Open Season



East Timor and the Hunt for the Elusive Win

31 October 2008 | 0:00 - By Matthew Hall

The result, according to Pedro Almeida, a motorcycle mechanic in Dili, made everyone proud.

East Timor, officially the worst football team in the entire world, had played a competitive game and did not lose.


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King of the Mountain

17 October 2008 | 0:00 - By Matthew Hall

Javier and I had a plan.

It was the sort of plan usually concocted over maybe 25 beers during a long night.

Alas, we had no such excuse. Javier was drinking a hot chocolate and I'd downed just one beer.


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Cuba lose the game and two players

14 October 2008 | 9:22 - By Matthew Hall

On Sunday night, in Managua, I shared a rum and Coke with Delfin.

That's not his real name. For what will soon become clear, we have to grant him a pseudonym.


The rum and Coke may seem a cliché cocktail to drink in Central America but there's a reason some clichés exist.

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When Sport really can equal War

10 October 2008 | 9:38 - By Matthew Hall

This edition of Open Season is being tapped out on a rapidly failing computer on a mountain top somewhere in Nicaragua. No, really.


The intention is not to be mysterious but a combination of tropical rain, dark roads, and a little sleep deprivation means I really have little idea where I am.

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Thug Life: When Sports Stars Go Bad

07 October 2008 | 9:26 - By Matthew Hall

And then - it happened.

Thirteen years to the day after OJ Simpson was acquitted of murder, he was found guilty in a Las Vegas courtroom of 12 charges, including conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault and kidnapping with a deadly weapon.


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Kevin Costner as a cure for Fascism

03 October 2008 | 9:37 - By Matthew Hall

My ears have taken a battering this week.

I assumed, obviously incorrectly, that things could not get much worse than actor Kevin Costner and his band (called Modern West) dedicating a song they recorded to the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team.


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About this Blog

Sport, without spin, from around the world. Matthew Hall considers the issues behind the headlines and tells the stories that others don't.

Matthew Hall Sport, without spin, from around the world. Matthew Hall considers the issues behind the headlines and tells the stories that others don't. Matt is a writer, author, and filmmaker, originally from Perth, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

 
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