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Unity in diversity
  John Leicester     GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Throw together some Englishmen with a Frenchman, a German and a Spaniard and you’ve got what sounds like the start of a joke. Now toss in a Dane, a Swede, a Welshman, a Scot and ...
Last chance — Messi missing signature moment
John Leicester SAO PAULO —  The World Cup can only hope that Lionel Messi is leaving his best for last. In the most important World Cup match to date in his epoch-shaping career, football’s superstar was neither super nor a star. The ...
Brazil Cup killed ‘beautiful game’
John Leicester BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — Because it is turning out better than expected, the World Cup is doing more good than harm to brand Brazil. The opposite is true for Brazil’s brand of football. The national team’s grinding route to Tuesday’s ...
Neymar a victim of the World Cup show
John Leicester RIO DE JANEIRO — “I kept getting tripped up and kicked to pieces ...,” said Brazil’s superstar player, “and the referee did nothing to protect me or my teammates from these rough-house tactics.” Neymar, describing how he was battered at ...
A metaphor for extravagance
  John Leicester     COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil — If they wanted to look wasteful, extravagant and divorced from the gritty reality of Brazil’s millions of poor, World Cup organizers outdid themselves by choosing this remote, luxury beach resort as the venue for ...
Great? Undoubtedly. Greatest? Not yet.
Serena Williams of the US poses with her trophy near the Eiffel Tower in Paris after winning her final against Maria Sharapova of Russia Saturday. — Reuters John Leicester PARIS — Great? Undoubtedly. Serena Williams’ latest Grand Slam title, at the French ...
Rafa vs. Roger is so yesterday
  John Leicester     PARIS — If variety is the spice of life, then we should be sick by now of Rafael Nadal, with his seven titles in eight years at the French Open and another waiting for him in Sunday’s final. Perhaps ...
Do not jump to hasty conclusions on Pistorius
John Leicester In sport, Oscar Pistorius demonstrated how easy it is to be wrong about people. An athlete with prosthetic limbs competing at the Olympic Games? No way! That lesson — don’t leap to hasty, ill-informed conclusions — is worth remembering now ...
Can F1 get any better than 2012?
  John Leicester   SAO PAULO — One of the most enthralling seasons of racing in recent memory finished with one of the most exciting races ever. Surely, Formula One cannot get much better than in 2012. Our hearts surely wouldn’t stand it. ...
Armstrong’s titles? Whole era is worthless
John Leicester   PARIS – It surely would have been more useful for his sport, cycling, if Tyler Hamilton hadn’t waited until this week to spill the beans and tell us what he knows about doping in the Lance Armstrong era. But, on ...
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