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...males who love comics; this one became a smash because of girls who read books. The supersmash status of New Moon shows that women can make megahits, and that, as with Harry Potter, a beloved book franchise can translate to widely and wildly popular movies. (Read "New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending...
...Bulldogs got the ball back, but on fourth and 22, with his team deep in its own territory, Yale coach Tom Williams made the most controversial coaching decision on an afternoon marked by gambles...
...tattoos, and you have to go back to my great, great grandmother to find a relative who was born on the Emerald Isle. But like every Irish-Catholic native of the Bronx with some semblance of ancestral pride, I was plenty peeved about the astounding screwing the Irish soccer team received this week during their World Cup qualifying match against France, when French "superstar" (and 2005 TIME European hero) Thierry Henry illegally used his left hand to corral a ball before passing it onto a teammate for the goal that sent France to the World Cup, and the underdog Irishmen...
...Officiating errors are as old as sports themselves, and the world has survived despite each and every one of them. At the 1972 Olympics, the American basketball team won the gold medal a dozen different times, but the officials inexplicably kept giving the Soviet Union one more chance to complete a last-second, full-court scoring play. The Soviets finally "won," the Americans rightfully refused to accept their silver medals, and the world moved on. The U.S. subsequently enjoyed the greatest sporting moment in its Olympic history, the 1980 Miracle on Ice - and then, you know, won the Cold...
...anti-Henry outrage. If a relatively anonymous Irish forward pulled the same stunt to send the French home, he'd probably be lauded as a plucky player who happened to outfox the refs. And say the game was replayed, and Ireland came out and destroyed a distracted French team - would that really feel good? If the Henry handball never happened, who's to say France wouldn't have scored a few minutes later? Or won the game, and the World Cup spot, on penalty kicks? Because of the blown call, we'll never know what really should have happened...