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...Here in the R. Premadasa Stadium, in front of 25,000 people, Pakistan is being taught a lesson in how to play one-day cricket by the region's afterthought: Sri Lanka. Rashud, a 35-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is unperturbed. Cricket, it seems, has a way of breaking down barriers and appealing to fans' more civilized instincts. "Winning or losing does not matter," he says. "Once cricket is in the blood, it's there for life and there is no way you can get it out of your system...
...breath. In the 21st over of the match, Muralitharan finally prepares to bowl. Only in cricket could such a non-event spark a frenzy. "Murali is going to bowl. Murali is going to bowl," screams Nihal Samaranayake, a 46-year-old Sinhalese pharmaceutical executive, joining the rest of the stadium on his feet...
...Illingworth says he has great hopes that the MAC renovations—which will free up the room wasted by stadium seating for the pool—will provide new social and office space...
When the 10,107 fans at Harvard Stadium watched Crimson quarterback Neil Rose sit on the field after a blow to the head in the third quarter, they saw something that Harvard players and coaches had witnessed enough of during preseason practice...
...danced, arms flailing in the air, among his game-weary teammates. The tide had turned and Harvard’s tenth win in a row was within its grasp. His mega-watt smile was wide enough to be seen, through his facemask, from the press box atop the Stadium...