their magic number is 4, after the Cubbies defeated the Brewers, 5-4, behind Kerry Woods’ ninth-inning heroics.
With the triumph, the Cubs pushed Milwaukee nine games back in the National League Central race and a half-game behind the New York Mets in the wild-card playoff race while reducing their own magic number to four.
“We just figure if we keep winning ballgames, good things will come for us,” Dempster said. “Don’t get caught up in the standings or numbers or anything like that. Just come to the ballpark and try to win every day. This is big.”
The Cubs last won the World Series in 1908.
More good news: Changes in the balloting procedures for the Baseball Hall of Fame improve the chances of previously-overlooked heroes like Ron Santo.
Now, about that Triple Crown . . . or even that one.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
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