No riots or deaths reported

[nq:1]The following is quoted in its entirety from today's Orlando Sentinel: Birmingham City is trying to identify and ban a ... soccer team, was hit. The goalie handed the coin to referee Graham Barber. There were no riots or deaths reported.[/nq]
Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is an American, and a star of the US soccer team. This story is in a number of local US newspapers.

[nq:2]The following is quoted in its entirety from today's Orlando ... referee Graham Barber. There were no riots or deaths reported.[/nq]
[nq:1]Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is an American, and a star of the US soccer team. This story is in a number of local US newspapers. I suppose there must be nothing else going on in the world.[/nq]
It's a similar story here in Spain

[nq:1]... There were no riots or deaths reported.[/nq]
Presumably that is the abnormal case, and hence is news.

John W Hall (Email Removed)
Cochrane, Alberta, Canada.
"Helping People Prosper in the Information Age"

[nq:2]The following is quoted in its entirety from today's Orlando ... referee Graham Barber. There were no riots or deaths reported.[/nq]
[nq:1]Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is an American, and a star of the US soccer team. This story is in a number of local US newspapers. I suppose there must be nothing else going on in the world.[/nq]
I did not realize that "Brad" was

[nq:2]Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is ... there must be nothing else going on in the world.[/nq]
[nq:1]I did not realize that "Brad" was such a uniquely American name.[/nq]
Deeply so. British Brads must be about as numerous as American Nigels.
(Now there's a cool indy band name: "The American Nigels").

Ross Howard

[nq:1]Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is an American[/nq]
Could not the name "Brad Friedel" believably be that of a Canadian?

[nq:1]The following is quoted in its entirety from today's Orlando Sentinel: Birmingham City is trying to identify and ban a ... soccer team, was hit. The goalie handed the coin to referee Graham Barber. There were no riots or deaths reported.[/nq]
Can't find it in the online edition. Can we have a scan of it?

Adrian

[nq:2]Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is ... there must be nothing else going on in the world.[/nq]
[nq:1]I did not realize that "Brad" was such a uniquely American name. I took my clue to his nationality from the fact that he was on the 2002 U.S. World Cup soccer team.[/nq]
I find only four Brads in my company directory (about 20,000 people in all). One is in Canada, one i

[nq:2]Brad Friedel, as can be surmised from his name, is an American[/nq]
[nq:1]Could not the name "Brad Friedel" believably be that of a Canadian?[/nq]
I suppose I've know far fewer Canadians than Americans, but I've met plenty of US Brads and no Canadian Brads (as far as I can remember). Given no further data than the given name, UK folk would certainly assume that Brad is an American.

[nq:1]I find only four Brads in my company directory (about 20,000 people in all). One is in Canada, one in ... surname but is based in Wales. To put this in context, there are about 400 Davids and 120 Tonys (Tonies?).[/nq]
"Brad" is on the decline in the USA; the 414th most popular name for boys born in in 1991, and 752nd last year. "Bradley" has gone from 70th to 151st in the same period.