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...gain. Rather than sit out the dispute in North America, more than 300 NHL players have signed up with European teams and dozens more are expected. The new arrivals - many of them from Eastern Europe to begin with - have reinvigorated a European game that's been losing popularity to soccer. Hockey audiences have increased by 10-15% across Europe's top seven leagues, as fans turn out to see players they'd previously known only from satellite television. "The [Czech] league has become the equivalent of the NHL," boasts Karel Knap, a sports journalist with the leading Czech daily Mlada...
SECURITY MOMS Former soccer moms were less worried this year about traditional family issues than about whether terrorists would take their children hostage at school. Lots of them voted for Bush...
Cheadle isn't as sure of his ability to deliver. It's not that he lacks confidence: he plays poker with bravado, he's got plenty of aggression in his basketball and golf games, and he's proud of his two young daughters' soccer skills. But although he began acting as a 10-year-old in Denver, he says he still cringes whenever he sees himself onscreen. In fact, he has yet to watch some of his films. "My father is a psychologist, and he says that's healthy-- you should have some self-doubt," says Cheadle. "If you ever...
...star-studded Nativity scene at London wax museum MADAME TUSSAUDS elevated soccer god David Beckham to biblical status last week, exhibiting wax figures of him and his wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...
RETIRED. MIA HAMM, 32, after 17 years on the U.S. women's national soccer team, during which time she scored 158 goals--a record for men and women--as her team won two World Cup championships, two Olympic gold medals and legions of young fans; along with teammates Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett...