The News Review:
- A pine mess – Eric Wilbur’s Sports Blog – Boston.com
- Inside the double lives of two-sport athletes
- Hejduk scores one off chin – ihtsportsice hockeyNHL Avalanche…
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Sports | Baseball | PE.com | Southern California News | News for…
- High School Views: Readers sound off on whether cheerleading is a…
- Quitting the Game but Holding on to the Sport
A pine mess – Eric Wilbur’s Sports Blog – Boston.com
Boston Globe – Oct 24, 2006
But Kenny Rogers said it was dirt. I guess that’s good enough then. Just when you think Major League Baseball couldn’t imagine its fan base any more stupid in an era of ignoring a steroid saga we have the Detroit starter waxing his pitching hand with pine tar (allegedly?) and trying to play it off as a common misconception which let’s face it it obviously wasn’t. Kenny Rogers cheated. And for some unknown reason he got away with it. After the first inning the blotch was gone and all was well because Rogers pitched “without cheating” or so we’d be led to believe. So Rogers washed his hand.
Inside the double lives of two-sport athletes
ESPN – Oct 24, 2006
comCrysti Howser and Maggie Westfal are two-timing that which they profess to love and folks at Yale couldn’t be happier about it. Scandalous behavior in New Haven? Drama befitting the school of Rory Gilmore? Well not exactly.
Hejduk scores one off chin – ihtsportsice hockeyNHL Avalanche…
International Herald Tribune – Oct 24, 2006
He's determined not to let that happen again even if it means using his head to put the puck in the net. He's determined not to let that happen again even if it means using his head to put the puck in the net.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 24, 2006
NASCAR Nextel Cup Bass Pro Shops 500 – Atlanta Motor Speedway – Hampton GA Until the moment halfway through Sunday’s Subway 500 when Jeff Burton’s engine began to self-destruct the “Chase for the Nextel Cup” was between four drivers maybe five. But now eight of the 10 drivers in the “Chase” have realistic shots at the title with four races remaining in the 2006 season. Matt Kenseth is the new points leader though the No. 17 Roush Racing Ford team has not been spectacular.
Sports | Baseball | PE.com | Southern California News | News for…
Press-Enterprise – Oct 24, 2006
10:00 PM PDT on Tuesday ctober 24 2006By RNALD BLUMThe Associated PressST. LUIS – Baseball players and owners proclaimed an unprecedented era of labor peace finalizing a new five-year collective bargaining agreement Tuesday night before Game 3 of the World Series.
High School Views: Readers sound off on whether cheerleading is a…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Oct 24, 2006
That said I still haven’t made up my mind whether cheerleading should be considered a sport but what can’t be argued is that there is definitely a following and a passion surrounding it. Here is some of the feedback on the topic :Kristy of Castle Shannon — “I was a cheerleader for 11 years. I fought for it to be labeled as a ’sport’ at my high school and college. I think a better question is: Why isn’t it a sport? Cheerleaders conduct tryouts and have cuts we hold regular practices we have injuries we travel to games and we work hard and break a sweat just like any other athlete. Ken of Austin Texas — “As the father of a 10-year-old all-star cheerleader I can tell you with out question she should be exempt from P.
Quitting the Game but Holding on to the Sport
New York Times – Oct 24, 2006
Ever since he was a boy dribbling from playground to playground in Morrisville Pa. a working-class town across the Delaware River from Trenton Mr. Vreeswyk had dreamed of playing pro. For eight years he played all over the world: in Cyprus the Netherlands Belgium Japan Hong Kong Austria and France.
