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For a second day, sports made news. Yesterday's headlines (text link) concerned NBA betting and alleged animal cruelty by an NFL star. Now attention turns overseas. CBS' Richard Roth (no link) focused on France, where Michael Rasmussen, the leader of the cycling Tour was thrown off the peloton and stripped of his yellow jersey for "violating what were called internal rules," as Roth vaguely put it. ABC and NBC turned to the success of the national soccer team of Iraq as it qualified for the final of the continentwide Asia Cup by beating South Korea. "It did not matter that Iraq's soccer coach was Brazilian or how many Shias, Sunnis or Kurds were on the team. It did not matter what religion the fans were. This was Iraq's team," NBC's Jane Arraf exclaimed. ABC's Terry McCarthy (subscription required) described the celebrations: "The streets of Baghdad erupted…There are precious few things that unite Iraqis but this is one of them. This country is soccer crazy." Then a pair of suicide carbombers drove into the exuberant fans, killing 50 and leaving some 130 wounded. "In Iraq the line between joy and pain is very thin," McCarthy mourned.
Fans in San Francisco do not seem to find Barry Bonds' baseball records tainted by his suspected doping. As he nears the all-time career home run record, ABC's Neal Karlinsky joined the denizens of McCovey Cove, an inlet just behind the bleachers at the Giants' ballpark, who wait for their slugger to hit one over the wall and into Cooperstown. Chomping on a water-level hot dog, the kayaking Karlinsky found them so aggressive in their grabs for a dinger that he likened Bonds' Navy to "sharks on a guppy."
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