
Soccer’s bad girls
November 12th, 2009 admin
Badly behaved or just bad , or both? You decide. First it was the lately infamous Elizabeth Lambert : Then a brawl in Rhode Island : To cheer or to boo? A question that invites a farrago of answers . But something Mike Lopresti says hits what I think is about the right note: The key — and this might get lost on those who don’t pay attention to women’s sports — is that they play as hard as the men, compete as hard as the men, like to mix it up as much as the men. So it shouldn’t be surprising that there come times when they may be knuckleheads just like the men. If need be, they can
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