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DIVORCING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 31, five-time Tour de France champion; and his wife of five years, KRISTIN ARMSTRONG, 32; in Austin, Texas. The couple, who met shortly after the cyclist completed treatment for testicular cancer and who have three children, separated for the second time two weeks ago. They are in mediation to reach a divorce settlement...
...Harvard will likely need every bit of that width against the Cardinal (1-2), which entered last season’s NCAA Tournament as the top-ranked team in the country before being upset by eventual national champion Portland on penalty kicks in the quarterfinal. Just last month, Stanford was ranked No. 4 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in preseason polls...
...finally win a title, the Crimson will have to get by two-time defending league champion Penn. The Quakers swept Harvard in two games last season, and will be just as tough to beat...
...with goals in the 19th and 21st minutes. Harvard responded just 76 seconds later, as sophomore back Liza Barber converted the rebound after Hodel’s shot came off the crossbar, but that was all the scoring the Crimson could muster against a team that fell to eventual champion Portland in last year’s national semifinals...
...RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Pete Sampras, 32, the quiet yet dominant American tennis champion who won a record 14 Grand Slam titles; in a ceremony at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York. Sampras won the U.S. Open at the age of 19 and was the only player to finish six straight seasons ranked as the world's No. 1. In his 13-year career, he raked in a hefty $43 million in prize money, another record for the sport...