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Prep soccer: Knights keep hopes simmering with 1-0 victory
LAYTON — While the nail-biter atop the Region 1 boys soccer table was exciting, so was the one near the bottom. Northridge edged Syracuse 1-0 on Friday afternoon, keeping the Knights in the chase for state playoff berth possibilities. read more
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Soccer Activity Placemat $7.99 Learn the basics of soccer; see the field and learn the players positions; Learn the rules of the game….

Soccer Cascade Centerpiece $4.31 No soccer party is complete without this Soccer Cascading Centerpiece. It stands approximately 19″ tall and explodes with shiny green and blue cascading strips with gold stars and soccer balls. Centerpiece includes a plastic stand….

Soccer Mini Centerpiece $2.99 Kick off your soccer party with some glitz! Cascading soccer centerpiece features green and blue foil fringe with soccer decorations and gold stars. Round, clear base included. 8.5″H….

Soccer Cascade Centerpiece $2.79 Spice Up your Sports Party with Decorations! Complete any sports party or banquet with the perfect sports decorations. 8 1/2″ tall when assembled. Sports decorations are a great addition to your end of the year banquet, or pre game dinner. These sports ball decorations can also be a little extra spirit to get your team pumped for the next big game! Part of Decorations > Centerpieces…

Backyard Hockey $0.01 Play with the Pros as Kids….Enjoy Real SportsAction!Product InformationNow it’s hockey with a cool new twist!Lace up your skates strap on your helmet and grab your hockey stick becausethe Backyard Kids are teaming up with kid versions of your favorite NationalHockey League stars in Backyard Hockey! Customize your uniform set your lineupsand get ready for three periods of non-stop hockey action! …

FIFA Soccer 07 $2.00 FIFA Soccer 07 gives you the power to shape your club’s destiny. Relish every scintillating victory over bitter rivals and fume through every gut-wrenching poor performance at home. Savor the spine-tingling stadium atmosphere, home and away, as your team battles their way up the league table. Listen as your supporters chant your players’ names and bellow all the rousing club songs through rain and…

Worldwide Soccer Manager 2006 $19.95 Worldwide Soccer Manager gives you a chance to be internationally recognized as the greatest soccer manager of all time! Take complete tactical control of your team on every level, as you lead them to World Cup glory. Enjoy unparalleled depth and accuracy as you take charge of every aspect of your soccer team. The new EUR Optimized Data Engine that enables background calculations to be made while …

Kinect Sports $22.11 Transform your recreation area into a world-class stadium, bowling alley, soccer pitch or track-and-field arena! It’s easy with “Kinect Sports,” where you’re not only the star player, you’re also the controller. It all happens through the magic of Kinect for Xbox 360. See a ball? Kick it. Spike it. Even give it a little topspin. This amazingly interactive video game features soccer, beach volleyba…

FIFA Soccer 12 $34.62 FIFA Soccer 12 is the 19th game in Electronic Arts’ popular video game soccer series. Continuing with the franchise’s unique blend of realism and innovative features that bring the authenticity to the video game pitch that fans crave, FIFA Soccer 12 is an exciting title for longtime and existing fans of console sports gaming. Game features include: the choice full-sized stadium matches or pared …

FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play $6.10 FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play Wii…

A Beautiful Game: The World’s Greatest Players and How Soccer Changed Their Lives $14.99 No doubt about it: Sports change people’s lives. Perhaps no sport has transformed more lives than soccer, a game that is played on every continent, in countries rich and poor. Tom Watt’s Beautiful Game personalizes that generalization with the first-person stories of a dozen great players. This winning line-up includes stars from the United States, England, Italy, Spain, Nigeria, South Africa, Japan, Argentina, and Brazil. And, yes, David Beckham is among the heroes profiled in this profusely illustrated coffee-table-sized pick-me-up.

A Beautiful Game: The World’s Greatest Players and How Soccer Changed Their Lives $9.18 No doubt about it: Sports change people’s lives. Perhaps no sport has transformed more lives than soccer, a game that is played on every continent, in countries rich and poor. Tom Watt’s Beautiful Game personalizes that generalization with the first-person stories of a dozen great players. This winning line-up includes stars from the United States, England, Italy, Spain, Nigeria, South Africa, Japan, Argentina, and Brazil. And, yes, David Beckham is among the heroes profiled in this profusely illustrated coffee-table-sized pick-me-up.

Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World $24.99 A highly illustrated, beautifully designed tribute to ping pong, the world’s most popular yet least appreciated sport—with tales from the table by Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others. Every sport claims to be the world’s game—soccer, basketball, kabaddi. But none can match the global status acquired by modest, ubiquitous ping pong—the most popular yet misunderstood pastime in the world today, a sleeping giant of fast-paced fun. Join us on a journey into the dark corners and distant alleys of this ponging globe, from suburban basements of misspent youths to Bangkok backrooms to New Jersey rec rooms to Beijing stadia to dwarf child champions to elderly enthusiasts to Hollywood hipsters to perky porn stars. This cast of thousands, combined with artifacts from the authors’ ever-growing collection of ping pongalia, reveals the hidden truths of the world behind the game: the secrets of eternal youth, guerrilla warfare, foolproof seduction, fame and adulation—all explained through two paddles, sixty inches of net, and a bouncing, bouncing ball. A world where everything you know is pong.

Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World $11.99 A highly illustrated, beautifully designed tribute to ping pong, the world’s most popular yet least appreciated sport—with tales from the table by Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others. Every sport claims to be the world’s game—soccer, basketball, kabaddi. But none can match the global status acquired by modest, ubiquitous ping pong—the most popular yet misunderstood pastime in the world today, a sleeping giant of fast-paced fun. Join us on a journey into the dark corners and distant alleys of this ponging globe, from suburban basements of misspent youths to Bangkok backrooms to New Jersey rec rooms to Beijing stadia to dwarf child champions to elderly enthusiasts to Hollywood hipsters to perky porn stars. This cast of thousands, combined with artifacts from the authors’ ever-growing collection of ping pongalia, reveals the hidden truths of the world behind the game: the secrets of eternal youth, guerrilla warfare, foolproof seduction, fame and adulation—all explained through two paddles, sixty inches of net, and a bouncing, bouncing ball. A world where everything you know is pong.

Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round $13.95 Can you lead a busy life and still have guests for dinner?Can you have people over without spending hours in the kitchen? Would you love to try some new recipes in your slow cooker—maybe just for your own household? Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining answers YES to all those questions. This new cookbook—in the Fix-It and Forget-It tradition—has more than 500 irresistible recipes (and no duplicates with the original Fix-it and Forget-It Cookbook). Use these wonderful recipes to share dinner with your neighbors, with your summer weekend visitors, with friends after a chilly soccer game, with family for a birthday party. All the dishes in this bountiful collection share two qualities—little fuss and lots of flavor. Relieve the pressures of hosting. Get rid of the last-minute stress of putting food on the table. Visit with your guests until it’s time to eat—then lift the lids of your steaming slow cookers—and offer them Fruited Pork Chops, Garlic Lime Chicken, Navy Bean Soup, Oriental Shrimp Dish, Hot Cranberry Punch—and more. Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining is bursting with absolutely delicious recipes, as well as Tips for Hosting, Menus for Meals with Friends, and Ideas for Go-Alongs that complement slow cooker dishes. You’ll love cooking, hosting, and eating from this treasure of good food.

Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round $23.95 Can you lead a busy life and still have guests for dinner?Can you have people over without spending hours in the kitchen? Would you love to try some new recipes in your slow cooker—maybe just for your own household? Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining answers YES to all those questions. This new cookbook—in the Fix-It and Forget-It tradition—has more than 500 irresistible recipes (and no duplicates with the original Fix-it and Forget-It Cookbook). Use these wonderful recipes to share dinner with your neighbors, with your summer weekend visitors, with friends after a chilly soccer game, with family for a birthday party. All the dishes in this bountiful collection share two qualities—little fuss and lots of flavor. Relieve the pressures of hosting. Get rid of the last-minute stress of putting food on the table. Visit with your guests until it’s time to eat—then lift the lids of your steaming slow cookers—and offer them Fruited Pork Chops, Garlic Lime Chicken, Navy Bean Soup, Oriental Shrimp Dish, Hot Cranberry Punch—and more. Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining is bursting with absolutely delicious recipes, as well as Tips for Hosting, Menus for Meals with Friends, and Ideas for Go-Alongs that complement slow cooker dishes. You’ll love cooking, hosting, and eating from this treasure of good food.

Loteria $0.99 A pastime, delightful—Chips, cards, and a table.The riddles insightful,the future, unstable! What is it?It’s Lotería, the Mexican game of chance! For the uninitiated, it might seem like bingo played with a riddling tarot deck. But this enthralling board game is more than entertainment. The images found on its cards—La Virgen, El Pan Dulce, La Telenovela—are miniature reflections of an entire culture, capturing the joys and sorrows of the Mexican people. Wildly popular on both sides of the border, Lotería cards originated in the Iberian peninsula in the eighteenth century but have been redesigned so many times as to defy expectation, with boards devoted to ecclesiastical figures, soccer idols, and even vaudeville starlets. With the dawn of a new millennium, American artist Teresa Villegas created a new Lotería set that is already gaining popularity in Mexico, and her striking images are also widely exhibited in galleries across the United States. This gift book, which will bring pleasure and bewilderment to children and adults alike, reproduces more than two dozen of Villegas’s 54 colorful cards, pairing them with insightful, humorous riddles written by award-winning author Ilan Stavans. Stavans also revisits his childhood in an essay that examines the role of luck in Mexican life and recreates the sort of poetry jam that often accompanies Lotería contests wherever they might take place. Delve into the emblematic pages of this marvelous volume to find your own Calavera. Let yourself unravel the paths of El Deseo and the mysteries of El Corazón. Before too long, you’ll realize that luck is never truly accidental—for a turn at ¡Lotería! is always an opportunity to come face to face with El Destino.

Winchester City F.c. Players: Bernard Harrison $10 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bernard Reginald Stanhope Harrison (28 September 1934 18 March 2006) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Hampshire and professional football with Crystal Palace, Southampton and Exeter City. As a cricketer he was an opening batsman who played a part in Hampshire winning the County Championship in 1961, whilst in football he played at outside right. Harrison was born at St. John’s, Worcester, close to New Road, the home of Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He was educated at Peter Symonds College in Winchester, Hampshire and was a keen all round sportsman who excelled from an early age in both cricket and football. During his period of National Service he represented the army in both sports. Harrison was an England schoolboy international and in October 1952, he joined Portsmouth as a trainee, on amateur terms. Unable to break into the first team, he moved to Crystal Palace in October 1955. At Crystal Palace he was given a professional contract and made his first team debut in March 1956, as Palace finished second from bottom in the Third Division South and were forced to seek re-election. In the 195657 season, Harrison became established in the side, normally at outside-right with Johnny Byrne on the left, providing scoring opportunities for the front men, including Mike Deakin at centre forward and Peter Berry and Barry Pierce as the inside-forwards. Harrison himself contributed four goals, as Palace finished 20th in the table. In 1957, Soccer Star predicted that, once Palace’s fortunes improved, Harrison would become “one of the most talked about wingers in the game”. He was selected to play in the Third Division South representative team in 1957. In the following season, George Cooper took over at centre forward… More:

World Cup 2010: The Indispensable Guide $0.01 The World Cup is the planet’s biggest event. On millions of street corners in cities and villages around the globe, people watch, listen and follow every detail. Yet no one on this side of the pond has ever set out to explain comprehensively why it matters and what is likely to happen this time around.In this sharp, fun, and sassy guide, Stark & Stark lay it all out for both the casual and impassioned fan. In World Cup 2010: The Indispensible Guide to Soccer and Geopolitics you will discover feature essays on the cultural importance of soccer, the World Cup, this tournament in particular, and on African soccer, as well as an extra essay on North America’s participation in the tournament and how David Beckham has influenced the American team. Each of the 32 teams will then get an introductory essay and table, analyzing the team’s players, coach, history, flag, foods, and uniform. Each chapter will also cover how the teams qualified, World Cup history, starters, information on the upcoming venues and notable athletes, the spectacle, the tradition, and the teams.Learn why Spain never wins, Brazil often does, and what the US and Mexico really need to do to win the Cup. Discover, too, what the first World Cup in Africa will mean from Mandela to mythical spirits. Each team profile features a squad breakdown, players to watch, predictions, and an analysis of team tactics, tradition, coaching techniques, and even the national anthems that will be played before each match. Through it all, the book highlights the cultural politics that still make every England game resemble the Charge of the Light Brigade, as one reporter put it, and every Italian team a cross between Machiavelli and Michelangelo.No soccer book has ever been as informative, opinionated, or as hilarious. Just take one small category — coaches. After reading this guide, you’ll know:Which coach makes his squad selections by astrology and had a former porn queen dedicate a song to

Zen and the Art of Foosball: A Beginner’s Guide to Table Soccer $1.77 A guide to learning the exciting game of foosball.