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...Fencing isn’t exactly soccer or softball. Why’d you decide to pick up a foil...
Former head coach Erica Walsh has resigned from her post atop the Harvard women’s soccer team, moving on to head the nationally ranked Penn State women’s program next year. Announced last Thursday by the Nittany Lions Athletic Department, Walsh will become the third coach in the eleven-year history of the Penn State women’s soccer. The U-17 national head coach and Huntington Valley, Pa. native returns home to lead a Nittany Lion squad, which has won nine straight Big Ten titles and, just last year, advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals...
...Beckham's Body Double? The Jan. 29 People page made me do a double take to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. The resemblance between actor Jason Bateman and soccer star David Beckham is uncanny. Surely Bateman needs only to turn up at the audition to be cast as Beckham when David Beckham: The Movie is eventually made. Assuming, of course, that Beckham doesn't audition for the part, considering that he might very well end up living in Hollywood. William Stopforth George, South Africa...
...violence, though, is just the jack of spades in an Italian soccer world that increasingly looks like a house of cards. Beyond the referee scandal, there have been recent cases of match-fixing, financial improprieties and lingering questions of conflicts of interest. Following the dominance of the Italian league in the 1980s and 1990s, there are even signs that the off-field shenanigans are affecting performance. In the past decade, only one Italian club has claimed a Champions League title (AC Milan in 2003), following a 12-year period that included five titles in the top European competition. And elite...
...figures have played central roles in the sport, including the Agnelli family that owns automaker Fiat and Juventus, and billionaire former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns AC Milan. Smaller teams are often owned by top local business figures, who usually lose money to satisfy their sporting passion. But soccer's reach extends across the entire spectrum of Italian life. Following the initial outrage of the officer's death, La Repubblica columnist Giuseppe D'Avanzo put it this way: "If you don't want to break the toy that creates an appetizing consensus for many (in politics, business, media...