Der Film erforscht die Beziehung zwischen Glauben und Fußball, indem er drei Fans des argentinischen Clubs Atlético Boca Juniors begleitet. Hernán, ein Intellektueller, ist berauscht von seiner unauflöslichen Liebe zum Verein. Der Arbeiter Pablo hält Ex-Boca-Star Diego Maradona für einen Gott. Die Exzentrikerin La Tia (Die Tante) ist überzeugt, dass alle Boca-Spieler ihre Söhne sind. In „Fußball ist Gott“ geht es neben dem Spiel auch um Glauben, Leidenschaft und den Wunsch, Teil eines Größeren zu sein.

The images are just as striking almost a decade later. A cup splashes off Ron Artest in the closing moments of a blowout win against the Detroit Pistons. He leaps into the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills and into sports infamy. Mayhem follows. Players fight fans, fans fight players, a chair is thrown, bottles are tossed — in seconds, the invisible wall that separates athletes and spectators is demolished; the social contract of arena behavior is left in shreds. What happened that night went well beyond nearly $10 million in forfeited paychecks and 146 games lost in suspensions.

Professional sports leagues in the United States have long relied on high schools to help cultivate the country’s best athletes. Rosters in Major League Baseball, the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. are filled with former scholastic stars, many of whom hold tightly to their quintessentially American memories of homecoming, letterman jackets and games played under the Friday night lights. But for the organization charged with producing soccer players who can compete with the world’s best, that system has been deemed inadequate. The United States Soccer Federation announced a new policy recently that will uncouple high school soccer and the training of top youth players, a move that is unique among major team sports in this country and, some believe, is indicative of a trend in the way the United States develops elite athletes. The shift by the federation applies to its top boys teams around the country, requiring players on those teams — known as Development Academy teams — to participate in a nearly year-round season and, by extension, forcing them and their soccer moms and dads to choose between playing for their club and playing for their school. The move has stirred a fierce debate among players, coaches and parents from California to Connecticut.

Across three experiments the link between making goals public and actually working towards them was tested. What they found in every study was that when participants had shared their goal with someone else, instead of increasing their commitment, it reduced it. When they had shared their goals with another, participants put less effort into studying, trying to get a job and taking advantage of opportunities for advancement.

Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country. West Midlands and Surrey have invited bids from G4S and other major security companies on behalf of all forces across England and Wales to take over the delivery of a wide range of services previously carried out by the police. The contract is the largest on police privatisation so far, with a potential value of £1.5bn over seven years, rising to a possible £3.5bn depending on how many other forces get involved.

Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege of mining the data. Boulder, Colorado-based Gnip Inc and DataSift Inc, based in the U.K. and San Francisco, are licensed by Twitter to analyze archived tweets and basic information about users, like geographic location. DataSift announced this week that it will release Twitter data in packages that will encompass the last two years of activity for its customers to mine, while Gnip can go back only 30 days. Twitter opted not to comment on the sale and deferred questions to DataSift. In 2010, Twitter agreed to share all of its tweets with the U.S. Library of Congress. Details of how that information will be shared publicly are still in development, but there are some stated restrictions, including a six-month delay and a prohibition against using the information for commercial purposes.

As for Fab.com, the design site on Feb. 21 announced its acquisition of a German non-Samwer facsimile, Casacanda. “They’re less of a copycat and more a group of people who came up with a similar idea,” says Goldberg. “There are other clones that copy Fab very closely out there, but at least they use different colors,” says Goldberg, who’s sitting at his desk flipping back and forth between Fab and the Samwers’ Bamarang site. He points out the similar font and word choices on the “About” pages. “We even saw a job posting they had that was basically copied and pasted from Fab. It’s kind of flattering, but come on: If you’re going to do something about design, at least design your own website.”

Wu-Tang Clan live from Hultsfred Festival, Sweden. The year was 1997. The whole clan (except Ghostface Killah) was there. Streetlife and Cappadonna can be seen on stage as well. Some of the footage from this performance was used in the video "Reunited" from Wu-Tang Clan's "Forever" album.

The study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project also found that men were nearly twice as likely as women to have posted content online that they later regret. Sixty-three percent of social network users have deleted people from their friend lists, according to the study, up from 56 percent in 2009. Sixty-seven percent of women who maintain a social networking profile said they have deleted friends compared with 58 percent of men.When it comes to privacy, 58 percent of social network users set their profile to private so that only friends can see it. Nineteen percent allow friends of friends to view their profile and 20 percent keep their profile public. Women are significantly more likely than men — by a 67 percent to 48 percent margin — to set their profile to private, the study said. The study found that men are nearly twice as likely as women to have posted updates, comments, photos or videos that they later regret. Eleven percent of social network users say they have posted content they regret with 15 percent of men saying they have done so and just eight percent of women. The survey of 2,277 adults was conducted in April and May of last year and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.

According to the six-page indictment filed by Rosenstein, Ayre worked with Philip, Ferguson and Maloney to supervise an illegal gambling business from June 2005 to January 2012 in violation of Maryland law. The indictment focuses on the movement of funds from accounts outside the U.S., in Switzerland, England, Malta, and Canada, and the hiring of media resellers and advertisers to promote Internet gambling. “Sports betting is illegal in Maryland, and federal law prohibits bookmakers from flouting that law simply because they are located outside the country,” Rosenstein said in a statement.

As the European Food Safety Authority celebrates its 10th anniversary, a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Earth Open Source questions the independence of its advice. Conflicts on the menu: a decade of industry influence at the European Food Safety Authority highlights the agency’s reliance on industry data and industry-linked experts and calls for a complete overhaul of EFSA’s operations.

Manhattan Diary about Chloe Sevigny, 19, who is a downtown trendsetter of the moment. She was in a Sonic Youth video, recently in Details, in a series of photographs by Larry Clark, who has just cast her in his new movie "Kids". Her first break came at 17, when she was picked for a Sassy shoot, and was asked to be a summer intern there. Around that time, she posed for a fashion spread in Paper. A stylist, Gabriel Feliciano, said, "People want to project their desire on one girl. She's smart enough to hold back, and that allows us all to project whatever we want to. I could go on and on about Chloe, but actually I know very little about her."

90% of everything is crud. Crawford's Corollary: Should you ever find that less than 90% seem to be crap, your standard is set too low and should be adjusted.

Michael Jordan claimed the NBA Slam Dunk 1988 championship after beating Dominique Wilkins. Needing 49 points to capture his second straight slam dunk title, Jordan headed to the opposite end of the floor to the delight of the Chicago fans. They knew what was coming. A la Dr. J., Jordan took off running, lifted off from the free throw line, double clutched in midair and slammed it down for the perfect score and the slam dunk title. "I looked up into the box seats and came across the guy who started it all, Dr. J," Jordan said. "He told me to go back all the way, go the length of the floor, then take off from the free-throw line. And I did it."

"Atmosphere" is a song by the band Joy Division and was originally released in 1980 as a France-only single under the title Licht und Blindheit (Light and Blindness) with "Dead Souls" as the B-side. Atmosphere was the "A" side for the UK release but the "B" side for the US release. This video was released with the song's re-release in 1988 and was directed by Anton Corbijn.

Rock the Bells is a documentary on the preparation and realization of the original Wu-Tang Clan’s final live performance. The film focuses on hip-hop concert promoter Chang Weisberg, whose Guerrilla Union production company showcases live hip-hop of a noncommercial bent. Weisberg comes across as a mixture of fanboy and snake-oil salesman, but it is his attention to detail that allows him to undertake what no other promoter had managed to accomplish in a long time: the presentation of the complete original lineup of the Wu-Tang Clan in live performance.

Fahrgäste machten auf die Gefahr aufmerksam: Ein Mann war in den U-Bahn-Tunnel gelaufen. Sie sagten es Sicherheitsmitarbeitern. Die vier Männer standen hinter der Fahrerkabine eines Zuges der U 9. Bis zur Abfahrt blieben nur noch Sekunden. Einer der Männer sah in den Tunnel: „Da ist nichts.“ Sie blieben untätig. Es war ein 42-Jähriger, der am Abend des 21. April 2008 am Nauener Platz leichtfertig seinem Hund nachgelaufen war. Der U-Bahn-Fahrer, der kurz danach die Türen schloss, wurde nicht gewarnt. Für die Mitarbeiter der Sicherheitsfirma bestehe keine „wirksam übertragene Pflicht“, nach einem Hinweis von Fahrgästen die Notmaßnahmen einzuleiten. „Das ist nirgends niedergeschrieben“, argumentierte ein Verteidiger.

Vorgestellt werden in diesem VHS-Videofilm zwei Fußball-Fanclubs: Borussia Dortmund und Schalke 04. Die Mitglieder beider Clubs werden im Rahmen von Fußballspielen gezeigt. Bilder von Krawallen und Schlägereien wechseln ab mit Interviews einzelner Clubangehöriger in ihren Clubheimen: "Das ganze blau-weiße Getümmel", so ein Fan von Dortmund über Schalke, "sollte man einfach ausrotten." Und ein Schalker Fan meint: "... das Emblem, der Totenkopf mit Stahlhelm, soll ein bisschen an die SS erinnern, da wir politisch fast alle total rechts gerichtet sind. Wir hassen Ausländer wie die Pest, weil sie zu viel hier sind und wollen den dicken Mecki hier machen, genau wie die Dortmunder."

"Foe tha Love of $" is the second single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, featuring Eazy-E, from their debut album, Creepin on ah Come Up. The song was produced by DJ Yella and executive produced by Eazy-E. The music video is notable for being Eazy-E's last appearance in a music video before his death.

Kids in Emerica is a tour video featuring Andrew Reynolds, Heath Kirchart, Tosh Townsend, Erik Ellington, Kevin Long, Chris Senn, Austin Stephens, Aaron Suski, Leo Romero, Bryan Herman, Braydon Szafranski, Ed Templeton and the rest of the Emerica team.

Viele lästern über die BILD und Springer, die manipulativen Medien und die unter der Regie von strippenziehenden Boulevardzeitungen stehenden Politikern, aber selbst sind wir so naiv und lesen Fefe’s Blog, und sagen uns immer wieder, dass wir seine Polemik erkennen. Dass wir seine Falschinformationen richtig interpretieren. Dass die Kommentare ja absichtlich überspitzt sind und seine Lügen ja nicht böse gemeint sind, sondern zur Medienkompetenz der Leser beitragen. Das ist, mit Verlaub, Bullshit. Fefe ist alles was wir an der BILD verachtenswert finden und er benutzt den Einfluss den wir ihm über Jahre als Leserschaft gegeben haben jetzt willkürlich.

Ganz anderes hat hingegen Zwangsversteigerungsgast Manfred Röttger* im Sinn. Er wohnt schon seit Ewigkeiten in der Neuköllner Weserstraße, war bereits auf mehr als 100 Zwangsversteigerungen, hat aber nie den Zuschlag bekommen. Den wollte er auch nicht. Röttger geht auf die Versteigerungen, um den Preis nach oben zu treiben. So will er Menschen wie Schäfer und Daphi, »die aus dem Westen einfallen und die Mieten erhöhen«, den Spaß verderben.

Gummo is a 1997 American independent drama written and directed by Harmony Korine. A directorial debut for Korine, the film stars Jacob Reynolds, Jacon Sewell and Chloe Sevigny. Rather than following a linear plot, the film is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes depicting the hopeless, nihilistic lives of the residents of Xenia, Ohio, a small Midwestern town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. This is an alternate trailer by Mark Romanek. His music videos have garnered 19 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for Jay-Z's "99 Problems" in 2004. He has also won three Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video.

Word Cup wurde von März 1996 bis Juni 1999 als TV-Format auf VIVA ausgestrahlt und war von September 2001 bis Dezember 2002 fortan als Radiosendung beim WDR-Sender 1 Live zu hören. Moderiert wurde das TV Format auf VIVA von Tyron Ricketts, der neben Jens „Scope“ Kameke später der Radioshow seine Stimme verlieh.