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...ALWAYS been pretty morbid. Saturday afternoon's most gripping moment was always the beginning of ABC Wide World of Sports: "the thrill of victory" (as Pele lays in a goal on a soccer field and a teammate throws him up in the air) "and the agony of defeat" as an Olympic ski-jumper slides sideways off a 70 meter jump, taking a few saplings with him on the way to the infirmary. But this year's coverage of the Winter Olympics wins the all-time Hubert-Humphrey-"I-was-a-Jew-once-myself" Poor Taste Award, not just for morbidity...
Former Harvard All-American Shep Messing plays goalie for the Minutemen, and depending on the schedule which will be made up this weekend, he might be fending off shots from the likes of the legendary Pele, not to mention American stars like Kyle Rote, Jr. from the Dallas Tornados...
...quickly signed by the New York Cosmos (who last week signed Brazilian soccer star Pele for an estimated $6 million) and for two seasons played in the Big Apple...
...Minutemen just signed Euseibio, the Portuguese star and second most famous player to Pele. With those players in the league. Messing says the television networks are fighting for the contract rights when previously no one wanted them...
...Felix Adedeji has been having the same problem this year. When you have played against Pele and some of the best teams in the world, it's hard to adapt to an American college team. But Felix is making the adjustment now, and in the past two games he has helped us a great deal with his teamwork," Thomas said...