Carlisle: Soccer just feels like a foreign affair
Every four years I really try to enjoy and appreciate the World Cup. I really do. By and large, I love big international events like this. I get all soft and mushy about the Olympics, which is probably the only other event that is really done on the same worldwide level as this. But somehow, the World Cup always just leaves me flat.

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‘You don’t always win’
There are winners and losers in the Special Olympics and according to Kathy Donnelly, a longtime organizer of the competitions, that’s just fine.

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