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...None of us expected it to be over today at all,” said co-captain striker Caitlin Butler after the team had departed...
Football fans may remember the name Luther Blissett. He was the high-scoring striker for England's Watford who was traded to AC Milan for $1 million in 1983. After one disappointing season, he returned to England and obscurity. Now Luther Blissett is back in the headlines as the author of Q (Heinemann; 635 pages), a novel of vast inventiveness, remarkable erudition and highly peculiar origins. First published in Italy in 1999, the book has become a best seller from Austria to Argentina. The British edition appeared earlier this month, and negotiations are now under...
Among the recent combatants are “Desert Recon,” “Desert Army SAWS Gunner,” and “Desert Striker.” Veterans of the first Gulf War, and harbingers of the next one, these figures are realistic mimics in every important respect except for their defense against chemical and biological weapons. Clearly these soldiers are rooted in the conflict with Saddam Hussein; the action-figure of an Apache helicopter pilot even comes with detailed maps of Baghdad, which show strategic targets within the city...
...soccer’s Manchester United, the mother who played netball (a basketball derivative) in Britain, the aunt who played college basketball at Old Dominion and the sister who played scholarship ball at Wagner. Maybe he could see the raw ability of the school’s top striker in soccer or the agility of the shortstop who had been paid a visit by the Florida Marlins at age 17—only three years after he’d picked up that sport...
...teams remained scoreless until just 10 minutes remained in regulation. Princeton (3-6-4, 1-2-1 Ivy) then broke through, as midfielder Alex Reison sent a long pass to striker Matt Douglas near the top of the penalty...