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...lucrative example both the NFL and NBA hope to emulate is the English Premier League, the world's most profitable soccer division. Like the NFL and NBA, the Premiership enjoys tremendous domestic support - league-wide attendance averaged 92% in 2006-2007. But it's the Premier League's global expansion model that has rivals drooling. "It wouldn't surprise me if one of the things that may have caught the eye of the U.S. sports is the massive increase in value of overseas rights deals," says Alex Byars, a senior manager in the sports business group at Deloitte, the business...
...defending Ivy League champion and the highest nationally ranked team in the Ancient Eight at the start of the season, the Harvard men’s soccer team (9-3-2, 2-2-0 Ivy) has been playing with a target on its back from the beginning. On Saturday at Ohiri Field, Dartmouth (9-3-2, 3-0-1 Ivy) forward Craig Henderson hit that target, scoring the game’s only goal and handing the Crimson its second Ivy loss of the year. Thirty minutes into the first half, Henderson, who was standing about six yards away from...
Thanks to the score, the No. 12 Harvard men’s soccer team (9-2-2, 2-1-0 Ivy) defeated Princeton (3-8-2, 1-2-0), 3-2, with a determined second-half performance on Saturday afternoon at Ohiri Field...
...trying day for the Harvard women’s soccer team. Despite outshooting a beatable Brown team, 24-8, the Crimson couldn’t find the back of the net and saw its league title hopes take an early hit in a 1-0 loss.A week later, Harvard wasted no time in getting back on track.Sophomore defender Lizzy Nichols scored on a free kick in the first minute of play to open the scoring for the Crimson, which scored three first-half goals en route to a 4-2 victory over Ivy League leader Princeton Saturday at Ohiri Field.The...
...largely rural stronghold in the southwest, where its presence had long been a sign of English influence - France's new generation of top-level players is being drawn from youth squads in cities farther north. And, although less has been made of it than during France's victorious 1998 soccer World Cup campaign, the fact that the rugby team includes three African-born players and host of names resonant of Spanish, Italian and Polish origin demonstrates the game's role of integrating immigrants and their children...