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World Cup 2010: the newspaper front pages
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The Guardian’s football correspondent Kevin McCarra is in Cape Town to offer his verdict on England’s crunch World Cup game against Algeria John Domokos Kevin McCarra
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Video: World Cup 2010: England v Algeria – ‘A moment of truth is approaching’
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• Follow Sean Ingle’s live blog and discuss the decision • Robert Green pays price for goalkeeping error against USA David James is set to be handed a shock recall to England’s starting line-up for this evening’s critical Group C fixture against Algeria after Fabio Capello decided against selecting Robert Green following his costly error against the United States. The veteran Portsmouth goalkeeper is to replace Green at the Green Point stadium after the England manager opted for experience in a fixture that the national team can ill afford not to win. Capello had been impressed by the manner in which Green recovered his poise following his handling mistake against the US , which presented Clint Dempsey with an equalising goal, but he remained concerned that his defenders’ faith in the goalkeeper had been significantly eroded. Furthermore, Green appeared nervous in front of the media at open training at the ground yesterday, fumbling two shots from Ray Clemence in one of the early drills. While the youngster, Joe Hart, has been consistently the most impressive of the three goalkeepers in training since the squad first convened in Austria ahead of the tournament, Capello has now opted for the 39-year-old James’s know-how in the hope he will provide surety as England attempt to kick-start their World Cup campaign. James won his 50th cap in the recent defeat of Japan in Graz but, having been a regular over the first year of Capello’s reign, slipped behind Green in the pecking order last season. Even so, he had been expected to start the tournament as the Italian’s No1 and was disappointed not to be selected against the USA in Rustenburg last Saturday. He will now have his chance to impress tonight. Capello is only due to speak to his goalkeepers later today to confirm who he has decided to pick, with the rest of the side to be informed some two hours before kick-off this evening. World Cup 2010 England World Cup 2010 Group C Dominic Fifield guardian.co.uk
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World Cup 2010: David James to start for England against Algeria
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Joe Becker is a middle school teacher & hip hop artist at an inner city school on Chicago's south side. With an epidemic of murders going on in the streets and a 50% chance of youths not graduating from high school, there seems to be little hope. But Joe is trying to reach these kids and in doing so using his hip hop songs to help steer these kids away from a life of crime. Produced by David Turvey added by: CrazyDave
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J Beck: An Educator’s Story
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Christan Morales says her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures. But the hat ran afoul of the district's no-weapons policy because the toy soldiers were carrying tiny weapons. “His teacher called and said it wasn't appropriate because it had guns,” Morales said. Morales' 8-year-old son, David, was assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would met their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat. Earlier this week, the Tiogue School in Coventry sent the cap home with David at the end of the day after concluding it violated a zero-tolerance policy for weapons. The principal told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any, according to Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro. Morales said the family had only one Army figure without a weapon (he was carrying binoculars), so David wore a plain baseball cap on the day of the visit. “Nothing was being done to limit patriotism, creativity, other than find an alternative to a weapon,” Di Pietro said. The district does not allow images of weapons or drugs on clothing. For example, a student would not be permitted to wear a shirt with a picture of a marijuana leaf on it, the superintendent said. The principal “wasn't denying the patriotism,” he said. “That just is the wrong and unfair image of one of our finest principals.” Morales said her son was inspired to honor the military after striking up a friendship last summer with a neighbor in the Army. Banning the hat “sent the wrong message to the kids, because it wasn't in any way to cause any harm to anyone,” she said. “You're talking about Army men. This wasn't about guns.” http://www.optimum.net/News/AP/Article?fmId=5128267 added by: Stoneyroad
Dance-heavy clip appropriately debuts on ‘So You Think You Can Dance.’ By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber in ‘Somebody To Love’ Video, featuring Usher Photo: FOX While Usher was making everyone say “OMG” with his performance on Thursday night’s (June 17) “So You Think You Can Dance” results show, it was prot
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Somebody To Love’ Video, Featuring Usher, Premieres
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Subscription model seen as best bet over long term, while analysts say Sky may load rival with poor content News Corporation is to put another of its services behind a paywall as it emerged yesterday that Sky Sports News is to be pulled from Freeview. BSkyB, which launched Sky Sports News on Freeview in 2002 with Sky News and Sky Travel, is to replace the channel with a one-hour timeshifted Sky 3+1 service later this year. Sky 3 replaced Sky Travel in 2005. Industry experts also believe that BSkyB could decide that its Sky News website, currently freely available on the internet, should go behind a paywall. The decision on Sky Sports News, which has an average daily reach of 2.1m according to television measuring service Barb, marks a significant shift in BSkyB’s attitude to the benefits of using the reach of the free-to-air service as a marketing channel to attract subscribers to its pay-TV service. With subscription charges about to start on the Times’s website as Rupert Murdoch’s media empire searches for new revenue streams, News Corp is undergoing a major restructuring of its business model. It is already looking to maximise revenues from its Sky TV channels by launching a bid for the 61% of the satellite broadcaster that it does not presently own. Despite the Sky Sports News service benefiting from advertising revenues on the Freeview platform, it is thought that BSkyB has decided that over the long term there is more advantage to be had from a subscription model. As part of the move, BSkyB is to boost editorial investment in Sky Sports News as it prepares to launch a high-definition service. When the service is removed from digital terrestrial service Freeview, it will be available on subscription services Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk TV. “As part of a subscription service, customers can look forward to expanded coverage and the launch of Europe’s first HD sports news service,” said Barney Francis, the managing director of Sky Sports. BSkyB is seeking to pull valuable free content and boost the “must have” factor of its pay services ahead of rivals introducing cut-price Sky Sports packages for the next Premier League season. In April Sky was ordered to slash the price it offers Sky Sports 1 and 2 wholesale to rivals including Virgin Media and BT Vision . Alexander Wisch, an analyst at Standard & Poor’s Equity Research, said: “In my view if they are forced to sell key content, like sport, at regulated wholesale prices, why give out anything for free? “Its pay TV platform may be under threat from the wholesale issue so if anyone can soon offer Sky Sports [at highly competitive prices] then BSkyB will be asking what they can offer as added value to subscribers. They are looking to make the pay TV service more interesting, the destination for sport.” Wisch also believed that it was unlikely but not out of the question for BSkyB to be considering the long-term strategy of keeping Sky News on Freeview. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they pull other content out [of free platforms],” he said. “Sky News is important to them on Freeview, so far, and while I can’t see it coming off in the near term, I wouldn’t rule anything out.” BSkyB is expected to reach its highly publicised 10 million subscriber target this year. The weakening of Freeview would help shore up the pay-TV company’s longer-term position. Replacing Sky Sports News with a time-shifted version of Sky 3 was described by one former senior Sky executive as “a cheap way to fill airtime with relatively pointless TV”. BSkyB will pick up a fourth slot on Freeview when it takes over the Virgin 1 channel, assuming regulatory clearance is given to its £160m takeover of Virgin Media Television’s channels . BSkyB did not buy the licence to continue operating the Virgin 1 name. “Freeview delivers some advertising revenues for them, but is a potent rival for the pay TV platform, so they do benefit from a weaker Freeview, with a poorer content offering,” said one industry source. “Full conspiracy theory could see Sky put crap on the channel to make the inferior Freeview offering more so. Make a rival suffer, that is the pay TV way.” BSkyB Freeview Television industry Media business BSkyB Mark Sweney guardian.co.uk
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Sharks and psychotics, losers and lap-dancers – they all got their piece of Tiger Woods Jacques Peretti’s Tiger Woods: The Rise and Fall (Channel 4) offered a bleak vision of human
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