On the slowest, most maddening sports day of the year, you just wish that you could either skip the rest of the day or rewind to when there was something truly attention-grabbing. Kind of like what Pharcyde did back in the day.
Well, here's something to tickle your fancy.
On Sunday, Bob Ley of ESPN's underrated program, Outside the Lines, talked about the impact of the 2010 World Cup on South Africa as soccer/football fans anticipate the games in a year's time. While a half-hour program certainly can't begin to encapsulate all of the day-to-day minutae or the budding emotions within South Africans (and maybe the African continent as a whole?), it can certainly build awareness.
So while many of you were probably recovering from an exciting Saturday night, check these clips, courtesty of the recently-launced ESPN YouTube channel.
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South African Voices
South Africa and Racism
Sights, sounds and soccer in South Africa
Voices of South Africa
Perception is reality, the saying goes. Modern players can never transcend time, athletes only care about the money and the fan is never wrong. Yet, all you need to do is dig a little deeper to find the truth. As a freelance sportswriter, my job is to give the audience a story around what just happened. As a consumer, I expect that sports will always provide more than I bargained for. As a fan, my hopes are to be enlightened by more than points. Welcome to the mind of a sports scribe.
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