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...offer two simple reasons that Britain's Premier League is dominating. Football is the world's sport, and English is the world's language. Justin Eckl, Pusan, South Korea...
...half a page above everyone else,” Ho writes in an e-mail. Friendship blossomed, but relations remained platonic. Tau finally got together the nerve to ask Hsu out, but she turned down the former football recruit. She compared this rejection to his favorite sport: dating Tau then would have been “like football—you still love it, but it’s just not the right time,” she said. Tau was undeterred. According to Hsu’s mother, her daughter’s affections were won freshman year...
...young team in any sport, there are two paths to success—one easy and one hard. Unfortunately for the freshman-laden Harvard women’s soccer team, coach Erica Walsh chose the latter. In playing four of its first seven matches against ranked opponents, including then-No. 1 Santa Clara, the squad was challenged early and often. And, in turn, it did not win a single game, going 0-6-1 during a torturous start to the season. Although this made the team stronger, especially for next year’s push under new coach Ray Leone...
...sport where races are often decided by seconds—as was the case when the Radcliffe varsity eight fell to Georgetown by a single tick—these performances from a novice eight crew become all the more fantastic...
...thoughts settled on a speech my coach had given earlier in the year at the annual Head of the Charles banquet. Speaking in the grandiose surroundings of Boston’s Harvard Club, he noted, “When you’ve been around the sport for as long as I have, you realize that sometimes the wind blows. The kids of course don’t want to realize it; but, sometimes, the wind just blows...