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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : NOT ENOUGH SHAIBUS

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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They’re not booing, they’re yelling Shaibu! Shaibu! or the Russian chant for “Score! Score!”

Or, at least a loose interpretation. Shaibu , pronounced Sha-boo, actually means “Puck,” and is the verbiage used to cheer on Mother Russia’s hockey teams. The 200 or so Russian fans who followed their team to the Silverdome, where the Russians lost, 3-1, to Sweden on Friday, use the same exclamation for soccer.

Seems to be a shortage of everything in Russia.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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