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July 11, 2006 • 6:51 am PDT
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In World Cup news that you may or may not care about, French superstar Zinedine Zidane was ejected from the final for head butting an opponent after some trash talking. What was said during the trash talking that led to this violence is under rampant speculation. One British tabloid with only the best journalistic credentials hired a lip reader and discovered the Italian player called the Algerian-born Zidane's mother "a terrorist whore." In his own defense, the Italian player has claimed he just wanted to see Zindane's mother naked. No, really.

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