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See more images. According to the First Lady’s Press Office… “Mrs Obama joins the US Soccer Foundation, Major League…...

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When I’m talking with players at practices, at clinics or individual lessons, I always try to emphasize the concept of changing speed, individually and as a team. When I see players just walking around on the field, while the action is close to them, according to my sarcastic character, I suggest...

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The periodic debate about whether athletes should be role models (recently, think John Terry,…...

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As the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games gets underway, the first athletes have already tested positive for relatively well-known doping substances. Many of them didn't even make it to Vancouver, having been screened and excluded in advance of the Games. But, why should anyone care about doping in sport? Certainly, people...

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By TARA PARKER-POPE Stuart Bradford Almost four decades after the federal education law called Title IX opened the door for girls to participate in hi…...

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If you have never seen football-soccer games like Celtic against Rangers, or Barcelona against Real Madrid, or A.C.Milan against Inter Milan, or Manchester United against Manchester City, or Liverpool against Everton, or Chelsea against Arsenal, or Bayer Leverkusen against Bayern Munich and other dozens of games of this caliber, I...

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Many of soccer's greatest players have been small fries. Diego Maradona is only 5'5". Lionel Messi is 5''7". Pele towers over both of them at 5'8". According to new research, these little guys have, in addition to their superhuman quickness and skill, an extra advantage: Shrimps get all the calls. Niels...

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By DAVID BROOKS After Hitler came to power, the sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy emigrated to the United States. Rosenstock-Huessy began teaching at Harvard and converted his lectures into English. He noticed, though, that his students weren’t grasping his points. His language was not the problem,…...

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Events that induce environmental stress in a large number of people in defined areas — such as earthquakes, war, and sporting events — may increase the risk of cardiovascular events. Reports of the association between soccer matches and rates of illness or death from cardiac causes have been controversial.…...

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Fans can hope for a great game but they have no right to expect it. The stage was set, the arena packed to capacity and the main characters ready to play their parts to perfection. But rather than putting on a show to remember, the performers fluffed their way through a 90-minute...

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NEW YORK -- Major League Soccer (MLS) and the Major League Soccer Players Union (Players Union) announced Thursday that the two organizations have agreed to continue to negotiate through February 12, as they work towards reaching a new collective bargaining agreement. "While we still have areas of disagreement, the talks have...

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An A list of footballing talent was on show in Lisbon on Monday night for the seventh edition of the Match Against Poverty, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) initiative, backed by UEFA, which Zinédine Zidane and Ronaldo helped to organise. Show of support Sixty international footballers and more than 50,000 spectators...

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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- President-elect Jose Mujica of Uruguay wants Digeo Maradona to work on an anti-drug campaign. Mujica said in Tuesday's edition of El Observador newspaper that Maradona's struggles with his own drug addiction would help him connect with younger people. He said Maradona, being on…...

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FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, has hinted that football's governing body could sanction the use of video technology in the near future. Blatter has previously spoken out against the use of cameras, saying it would disrupt the flow of the game. However, the head of world football's governing body now admits that...

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Four goals from Wayne Rooney put Manchester as interim leader of the Premier League with two points ahead of Arsenal and Chelsea, although the set of Ancelotti has played two games fewer. ManUnited beat Hull City 4-0 in a game that had been moved up. For the first time in 26...

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Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz said the team he left in 2000 was "better than today," while regretting that Barcelona are also more powerful than Real Madrid. "That team was better. Player by player. I would not change the current" he says, considering that "unfortunately it is worse than...

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SACRAMENTO — California could be moving toward tough rules to protect young athletes from concussions, with new legislation and a proposal from the state's high school sports federation calling for doctors to weigh in before any injured student is allowed back on the field. The proposals follow a swell of media...

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American professional sports have organized to help Haiti, devastated by an earthquake Tuesday, and major sports leagues have announced more than 1.1 million dollars in donations. This generosity has included the North American Federation of Baseball (MLB) that has offered to pay 1 million dollars to UNICEF for victims of...

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Eighteen U.S. cities, with a total of 21 stadiums, were selected Tuesday. About 12 stadiums would be chosen if the U.S. bid is successful. The bid will be submitted in May, and FIFA will make the decision on hosts in December. The 18 cities are: Atlanta; Baltimore; Dallas-Arlington, Texas; Denver; East...

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Milan footballer David Beckham will not regret having left Manchester United and says he now believes he would have been better to stay during his entire career in the England team. "I would have loved to have been always at United and not having never gone there," the midfielder said in...

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CHICAGO (Dec. 28, 2009) – U.S. Soccer announced that it has arranged to have its 2010 FIFA World Cup allocation of tickets for U.S. Men’s National Team fans available to the general U.S. public. The U.S. Men's National Team has been drawn into Group C with England, Slovenia and Algeria. The...

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Dear Friends, This Christmas I would like to say something that could be useful to youth players and, maybe, to their parents. It is my opinion that, ‘we‘, individually, are the most important person that we have. But this doesn’t mean becoming selfish. It means only that if we want to succeed...

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The Professional Footballers Association [PFA] is hoping to avoid a potentially damaging dispute between Dean Ashton and Shaun Wright-Phillips over compensation for the injury that brought a premature end to the striker's career. Ashton, the West Ham United and England forward, has announced his retirement at the age of 26. His...

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OSNABRÜCK, Germany — What broke Marcel Schuon was his fear of the gun. Marcel Schuon, who was playing for VfL Osnabrück, is the first player in the match-rigging scandal to talk publicly about a deal to fix the game. A middling player in Germany’s second-tier soccer league, Schuon had gambled away everything....

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BAMBERG, Germany — In this small stadium in Bavaria, most seats are not just empty — they are covered in slippery grass and moss. There are no television cameras. Among the sponsors advertised on the boarding is Delphi, a local Greek restaurant. The Donau-Stadion, SSV Ulm's home park. The team rose...

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The Groups: A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France B: Argentina, Nigeria, Korea Republic, Greece C: England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia D: Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana E.: Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon F: Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia G: Brazil, Korea DPR, Cote D'Ivoire, Portugal H: Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile And there…...

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- Soccer-Football is dead. Rest in peace! Dear Soccer-Football Lovers, After having seen dozens of episodes in which the laws of the game were outrageously offended, I kept the hope that at least the top players in the world would have kept a little respect alive for the beautiful game. But after having...

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The suicide death of Robert Enke left soccer fans worldwide stunned. It sent Germany into mourning and left the national team without its top goalkeeper for next year's World Cup. But is this such a novelty... Not only are athletes at risk for psychiatric illness, but they are at risk of...

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Spain is in a tizzy. Is it time to change the Beckham Rule? What is the 'Beckham Rule'? Article 93 of Rule 35 was signed into law the 28the of November of 2006 in Spain. This Rule allows foreign workers to pay taxes at a rate lower than do nationals. The intent...

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Cuties California Mandarins becomes Official Snack of US Club Soccer US Club Soccer Web site | Cuties Citrus Web site CHARLESTON, S.C. (Oct. 30, 2009) – US Club Soccer has reached a sponsorship agreement in which Cuties California Mandarins has become the “Official Snack of US Club Soccer.” As a result of the...

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