Month: June 2010

LIMA, Peru – For all of his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn’t do himself any favours in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. “If I would […] […]

CAPE TOWN – After a weekend of international rugby in a city known for that sport, soccer’s grandest opera returns to the World Cup stage here on Monday. Judging by Sunday’s final run-through, Marcello Lippi […] […]

Popular? Sure. So was prohibition. For a while.  South Africans love their vuvuzelas. Everyone else is ambivalent. At best. After months spent defending the native horn, Danny Jordaan, the head of the World Cup braintrust, […] […]

A TEARFUL Tim Cahill was inconsolable yesterday as he described the sending-off which left his World Cup in virtual ruins as the saddest moment of his career. His face a mask of raw emotion and […] […]