You walk down the street and you have people with English shirts, with Australian shirts, people with Test match names and numbers on their white polos. You walk around Pocos de Caldas, you feel like you're in a foreign country with how much cricket stuff is walking around.
There's the unlikely upset, when deep underdogs overcome the odds. And then there's the Olympians with no chance in hell. The ones who are outclassed, outmatched, mostly just happy to be there. Sometimes those Olympians don't know or don't care that they have no hope, and put on the performance of their lives, and that it's still not nearly enough only makes it more moving.
behind him. If everywhere else around town was empty, it was because everyone was here. It was a hell of a way to start a World Cup. Let's show them how we do it in the north-east! shouted out the Mackem Mercury as he set a carnival parade off marching over the bridge towards the Stadium of Light for the kick-off.
With mounds of dirt, construction vehicles and the exact location where home plate will be at the new A's Ballpark serving as the backdrop Monday morning, team owner John Fisher stood in front of a large gathering with one message: 'We are Vegas' team.'