• News 23.08.2006

    The News Review:

    - Why Hair’s actions may just be enough to save his sport
    - Lacrosse builds western support for East Coast sport
    - No penalties for Notre Dame players over TV promos – College Sports
    - King Kaufman’s Sports Daily

    Why Hair’s actions may just be enough to save his sport
    Times nline – Aug 23, 2006
    Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. A serious village cricket match one that decides the league with pride and bragging rights and maybe even a slice of small-potatoes prizemoney at stake. You think that the fast bowler a parish priest is having a sneaky go at the seam. In fact you are sure of it. You consult your umpiring partner and he agrees that it looks suspicious.

    Lacrosse builds western support for East Coast sport
    San Francisco Chronicle – Aug 23, 2006
    tmpl –>(08-23) 15:55 PDT San Francisco (AP) — The city’s newest pro sports team qualified for the postseason with a dramatic overtime win in the last game of the regular season. But most San Franciscans probably never heard the news.

    No penalties for Notre Dame players over TV promos – College Sports
    ESPN – Aug 23, 2006
    attachButton(document. getElementById(”espnstlink”)); Associated PressSUTH BEND Ind. — The NCAA won’t penalize Notre Dame football and basketball players who participated in promotional spots for a sports talk show on a local television station. While the NCAA found that the athletes had made an improper “implied endorsement” there was no indication the violations were intentional John Heisler Notre Dame’s senior associate athletic director said Wednesday. “As best as anyone can tell this was completely inadvertent all around” he said. Notre Dame reviewed the actions of the athletes after questions were raised about the promotional spots last week. The school turned its findings over to the NCAA on Tuesday Heisler said.

    King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
    salon.com – Aug 23, 2006
    As a kid I was very aware of grown-ups trying to spoil us kids’ fun by declaring that something that was really fun for us was in fact harmful and should be banished or fundamentally changed in some way. “Kids have been doing this forever” I used to think. “Why is it always when I come along and get my chance that they try to shut it down?” And yet here I am. I don’t know that I’m ready to say the Little League World Series should be shut down. Free country and everything.

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