Obama administration takes unprecedented action to protect an American sports team. The Colombian football team had $2,500 looted from their hotel rooms by hotel staff in South Africa. The same thing happened to the Egyptian team during preliminaries. Now the Obama administration has ordered federal agents to South Africa to protect the American team. A large force will protect American football players... 

Just a taste of what it will be like for 350,000 foreign football fans at the FIFA WC2010 in South Africa? Pretoria-born businessman Christo Viljoen, 57, who had fled from the city’s crime to Ballito at the KwaZulu-Natal coast two years ago, travelled back to his beloved home town to cheer on the Blue Bulls in the Super14 semifinal rugby tournament at the Loftus Versfeld stadium. The Afrikaner had...