TIME: The Great Chinese Hope

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time world amateur boxing champion Zou of China works out on the speed bag at Wild Card Boxing Club while preparing for his upcoming professional boxing debut, in Los Angeles.
My latest. In TIME. A profile of boxer Zou Shiming.

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Esquire: Barcelona vs. Paris St-Germain

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From Paris. An article about soccer. In Esquire.

The sellout crowd sang “Ici C’est Paris!” and took long and happy drags on their cigarettes, and my young son, eating some sort of French hot dog on a baguette, coughed through the second-hand smoke, and said, through his chattering teeth, what every Frenchman knew, but he dared to say it out loud: “I don’t think they can beat Barcelona.”

This entry was written by Poole, posted on April 2, 2013 at 12:54 pm, filed under David Beckham, Hot Dog + Baguette, Soccer aka football. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.