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...that we like to grasp onto the idea - naïve though this may be - that a football match or a motor race can provide a moment of liberation from all that. So when sportsmen or women cheat - scandals have sullied the image of baseball, cricket, cycling, rugby and soccer in recent times - the disservice to fans, and the damage done to sports, is far deeper. Cheating doesn't just hurt sports but betrays our sense of what's right, what's fairly attainable. It punches us straight in our optimism. (See the Top 10 Sporting Cheats...
...diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer "provided a sense of national wellbeing at a time when other factors weren't able to do that," says Matthew Taylor, a professor of history at De Montfort University in Leicester...
...Professional sports have changed a lot since the dark days of the Depression. Downturn or not, it's no longer cheap to follow a team first hand. Gentrified soccer stadiums and ballparks lean more heavily on corporate dollars than the wallet of the average fan. What's more, figuring out who's a real star, when so many top athletes are marketed as one, has never been trickier. But millions of fans still crave the distraction sport can offer: witness the frenzy that followed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's electrifying performances at this summer's World Championship in Athletics. (Read...
This past Saturday, the Harvard men’s soccer team continued on its path of regional domination. Under the lights of Fairfield University’s Lessing Field, the No. 12 Crimson trampled the Stags, 4-1, and increased its winning streak to five for the season. While the final score implies an easy Harvard victory, the first half of the game left bystanders unsure of the eventual outcome. The visiting Crimson started out slow, firing off only four of its eight shots on goal during the first period. Fairfield was also contained offensively, registering only a quarter...
...Keating seemed destined to pick up a stick.“Field hockey is really big in my area, even more so because I went to Catholic school,” Keating says. “When I was younger, my grade school didn’t even offer soccer.”So it was lacrosse and field hockey for the budding star through high school, a time when Keating proved herself as a natural leader—earning three team MVP honors across the two sports.While Keating showed talent in both sports, field hockey proved to have...