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...invented? I don't think so. Rugby league has been using the technology since 1996, and cricket, rugby union and tennis (with Hawk-Eye) have all embraced the concept. Even Manchester United's Alex Ferguson now thinks that there may be a role for "instant replays" in soccer. Welcome to the video gang, baseball. What kept you? Richard Percy, Wigan, England
...declaration to come in any post-game press conference, but especially in this one. The Harvard women’s soccer team had just lost to Northeastern in the first round of NCAA Tournament play, and it had lost after two overtime periods in the round of penalty kicks. The Crimson had come within two made PKs of advancing to the next round of the tournament. Its season had come down to a matter of inches and guesses, to the do-or-die contest that decides things when 110 minutes of play can’t. And Harvard came...
...Harvard starts out right by whooping Yale’s ass with 4 goals and 4 touchdowns to Yale’s zip in this half-rugby, half-soccer game, one of the first intercollegiate football matches. 1890: Harvard captures the first of its seven national championships, 12-6. 1894: Rugby brutality continues as seven players were reported to be carried out in “dying conditions,” according to newspapers and had to be suspended for two years. Also, first Yale game with William H. Lewis, Harvard’s first black captain and first football...
...long season, after hundreds of minutes played, the Harvard women’s soccer team’s fate came down to penalty kicks.It didn’t quite seem fair, but at the same time, it was perfectly fitting for two teams that, in their two matchups this season, seemed to match up stride for stride. On Sept. 17, the Crimson and Northeastern went took a 1-1 tie into overtime before senior Nicole Rhodes scored the game-winner in the 99th minute. The teams weren’t strangers to each other, and they certainly weren?...
...Harvard men’s soccer team’s season is not over after...