Word: soccers
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...BendIt like Beckham, the soccer movie that has grossed more than $100 million worldwide since 2002 and now incessantly runs on HBO, the two main characters, British teenage girls who dream of becoming the next Mia Hamm, stare at a television screen, jaws agape. They are watching a promo for the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the American professional league that featured the best female players in the world, including Hamm, Brazil's Katia and Bai Jie of China. Brandi Chastain knocks a header into the net. England's Kelly Smith shakes a defender. Unbelievable, the girls...
That scene is now as dated as Pelé and skirted soccer gear. A year ago, just months after the hit film's U.S. release, the WUSA folded, citing crippling debt and $20 million in annual losses. Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
...ambitious plan, to be sure. And DiCicco is fighting more than the WUSA's history. Despite record numbers of girls participating in sports and U.S. dominance in soccer, softball and basketball on the international stage, four of the five major women's professional leagues launched since 1996 have folded. (Only the WNBA, the women's basketball league subsidized by the NBA, remains. The American Basketball League, the Women's Pro Softball League and United States Professional Volleyball have, like the WUSA, gone under.) Plus, the WUSA is trying to come back when it's losing its Michael Jordan: Hamm...
...while the men’s soccer team may be struggling offensively as of late—only scoring two goals in its last four games—the defense has certainly been doing its job to keep the team alive. In those same four games the Harvard defense has only allowed three goals and have averaged just 8.25 shots against, while junior goalie Ryan Johnson is ranked sixth in the Ivies in saves...
...Harvard women’s soccer team’s win against Yale last Saturday may well prove to be the spark the team has been searching for all season. As a group confident in their recent play, the Crimson players now prepare to host a struggling Cornell team, whose loss to Penn last week was as deflating as Harvard’s win was uplifting...