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/ 25 October 2002
With great regret it is necessary to report the departure from the upper reaches of American football of the Western world’s most extraordinary-looking professional sportsman, one Aaron Gibson.
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/ 3 September 2002
About 200 United States special forces troops were sent into Cote d’Ivoire this week to try and rescue American children who have been trapped in a school in the city of Bouake for almost a week. French soldiers were also heading for the city.
President George W Bush this week described speculation about an impending attack on Iraq as ”a frenzy”, stressing he was a ”patient man” and would consult with United States allies before any possible action.
The commissioner of baseball looked like thunder: ”This will never happen again,” he said. ”One more misstep for a battered sport,” intoned The New York Times.
Eight years after Fifa’s World Cup was held in the United States, in an attempt to integrate the greatest game and the greatest market, not much has changed.
If this marked the end of the road for boxing as a big-time global sport — and it just might — then the devilish old game went down in a blaze of something remarkably close to glory. As did its most devilish son. The morality tale took its course. Lennox Lewis, polite society’s instrument of vengeance, savaged Mike Tyson in an awesome, breathtaking fight last Saturday night to retain the world heavyweight championship as determined by pretty much anyone who cares or matters.
President George W Bush locked himself even more firmly into an attack on Iraq this week when he warned that the United States must take ”pre-emptive action” against potential enemies and repudiated the old Cold War policy of deterrence and containment.
Lennox Lewis prepares to fight what he sees as a cartoonish embodiment of evil