- Clint Dempsey's Diary: Playing and scoring in the World Cup was the ultimate dream - Goal.com
- Columbus couple seeks to adopt 12 year-old Latvian girl - WTVM
Sergio Romero was her soccer coach and didn't want to see her leave. "When we heard the news that she was having to go back after sharing some time with her, it was hard to describe. It was almost like having your child taken away," said Sergio, ...
- KHL seeks games vs. NHL; Vyacheslav Fetisov quits KHL, CSKA; Vityaz's Mikhail ... - Yahoo! Sports (blog)
- Is America Really More Unequal than Europe? - National Review Online (blog)
They share little league and soccer leagues. The local Elks Club covers both towns, but each town has a separate chamber of commerce. Residents of Laketown often claim to live in a very egalitarian community. This is not an empty boast, but it's not so ...
- Greece, Bulgaria battle flooding; 8 dead - Boston.com
They included nine soccer players from Otelul Galati, the Romanian champions, who were headed to Bucharest where they were due to fly to Spain for training. Local government official Dumitru Popa said the army would be sent in to move the athletes' ...
- Europe's deep-freeze death toll tops 100 - UPI.com
An estimated 30 people in eastern and central Europe froze to death Wednesday in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, officials said. Ukraine's death toll Wednesday was 13 -- and topped 40 since the arctic cold ...
- Etowah' Donley emerges as leader through hardships on and off playing field - Cherokee Tribune
Payton Donley has emerged as a standout athlete for Etowah in both basketball and soccer. Though being a two-sport letter-winner and earning a soccer scholarship to Troy University may put Donley ahead of her peers, her story is about more than just ...
- Iran beat Moldova in Commonwealth Cup - Press TV
Iran's youth national soccer team has defeated Moldova in its second match of the quarter final round of the 2012 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup underway in Russia. The Iranian team, that lost 1-4 to Latvia in the penalty shootout on January 25 ...
- Silence mocks Holocaust Memorial Day - Las Vegas Sun
In Latvia, a Riga court removed the city council's ban on Legion Day, paving the way for a march in the city center honoring 140000 Latvians who fought in the Waffen SS during World War II. • In Lithuania, authorities pay lip service to the destruction ...
- Rugby club planning jump to Division I - The Breeze
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