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...fictional sport, concocted by J.K. Rowling in her popular Harry Potter novels, has become a reality on college campuses across the country...
This fall, Harvard joined the ranks of the more than 200 universities that play Quidditch, “the nation’s fastest-growing college sport,” according to Stacy L. Rush, co-founder of the Harvard team...
...standards are actually really [high] here,” he said. “The style is a little bit different, but soccer’s a universal sport, so the transition wasn’t too hard...
...Face for the Selfless Manny Pacquiao, now 30, is the latest savior of boxing, a fighter with enough charisma, intelligence and backstory to help rescue a sport lost in the labyrinth of pay-per-view. Global brands like Nike want him in their ads. He made the TIME 100 list this year. West Coast baseball teams invite him to throw out the first pitch in order to attract the Filipino-American community. He has even become an object of desire: ESPN the Magazine has his naked torso in its Body Issue, which explores the engineering of several athletic physiques...
...life. But Pacquiao says the full details of that life couldn't possibly fit into just one film. There are things to clear up. For one, he did not leave ramshackle General Santos City, a camp of tin and thatch, to pursue boxing, even though he did love the sport. He left home at 14 because his mother Dionisia, who did odd jobs and factory work and hawked vegetables by roadsides, wasn't really making enough to feed her six children. He had to go off and earn money elsewhere, doing anything to relieve the burden on his mother - even...