Saturday, December 9, 2006

A heads-up play can sometimes be a pain (Soccer cleats)

When Nature Coast senior Garrett Karp uses his head, it hurts. That's because Karp has 10 staples in the left side of his head after getting cleated in the season opener.
LAKEWOOD - The Class 2A state girls soccer champion will come from the Cascade Conference.
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FOR THE FIRST TIME in my parenting life, I'm sleepless in a house where the beds mostly stay made. That is unless it's 4 a.m. and I've crawled under the covers looking for a resting place that will lull me back to sleep.
HUDSON -- While the Marlborough girls soccer team was able to win the small battles, a banged-up and wounded Ludlow side was able to hobble away with the overall victory.
After taking a 4-0 win over the Memphis Blues on Saturday morning at the Point Mallard Ice Complex, the Huntsville Chargers PeeWee travel tournament team was as excited as you could imagine.
Although she sold her minivan to buy a Mini Cooper, Deb Liddell still is a soccer mom. For about 17 years, Liddell has been involved with youth soccer and the Iowa City Alliance Soccer Club. Liddell recently returned from a trip to Africa where she delivered soccer equipment to children in rural Zimbabwe.
FIFA says he scored the best goal in World Cup history. But he's gone from the poster boy of fit to fat as a frog, the national team's pride to a drug-test liability, from talk show host to Castro's crony.
The kicks were high and the kitsch factor even higher, but the ''Radio City Christmas Spectacular" is a perfect holiday treat, full of song, dance and Santa. The show, featuring the...