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The Kings who would have been king
By Brian Murphy
Special to Page 2
And to think, The Cooler this morning was going to be so drenched in World
Cup talk, I d have had you heading your Dixie Cups into the trash basket and
pressing the SAP button on your remotes every chance you got. I had even
recruited some Koreans and Japanese to form an official Cooler Cheering Squad, just like they re doing at the Cup. I d handed out jerseys for my Cooler Cheering Squad to wear UCLA basketball s home whites and had them paint their faces. Instead of those hilariously nonsensical Swedish flags or German flags on those stone-faced, uninterested hosts of the World Cup, I d painted tiny pints of Guinness.