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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : WELL, IT IS SUMMER AND THE BALL IS ROUND

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

It figures. Trying to sum up opening day at the World Cup, an event official in Dallas offered an analogy to baseball, one of those popular American sports that have kept soccer on the back pages of the newspaper.

“I’d say it was a home run in Chicago and at least a stand-up triple in Dallas,” the official said.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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