Did you know that Kevin-Prince Boateng, the man who scored the first goal for Ghana against the USA last night, was born in Germany and only allowed to play for Ghana a month before the World Cup? ...

Did you know that 11 of the 23 in the German national football squad have a foreign background? ...

As a Singaporean, it be nice to see just a small percentage of the passion for international sports being shown for local sports as well. While I don't expect stadiums to be filled at S.League matches or people to start reciting the Singapore Slingers’ roster by heart any time soon, don’t you think it would be nice to see a little support for local sports as well? ...

This has been a week of mixed emotions for Singapore sports fans. There was deep disappointment for hockey and football fans when the national squads were turned down by the Singapore National Olympic Council for the Asian Games. On the other hand, the women's table tennis team came back from Moscow as world champions after they beat China for the first time. ...

MP Grace Fu highlights the fact that some schools are recruiting foreign student athletes just for competition purposes. ...

A reader wrote that Kendrick Lee should have been sent to the Beijing Olympics in place of Ronald Susilo because in his words, Kendrick is a "pure" Singaporean. That makes me want to throw up. ...

Any discussion about sports in Singapore will inevitably involve foreign talents these days. The national table-tennis team is described as China's second team, while the national football team also takes a knock or two from critics because the spine of the squad is foreign-born. ...