Category Archives: Athletes
Youth League Fights AIDS With Soccer
Sports and Health – MAWEWE, South Africa — Far from the World Cup, in this poor, rural village where there are no paved roads, no nets on the goals and no shoes for many of the players, Clement Nkala, 17, sat in a chair in his soccer uniform and held out his finger to be [...]
Pacific-10 and Big Ten Step Toward Expansion
Sports and Health – Two meetings of university presidents on Sunday, the Pacific-10’s in San Francisco and the Big Ten’s in Chicago, could go a long way toward reshaping the alignment of major college athletics.
The most significant news came from the Pac-10 meetings, where presidents voted to give the first-year commissioner Larry Scott authority to [...]
Petrova Overpowers Venus Williams
Sports and Health – PARIS — There was a sense that this might be Venus Williams’s time, finally, at Roland Garros. Her see-through lace dress became the sartorial sensation of the French Open. Her rise back to No. 2 in the world this spring, and her strong play in the opening rounds, turned Williams into [...]
This Time, Its Halladay Whos Perfect
Sports and Health – In his second career start, for Toronto in 1998, Roy Halladay lost a no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth inning. He did not ascend steadily to greatness, falling back to Class A ball before rising to regain his dominance of the American League.
Now he has mastered the National [...]