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...work on “The Condemned,” Austin had nothing but praise for the film’s performers and creators, especially co-star Vinnie Jones, best known as a soccer player and tough-guy supporting character in “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels...
...broadcasting revenue per head than the NFL, and eight times that of the NBA, according to consultants Deloitte. Increasingly, that TV revenue is going to come from outside the U.K. The Premiership had a weekly global TV audience of 78 million last season, with broadcasters such as the Fox Soccer Channel in the U.S. and pccw in Hong Kong clamoring for a piece of the action. TV deals that put even the smaller Premier League sides on screens from Shanghai to Chicago are "a fantastic impetus to all clubs," reckons Dan Jones, a partner at Deloitte's Sports Business Group...
...henchmen and their families. Today it houses many of those trying to build a new Iraq, including members of parliament and the families of officials who work in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. One afternoon, officials from the government's judicial branch squared off in a soccer game against employees of the executive branch. It was the kind of scene you almost never see on the evening news: teenagers from the neighborhood playing freely while men at a nearby outdoor caf talked politics over sheesha and sweet amber-colored Iraqi tea. Some played barefoot; those with shoes...
Measuring his resume against my brief careers as a figure skater (age five) and a goalie (pee-wee soccer), I was fairly sure that Donato would accept. I’ve seen him skate in practice, and the former forward is nothing if not competitive. And a shootout with me...well, it looks pretty much like a guaranteed...
...watched, dumbfounded, as the ball soared, before the screams of “Run! Run!” from the dugout finally reached my ears. I know that I made the Principal’s List in each term during eighth grade. I remember running down the field at soccer practice on a Tuesday afternoon on a 2-1 fast break alongside my friend Dario. I remember him lifting the ball perfectly to my eye level a foot in front of my face, letting my momentum do the work as my forehead struck the ball into the back...