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There is something qualitatively different about single-elimination soccer tournaments from a run-of-the-mill, regular game. The NESCAC Championship tournament is no exception. In league play, an unlucky day can be brushed aside — but in the tournament, a bad day can easily turn into a frustrating eight-month hiatus until the season begins

Contract holdouts are commonplace in today’s NFL. Just this past offseason, six different Pro Bowlers decided not to report to practice until they secured a new contract from their team. While not all of them were successful and one of them was downright disastrous (looking at you, Melvin Gordon)

One of European soccer’s brightest talents and enigmatic figures, Mario Balotelli, had an eventful Saturday. The striker — now playing for Brescia after stints at Manchester City, both Inter and A.C. Milan, Liverpool and Nice — was dribbling toward his opponents’ end line, when he perceived that the Hellas Verona