Word: stadiumitis
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Since VanderMeulen took her game to Harvard Stadium, the freshman has averaged 3.67 goals per game, good for first in the Ivy League and fourth in the country—making her the lone freshman among that nation’s top twenty scorers...
Behind a balanced offense and a strong defense, the Crimson (6-6, 2-3 Ivy) ended its 17-year drought against the Tigers (5-8, 3-2), preserving an early lead to come away with the 11-9 victory on Alumni Day at Harvard Stadium...
...stands to watch the historic win was Harvard’s 1990 NCAA championship squad. As part of the celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the national title, banners commemorating the Crimson’s Ivy titles and NCAA tournament appearances were hung in Harvard Stadium...
...Nelson Mandela will pass the gold-plated World Cup trophy to the new soccer world champion at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a billion sets of eyes and ears from every corner of the globe are glued to television screens and radios. The international sports media will call it the final day of a tournament that represents South Africa’s modernism and rapid, inspirational distancing from its torrential past of racial and economic inequalities. They will only be half right...
...cramped shacks of the informal settlements on the outskirts of the city. It would be clearer if the broadcasters passed their mikes to the shacks’ inhabitants, thousands of whom were forcefully removed from their dwellings in the city in order to make the area around the stadium look more developed and wealthy. Many people will wait in these euphemistic “transitional relocation camps” for up to 10 years. One of these individuals summed up their resentment for the government, lamenting, “They want to make a good impression for the foreigners coming...