The News Review:
- Sports of The Times; A Match of Willpower Versus the Power of Pain
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
- Times sports department recruits 3 top reporters
- Sports fervor fractures as towns grow: The boom in area high schools…
- klahoma State wrestling icon Chesbro dies at 66 – College Sports
- US pen Glance – Sports – International Herald Tribune
- Sports Briefing
Sports of The Times; A Match of Willpower Versus the Power of Pain
New York Times – Sep 3, 2006
Feelgood with a bubbling potion or Balco chemist with a designer pill or shifty trainer with a trench coat full of steroids? Because Andre Agassi is in need. The puncture wounds in his back are adding up to perforation and his pain-relief options are narrowing down to desperation. We have offered so much disdain for drug cheats and dismissed the sad excuses and shamed the steroid pushers but what Agassi-ites wouldnt do for a miracle cure to heal their idols deteriorating back.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Sep 3, 2006
Howard approached equaled and then broke Ralph Kiner’s major-league record for most home runs in a sophomore season. Kiner hit 51 homers as a second-year player for the 1947 Pirates. The Braves kept Howard in the ballpark during their 11-inning victory in the nightcap. In major league history there have been 36 instances of players hitting at least three home runs in the first of two games in a given day.
Times sports department recruits 3 top reporters
Seattle Times – Sep 3, 2006
“It is rare that three major sports reporters come within a month or so of each other and in this case two are replacing 20-plus-years writers who retired” said Cathy Henkel Times sports editor. The new starters are:• Jerry Brewer from The Courier-Journal in Louisville Ky. who is joining Steve Kelley in the sports-columnist rotation. Brewer fills the spot long held by Blaine Newnham who is mostly retired but continues to write occasional pieces.
Sports fervor fractures as towns grow: The boom in area high schools…
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 3, 2006
(03-SEP-06) Sacramento Bee (Sacramento CA). 3–Ed Lombardi remembers when he was the most popular person in Elk Grove. As the football coach at Elk Grove High School in the late 1980s and ’90s Lombardi built a powerho.
klahoma State wrestling icon Chesbro dies at 66 – College Sports
ESPN – Sep 3, 2006
attachButton(document. getElementById(“espnstlink”)); Associated Press STILLWATER kla. — Tommy Chesbro who wrestled forklahoma State before leading his alma mater to an NCAAchampionship as a coach has died university officials saidSaturday. Chesbro 66 suffered a heart attack and died Friday night inStillwater where he’d spent more than four decades at klahomaState as an athlete coach and athletic administrator. A moment of silence in honor of Chesbro was held before klahomaState’s football game against Missouri State on Saturday at BoonePickens Stadium. As an athlete Chesbro was a member of NCAA title teams in 1959and 1961. After his graduation he worked as a high school coach inBlackwell and Stillwater before becoming klahoma State’s coach in1970.
US pen Glance – Sports – International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune – Sep 3, 2006
pen tennis championships: WEATHER: Mostly clear and mild during the day becoming mostly cloudy in the evening. High of 78 F (26 C). ATTENDANCE: Day session: 36830 (record). Night session: 23675. Total: 60505 (record).
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Sep 3, 2006
The Real Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts announced the deal Friday. He had been trying to get an agreement in place since naming his team for the European club two years ago.
