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...investment has already paid off with a trophy: Corinthians won Brazil's professional-soccer-league championship for the first time in six years. But Joorabchian's strategy has produced more than a trophy. He may well have established a new business model that could rescue pro soccer in Brazil, the cradle of superstars like Pelé and Ronaldinho--which has been sinking under corruption, violence, archaic management and a hemorrhaging of talent to Europe and Asia. "You pick a company because you believe it's undervalued," Joorabchian told TIME. "We believe Brazilian football as a whole is undervalued...
...you’re guarding her. From talking to the other post players, it seems that if she gets it on the block, there’s nothing they can really do.”Moretzsohn was just one important piece of last year’s Ivy League championship team. The team chemistry is what brought her to Harvard in the first place, and she credits the team’s turnaround last year to their comfort playing together.“It really helped having played with all those girls for a year, we all just kind...
...presence in wrestling, but Ellison's signature flying drop-kicks and hair-pulling body slams quickly earned her a loyal fan base. Shortly after she started wrestling, a promoter nicknamed Ellison the "Fabulous Moolah" for her stated ambition in life: money. In 1956, she won the World Women's Championship. Twenty-eight years later she was defeated, but she regained the throne--in her 70s. "I love old people, and I love babies," said Moolah, who was the first woman inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame. "If anybody else steps in my way, I'll just kick...
...Crimson, the game is also loaded with Ivy League implications. Last weekend’s win over Columbia assured that Harvard will play for at least a share of the Ivy championship when it arrives at Yale for The Game on Nov. 17. A Crimson win tomorrow, coupled with a Yale win over Princeton, would make The Game a de facto championship game, while a Bulldog loss would guarantee Harvard at least a share of the crown...
Sophomore Michael Hayes took home the the B singles bracket championship at Dartmouth’s Big Green Invitational yesterday, besting his Harvard teammate, freshman Tim Wu by a score of 6-0, 6-3 yesterday. The match was played at Harvard’s Murr Center to allow both players to attend class...