Who Cares What A Billion Foreigners Do?

The day the tsunami hit started out as a day of celebration in Australia. One of the biggest rivalries in sports was being played out in the Aussie vs. Pakistan cricket match. By the time the game was over, word of the disaster had spread, and the entrie Australian team had already pledged to donate their proceeds to relief efforts.

A few days later, a charity match between Asia and the Rest of the World was held at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. The game was played in front of a crowd of 80,000, and it was broadcast to an audience of an estimated one billion viewers in 122 countries.

And what happened? Well, the Rest of the World promptly kicked Asia's ass. In a friendly, "Beers are on us and here's a few million bucks" kind of way.

Obviously, this was big news all over Australia and, I imagine, the rest of the planet. However, I haven't heard a single mention of it in any of the US media. Nothing in the Washington Post, NYT, CNN, not even those liberals at the Communist Broadcasting Service seem to have covered it. Maybe I missed something, but I couldn't even find a single word.

For what it's worth, here's a little anecdote I picked up about the match:

Posted by flow Frazao on January 18, 2005 at 06:41 PM in World News | Permalink