Brent went to the Big City for the weekend to see a baseball game w/ friends. He and I had been watching the World Cup Soccer matches for the last week or so. The games turned out to be interesting even though neither Brent nor I knew the rules and were often surprised/confounded on the action. I was interested also because at night I listen to the BBC on the radio and there was a lot of coverage on the FIFA scandal. Officials were taking bribes when voting on the country that would host the next world cup series. The unlikely choice of Qatar managed to keep hold of hosting rights through the scandal. They did have to move the games out to a Nov-Dec time frame because of Qatar's hot summer temperatures (May thru Sep the average high temp is above 100). Also interesting that a nation, smaller than Switzerland, is hosting the World Cup in 2022 but the next host will be a continent (Canada, U.S., Mexico) in 2026.
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