Four years ago, the vuvuzela was having a moment. An “instrument of torture” alone, a “swarm of angry bees” in a pack, the South African plastic horn droned endlessly in the background of World Cup ...

Do you hear that? The hideous, piercing dirge of a B-flat drone that is the unfortunate backdrop to every single World Cup match? It's the vuvuzela, a stupid plastic trumpet that has infested the ...

After the South African World Cup draws to a close Sunday, the nation will surely quiet down. International crowds will clear out, returning to their homes. The FIFA radius around stadiums will fold, ...

At the 2010 World Cup Games in South Africa, it was vuvuzelas — long, yellow plastic horns that sounded like geese honking through megaphones. They filled stadiums with a menacing buzz which disrupted ...

It's a sad state of affairs when a cheap plastic horn is the talk of the World Cup - perhaps it's because the football so far has been pretty dismal - but, undeniably, the vuvuzela has so far been the ...

We all remember vuvuzelas, right? At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the omnipresent noisemakers gave the soccer stadiums an ambient sound that was charming -- or maddening, depending on your ...

The World Cup breakout stars in 2010 include Puyol, Donovan, Mueller, and The Psychic Octopus. But there’s no bigger phenomenon in South Africa this summer than that obnoxious plastic horn, the ...

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