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...still pure, still about the competition and about having fun,” John says. McDonough says this element contributes to a more positive game atmosphere.“It’s a nice change from the culture of sports where soccer moms are yelling at kids when they are five years old,” she says.But Co-Captain of the University of Colorado’s Ultimate Team Rick Hodges, says the open-ended structure of the game could lead to unfair outcomes. “When it works and you have a spirited game that...

Author: By Mathieu D. S. Bouchard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard goes Ultimate | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...host of the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament, Germany has been touting the games as "A Time to Make Friends." But a rash of attacks by far-right groups is raising fears that some of the estimated 10,000 neo-Nazis who live in Germany will use the event to broadcast their message of hatred and intolerance to a global audience. In the same week that neo-Nazis in East Berlin are suspected of attacking a member of Parliament who is of Kurdish origin - and who remains hospitalized after suffering a concussion - German police released a national report documenting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Neo-Nazis Disrupt the World Cup? | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...soccer team is going to be a perfect reflection of your politics--and it may even be perverse to think of the game that way. But Bara represents a liberal nationalist spirit that makes for a powerful reprimand to both ethnic chauvinism and facile criticisms of the nation-state. Bara is the ultimate symbol of the Catalan people--one of their most glorious achievements, a monument to their language, history and struggle. But, at the same, it is a bastion of pluralism. Its anthem explicitly welcomes immigrants, and over time it has served as a powerful instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homage to Catalonia | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

Franklin Foer is editor of the New Republic and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homage to Catalonia | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

Still, there is no denying the results, which were largely untainted by any non-soccer factors. The stocks weren't big gainers before or after. They showed unusual strength only in the three-month periods. The idea, then, was to let the market identify stocks that benefited from Europe's soccer mania--without requiring an abundance of fundamental logic. "We recommend investing in these stocks immediately and closing the investment on the final day of the World Cup," the UBS guys write. And how. Certainly, Coke and Fuji have been dogs for years even if others, like Heineken, have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Score | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

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