Rivalry

2022 - 10 - 20

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Great-power rivalry between the US, China, and Russia: What ... (Insurance Business)

An expert on the Cold War, Brands uses learnings from history to help conceptualize the geopolitical and geo-economic risks that the US faces today. He believes ...

“I think we’re going to be living in a period of greater economic turbulence in the coming years than we’ve experienced for the past few decades.” And so, I think we’re going to have to get used to operating in an environment where the international economy is regularly disrupted by geopolitical tensions.” “We’ve seen how the war in Ukraine is creating lots of disruption for the global economy, whether that’s with respect to energy, or food supplies, or a variety of other things,” said Brands. One of the big differences between the Cold War and today is that there’s a far greater level of economic interdependence between the United States and its primary competitor. A lot of the things that the US had to do during the Cold War – like rallying a diverse coalition of countries to contain a dangerous enemy; managing the balancing act between competition and cooperation or negotiation; and thinking about how to forge long-term strategy… He believes that by looking at history, and the Cold War in particular, countries and businesses – including insurers - can gain a more textured understanding of how more intense international rivalries might present challenges for the US.

Flyers, Eagles square off in rivalry finale (Yahoo News)

Oct. 20—The memories still linger. Friday night's St. Paul at Monroeville football game will be a rare meeting with little-to-no stakes involved for either ...

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Goalkeeping brothers bring family rivalry to pitch (BBC News)

When Falkirk FC played Alloa Athletic, brothers Nicky and Jay Hogarth went head to head in goals.

"But we didn't expect it to happen so soon. Barry, then 20, scored in one fixture at East End Park while Derek made his last appearance at Ibrox in the same season. "Going into it we just had to treat it as any other game. John has also subsequently played with his other older brother Paul for Scotland. "Obviously it didn't turn out the best for us. McGinn came up against elder brother Stephen when John was playing for Hibernian in the Scottish Championship in 2017 against his first club, St Mirren.

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Lions, Panthers renew old East Texas rivalry (Tyler Morning Telegraph)

LUFKIN — A good, old-fashioned Piney Woods football rivalry will unfold on Friday as the Tyler Lions meet the Lufkin Panthers in a District 7-5A Division I ...

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Manufactured rivalries don't work: LA's El Tráfico is an exception (The Guardian)

The two Los Angeles teams meet on Thursday night in the MLS playoffs. And the passion and excitement around the game is a highlight of the league.

They are the Real Madrid of MLS and stand a good chance of achieving their own ‘La Decima’ this year with Greg Vanney’s team peaking at just the right time as the postseason takes off. LAFC believe they are the team of the people – their people. LAFC will kick off Thursday’s derby as the 2022 Supporters’ Shield winners and No 1 seeds for the playoffs. This is why El Tráfico carries greater weight than any other MLS rivalry at this moment in time. LAFC prides itself on being the team of the Angeleno. The Cascadian rivalry between the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers is American soccer’s most historic, and maybe even biggest, but MLS merely transplanted a fixture that can be traced back to the 1970s and the NASL. Nor does the Texas Derby (FC Dallas-Houston Dynamo), the Canadian Classique (CF Montreal-Toronto FC), the Atlantic Cup (DC United-New York Red Bulls) nor the Rocky Mountain Cup (Colorado Rapids-Real Salt Lake). MLS has a new $2.5bn broadcast deal with Apple TV to promote and there was only one fixture the league wanted to use to attract eyeballs. New York City FC and the New York Red Bulls have produced some compelling contests since facing each other for the first time in 2015, but the Hudson River Derby doesn’t have the edge of El Tráfico. More likely is that MLS tapped into an existing soccer community that felt unrepresented by giving LA a second franchise in 2018 and pitted it directly against an established superpower of the American game. In reality, however, fans rejected Chivas USA, who finished their final MLS season with the lowest home attendance in the league. El Tráfico, however, is an exception to the rule.

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