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...look cute. These days they do standing backflips and other moves that require a high degree of athleticism--and endless practice. "Cheerleading is one of the hardest things you can do," says Breanna Oviedo of Euless Junior High near Dallas. She should know, since she also plays basketball, soccer and softball and runs track. Her squad mate Monica Brigham, also a soccer player, shows off wrist injuries from lifting the lighter girls for stunts. "They sell a T shirt that says ATHLETES LIFT WEIGHTS, BUT CHEERLEADERS LIFT ATHLETES," she says proudly. The Euless squad practices four times a week...
Another summer, another Asian fundraising tour by Europe's top soccer clubs. Cashing in on the game's popularity in the region, Real Madrid and Manchester United between them last week kicked their way through Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, racking up multimillion-dollar appearance fees along the way. Lesser teams, too, are parading before Asian fans. Rotterdam's Feyenoord went to work in Nanjing late last month, and even Sheffield United, from England's second division of clubs, rounded off its own three-game tour of China last week. The team's big attraction? Veteran Chinese star...
...ABDUCTED. RUBEN OMAR ROMANO, 47, coach of Mexico's first-division soccer team Cruz Azul; by armed kidnappers; in Mexico City. Romano, an Argentine who led the club to a second-place finish this year, was ambushed while driving away from a practice session, according to eyewitnesses. A note found near a church demanded a $500,000 ransom. Sixty-seven people have been kidnapped in Mexico City so far this year...
...most fitting “sign of the times” transformation, however, is Violet Beauregarde: no longer just interested in gum, Violet is a velour sweatsuited competition freak—egged on by her Soccer (or more appropriately Baton-Twirling) Mom, played deliciously, in matching attire, by Missy Pyle...
Fitzpatrick has already settled into life in St. Louis, where he moved after graduation with his girlfriend, former women’s soccer captain Liza Barber ’05. They have bought a house, a car, and furniture, and have been involved in service projects organized by the Rams...