Intramural Soccer

INTRAMURALS: SOCCER GROWS UP
Spring’s New (Inter)national Pastime

By Gregg Osofsky

evin Madden walks off the field, breathing in the redolence of the Master’s Grove eucalyptus, silhouetted by the setting California sun. He ponders his obsession with soccer.

“It’s about a ball, a field and you,” he says. “The rest is just variations on that theme.” Pausing, he affects a highbrow repose. “Wasn’t it Eliot who spoke of a condition of complete simplicity?”

Softball No More:
Soccer comes of age

A generation after a wave of youth soccer programs swept the country, soccer is no longer the unknown, unappreciated sport the rest of the world loves.

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