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...That's an understatement. The U.S.'s 3-2 rout of fifth-ranked Portugal rated up there among David-and-Goliath World Cup upsets. Certainly, 20-year-old Donovan was amazed: "We were confident going into the game, but 3-2? In my wildest dreams, I wouldn't have imagined such an outcome. If the coach had told me that score, I would have just laughed and told him to quit joking...
...minority in Gujarat state, Muslims make up only about 13 percent of the population, and the rioting has turned into a Hindu rout of the Muslim minority. While the rioting in Ayodhya, a city in Gujarat, was originally in reaction to the death of the 57 Hindus on the train, most of the violence has led exclusively to large numbers of Muslim deaths. Whole families have perished, homes have been destroyed and businesses vandalized and looted. Even as the violence has been suppressed by the government, as many as 30,000 Muslims are displaced and too frightened to return...
Tanner, the all-time winningest pitcher in Texas high school history, has been going through the typical adjustment to the additional three feet of distance to home plate in the college game. A rout like Saturday’s gave her another opportunity to figure herself...
Harvard showed no mercy in the second game as it turned a 3-1 lead into a 12-1 rout with a nine-run fifth inning. Cooley and Whitton each hit three-run homers to spur the rally...
...Even though we didn’t come in second, it was still a much better start than last year, by far,” said Williamson, who led Harvard in the rout of Charleston Southern with four hits...