Word: goalless
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...kind of headline even war hawks in Washington wouldn't dare dream up: North Korea delivers Iran a fatal blow. But on Saturday, it happened. In a stadium in Pyongyang, the football teams of both countries ground out a turgid goalless draw. That means Iran - a nation where the public's passion for football rivals the religious fervor of its ruling mullahs - will likely miss out on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. North Korea, meanwhile, stays on course to qualify for the first time in over four decades. (See TIME's photos of North Korea going...
...With the end of a goalless second period in the first game of the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals minutes away, Harvard looked set to enter a tense finale against a stubborn Big Red team...
...much handed to me like that.” In the final two minutes of the half, the Quakers responded with their lone goal of the match to cut the Crimson’s lead back down to one. But that was the closest they would get, as a goalless second half allowed Harvard to secure the much-needed win. Even with the league championship out of its reach, the Crimson needed the victory to keep its hopes alive for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. “We were a little bit scrappy today...
...later. In 1911, the Mohun Bagan football squad won the prestigious Indian Football Association Shield tournament - once the preserve of whites-only clubs - toppling the crack East Yorkshire Regiment, the best British team in India, barefoot in the final. Boria Majumdar, India's leading sports historian and author of Goalless, a history of Indian football, describes it as "India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with Hindus and Muslims, poor...
That additional offensive production did not, however, hail from the usual sources. Of Harvard’s seven goals, four were scored by skaters who were previously goalless on the season—Mandes and Hafner, as well as defenseman Tom Walsh and senior Rob Flynn, who added Harvard’s fifth and sixth goals, respectively...