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...writer is former captain of Harvard Men’s Soccer...
...landing without injury requires practice). A defender usually leaps up to block a spike, resulting in a dramatic acrobatic showdown-on nearly every play. Some rallies include many spikes and blocks, ratcheting up the suspense until the crowd is collectively gasping. "If you see a bicycle kick in soccer, it's a really rare occasion and everybody's applauding, but in sepak takraw you see it almost in every volley," says Daniel Angerhausen, secretary-general of Germany's sepak takraw association...
...tried on a burqa. ("Just to see what it felt like," he says. "Nobody was around. It steals your breath away. It's really hard to get used to.") In The Kite Runner we witnessed, from a distance, one of the Taliban's infamous executions by Kalashnikov in a soccer stadium. In Suns we experience a similar execution firsthand, from the point of view of the victim...
...American soccer player, Gino Pariani just wasn't supposed to embarrass the Europeans. But as the U.S.'s starting inside right forward, Pariani, who grew up in the soccer-obsessed St. Louis, Mo., neighborhood, "the Hill," was part of one of the most famous upsets in the sport's history. The U.S.'s stinging defeat of England in the 1950 World Cup tournament inspired the 2005 film The Game of Their Lives...
...over twice the percentage of African-Americans in the student body in ’04-’05. Percentage-wise, the best represented sport at present is men’s basketball, at 28.6 percent (compared to a national average of 57.8 percent). Men’s soccer comes in second, with 26.9 percent of its roster composed of black students—a mark that leads the Ivy League...