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While the rest of Europe gazed at televised action of recently resumed pro soccer leagues, millions of European sports fans last month tuned in to a decidedly more alien event: Major League Baseball slugger Barry Bonds' surpassing Hank Aaron's home-run record in far-off San Francisco. But viewers who caught the No. 756 coup de circuit from Toulouse weren't squinting at a blurry feed from mlb.com Instead, many Europeans watched Bonds' blast on the North American Sports Network (NASN)--a channel that is spreading that particular strain of U.S. sports mania to Europe...
...million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic distractions between soccer games. "The world is flattening out, and we're seeing there's really a large number of people in Europe who have developed an affinity, enthusiasm and knowledge of U.S. sports," says Amory Schwartz, co-founder and ceo of NASN. "These aren't just people wearing Yankee caps because...
Though marquee U.S. leagues are NASN's big draw, the channel doesn't shrink from sports that even Americans ignore such as Arena and Canadian football and Major League Lacrosse. As for the U.S. version of the global game, NASN dropped Major League Soccer when viewers complained that they got better matches from local leagues. That means L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham's best chance of appearing on NASN is if he can start bending curveballs like L.A. Dodgers star Brad Penny...
...Blatter is trying to sidestep such E.U. regulations by arguing that "you cannot compare a worker with a soccer player." William Gaillard, director of communications for UEFA, the sport's European governing arm, supports Blatter's sentiment but still doesn't think the proposal is realistic. "While philosophically we agree with FIFA, in practical terms we don't see how this can be implemented," he says...
Going into tomorrow’s game against the Penn (5-8-2, 2-3 Ivy), the Harvard men’s soccer team has one goal in mind. “We have to win,” junior Mike Fucito said. Losing is no longer an option for the Crimson (10-3-2, 3-2 Ivy), currently ranked 15th in the nation. With losses to Ivy rivals Brown and Dartmouth already in the books, the league title is out of its reach. But with two games left to play, an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament...