SIDEWAYS GLANCE : SOCCER MADNESS.Byline: Tom Hoffarth When England's star player Teddy Sheringham Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE (born April 2, 1966 in Highams Park, London) is a veteran English professional footballer currently playing for Colchester United. Sheringham plays as a striker, and has had an exceptionally successful career at club level, winning almost every appeared on the cover of two Brit tabloids Friday whooping whoop n. 1. a. A loud cry of exultation or excitement. b. A shout uttered by a hunter or warrior. 2. A hooting cry, as of a bird. 3. The paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough. it up at a nightclub at a time he and his World Cup teammates were supposed to be resting, it continued the tradition of the newspapers' love for this event that unfortunately comes around every four years. Before the first ball has even been kicked, consider other stories that have seen ink already: Dateline - Rio de Janero: Injured Brazilian soccer star Romario won't participate in the tournament that begins this week in France, but it's not because every effort was made to cure him of his sore leg. A week before Romario was left off Brazil's roster, a medium who claims to channel for the spirit of a Spanish doctor ``operated'' on his mother, Lita de Souza De Souza or D'Souza is a common Portuguese family name. Although it is still quite common outside Portugal -- especially in Brazil and India --, Souza is the old spelling of present-day Sousa. , at a temple in Duque de Caxias Duque de Caxias (d  `kĭ dĭ käsh`yəs), city (1996 pop. 712,370), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on Guanabara Bay. , a suburb of Rio de Janero. Rio newspapers showed the medium, Jandyr Motta, in a trance trance (trans) a sleeplike state of altered consciousness marked by heightened focal awareness and reduced peripheral awareness. trance n. placing his hands over the right leg of Souza, who took the place of her son. Motta and other mediums also ``energized'' a pair of soccer shoes Romario wore at the 1994 World Cup. ``Romario is cured and will play in the Cup,'' Motta was quoted as saying in the daily O Dia O Dia is a major daily newspaper from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its sales are slightly higher than its main rival, the liberal O Globo. Official Site
Dateline - Bangkok: Thailand's Education Ministry is concerned that the World Cup will entice teachers to gamble - which is a disciplinary offense - and keep students up past their bedtime. General Education Department Director-General Kwang Robkob was quoted by The Nation newspaper as saying: ``The students must be instructed that they can watch the game because sports is good for them. But they should not watch games after midnight since it could affect their studies.'' Dateline - Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi : The director-general of Mexico City's airport, Roberto Canovas, issued a memorandum that ran in the daily El Financiero urging that TVs there be tuned away from Mexico's World Cup games. Canovas expressed concern that scenes of workers and police officers gathered around TV sets in airport food stands and electronics shops would create ``a bad image.'' Canovas backed away from an outright ban, but instead urged that TVs and radios tuned to matches be kept ``at a low volume.'' |
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