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...sign of how far the Harvard men’s soccer team had come this year that overconfidence, of all things, contributed to the Crimson’s undoing in the Ivy League race...
...season, which saw the Crimson win just one game in league play, was short on self-esteem boosts. But when the successes started piling up this year—a 2-1 overtime upset of then-No. 6 San Diego was the biggie—soccer became fun again...
...fair bet that none of his 31 rivals had to make a judgment call as tough as the one that confronted Bielsa. The question has consumed Argentina for months on end, splitting the soccer-mad nation down the middle. "It's not possible to have a conversation about football and not get into a raging argument about Batistuta versus Crespo," said Guillermo Resnik, 26, an accountant from Buenos Aires who backpacked his way across Asia before arriving in Japan in time for the World Cup. "Half the people, the sentimentals, want Batistuta. The rest of us know Crespo...
...Stefano Garzelli tested positive for a banned diuretic and last year's winner Gilberto Simoni for cocaine. Francesco Casagrande didn't take any drugs but could have done with a sedative - he was expelled after a sprint tussle left a fellow rider lying in the road with facial injuries. SOCCER A Cagey Game With 2002 viewing figures expected to beat 1998's 33.4 billion, the World Cup is a tide that floats the boat of many advertisers who, like Nike, do not even sponsor the competition. Adidas, an official sponsor, is the leader in the soccer goods market and happily...
...finer arts of publishing, as of soccer, is timing. Launching Michael Crick's blockbuster biography of the Manchester United manager, The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson (Simon & Schuster; 612 pages), at the end of the English soccer season seemed a fair bet. With 14 major titles in as many seasons with the club, Ferguson and his team looked set for one or two more this time out. Instead, United lost in the semifinal of the European Championship and was edged out of the Premier League championship by an ascendant Arsenal who, days after winning the F.A. Cup, clinched...