Rick Morrison wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:01:26 -0800 (PST) "John J. Peloquin"
> <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu> writes:
> >Oh booy,
> >We yanks are accused of parochialism, but this last statement is a
> >doozy:
> >On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Phil Raby wrote:
> >
> >=%OOn 16/2/98 9:04 am mgs-owner@autox.team.net said
> >=%O
> >=%OUmm, a 'World series' for a game that most of the world knows
> >nothing
> >=%Oabout? ;-)
> >
> >Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, and a bunch of other
> >countries play and love Baseball.
> >
> Yeah, and we wont even get into the Little League World Series. There's
> probably as many countries in that is in the "world" cup for soccer.
> (assuming any one cares about the world cup)
> Rick Morrison
> 72 MGBGT
> 74 Midget
>
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Ah yes, the 'soccer' World Cup. 32 countries. 1994 Finals in the USA. North
America
has seven Leagues, 100+ teams, and the Americam Youth Soccer Organisation dates
back to
1964 and has over 500,000 players. USA beat Brazil just 10 days ago. Not that
anyone
(especially Americans) care?
PaulH.
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