Word: soccers
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...Harvard men’s soccer team entered the contest against Yale on Saturday at Ohiri Field on a sour note—coming off of a four-game stretch over which it went a dismal 1-3. But the Crimson left the field with the taste of victory once again...
Hopes were high for the young Harvard women’s soccer team following its Ivy opening victory over Penn last Sunday. But after two consecutive defeats this week, capped by the team’s 1-0 loss to defending league champion Yale on Saturday, the squad seems to have come back down to earth. “We put together ninety good minutes with the exception of one bad lapse,” captain Laura Odorczyk said. “It’s a disappointment today.” The Crimson...
...there along with other shoppers when a deranged gunman opened fire. But Pearson soon finds out that the shooting wasn't so random, and that the mall provides far more than loyalty cards and a climate-controlled shopping environment. The Metro-Centre has its own sports stadium, its own soccer, rugby and ice hockey teams. Armies of their supporters wearing St. George's crosses - England's national flag - surge from mall to match to trashing immigrant neighborhoods. "Whenever sport plays a big part in people's lives," says an overworked doctor in the local casualty ward, "you can be sure...
...dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands, "it was impossible to borrow a book, attend a concert, say a prayer, consult a parish record or give to charity." What kind of mind frolics in a landscape like this? One whose proprietor, at age 75, is also bursting...
When the Harvard women’s soccer team met the University of Rhode Island last year, the match ended in a scoreless draw after a double overtime, 120-minute defensive struggle. Wednesday’s rematch could not have been more different. After several games in which the Crimson (1-7-1) opened play passively, the team stressed the importance of attacking from the start against the Rams. Harvard fulfilled this objective, pressuring Rhode Island (4-6-0) early. “To be honest, the first 15 minutes I thought we were the better team...