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Visiting the US
By Will last year, mid-October, 3 Comments »
I’m off to the States on work next week. There’s a mandatory form to be filled in online, and some of the questions are (as they often are with a lot of countries) quite brilliant.
Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?
Even if you’d partaken in such heinous crimes, who would admit it?
3 Comments »Why America needs cricket
By Will last year, at the start of September, 15 Comments »
Due to America’s isolation from the true world sports, we’ve missed priceless lessons in tolerance, acceptance and learning from other nations. America has so many fine qualities but a few devastating blind spots as well. We are a nation of immigrants and many of us, or our ancestors, left homelands to seek greater financial opportunity in the States, or to escape hardship. It’s one of the best things about the United States but America has somehow come to believe that given the choice everyone would want to live in our country.
Nice piece from The Wisden Cricketer.
15 Comments »“Crazy Asian baseball”
By Will 4 years ago, at the end of December, No Comments; be the first!
I’m sure some Americans call cricket “crazy Asian baseball”. And that’s exactly what I thought when I read the headline of this Youtube video – until I watched it, however. I don’t know what in the name of WC Grace they’re doing, but it aint baseball and it sure as hell aint cricket.
Click here if you can’t see it above
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