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FIFA's principal business is running the World Cup tournament, which will be next staged in 2006. Germany edged South Africa for the privilege. African nations felt dissed. South Americans are unhappy about the number of spots they get in the tourney. In Europe, the big pro clubs, such as Inter Milan, are demanding money for lending their pricey players to national teams for qualifying rounds. In other words, soccer is back to business as usual, with Sepp in charge. --By Bill Saporito
...Hoyas’ fans pine for the days of the elder John Thompson, when the team was a perennial powerhouse and a stalwart in the NCAA tourney. The entrance of his son might be the spark that the student body needs to throw its support back behind the program. Maybe the MCI Center will provide Georgetown with a home court advantage that isn’t solely based on proximity to campus...
...don’t really think about ourselves as underdogs,” Smith said. “We know many people around the nation aren’t expecting us to do much damage in the tourney but as far as we are concerned, we can beat any team out there. I think there is no better way to start this tournament than to play the number one ranked team in the nation and figure out how good...
This weekend’s telecast of the NCAA tournament set a record for ESPN2 as the highest rated Division I wrestling event on the cable network. The tourney, held at the Savvis Center in St. Louis, drew 542,042 households and a 0.4 rating...
...best make the playoffs. Ivy League basketball does not have a conference tournament. This makes every regular season game valuable and critical. If the Harvard women’s basketball team had a conference tournament, we’d probably be seeing Hana Peljto and Reka Cserny in the tourney right now. But the Crimson’s five Ivy League losses prevented a third straight trip to the Big Dance...