FIFA adding insult to injury

Given the wide-spread racism and anti-semitism that goes on in the stands at professional soccer matches across Europe, investigating whether one player said something about another's mother, sister, or whatever seems, well, stupid.

Sheesh, if baseball investigated comments about opposing players' -- and managers' -- mothers, sisters, wives, there'd be no one around to play the game.

Durocher had more success with the Giants -- in 1954, when he captured his only World Series as a manager in a four-game sweep of the favored Indians. Otherwise, his seven years at the Polo Grounds were characterized by the most acrimonious chapter in the Dodgers-Giant rivalry, with field fights regularly following [Jackie] Robinson's taunts of Durocher's sex life ... [and] righthander Sal Maglie's shaving of Brooklyn chins. He resigned his post near the end of the 1955 season amid increasing conflicts with owner Stoneham.