The Women’s Soccer Initiative has announced financial backing for six women’s professional soccer franchises to begin play in 2008. This is great news except for one thing. There’s no franchise in Boston! I recall that the Boston Breakers had a big following and were the closest thing to financial success in WUSA. Let’s hope that [...]
1 March 2007
They Like US! They Really Like US!
Who loves the USA? Apparently Nigerians love America according to the Pew Global Attitudes Project. Nigeria is actually second in the poll to the Philippines in answering te question “Is the US a positive influence in the world?” This is even more surprising since I would expect Filipinos to have lingering resentments from colonialism as [...]
