Players compete in World Cup for Blind
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The ball at the World Championships of Soccer for the Blind clatters like a rattlesnake's tail. Fans are barred from cheering too loudly and clear plastic walls keep the players in-bounds. Every four years, players compete for Cup glory in an eight-nation tournament drawing hundreds, not millions, of fans to a game without the noisy hype of media and merchandising. Save for the goalkeepers, all the athletes are legally blind.
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Glasgow, Scotland (Sports Network) - Scotland will be looking for a better performance this week after a disappointing 0-0 draw at home against Slovenia in its first World Cup qualifier.
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Sport: Lawrence Dallaglio and other old hands face a last chance to make a respectable World Cup defence, writes Robert Kitson.
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The country is once again fielding a mostly white team at the World Cup. Politicians see that as a benchmark of failure
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U.S. shots at the World Cup have been scarcer than tickets. The Americans have just one shot on goal in their first two games. Every other nation has at least four.
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The World Cup is soccer&#039;s greatest spectacle. It&#039;s also a monthlong grind, and the fatigue is starting to show.
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Even wearing an unflattering honey mustard- colored sweater, Team Canada players showed their true colors in their opening game of the World Cup of Hockey on Tuesday.
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Sport: World No1 begins defence after rain delay.
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In some countries, the national spectator sport is soccer or tennis. In Ukraine, the joke goes, it's elections.
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THE World Cup Finals are more than a year away, but disappointment is already taking hold.
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More and more broadcasters across the world, especially in Europe and Asia, are putting the Paralympics into the spotlight, but the major sporting tournament for people with disabilities remains off screen in the world's biggest television market -- the United States.
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Fireworks thundered and flashbulbs popped all around the darkened stadium, illuminating the German players&#039; brilliant white shirts and the thousands of flags that waved in their honor. Fans screamed and sang for an hour afterward, savoring the lingering moments as hosts of the World Cup. And that was after the consolation game.
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As its Olympic Games approach, the plight of  many of the country's retired sports stars, uneducated and impoverished, is drawing attention
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Germany, Spain and France are all in action in Saturday's qualifying matches.
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Nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament Sunday, opening a weeklong event aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.
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Rahul Dravid is among cricket stars taking part in a campaign against HIV/Aids during the World Cup.
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Fifa World Cup European Qualifying continued tonight with games across the continent and wins recorded for Holland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Portugal, Greece and the Ukraine, among others.