I love Spain.
So it broke my heart to see the Spanish Olympic basketball and tennis teams make such racially insensitive fools of themselves in Beijing this week. Here’s what I mean:
The men’s basketball team posed in the photo above for a delivery company ad that’s running in Spain now. The International Olympic Committee called the photo “clearly [...]
Watching Barack Obama give an extraordinary speech at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany today, I couldn’t help recalling another great African-American who was once applauded in Berlin: Jesse Owens.
Jesse Owens ran for the U.S. Track & Field team in the 1936 Olympics. The Nazis were in power then, so those were called the “Hitler Olympics.” [...]
¡Felicidades, Rafa Nadal! The Spaniard topped Roger Federer for #1 at Wimbledon over the weekend, breaking through the “glass net” that separated Hispanics from the many Northern Europeans who had won Wimbledon before.
Nadal said it well in his blog after beating England’s top seed to make the finals:
“Well this is a funny blog because I [...]
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