Just when I think I've lost all faith in humanity's common bonds, I stumble across something like this:

A Malaysian salesman complained to the main ethnic Chinese political party after his wife confiscated the TV remote control and satellite card for watching Sunday night's England-France Euro 2004 soccer match.

Substitute "soccer" with "basketball" and you'd have a convincing story for any Lakers fan (poor bastards). There's not a man in America who can't sympathise with this guy's plight. Looks like, when it comes to the important things in life, we're not that different after all.