Listening to a travel show on the radio this weekend,  I learned how venomous Italian football can get.

At a match between Verona and Naples, the fans from Verona unfurled a message to the opposition:

May Vesuvius erupt and destroy you all
In response, the Neapolitan fans held up their own banner:

Juliet was a slut

Good to see Radio Scotland can see the funny side of bad news.  A report from Vancouver this morning gave us the latest on the less than stellar performance of Great Britain's women curling team.

Presumably with a straight face,  the newsreader reported the British are "now depending on the other teams to slip up."

While Rio parties, Sochi prepares. This is the design for the 2014 Winter Olympic Stadium in the Russian city of Sochi:


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Images from the 36th annual Berlin Marathon


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An absorbing interview here with Monica Seles.  She’s brutally honest about the event that derailed her career and about her subsequent obsession with food.

What comes across is a woman who found the answer to her biggest problem by recognising she’d been asking the wrong question.

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Do you like chess?  Me neither. Ludicrous game for child prodigies and maths geeks. I don't get it AT ALL.
Although I did like the musical.

Anyway, if you do like chess, you cerebral rascals, here's something to get your juices flowing:


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