World Cup: “Travel Through Sport”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.18.02 | 12:46 AM ET
If it’s Monday, it must be time for another batch of World Cup-themed stories. South Florida Sun-Sentinel travel editor Thomas Swick leads off with a sweet, short essay on the event’s ability to bring people together, despite national grudges and bad haircuts. “When else can you see Americans (some of us, anyway) taking an interest in Turkey and Costa Rica?” he writes. “At what other time do you find Norwegians cheering on Senegalese; Chileans admiring, reluctantly, the artistry of Argentinians?” On ESPN.com, Englishman Michael Davies has been keeping a daily diary of his travels through Japan and Korea while covering the games—and, sometimes, Japan’s ubiquitous vending machines. “Do you like vending machines? I love them,” he writes. “Everything tastes better out of a vending machine. The whole transaction is just so damn enjoyable, like winning something at the fair.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
