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Photos: World Cup revelers on Lansdowne Street

Soccer fans celebrate the final game of the 2010 World Cup

By REYNOLDS AVLON | July 15, 2010

Photo: REYNOLDS AVLON

Soccer fans celebrate the final game of the World Cup | Lansdowne Street | July 11, 2010

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The obituary mambo
As some of you may know, on a biweekly basis your superior correspondents chat with former mayor and current local talk radio titan, Vincent A. "The Bud-I" Cianci.
Escape from Soccer City
The FIFA complex here is a swishy maze of a mall, all upscale shops and unrelenting fluorescent lights, attaching the hotels to each other before spilling out into Nelson Mandela Square, which is right now dominated by a Sony tent — a 3D World Cup viewing pavilion — and circled by tourist restaurants.
Busting Balls: 20 ways to improve sports
College football is stupid. Everybody knows it.
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The obituary mambo
As some of you may know, on a biweekly basis your superior correspondents chat with former mayor and current local talk radio titan, Vincent A. "The Bud-I" Cianci.
Escape from Soccer City
The FIFA complex here is a swishy maze of a mall, all upscale shops and unrelenting fluorescent lights, attaching the hotels to each other before spilling out into Nelson Mandela Square, which is right now dominated by a Sony tent — a 3D World Cup viewing pavilion — and circled by tourist restaurants.
Busting Balls: 20 ways to improve sports
College football is stupid. Everybody knows it.
Balls of fire
For one month every four years, the United States — try as it might — can’t impose its vacuous culture on the rest of the planet. The World Cup arrives and the Americans are, at best, an afterthought.
Bandwagon fans gear up
Only after buying a "Beat L.A." T-shirt, methodically checking ESPN for World Cup updates, and watching every installment of the NBA Finals with a religious fanaticism, has the hard truth settled in: I am a bandwagon fan.
As the World Cup kicks off, Guinness and panic at Ri Ra
World Cup fever has not, exactly, gripped Providence.
Ghana baby Ghana
Florida Road is a crowded strip of bars and clubs in Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa.
Cincy stampede
Things have been relatively quiet, sports-crime-wise, for the Cincinnati Bengals lately.
Taser bait
The clock keeps ticking down toward the inevitable first Tasered-athlete fatality. The fact that it hasn't happened yet is just a statistical anomaly, because two things continue to occur with regularity: major-college and pro jocks keep getting Tasered in late-night incidents, while an unluckier group of ordinary non-jocks keep dying from police Taserings.
Bust busted
Bring up the topic of biggest NFL draft busts of all time and most people come up with the same short list of notorious names, all of them quarterbacks.
Stark reality
Steven Stark is known to Phoenix readers for his "Presidential Tote Board" odds-making feature, but it turns out that he and his son, Harrison, are also soccer aficionados, having become fans of London side Fulham FC during stays in the British capital.
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