Doubly sad

This last weekend...and continuing on the middle of this week, around the world various soccer matches are going on between national teams for qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.

Sadly, a tragedy occurred in the small western African nation of the Ivory Coast where the stands or a recently renovated stadium were completely filled to see their national team (led by Chelsea star and national hero Didier Drogba, I know it's un-American for me to know these things) played Malawi. The stands collapsed killing at least 22 people, and many of those deaths and undoubtedly many injuries occurred because security had no idea how to handle the pannicked crowd and fired tear-gas into the stands.

Incredibly and tastelessly the game went forward as scheduled -- all while people looked to see if their loved-ones were still alive.

Terrible.

But it's compounded by the rather moronic reporting of it by a blog which reported it, Sports by Brooks, which somehow associates problems in 2010 World Cup host South Africa to what happened in the Ivory Coast. Which is like decrying stadium construction in Winnipeg because of something that happened in Panama.



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