Madagascar “national pastime”: Cockfighting more popular than football

Repost – Gameness til the End Madagascan cock fighters claw their way to glory By AFP PUBLISHED: 04:03 GMT, 9 March 2017 | UPDATED: 04:03 GMT, 9 March 2017 | Daily Mail Two competing roosters rear up to face each other in the heart of a rowdy Madagascan arena before bursting forward in attack, wings…

Cockfighters EP by Chavez: American alternative rock band from NYC

Repost – Gameness til the End PS Chavez is an American alternative rock band from New York, formed in 1993. After a period of inactivity, the band reformed in 2006. They released two independent non-charting albums in the mid-1990s. Guitarist Matt Sweeney has confirmed that the band is working on its first new recordings since…

Cockfighting Passion: Thai Monk Abbot quits Buddhist Temple

Repost – Gameness til the End ‘Betrayal’ by beauty queen cited as a reason for renunciation of monkhood March 15, 2017 17:09 By Marisa Chimprabha The Nation Luang Por Preecha, the abbot of a temple in Hua Hin, Prachuab Khiri Khan province, has decided to leave the monkhood. The reasons he has cited for the…

Cockfighting and Dancing at Ko Gyi Kyaw Festival

Repost – Gameness til the End PS The nats (နတ်‌; MLCTS: nat; IPA: [naʔ]) are spirits worshipped in Burma (or Myanmar) in conjunction with Buddhism. They are divided between the 37 Great Nats and all the rest (i.e., spirits of trees, water, etc.). Almost all of the 37 Great Nats were human beings who met…

1919 Rooster Auction’s Bob Jones (gamecock) & Clee Compton (cockfighter)

Repost – Gameness til the End Clee Compton: The Rooster Wrangler March 13, 2017 by Jan McDonald Clee Compton, around 1919. (WAW | Contributed) As roosters arrived in Demopolis for the famous Rooster Auction in 1919, organizers realized they had to have someplace to put them and someone to care for them. They thought immediately…

“Cockfighters” by Douglas Vuncannon: Fully-legal billion dollar industry

Repost – Gameness til the End Documents of an ancient, but troubling, pastime Blue Greenberg | Feb 28, 2017 | The Herald Sun Submitted/Copyright Douglas Vuncannon via Through This Lens ‘Jun with Manok’ is one of Douglas Vuncannon’s photographs on view at Through This Lens gallery. Documents of an ancient, but troubling, pastime “Douglas Vuncannon:…

Shrove Tuesday 1895 in Scotland: Cockfighting: Sports of Scholars

Repost – Gameness til the End Cock fighting and the first ever women’s football match: old Pancake Day traditions in East Lothian By Ruth Fyfe, archivist, John Gray Centre, Haddington Fishwives at FIsherrow Harbour circa 1900 WHILE many of us indulged in pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, now probably more familiar as ‘Pancake Day’, in times…

Cockfighting Sports at UNESCO recognized Lim Festival in Vietnam

Repost – Gameness til the End The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice,…