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...nonetheless presents plenty of deceptive bends. It also tapers, at its narrowest point, to a mettle-testing 23 ft (7 m) across. While the final lineup is still being confirmed, if recent years are anything to go by, spectators can expect to see lots of rising stars of motor sport - 19 of this year's crop of Formula One drivers, for example, have raced at Macau, including Lewis Hamilton, Ralf Schumacher and Nick Heidfeld...
...most recently took place during this mid-August deluge, is an epic contest older than the Spanish civil war waged between Real Madrid and Barcelona and deeper than the glossy rivalries of the money-spinning English Premier League. India, of course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th...
When Miller arrived at Syracuse a year before the team began competition in 1998, she surprised critics by recruiting 17 freshman to come to a school already renowned for its men’s lacrosse success but with no experience in the sport of women’s lacrosse...
Surviving as a club sport often comes with financial difficulty. The yearly costs of Harvard’s Rugby Club, for instance, hover in the range of $60,000, according to the group’s president, Callum L. King...
...Coping strategies work very well when there's some ambiguity," says Daniel Wann, a psychology professor at Murray State (Ky.) University and author of Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators. "But up seven games with 17 to go - there's not a lot of ambiguity to this." Ouch. Notes Edward Hirt, an Indiana University psychologist who has studied fan behavior: "It's not one of those things where I can say, 'Do this for 30 minutes, and you'll get over it.' People are going to ruminate...