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...kick a girl when she's down, right? Not if you can pound her face instead. At the Fatal Femmes Fighting Championship, an all-female mixed-martial arts (MMA) event, almost anything goes in the cage. Sofie Bagherdai, otherwise a sweet, petite teenager from Southern California, has her opponent, Stephanie Palmer, pinned to the floor. Now she's ready to work--whack, a shot to the noggin. Bam! Pow! Boom! Half a dozen more. Palmer cowers in the fetal position, and the ref stops the fight. The medics cart Palmer out on a stretcher. (She escapes with a fractured foot...
...from an army firing range and some 15 mi. (24 km) from an air force base. Machine-gun fire echoes around the property. Fighter jets roar overhead. On one of the facility's three courses, each hole is named after a historic battle, and on the 157-year-old Championship Course - the longest and most difficult Open venue in Britain - a water-filled ditch zigzags through the course like a World War I trench, and cavernous sand traps dot the landscape like bomb craters...
...when the circus comes to town," says Lalas, who seems to love needling the Beckham-obsessed English press. In recent weeks he has called the globally watched English Premier League an "inferior product" because only a handful of big-money teams have a realistic chance of winning its championship. Beckham, former England captain whose virtuoso free kicks made him a national hero (and spawned the movie title Bend It Like Beckham) is also one of the country's most obsessively followed celebrities. His book, My Side, was the fastest-selling autobiography in British history. Tempting him to leave behind Spanish...
...took an unexpected turn. As Real Madrid's title challenge floundered, the coach who had vowed that the Englishman would never again play for the Spanish giants restored him to the starting lineup. And with that, Real started a winning streak that took them all the way to the championship, which they won on the final day of the season, with Becks' new pals Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes cheering him on in Bernabeu Stadium. He was playing so well that in May, Beckham was recalled for England, and assisted three of England's four goals in the two games...
Ruzzi is a newcomer to the Division I coaching ranks, but had success as an assistant at Division III Amherst, where she helped the team to its first NESCAC championship. She also was a star player at Providence, captaining the Friars during the 2002-03 season...