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Predicting the winner of the 2010 World Cup

The beginning of the 2010 World Cup is only 3 days away! The best 32 teams in the world will be aiming to win the FIFA World Cup Trophy as the tournament is held on African soil for the first time with South Africa being the hosts. As a football fan there are a myriad of players and teams I’ve...
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Japan’s Chances at the 2010 World Cup

We are now just over 50 days away from the beginning of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be held in South Africa. Unfortunately Jamaica didn’t make it to the finals but Japan did, but just how realistic is Japan’s chances of having a successful tournament this time around? Their best finish came...
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World Cup 2010 Group Draw Results

The FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world. Italy won the last World Cup in 2006 which was held in Germany and since then the countdown has been ticking down for the 2010 tournament that will be held in South Africa. Jamaica failed to qualify but 32 of the best footballing...
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Japan is 2009 World Cosplay Champions

The 2009 World Cosplay Summit was staged from August 1st to 3rd 2009. Thousands of cosplayers and fans of cosplaying decended on Nagoya in Japan for the event with it’s primary attraction being the World Cosplay Championship is which 15 countries would compete for the honour of being cosplay champions...
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Jamaica to Conquer Berlin at World Champs

I am still counting down the days to the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics to be held in Berlin Germany from August 15th to 23rd 2009. The Jamaican team has already been chosen and on paper is an even stronger team than the one that went to Beijing for the Olympics last year. The last World...
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World Athletic Champs 100 days away

In a little over 3 months from now Germany’s capital will come alive when thousands of athletes from all over the world converge on Berlin for the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics. The world is now more aware of Jamaica’s sprinting prowess. Will we falter or will we cement our place...
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No Surprise, Japan is one of the safest countries in the World

The Global Peace Index or GPI is a yearly ranking of countries via various peace indicators. The list is compiled by Visionofhumanity.org and ranks grades countries on everything from yearly murder rate to relations with neighboring countries and even military expenditure as a percentage of a countries...
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2007 Miss World Competition Results

So I was dug out of bed earlier than usual on a Saturday morning by my little sister who wanted a screaming partner while watching Miss World 2007. As it turns out I enjoyed the show and I had my beautiful women from all over the world. As expected I had my bets on my two stereotypical favourites: Jamaica...
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Asafa Powell lowers 100m record to 9.74 in Italy, video added

Less than an hour into his record breaking feat I have already been bombarded by a phone call, an email and two comments on my blog related to Asafa Powell’s new world record posted today in Italy. I see my new job as Asafa’s critic has already has some effect eh? Firstly I will say I am...
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Jamaican Athletics Team still one of the best in the world

Jamaica stamped it’s class as one of the top nations in Athletics in the world at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka Japan. The Jamaica team walked away with 10 medals in the 9 day Championships; 1 Gold, 6 Silver and 3 Bronze medals, a decent improvement over our 8 Medals in Helsinki in 2005...
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