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...shutouts. Two game-winning goals. Two big wins.The Harvard women’s soccer team got it done this weekend.Facing Beantown rival Boston University (2-4-0) on Friday and Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3-3) on Sunday, the Crimson pulled out a sweep, advancing the team’s record to 3-2-1 for the season.And the team has its freshman class to thank for the wins. Paced by two goals from first-year forward Gina Wideroff, the squad followed the Class of 2011 to success on the weekend.HARVARD 1, WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE 0It was a match of up-and-downs...
That is a deeply uncomfortable legacy for South Africa, whose white population treats rugby with the reverence that Brazilians reserve for soccer. For years, the national rugby system was tightly interwoven with the institutions of apartheid; its players and administrators were nurtured in the same educational establishments from which the regime recruited its leaders. The Afrikaner Broederbond (Brotherhood), a secretive power élite that ran the country's key institutions, helped choose Springbok rugby captains just as they chose military commanders and Prime Ministers. "Rugby was always seen as apartheid at play," says Andy Colquhoun, a leading South African rugby...
...sure, rugby has never been the first-choice game among the black majority. "You can tell a mostly white high school when you drive by its rugby field," Cronjé says. "Black schools have soccer fields." Nonetheless, government officials have pushed for years to get more blacks on the Springbok team. Rugby clubs say there is little black talent to recruit for world-class tournaments - a reflection, in part, of the fact that few black students can afford to attend the élite high schools that groom most of the country's rugby stars. Springbok manager Yeye faults the white...
...fitness centers with motion sensors and touch-sensitive floor mats to allow kids to control the action onscreen not just with their thumbs but also with their bodies. Do enough dancing or kung-fu kicks, and you just might get the same level of exercise as from chasing a soccer ball. What's more, this is a workout kids don't try to duck. "Physical education used to be a joke," says Dr. John Ratey, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Spark, an upcoming book about exercise. "That has changed simply because...
...Edinburgh, Scotland, found that college students burned twice as many calories playing an active video game in which they dodged and kicked for 30 minutes as they did walking on a treadmill. Studies have not yet shown how the new games measure up against a real session of, say, soccer or wind sprints...