2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (1722+ words) And then, on a Johannesburg night in July of 2010, the argument was settled, and the orchestra played, and a country that had waited since its first appearance in 1934 understood at last what it had always suspected: that it was, and…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (499+ words) The newspapers had printed the victory in advance. A song had been composed for the celebration. A crowd recorded at nearly two hundred thousand, the largest ever to watch a football match, packed itself into the great bowl, certain it…...