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.