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...Sunday afternoon. The victory should see Harvard enter the top 25 in the national rankings. The match could not have started any better for the Crimson. After just 30 seconds of play, co-captain Brian Grimm played a long ball to the left corner that managed to find senior winger Desmond Mitchell, who was darting down the sideline. Mitchell dribbled past the Black Knights’ defenders and knocked the ball into the net at the far post to open the scoring. “We were focused on coming out strong,” Mitchell said...
...Akpan—recently listed as one of the top collegiate soccer players by ESPN, College Soccer News, and Soccer America—scored twice in the first eight minutes of the second half, and senior winger Desmond Mitchell added a fourth in the 73rd minute to put the game out of reach...
...quarter-final match in April. The goal: have a player simulate an open wound in order to exploit an exemption to substitution rules that allows players who've already left the game to return in place of those too bloodied to continue. In the Harlequins' case, that meant getting winger Tom Williams to secretly bite into a synthetic blood capsule, then sending him off as "injured" just in time to bring a place-kicking specialist back on to take a potentially game-winning penalty kick. (See pictures of the last Rugby World...
...that former President George Bush's expansion of presidential power is a problem because he believes the current president has used it to his advantage. "I used to think I was a right-wing Republican until Bush," he said. "Now that absolute power has been passed to a left-winger...
Dazzling moves, ambitious targets and intense pressure - it must be off-season in European soccer. English Premier League champions Manchester United announced today that it accepted a $132 million offer from Real Madrid for fleet-footed winger Cristiano Ronaldo. The deal, which United expects to tie up before the end of the month, would smash a world transfer record set earlier this week when the same Spanish club lavished $92 million on AC Milan's midfield megastar...