ESPN Feature: How College Teams Embraced World Cup Fever in 2026
Eli Lederman Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. DIEGO MARADONA WAS out of shape when he landed at Babson College in June 1994. The small, private university in Wellesley, Massachusetts, was home to Argentina’s national team in the weeks leading up to the 1994 World Cup, one of 15 colleges to serve as a base camp that summer. Argentina’s football federation resurfaced Babson’s home pitch, brought in new goals and attracted television cameras from across the globe. In…
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