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...Within 5 minutes, the 6-foot-8-inch giant stork who plays striker for the Czechs, Jan Koller, beat two U.S. defenders to a cross and put the Czechs ahead 1-0. It was the beginning of a long night. Koller was one of three Czech players the U.S. had to contain, the others being Pavel Nedved and Tomas Rosicky, the twin engines of the midfield. They went 0-for-3 on that account...
...Number of consecutive meals a detainee must intentionally miss to be deemed a hunger striker...
...that was the beginning of my drinking problem…,” recounts Ted Striker (Robert Hayes) as he throws water on himself...
...plot is completely inconsequential: Striker chases his stewardess girlfriend onto a plane where most people, including the pilots get violently sick from eating bad fish. Striker has to overcome his fear of flying a plane, induced by a bad accident during the war, in which led to everyone’s death...
...minutes before the end of a soccer match last month between Spanish Primera Liga leaders Barcelona and rivals Real Zaragoza when Samuel Eto'o decided he'd had enough. Shouting "No mas!" the Barcelona striker turned abruptly and began to walk off the pitch. The chorus of ape noises from the stands at Zaragoza's Romareda stadium, which had sounded each time the Cameroon-born striker touched the ball, erupted louder than ever. Although the referee, other players and his coach eventually persuaded him to stay, Eto'o knew what he was doing. "This is a struggle beyond the football...