Arabia’s biggest export
By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports

Because the Arabian American Little League team is so used to getting stares – a 13-year-old who stands 6-foot-8 tends to draw attention – the players and their parents didn’t mind doing a little gawking of their own last week.

When they pulled their rental cars in Newark, N.J., onto the Garden State Parkway and en route to the Little League World Series, they passed their first gas station.

Sticker shock, thy name is gas prices.

“We pay 75 cents or 80 cents a gallon,” said James Durley, coach of the team from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which has cruised through its first two games in Williamsport, Pa., and will try to lock up first place in its pool today at 6 p.m. Eastern against the unbeaten Cardenales Little League from Venezuela.

“It’s painful here.”

Yahoo.com runs a story about the Saudi Little League Baseball team that focuses primarily on the team’s “Big Guy”, Aaron Durley, who stands 6′8″ and weighs 256 pounds (that 203cm and 116kg), all at the age of 13. But it also takes a look at life for expat Westerners on the Aramco compound.