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...world champions--a good bet to defend their title in Germany--where the beautiful game is part of the nation's soul, the professional league is a money-losing shambles, with poorly paid players performing in mostly empty arenas. Except for one team. In Săo Paulo, at Pacaembu Stadium, 35,000 fans are on their feet, pounding samba drums. Legions of shirtless young men are cheering, "Corinthians, my life! Corinthians, my past! Corinthians, my true love!" Above them in the director's box sits the unlikeliest of futebol moguls, and the man who made it his goal to save...
...Saturday, a frigid but sunny Harvard Stadium welcomed the senior class parents to town for their sons’ last collegiate home game.Before the contest, seniors took individual pictures with their families at midfield. They then proceeded to soundly beat an overmatched Penn squad, 23-7, holding the Quakers to less than 200 yards of total offense.It was a performance to make the parents proud.Several seniors stood out on this special day, an appropriate ending to their playing days at Harvard Stadium.At the helm of the Crimson’s balanced offensive attack was quarterback Chris Pizzotti, who has been...
...looked like it was about to turn in its first scoreless half of the season. With just over two minutes to play in the second quarter and the Crimson ready to start a drive from its own 12-yard line, two zeros sat idly on the scoreboard at Harvard Stadium. Only one had come close to changing earlier in the half—and only once—when a Penn field goal on the team’s second drive of the game bounced off the right post.Not content to go into halftime tied, however, sophomore tailback Cheng...
...country with a gift for creating dust storms that are bound to change nothing once the proverbial dust has settled. The last fatality was in February when a 38-year-old police officer, Filippo Raciti, was killed by a teenage fan in Catania during rioting at the stadium in the Sicilian city. After the death, there was much talk of applying the same techniques that the English Premier League have used to stamp out violence, with more control by stewards in the stadium and swifter punishments such as enforcing legal sentences and banning people from attending games. There are some...
...nihilism. But as with any other group prone to violence, the technique of "draining the pond" must be applied by the Italian government: organized fan clubs that are violent must be disbanded, rowdy fans must know that any involvement in these incidents is a ticket to a long-term stadium ban, and the majority of good-natured fans should understand that the "nuclear option" of having games take place behind closed doors is very much on the table. That was the message on Sunday afternoon from Marisa Grasso, the widow of Raciti, the officer killed in Catania earlier this year...