The News Review:
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
- Tiger’s Wins Amid Grief Top Sports Year
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- Sports stories of ’06 dominated by boneheads
- Center helps disabled ski sports enthusiasts get back on slopes
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Dec 28, 2006
3 seconds to play gave the Mavericks a 101-99 win over the Suns. Nowitzki has made his last three potential game-tying or go-ahead field-goal attempts in the last five seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime after missing the first 13 such shots of his NBA career.
Tiger’s Wins Amid Grief Top Sports Year
Washington Post – Dec 28, 2006
He wound up second at the Western then won his next six starts. There are hundreds of players _ good ones too _ who don’t win six tournaments in an entire career let alone one season. To go 6-for-6 well only Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan know what that’s like.
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USA Today – Dec 28, 2006
juniors 6-3By Kevin AllenUSA TDAY Even with the USA losing its first two games at the world junior championships coach Ron Rolston is telling his players they control their fate in the tournament. If the USA defeats Slovakia on Saturday and Sweden on Sunday it will qualify for the medal round. If they lose one they likely won’t advance. The Americans put themselves in that predicament by losing 6-3 to Canada on Wednesday. “I think the players are still optimistic in the sense that they know if we take care of business and play well we’ll be there” Rolston said.
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New York Times – Dec 28, 2006
toolsContainer –>. toolsRight –>By DAVE ANDERSN Published: December 28 2006 It’s Hall of Fame voting time in baseball and pro football and if I had a vote I know which candidates I would vote for. I also know one candidate I would not vote for: Mark McGwire. If McGwire doesn’t want to talk about his past as he repeatedly told a Congressional hearing on illegal performance-enhancing drugs in sports early last year then I don’t want to try to guess how many of the 583 home runs in his past were steroid-aided particularly among his 70 home runs (then a record) in 1998 for the Cardinals. So let’s ignore McGwire and consider the honorable candidates if I only had a vote. As a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America I once had a Cooperstown vote.
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Press-Enterprise – Dec 28, 2006
In a year we'll find out exactly how good this UCLA team was. Wrapping up his fourth season in Westwood Karl Dorrell led the Bruins to a 7-6 campaign that was both better and worse than that mark indicated. The Bruins were a play away from winning at Notre Dame and finally toppled USC but also had bad losses to the Washington schools on their resume this season. They played much of the season with their backup quarterback and relied on a defense that was among the most improved in the nation.
Sports stories of ’06 dominated by boneheads
CNN – Dec 28, 2006
com – Writers – Phil Taylor: Sports stories of ’06 dominated by boneheads – Thursday December 28 2006 2:36PM. After all hadn’t Texas quarterback Vince Young set the tone with his wondrous performance in the Longhorns’ Rose Bowl win over USC in January? Young sliced through the Trojans’ defense to lead Texas to the national championship and even USC fans had to concede that it was one of the greatest individual performances in any sport in recent memory.
Center helps disabled ski sports enthusiasts get back on slopes
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 28, 2006
tmpl –>(12-28) 04:00 PST utside Park City Utah –Against a background of soft chanting Marla Berkow instructed the group to spread out on mats across the floor and stretch their limbs — legs arms feet and all. “Let the inner light within you shine” she whispered. tmpl –> Images.
