The World Cup starts today ... GOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
World Cup 2002, Official Site
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/en/
FIFA - Fevernova
At the final draw in Busan, Korea on 1 December 2001, the Fevernova was unveiled as the official match ball for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™. Experts say that the Fevernova will set a new standard in the sport. It is the most accurate football ever produced by Adidas.
- FIFA.com
New York Times - World Cup coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/soccer/index.html
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Clear Shot for World Cup on Web
Time differences of up to 12 hours may make this the Internet's best World Cup, with rooters going online to get scores, analysis and -- in a Cup first -- video streams while at work or from home.
By Carl Bialik, WSJ Online
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Referees Crack Down on Divers
By George Vecsey, NYTimes
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ESPN Soccernet - World Cup
http://worldcup.espnsoccernet.com/index?lang=en
Friday, May 31, 2002
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Yerp ... That's so funny.
Here's Mike Butcher's commentary ...
Yahoo! Pulls! Euro! Auctions! eBay! Wins!
So they lost. After trying to face-off with eBay in Yerp (as Yahoo's Californian bods like to call it), Yahoo! is to close its online auction sites in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Ireland. Like the Soviet Union versus the US of A, it just can't afford the war, and is pulling out in order to nurse its wounds after the slump in online advertising. The deal is that eBay will now pay Yahoo! an undisclosed sum in the "multiyear deal" to promote eBay's auction sites through banner ads, text links and other promotions in the markets it leaves behind.
"This is an outstanding move for Yahoo! Europe, both strategically and financially," said Mark Opzoomer, managing director of Yahoo! Europe in a Pathetic! statement. Yahoo auctions will stay on in the markets they think they are strongest - the highly lucrative and massively populated regions of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. *That's* the "outstanding" move?
Yahoo will shut its Internet auction sites in most of Europe
Wall Street Journal
Yahoo to close six European auction sites
By Paul Abrahams in Los Angeles, Financial Times
Yahoo Europe to Quit Online Auctions
By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent, Reuters
Thursday, May 23, 2002
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Hubble has 20/20 vision, and what it sees is pretty cool ... I can hear Carl Sagan saying," Billions and billions of new stars have been found, leading to billions and billions of new potential intergalactic neighbors."
Hubble's stunning new vision
By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor
Astronomers have been bowled over by some spectacular new pictures of the Universe.
They were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument, which was installed during a space shuttle servicing mission in March.
Thursday, May 02, 2002
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Still better than Ali vs. Foreman. For GoTo, this is an ... er ... Overture to failure.
You've Got Google!
By Ryan Naraine , atnewyork.com daily
In its biggest client win to date, search technology upstart Google, Inc. has added AOL, CompuServe, AOL.COM and Netscape to its paid listings roster, beating out incumbent Overture Services (NASDAQ:OVER) for the lucrative deal.
America Online (NYSE:AOL) announced the deal Tuesday after the oft-extended deadline for a renewal of the Overture deal passed, giving the contract to Google to power its pay-for-placement search results. Overture will hang on to its deal to run AOL Europe's search listings in the UK, Germany, and France but give way to Google in the U.S. sites by August.
While Overture went into spin-mode (...they released the news at 10 pm ET Tuesday night...) to cushion the blow from losing AOL's business, the excitement at Google was palpable. "We're delighted (and pleased) that America Online has selected our growing paid listings service, which offers a cost-effective way to market and advertise while providing relevant search results to consumers," Google CEO Eric Schmidt raved in a statement. While financial terms of the deal were not released, it is a massive coup for Google, which already has a deal with mega-portal Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) under its belt.
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
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