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The rivalry : mystery at the Army-Navy game
Eighth-grade sportswriters Stevie and Susan Carol up to solve a mystery at the famous Army-Navy football game.
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Bob and Jim - rare gems from a beguiling age of innocence
[Bobby Moore] the defender was the finest reader of a game, [Jimmy Greaves] the consummate \"two-footed\" gobbler up of goals. [Bob] would have been 61 last Friday. [Jim] was 62 this February. They first met when 10-year- old Moore, for South Park Lads, marked Huntsman's boys' club star Greaves one Saturday in the Ilford junior league on Hackney Marshes. They grew up to be rare gems on the world stage and, off it, I can vouch the most convivial of comrades in those days before footballers had to be wary of journalists.
Newspaper Article
The greatest game ever played : a football story
When their beloved baseball team, the New York Giants, moves to California, Sam and Pop switch their loyalties to the other New York Giants and attend their championship game with the Baltimore Colts.
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Just Win
Marc Tracy reviews \"Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity,\" by journalists Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry, who investigate the series of scandals that rocked the University of Washington's football team in 2000, under the coaching of Rick Neuheisel, and explain the impact of all that upon college sports going forward.
Book Review
INSIDE SOCCER'S DREAM TEAM ; THE PHENOMENOM OF REAL MADRID, BECKHAM'S NEW GIG
The man most responsible for creating the phenomenon of Real Madrid is the team's president, Florentino Perez, whom [John Carlin] credits with \"smashing long-standing orthodoxies, altering the whole conception of the game.\" Perez has operated on the assumptions that the best way to keep fans interested in his team is to sign the best players in the world, no matter what they cost, and that their artistic and commercial value will make them bargains in any case. As a result, Real Madrid currently employs not only [David Beckham] but Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, and Roberto Carlos. Together, the club's stars are known as \"Los Galacticos,\" and Carlin maintains that they have created a level of artistic achievement and fan enthusiasm unprecedented in the history of the game. As evidence he offers more remarkable anecdotes. While pursuing a story about genocide and AIDS in Rwanda, he finds that all the doctors and patients want to talk about is Real Madrid's joyous style. While trolling the Internet, he comes across a story in The Jordan Times by a Lebanese journalist, Hala Jaber, who claims to have witnessed \"young martyrs-in-waiting\" with the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade chanting \"Allahu akbar!\" when they got the news that Beckham had scored two goals.
Newspaper Article
When the men were gone : a novel
\"In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson--a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas--comes to life. Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Every Friday night for as long as assistant principal Tylene Wilson can remember, the entire town has gathered in the stands, cheering their boys on. Each September brings with it the hope of a good season and a sense of unity and optimism. Now, the war has changed everything. Most of the Brownwood men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting, and in a small town the possibilities are limited. Could this mean a season without football? But no one counted on Tylene, who learned the game at her daddy's knee. She knows more about it than most men, so she does the unthinkable, convincing the school to let her take on the job of coach. Faced with extreme opposition--by the press, the community, rival coaches, and referees and even the players themselves--Tylene remains resolute. And when her boys rally around her, she leads the team--and the town--to a Friday night and a subsequent season they will never forget. Based on a true story, When the Men Were Gone is a powerful and vibrant novel of perseverance and personal courage.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Automatic content curation of news events
With the rapid development of the internet, a large amount of online news has brought readers a variety of information. Some important events last for some time as the event develops or the topic spreads. When readers want to catch up on the details of a specific news event, most of them use a search engine to collect news and understand the whole story. It usually takes readers a considerable amount of time to sort out the causes and effects of the event. The general method of online news provision aggregates and organizes the content of news articles from a large number of events and presents the content to readers. Most of this type of information is manually organized. To solve these problems, this study proposes an automated method of news curation. First, we extract the topics from the event data set and use word sequences to find the sequence of topic transfer through a hidden Markov model. Second, we calculate the strength of the topic and the variation in the strength to detect important time points during the development of the news event. Finally, a concise summary is generated at each time point. This paper combines two characteristics, chronology and summary, to design a curation method that can effectively help readers quickly grasp the context of a news event. The experimental results show that the method has good performance in each module, such as the detection of the important phases of events and the creation of the news summary.
Journal Article