Over 66,000 fans in Saudi Arabia watched North Korea played draw (0-0) with the home team favorite.
It took over 43 years for Kim Jong Il’s team to return to the world most important sport event.
The planet most powerful communist state’s soccer team will join South Korea, Australia and Japan to represent Asia continent for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. The opening ceremony will be held about 357 days from today.
As state of California (the 6th largest economy in the world) continues to cut its budget and still owed almost $40 billion in deficit. In the same time, the city of Los Angels has cut paychecks to thousand of its employees; any hope of a big parade is getting slim.
In winning the 2002 NBA title, city of Los Angeles spent over $1.1 million to clean up streets, providing police protection, and paying traffic officers. With this amount of money, the second largest city in America can hire hundred of teachers.
An online poll run by Fox Sport shows 77% of the respondents (of total 21,700 votes) would spend the $1 million to pay Los Angeles city workers’ salary.
Sun Ming Ming, 25 year-old, is the world’s tallest pro basket ball player with 7-foot-9, about 3 inches taller than Yao Ming. He underwent a successful surgery in September 2005 to remove a tumor in the brain that had caused him became a giant. Sun just finished helping Hamamatsu Phoenix to be in the first place for the Eastern Conference of Japan’s professional basketball league. He can just easily dunk without necessary to jump and also good in shooting, but too slow for playing in the NBA league. If he ever had a chance to join the NBA, he would be the tallest basketball player in the NBA history overtaking 7-foot-7 of Manute Bol from Sudan and Gheorghe Muresan from Romania.
Robert Pierce, former Cleveland Cavaliers commented: “He’s so big that he could have a chance in the NBA but I think his size would be lessened because of the athletic ability and speed of NBA players.”
Not even one single athlete in the world comes close to pro golfer Tiger Woods’ earning as the richest athletes in the world with earning near $128 million. He earns over than $100 million endorsements from sponsors like sport clothing Nike and Gatorade where each sponsor was reported to be worth $100 million for five-year deal.
As a comparison to other sports, 2007 Formula One World Drivers’ Champion, Kimi Räikkönen makes only $46 million while NBA player LeBron James $40 million. Another pro golfer Phil Mickelson comes in the second place with $62 million while England’s most famous footballer, David Beckham is on the third place with $48 million.