The News Review:
- A reason to celebrate sports: Buck ‘Neil – ESPN
- Blog at SFGate.com/sports Vital signs fading last rites imminent
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Sports Briefing
- SPRTS F THE TIMES; Mets Will Need Underdog’s Spirit
- Tainted | Sport | The Guardian
A reason to celebrate sports: Buck ‘Neil – ESPN
ESPN – Oct 14, 2006
Those who knew him or knew of him are celebrating all he did to open doors for African-American athletes through his own brilliant career as a player and coach and as an ambassador of the game. The regrets grow from the many things he was not able to do because his country was not ready for full integration and from a special committee’s failure to vote him into the Baseball Hall of Fame this February in his 94th year. Now there will be no 95th year. Posthumous induction into Cooperstown will be nice; but his in-person acceptance would have been right.
Blog at SFGate.com/sports Vital signs fading last rites imminent
San Francisco Chronicle – Oct 14, 2006
tmpl –>It was enough to make you wonder how the A’s even got here. They are barely recognizable especially to themselves. This has been a three-game performance so dominant by the Tigers it seems little more than a warmup for Detroit’s glorious return to the World Series.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 14, 2006
9 Evernham Dodge crossed the finish line 1. 624 seconds ahead of Jimmie Johnson. The victory was Kahne’s series-leading sixth of the season and seventh of his Nextel Cup career.
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Oct 14, 2006
Chinaglia who helped the Rome team win its first Italian title in 1974 is wanted in an investigation of an alleged attempt to influence the price of Lazio shares over the past six months the prosecutors office in Rome said. Its incredible Chinaglia said on Italys SKY TG24 news channel. I have never committed extortion. The 59-year-old Chinaglia a former Lazio president who now lives in the United States is accused of trying to oust the current club president Claudio Lotito by falsely claiming that there was a Hungarian investment group interested in buying a controlling stake in the club according to the police in Rome.
SPRTS F THE TIMES; Mets Will Need Underdog’s Spirit
New York Times – Oct 14, 2006
Weve had bigger challenges than this Manager Willie Randolph said after the game. We just have to get that back tomorrow. We kind of let that one slip away.
Tainted | Sport | The Guardian
guardian.co.uk – Oct 14, 2006
uk Monday 3 February 2003 21. 44 GMT Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery are to be invited to London to explain publicly for the first time why they have joined Ben Johnson’s former coach. Charlie Francis has insisted his involvement with banned performance-enhancing drugs is now in the past but the American sprinters’ relationship with him has set alarm bells ringing within the sport. It has led to threats that they will not be invited to the major meetings in Europe. Fast Track the organisers of Britain’s televised meetings has been alone in publicly backing Jones and Montgomery. Alan Pascoe the company’s founder has said they will be invited to compete in the London Grand Prix on August 8.
