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- King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
- Double standards apply over sport’s ethnic flare-ups
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
- The Age: national world business entertainment sport and technolog…
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
salon.com – Jan 18, 2007
18 2007 | So much for the. The San Diego Chargers announced that they’ll stick with their coach for the final year of his contract despite rumors that he might get the boot because of yet another loss in yet another first playoff game and his cool relationship with general manager A. wner Alex Spanos even reportedly offered Schottenheimer a one-year extension which the coach turned down.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 18, 2007
1s Andy Roddick and Marat Safin will mark the marquee bout of the day at Melbourne Park. The sixth-seeded Roddick and 26th-seeded Safin have split six career matchups but the big Russian is 1-0 against the American here in Melbourne with the victory coming three years ago in the Aussie pen quarters.
Double standards apply over sport’s ethnic flare-ups
The Age – Jan 18, 2007
After decades when their sport was hammered for being a cauldronof ethnic hate when every soccer club was regarded as a potentialflashpoint for violence here all of a sudden that violence haderupted in the genteel bourgeois world of tennis. What next —flares on the first tee as Tiger Woods gets ready to hit off in theAustralian pen Golf tournament?Perhaps the unsavoury clashes — which had the impact on thepristine tennis world that an oil slick would have brought to atropical beach — will get the message across to the masses whofor decades shrugged their shoulders and shook their heads aboutthe prevalence of “soccer violence”. Perhaps they will now realise that the connection should not bemade between the sport and the aggro. The trouble which seems tooccur increasingly at major sporting events in Australia is areflection of the society in which those events are staged and thepeople who go to them. Soccer’s lack of goals — as people here have tried to tellme for years — is not the reason for crowd trouble… The wonder is that it has not happened earlier. Young males fired up with a sense of patriotic grievancestirred by ancient family lore can be trusted to be up for a ruckand a rumble especially if they believe participation gives them asense of legitimacy within a community whose approval they value— most likely to be their teenage peer group rather than theirfamilies. Sports events are increasingly more rumbustious raucous andruder than they were years ago. It is a perhaps inevitablereflection of the in your face loud-mouthed lairy look at meI-want-it-now-because-I’m-worth-it society spawned by trashtelevision blitzkrieg marketing and advertising and a disposablecelebrity culture. ne-day cricket as much as any other sport — and certainlytennis or Australian soccer even though it has yet to be chosen asthe stage for a re-run of the Balkans war — could now alsowear the mantle of the bad-boys game. A letter published in The Age this week lamented thefoul-mouthed boorishness of the audience at the day-nighter at theMCG last Friday the edgy undercurrent of violence that permeatedthe boozy 79000-strong crowd. The fact 190 people were ejected from the venue tells the story.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Jan 18, 2007
It’s the first time in more than four years that an NBA team extended a double-digit winning streak by overcoming a deficit of 15 or more points. The last team to do it was Dallas in November 2002. The Mavericks started that season 12-0 and then fell behind by 16 points to Seattle before winning and lengthening their streak to 13 games. It’s the third time this season that Phoenix won a game after falling behind by at least 15 points.
The Age: national world business entertainment sport and technolog…
The Age – Jan 18, 2007
Photo: APther related coveragePEPLE. “I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personalhealth. I appreciate your well wishes and ask that you pleaserespect my privacy at this time” the 20-year-old actress said in astatement issued today through her publicist Leslie SloaneZelnick. Us Weekly reports that Lohan entered the poshWonderland Centre in Los Angeles this afternoon arriving in asports utility vehicle and clutching a fruit juice. Zelnick confirmed to The Associated Press in December that Lohanwas attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Lohan then told People magazine she had been going tothe meetings for a year.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Jan 18, 2007
He’s the 70th player in NHL history with at least 600 assists and the 14th active player. Forsberg reached the 600-assist plateau in 670 games the quickest that any player has done it since.
