The News Review:
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
- Charities cash in on the craze for extreme sports
- Job: director of sport Setanta
- Sports | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern…
- Sports Briefing
- Sports ground gets £2.7m makeover
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Jul 17, 2006
” If that was the headline of a story you read today check the date of your newspaper. You might be reading the morning edition from ct. The only other time that the Yankees (then the Highlanders) swept a series of any length from a White Sox team that had won the previous year’s World Series was at New York’s Hilltop Park ct.
Charities cash in on the craze for extreme sports
Times nline – Jul 17, 2006
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. David Walliams the comedy actor covered himself in goose fat and swam the English Channel in 10½ hours — one of the 50 fastest crossings — raising £1 million for Sport Relief. According to Sport England the ultimate sporting challenge is no longer scoring the winning goal at Wembley. It is about conquering personal goals such as skateboarding down a volcano jumping off a tall building or scaling a great mountain. Raising money for charity at the same time increases the feel-good factor.
Job: director of sport Setanta
guardian.co.uk – Jul 17, 2006
Now he is its biggest threat. The former deputy head of Sky Sports East left the satellite broadcaster last year to become director of sport at Irish pay-TV group Setanta then little known outside its home market. A year later – and aided by Brussels’ determination to end Sky’s live Premier League monopoly – Setanta broke Sky’s stranglehold by snatching up the rights to 46 games a season for £392m a year. It was quite a coup for Irish entrepreneurs Michael ‘Rourke and Leonard Ryan who established Setanta in 1990 to beam Irish football games to ex-pats living in London.
Sports | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern…
Press-Enterprise – Jul 17, 2006
His story — including a hero-type name and his victory over life-threatening testicular cancer — made him such a national celebrity that people who never paid the slightest attention to bicycle racing know his name. The 93rd Tour de France has rolled through the mountains and roads of France Belgium Italy Germany and Spain this month.
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Jul 17, 2006
We have the lawyers looking at it right now but I would say its a go Lindros said. Lindros a free-agent center had 11 goals and 11 assists last season with Toronto his hometown team but was limited to 33 games after injuring his wrist. Injuries have been the story for Lindros who has missed at least 10 games in 11 of his 12 N.
Sports ground gets £2.7m makeover
BBC News – Jul 17, 2006
7m makeover A run-down sports and social club in South Bristol is to undergo a £2. 7m transformation into a high quality leisure facility. The Imperial Sports Ground in Knowle and Manor Farm playing fields will be replaced with an all-weather pitch new changing rooms and function rooms. The city council inherited the original sports facilities in 2000 as part of a planning deal. Since then they have cost the tax payer £80000 a year to maintain and run.
