The News Review:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
- Kenseth’s Cup Runneth ver | Sports | PE.com | Southern California…
- Sports Briefing
- Stanford swim coach Skip Kenney on team building in a solitary sport
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 25, 2007
The second-seeded Haas fresh off a straight-set semifinal win over Mardy Fish on Saturday routed Roddick 6-3 6-2 to win his first tournament of the season. With the victory Haas becomes just the second player ever to win this event three times joining Jimmy Connors who won four times (1978-79 ’83-84). “bviously against Andy you’re never sure how it’s going to go” Haas said. “He can blow you off the court or you can be in the match depending on how he serves.
Kenseth’s Cup Runneth ver | Sports | PE.com | Southern California…
Press-Enterprise – Feb 25, 2007
That everyone can see. Not just in creating space between him and his opponents after caution laps Sunday but also in the way he was able to use California Speedway to bounce back from a substandard start to his season. Kenseth won the Auto Club 500 for the second straight year comfortably holding off Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson who finished second and third respectively. Kenseth made it a weekend sweep after winning Saturday’s Busch Series race. Story continues below.
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Feb 25, 2007
Louis yesterday less than two months after the shooting death of his teammate Darrent Williams the team announced. Nash 24 collapsed shortly after participating in the game benefiting a foundation named for his older brother Darris Nash. The foundation raises money for heart transplant research. The cause of death was not immediately determined.
Stanford swim coach Skip Kenney on team building in a solitary sport
San Francisco Chronicle – Feb 25, 2007
tmpl –>Skip Kenney is a swim coach who never swam and doesn’t trust a stopwatch. Maybe this is the answer because Kenney has coached the Stanford men’s team to 25 consecutive Pac-10 championships. He may have won his 26th yesterday on his 64th birthday. If not he’s still got trophies in boxes and trophies under his desk. NCAA championship plaques are stacked sideways like books on a shelf.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Feb 25, 2007
There were six games played: The Spurs overwhelmed the Sonics by 31 points; the Mavericks clobbered the Nuggets by 20; the Bucks beat the 76ers by 19; the Jazz defeated the Celtics by 18; the Raptors bested the Bobcats by 17; and the Clippers topped the Warriors by 13 points. That’s a true rarity. There have been almost 3700 game-days in NBA history on which at least six regular-season games were played and this was just the third one of them on which every game was decided by a margin of at least 13 points. The other two instances came in the same season just four months apart on Nov.
