The News Review:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
- Sport du jour?
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jul 16, 2006
5 Chevrolet driver crossed the finish line 0. 406 seconds ahead of Carl Edwards. The victory was Busch’s first of the season and third his Nextel Cup career.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jul 16, 2006
The first fight between the two was a spirited affair that saw Mosley prevail. The fight was stopped in the 10th round due to Vargas’ grotesquely swollen left eye. Saturday’s rematch however was a much different contest. The quicker Mosley (43-4 37 K’s) continually beat the sluggish Vargas (26-4 22 K’s) to the punch getting his punches off first and putting Vargas on the defensive throughout the fight.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jul 16, 2006
1 Kim Clijsters sent Belgium into the Fed Cup final on Sunday with a third-rubber win over American Vania King. Clijsters steam rolled past King who was a late replacement for Jill Craybas 6-0 6-1 in just 55 minutes. The win gave the Belgians a 3-0 lead at the time clinching the tie. Kirsten Flipkens then won the fourth rubber 2-6 3-1 after Mashona Washington retired before Craybas and King won the final double rubber 6-1 6-2 over Leslie Butkiewicz and Caroline Maes. Belgium advanced despite not having French pen champion and Wimbledon runner-up Justine Henin-Hardenne who pulled out of the event earlier in the week stating she was not “100-percent fit” to participate.
Sport du jour?
Boston Globe – Jul 16, 2006
Last weekend I tried my latest adventure for the first time: dragon boat racing. The ancient Chinese invented the sport and the modern version resembles a cross between crew and canoeing.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Jul 16, 2006
Ten of the 15 games played were decided by margins of six or more runs — the second-most games decided in that manner on any day in the history of the major leagues. Back on May 30 1884 (a year in which there were three major leagues — the National League the American Association and the Union Association) President Rutherford B. Hayes no doubt was startled to learn that 12 of the 24 major league games that day had been decided by at least six runs. Special mention goes to the Columbus team of the American Association: Bringing new meaning to the split doubleheader Columbus lost a 10-1 decision at Washington in the morning and then suffered a 10-3 loss at Baltimore in the afternoon!• K you watched all 15 major-league games on Saturday and saw all those lopsided games four walk-off wins home runs by 30-plus homer guys rtiz Pujols Thome and Howard and great mound performances by Schilling Santana and Verlander.
