The News Review:
- Sports Agent Charged in Cuban Baseball-Player Smuggling Scheme
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
- NCAA advises schools to watch sports spending – College Sports
- TV SPRTS; A Network Still Seeks Its Voice
- Monday’s Sports Transactions
- World Golf Glance – ihtsportsgolfWorld Glance – Sports – Internatio…
- Sport and the Welsh language
Sports Agent Charged in Cuban Baseball-Player Smuggling Scheme
ABC News – Oct 31, 2006
attachButton(stElement); U. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today the indictment of Beverly Hills Calif. sports agent Gustavo “Gus” Dominguez charging him with smuggling potential Major League baseball players from Cuba to the United States. The indictment unsealed today in a Miami federal court alleges that Dominguez along with four others conspired to use go-fast boats to smuggle Cubans to the United States and to house and shelter Cuban baseball players in California. According to the indictment “It was the purpose and object of the conspiracy for the defendants to unlawfully enrich themselves by smuggling Cuban Major League baseball prospects as well as other Cuban nationals. “The ringleaders put the lives of illegal immigrants at risk and sought to profit from their labor” ICE Assistant Secretary Julie Myers said in a statement.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Oct 31, 2006
1 (38-13) in Buffalo on ct. 22 (28-6) and in Minnesota on Monday (31-7). Since 1970 four other teams have won three in a row on the road each by at least 20 points the 2002 Raiders 1992 Vikings 1984 49ers and 1971 Colts. • The Patriots had only one takeaway and a negative-three turnover differential in their first three games this season in which they went 2-1 and were outscored 51-50.
NCAA advises schools to watch sports spending – College Sports
ESPN – Oct 31, 2006
Shifting the focus fromacademics to finances required a much more hands-off approach. In a task-force report released Monday by NCAA president MylesBrand Division I schools were encouraged to rein in spending onsports — but there aren’t any requirements everyone must adhere toor punishments if they don’t. “In the case of academic reform we had a hammer — namely byteams not conforming we could take away scholarships and if thatfailed we could keep them out of the Final Four and postseason.
TV SPRTS; A Network Still Seeks Its Voice
New York Times – Oct 31, 2006
coverage ESPN and ABC have yet to discover stability on their games or studio programs. Each season it seems their casts change.
Monday’s Sports Transactions
USA Today – Oct 31, 2006
CHICAG WHITE SX-Exercised 2007 contract options on LHP Mark Buehrle F Jermaine Dye and 2B Tadahito Iguchi. Declined the 2007 contract option on RHP Dustin Hermanson. National LeagueSAN DIEG PADRES-Exercised the 2007 contract options on F Mike Cameron and INF-F Russell Branyan. Declined the 2007 contract options on C Mike Piazza and 1B-F Ryan Klesko. American AssociationSIUX FALLS CANARIES-Traded RHP Matt Petrusek to Schaumburg of the Northern League for RHP Chris Andel.
World Golf Glance – ihtsportsgolfWorld Glance – Sports – Internatio…
International Herald Tribune – Oct 31, 2006
Winner’s share: $1. 17 million (€920000). Last year: Bart Bryant won at East Lake beating Tiger Woods by six strokes in the season-ending event for the top 30 on the money list. The 42-year-old Bryant opened with a course-record 62 and had a tournament-record 17-under 263 total. He failed to qualify this season finishing 70th on the money list.
Sport and the Welsh language
News Wales – Oct 31, 2006
rganised by the Welsh Language Development fficer at the Welsh Sports Association the course is the first of its kind to be offered to NGB staff and associated partners. Stepping back into the classroom to take advantage of the opportunity will be representatives from golf sailing canoeing the Federation of Disability Sport Wales gymnastics netball football and rugby alongside senior staff from the Sports Council for Wales. In partnership with Cardiff University and the Urdd lessons will be delivered through a combination of introductory sessions and intense practical work tailored to the everyday requirements of sport development in Wales. The course running in Llangrannog on 6th and 7th November 2006 forms part of a wider strategy aimed at developing sport through the Welsh language and the language through sport.
