The News Review:
- BBC SPRT / LAWS & EQUIPMENT
- Sports of The Times; Boston’s Troubles Turn Epstein Into Ex…
- Sports of The Times; Winning Streak Is Burnished With Cunning and…
- The soft soaps in the press box
- Base-running mistake costs New York in loss to Illinois – Sports
- klahoma State campaigns to endow all scholarships – College Sports
BBC SPRT / LAWS & EQUIPMENT
BBC News – Aug 21, 2006
When umpire Darrell Hair awarded England five penalty runs for Pakistan violating law 42. 3 for deliberately altering the condition of the ball during the fourth Test at The val the Australian official provoked a huge Pakistani backlash. Ball tampering is tantamount to cheating everything that contravenes the spirit of this most gentlemanly of sports. Unfortunately these accusations are nothing new to Pakistani cricket.
Sports of The Times; Boston’s Troubles Turn Epstein Into Ex…
New York Times – Aug 21, 2006
This being the democratic bastion of Red Sox Nation however the proletariat and the yakkers on sports-talk radio were openly screaming for change. If Boston fans had their way some players and some in management would be airbrushed right out of history the way old Soviet officials were.
Sports of The Times; Winning Streak Is Burnished With Cunning and…
New York Times – Aug 21, 2006
Championship he was asked a question. After he missed the 36-hole cut with two rounds of 76 in the United States pen at Winged Foot two months ago could he have imagined being this close to winning three consecutive tournaments two of them majors? Uh-huh he said.
The soft soaps in the press box
guardian.co.uk – Aug 21, 2006
It has been characterised as the quintessential “toy department” of journalism a bastion of sloppy and lazy practice that is divorced from the rigorous constraints applied to other areas of the trade. ften this critique has been well merited. Yet what constitutes sports journalism or more accurately journalism about sports is changing. In the past decade there has been a substantial expansion across print broadcasting and online media… It has been characterised as the quintessential “toy department” of journalism a bastion of sloppy and lazy practice that is divorced from the rigorous constraints applied to other areas of the trade. ften this critique has been well merited. Yet what constitutes sports journalism or more accurately journalism about sports is changing. In the past decade there has been a substantial expansion across print broadcasting and online media. There is now more journalism about sports available than ever driven by a more market-oriented media culture and enabled by technological innovation. As television has become the financial underwriter of elite sport the print media have expanded their coverage as they seek to attract and retain readers. But despite the growth in its range there remains at its core a tension surrounding the complicit nature of much sports journalism.
Base-running mistake costs New York in loss to Illinois – Sports
ESPN – Aug 21, 2006
– Frank Smith provided a sense of hope but immediately turned it into heartbreak. Smith broke up David Hearne’s no-hitter with a single in the sixth but was tagged out on a crazy play as Staten Island N. lost 1-0 to Lemont Ill. on Sunday night in Pool A of the Little League World Series.
klahoma State campaigns to endow all scholarships – College Sports
ESPN – Aug 21, 2006
attachButton(document. getElementById(”espnstlink”)); Associated Press KLAHMA CITY — Athletic director Mike Holder opened acampaign Monday to endow all of klahoma State’s athleticscholarships by donating $500000 in honor of a Cowboys footballplayer who died in a car accident last year. The donation by Holder and his wife Robbie will allow klahomaState to provide a football scholarship each year in honor ofVernon Grant a three-year starter at safety who was killed in aMay 2005 car accident in Dallas. “Vernon’s tragedy was a terrible loss for everyone associatedwith klahoma State University and the football family” RobbieHolder said in a statement released by the university. “Vernon wasa terrific young man with an incredibly positive attitude. It is anhonor to be able to name a scholarship in his memory.
