Thursday, July 06, 2006

Gabriele Marcotti column

Every time the World Cup rolls around, we look for the "Big Trend." We lapse into the most facile kind of deductive reasoning and conclude that 64 games every four summers provide some kind of accurate assessment of the state of the game. Usually these these theories come from people who don't follow the sport week in, week out, but rather drop in every so often to make bold, sweeping statements.

http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news;_ylt=AtMNOv_XTZJni9i5mMCpolAmw7YF?slug=cnnsi-thebigpicture&prov=cnnsi&type=lgns

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