- News of the world in photos: Soccer stampede kills 73 and more - Seattle Post Intelligencer
At least 73 Egyptians were killed Wednesday in violence following a soccer match in Port Said, when fans flooded the field seconds after a match against a rival team was over, Egypt's Health ministry said. (AP Photo) Egyptian football fans rush to the ...
- Journey with hang time - Boston.com
“It's really humbling to represent the country I grew up in that has heard nothing about football before I came on the scene,'' said the Patriots second-year punter, who grew up kicking a soccer ball until he and his parents came to America after ...
- New Economy Minister in Romania: Lucian Bode- electrical engineer and top ... - Romania-Insider.com
Bode was also the Romanian Parliament's top scorer at the European Parliament's soccer tournament held in 2011, in Hungary, scoring three of Romania's five goals. In 1998 he graduated from the University of Oradea, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and ...
- "International Brigade" brings NFL some global play - Chicago Tribune
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Super Bowl Sunday is arguably the most American day in the calendar but this year there is a distinctly international flavor to the National Football League's (NFL) title game. At least five players in the February 5 game in ...
- Russia to bid for Beach Soccer World Cup - RT
Beach soccer powerhouse Russia are planning to fight for the right to host the World Cup in 2015 or 2017. "We want to stage the Beach Soccer World Cup in our country in 2015 or 2017,” Sergey Anokhin, head of the Russian Football Union's Beach Soccer ...
- Europe's top soccer clubs face major debt issues - Fox News
NYON, Switzerland – European governments are not the only ones with major debt problems: Top European soccer clubs lost more than €1.6 billion ($2 billion) in 2010 and their debts are still rising despite facing new sanctions soon for overspending.Debt rising for Europe's top clubs
- Protests over austerity cuts, corruption continue across Romania - msnbc.com
By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com Protests continued for a sixth day across Romania, as hundreds gathered in the capital city Bucharest and in about 40 other cities, calling for President Traian Basescu's resignation and denouncing the government's austerity ...
- The Daily Edit - The State
(AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati) AP United States' Alex Morgan (13) and Abby Wombach (20) celebrate Morgan's game-winning goal against New Zealand's Rebecca Smith (6) during the second half of an international friendly soccer match in Frisco, Texas, ...
- Former England defender Graeme Le Saux on support for gay players in soccer ... - Straight.com (Blogs) (blog)
“The important thing for me is not whether or not there are gay players in professional football,” Graeme Le Saux said in a remarkably candid interview with the BBC. “The point for me is [that] the environment is such that, if there are, that they can ...
- Global talent making impact at Super Bowl - AFP
Mesko, a youth soccer player, kicked a ball so high in a US gymnasium that he broke a light and was recruited as a gridiron punter. This season, he set a Patriots record by averaging 46.5 yards a punt. Now he hopes for some support from Romanian ...