Word: cupfuls
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Malin has been a consistent presence as a soccer announcer on radio and television ever since 1978. He was in the broadcast booth for NBC during the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. And he has announced soccer for the last three Olympic Games...
...laughs because, for this summer, it will be his job to makes soccer accessible to members of the American public who may not be well-versed in the rules. This week, he signed a cortract with ABC to be the lead color commentator for its broadcasts of the World Cup soccer tournament during June and July...
This year's Cup will be the first one held inthe U.S., and some soccer patrons are hoping thetournament will boost the sport's popularity inthis country. American teams have traditionallyfared poorly in international competition (itsteam lost all three games it played in the 1990World Cup in Italy), but Malin thinks the U.S.team could do better this time...
...champions, though, second place isn't good enough. Harvard and Fraiberg proved this cliche to be true the following year when both won their respective championships over their respective nemeses, Princeton and Belknap. The Crimson also captured the coveted Howe Cup from Yale that year to make it a clean sweep across the title board, all thanks to the leadership and inspired play of Fraiberg...
Fortunately for the Crimson, Fraiberg recovered from these set-backs to lead her team to its second consecutive national championship and Howe Cup. But Fraiberg was unable to completely regain her form from the year before, losing the individual national competition to an old nemesis and childhood friend, Margot Greene, in the semifinals...