Word: cupped
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...been around and has a lot of experience and brings a lot to the table.” Saturday will feature the season opener for the Black and White’s heavyweight team against Brown while the lights will face Georgetown at the Class of 2004 Cup in Washington D.C. Radcliffe expects the competition to only intensify in the coming weeks. “Looking forward to future, just having composure isn’t going to be enough and continuing to work hard together as an eight is going to be necessary,” Schwartz said...
...year old Major League Soccer, is growing steadily, but as a niche player. Third, women's pro leagues such as the WNBA have really struggled to sustain themselves. In fact, soccer tried a women's league earlier this decade, and it shut down. (See pictures of women's World Cup soccer...
...fight the downturn and counter the previous failure, WPS has promised to learn from the mistakes that its predecessor, the WUSA, committed earlier this decade. Riding a euphoria that followed the U.S. victory in the 1999 World Cup (Brandi Chastain, shirt off), the WUSA's spending habits fit those overreaching times. "The churn rate in women's soccer 1.0 was dot.com-like," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. The league, which folded in 2003, budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years of operation. It consumed $100 million...
...also launching within a crowded sports calendar: March Madness, the NBA stretch run, NHL playoffs, the start of baseball, and the upcoming Masters golf tournament are grabbing fans attention. Soccer is busy, too with MLS in full swing and the U.S. men's team in World Cup qualifying. Somehow, the WPS has to break through. "The league really has to catch fire early," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California...
...Temple Tree resort, www.templetree.com.my, in Malaysia's Langkawi archipelago, purring cats are ready to trail you everywhere. If you allow it, a friendly four-legged fur ball will curl up at the foot of your bed, or rest on your shoulder as you make yourself a cup of tea. And if you get really attached, you can sponsor the little cutie for as little as $14 a month. Australian resort owner Narelle McMurtrie's 15-year-old animal shelter, the Langkawi Animal Shelter & Sanctuary Foundation, has grown so enormous - yielding, at last count, 130 dogs and 150 cats - that...