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Sometimes it just takes a little time to warm up. After a slow start to the match, the Harvard men’s volleyball team hit a groove and coasted to a 3-0 (34-32, 30-15, 30-17) sweep of non-conference foe Endicott (5-4) for its...
But as it has turned out, the confetti raining down and the golden trophy glowing above the head of captain Fabio Cannavaro was just a flickering interlude in what is turning out to be among the darkest periods ever for Italian soccer. The shadow had already been cast before the...
The violence, though, is just the jack of spades in an Italian soccer world that increasingly looks like a house of cards. Beyond the referee scandal, there have been recent cases of match-fixing, financial improprieties and lingering questions of conflicts of interest. Following the dominance of the Italian league...
To say the twosome have a symbiotic relationship would be an understatement. Oleg, the elder, is also the bigger and more garrulous of the pair. Kid brother Vladimir, meanwhile, is slighter and more taciturn, but quick with a smile and a mischievous joke - or an existential musing about the nature...
The story is told by one of four protagonists who live in the Russian wilderness. A Chechnya vet, he is now a sniper guard for the local nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars...