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Aired: Thursday, July 01, 20048-9PM ET
Fans call soccer "the beautiful game," a sport that's a perfect metaphor for life. But American soccer fan and self-described "maven," Franklin Foer, thinks the sport is even bigger than that.
Soccer, Foer argues, illuminates everything, from globalization to nationalism to sentimentality to the American culture wars.
Click the "Listen" link to hear Franklin Foer talk about how soccer explains the world.
| · | Franklin Foer, staff writer at The New Republic, author of "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization." |
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Soccer Legend Bows Out |
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Pierluigi Collina, widely believed to be the world's top soccer referee, stepped off the pitch for the last time following today's Euro 2004 second semi-final match.
Seamus Malin, soccer commentator for ESPN, looks at the man and his career.
| · | Seamus Malin, soccer commentator for ESPN |
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Saddam in Court |
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A defiant Saddam Hussein appeared in an Iraqi courtroom today to hear the charges against him. When the judge asked him his name, the former dictator replied "I am Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq."
Yochi Dreazen, Baghdad correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, describes how Iraqis reacted to seeing Saddam in court.
| · | Yochi Dreazen, Baghdad correspondent The Wall Street Journal |
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