The News Review:
- What a weekend for women’s sports
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- … V. RGER: They are the best in their respective sports….
- Sports Briefing
- With sport and color modernity pays a call on the 80s
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Chinese chukkas: one man’s mission to attract new elite to the…
What a weekend for women’s sports
ESPN – Sep 12, 2006
comThis WNBA season — you might have heard it was the 10th anniversary by the way — just ended. The World Championship is beginning in Brazil. The Detroit Shock’s Katie Smith is bound to wake up there some morning in thenext few days not sure what city she’s in at first and then think “Wow I really do have an WNBA title now don’t I?”.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Sep 12, 2006
German Michael Schumacher the seven-time Formula ne Series champion won the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday and on the victory podium announced that he would stop driving at the end of the year. It is the perfect time for the champion to retire while still at the top of his profession. Schumacher has won four of the last six events to climb within two points of championship leader Fernando Alonso and with three races left in the season could easily claim his record eighth F1 drivers title. “ne of the greatest sporting careers is ending” said Thomas Bach Germany’s top sports official and a vice president of the IC.
… V. RGER: They are the best in their respective sports….
Globe and Mail – Sep 12, 2006
n a physical and visceral level Roger Federer is the man to beat TM TEBBUTT says TM TEBBUTT September 12 2006 Genius is a loaded and often pretentious term but most people agree it applies to Roger Federer and Tiger Woods and their stature in their respective sports. Determining who is the more dominant in his sport is like comparing Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky or currently Albert Pujols and LaDainian Tomlinson. Both are truly unique athletes and neither suffers in comparison with the other. With regards to their mental and physical gifts this tennis writer concedes that the preternaturally competitive Woods is mentally tougher while Federer is the more physically gifted — how else could he perform on court with such efficiency and flair? More Stories.
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Sep 12, 2006
Howard Jacobs Landiss lawyer said that the carbon isotope ratio test done on Landiss urine sample should have been read as negative for synthetic testosterone based on World Anti-Doping Agency criteria. Jacobs said he expected USADA to decide whether to charge Landis with a doping violation next Monday.
With sport and color modernity pays a call on the 80s
International Herald Tribune – Sep 12, 2006
It has also invaded fashion. It has also invaded fashion.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Sep 12, 2006
The defending Nextel Cup champion failed to make it into the “Chase” and the greatest driver in Formula ne history announced his retirement. How can this weekend possibly top it? I guess we will just have to watch and see. NASCAR Nextel Cup Sylvania 300 – New Hampshire International Speedway – Loudon NH The “regular” season is over and now 10 drivers have 10 races to determine the 2006 Nextel Cup champion. It’s an interesting conglomerate of drivers that make up this year’s “Chase for the Nextel Cup.
Chinese chukkas: one man’s mission to attract new elite to the…
guardian.co.uk – Sep 12, 2006
The number of pistes has risen from zero to more than 200 in a decade. More than 5 million people could take to the slopes this year. It is a similar story in other sports associated with wealth. Since 2003 Shanghai has opened China’s first F1 racing circuit and started work on a marina. Polo is far less well known. Mr Xia’s club which is built on his own land has only 20 members but he says it includes the head of the state oil firm Sinopec and the head of the company which built the trains on the new Tibet railway. But he insists he is not being elitist… Many hail from Inner Mongolia Sichuan and other parts of China famous for horsemanship. Although they have bunks inside the stables Tie Fu a Mongolian player sleeps in a tent next to the paddock because he wants to be near to the horses. “It is a real man’s sport. It has the elegance of golf and the intensity of football” said the 21-year-old. If a national team is ever formed Mr Xia is likely to pick it. Last year the government granted him a senior post in the Chinese Equestrian Association. He hopes to take a team to Britain Germany or the US.
