Karma

The Champions League is a European Soccer Championship that is one of the most popular sporting events in the world. The championship game was held last week and there were many interesting sub-plots. Here is one of the best....

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From Rick Reilly at ESPN:

Manchester United -- the team with the giant AIG across its jerseys -- got beat by FC Barcelona, the team with the UNICEF logo across its, 2-0 in the Champions League Finals.

How cool is that? Barcelona does it all backwards.

It blew off a jersey sponsorship deal worth tens of millions of dollars, like the best teams sign, and instead decided to donate $2 million a year to UNICEF for the privilege of wearing its name.

And Barcelona will do it for two more seasons. Manchester United, meanwhile, is wearing the logo of one of the world's greediest -- and most ruinous -- corporations in history.

Karma.

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UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund, whose programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.

A truly amazing organization and a truly amazing sub-plot to a sporting event.