Word: soccer
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...Harvard women’s soccer season was hanging in the balance this past weekend against Columbia. Win and the Crimson would earn a league championship and a berth into the NCAA tournament. Lose and the team’s year could be over. Given the stakes, Harvard needed one of its players to step up. The squad got just that, as junior Christina Hagner carried the Crimson to the Ivy League title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Championships. In an all-or-nothing game, Hagner controlled the offensive attack from her forward position. She created opportunities...
...Harvard men’s soccer team holds destiny in the palm of its hand...
...Akpan surpassed the previous standard set by Chris Ohiri ’64, who lends his name to the Crimson’s home field. With more than a year remaining in his time on the team, Akpan is also sure to further raise the bar for future Harvard soccer prodigies...
...month, Thaksin had his British visa revoked, shortly after a Thai court sentenced him in absentia to two years' imprisonment for a conflict of interest conviction. The Thai telecoms tycoon had spent a good deal of time in England after his ouster, making headlines by buying the Manchester City soccer team before selling it to a Middle Eastern investor group earlier this year. Thaksin was in China when his ban from Britain was publicly announced...
...early proposal for a Maze Stadium, which would host both Protestant-favored sports such as soccer and rugby and predominantly Catholic games like Gaelic football and hurling, received cross-party support at first, but is now likely to be scrapped for financial reasons. That leaves the most controversial proposal still on the table: an International Center for Conflict Transformation (ICCT) to be partly housed inside the remaining prison hospital, where Sands and other hunger strikers died. The project's backers say the ICCT, with conference suites and an interpretive center, could act as a peace-making laboratory for visitors from...