The News Review:
- Sports Briefing
- Give me a C . . . charter schools warm up to sports
- To the Sports Editor:
- Sports letters
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Sep 17, 2006
The winner gets $1. 87 million the largest check in official tournaments worldwide. Micheel also needs to win to climb into the top 50 in the world and qualify for the $7. 5 million World Golf Championship in two weeks outside London.
Give me a C . . . charter schools warm up to sports
Boston Globe – Sep 17, 2006
charter schools warm up to sportsBy Maria Sacchetti Globe Staff | September 17 2006Nobody predicted pompoms and cheerleaders when charter schools opened more than a decade ago. r a basketball team called the Dragons. r nail-biting tryouts for softball baseball and soccer. Giving up sports used to be inevitable when students enrolled in the small experimental schools known for rigorous classes and long school days. But in recent years charter schools have been forming competitive teams and shelling out money for uniforms and gym rentals increasing tension with some regular public schools.
To the Sports Editor:
New York Times – Sep 17, 2006
The pen womens final was decided in two sets for the 11th consecutive time. It is high time to bring another level of parity with the men by introducing best-of-five matches for major finals.
Sports letters
Times nline – Sep 17, 2006
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. UK Sport’s promised package of £600m is an enormous sum but spending 66% of it in the final four years is too much too late. More of this money should be spent now at grass-roots level and on our less successful lympic sports. The policy of denying funds to the poor achievers while overfunding our successful sports with yachting an example at £6m a year is a waste of funds. Rodney Pattison double lympic sailing champion Poole Dorset Sir Clive Woodward is the wrong choice to lead Britain to lympic glories (last week).
