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The new Women's United Soccer Association aims to build on the interest aroused by the US women's national team in the 1999 World Cup. However, there are fears that having a separate women's league may force fans to choose between watching men's or women's soccer.

Samuelson, who won the 1984 Olympic gold medal in the women's marathon, now lives in Freeport, ME, with her husband and two young children. She still runs at least 70 miles a week and competes occasionally. She tries to balance her passion for running with being a mother.

The sporting teams of Boston, MA, are all suffering and watching the competition surge ahead with teams containing old Bostonians. Boston could rejoice that their city is producing good sportsmen, but traditionally Bostonians enjoy being pessimistic.

The sporting skills of Pedro Martinez, Hispanic baseball pitcher who plays for the Boston Red Sox, are described, with focus on his great talent and his appeal to all sections of Boston, MA, baseball fans.

Coaches should teach young would-be athletes the real value of sports and encourage them to strive hard without coercing. More often than not, coaches daunt young sportsmen and give the wrong motivation. They should realize the true essence of sports and be role models themselves.

Bryan Scott, the former New Jersey Nets coach and Los Angeles Lakers guard shares his experience with the Boston fans. Boston fan's passion is as great in adversity as it is in triumph and sometimes it is even expressed by wit.

A man describes the conversation he had at a college baseball game with an older man who had attended Yale with the man's father in 1939. The older man, who regularly attended the games, brought back memories of the younger man's father.

The article examines football and soccer within the U.S. The two sports are compared, and the author attests that Americans tend to be much larger fans of football than of soccer. This is attributed to the violent aspects of contact sports such as those inherent within the U.S. National Football League (NFL). Physical detriments such as dementia that result from football injuries are discussed, and the author analyzes correlations between the American love of football and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Also discussed is the nation’s arms market.

The article focuses on the association of sports with war. Sportwriters have long been written about American games in military terms. A season is a campaign, a long pass is a bomb, a game that drags on and beats up players on both sides is a war. Likewise, soldiers have often resorted to the language of sports to describe what they have been doing. In fact, it is silly and often obscene to describe even the most violent and destructive games in terms of war.

This article presents the author's satirical suggestion to state legislatures trying to pass legislation allowing casino gambling as a way to deal with increasing government budget deficits. The author suggests that an easier way to deal with deficits would be for the state to hire all the large, young unemployed men, changing them from thugs into taxpayers. Give each one a cracked baseball bat donated by Major League teams and have them threaten poor people until they received whatever money they could scare from them and deliver it to the state.

The poem "Olympic Dream" by Bill Littlefield is presented. First line: Last night I had the strangest dream. I dreamed about the Games. Last line: I go to sleep again tonight, I’ll have that dream again.

Asserts that schools in the United States should charge parents for their children's participation in sports. Memories of boyhood pleasures which prompt the author to open his wallet; Values learned in sports; Use of emotions to spare certain sports from the schools' budget axe.