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The Chicago Tribune Philip Hersh lympic Sports column: International…
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 21, 2007
(21-MAR-07) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). 21–The English version of the Web site for the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships announces in red letters that the event is sold out. So only five members of Rena I.
Sports on TV By Michael Hiestand
USA Today – Mar 21, 2007
You can watch this weekend’s women’s games on ESPN and ESPN2 from start to finish. But the men even though they can play some pretty darn good ball will play largely overlapping games in prime time Thursday and Friday. Viewers will be whipped around between games arguably creating a more entertaining show for casual fans. But it’s a big anomaly for the hard core: Men’s third-round games formally known as regional semifinals are by far the biggest U.
Projo College Sports | projo.com | The Providence Journal |
Providence Journal – Mar 21, 2007
2 seed Maryland01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday March 21 2007Associated PressMaryland fell into Mississippi’s trap and the defending NCAA champion never got out. Mississippi used its stifling defense to steal the ball 15 times and force 29 Maryland turnovers and the Rebels upset the No. 2 seed Terrapins 89-78 in the Dayton Regional last night in Hartford. Armintie Price scored 29 points to lead the Rebels the same le Miss team that was blown out by the Terps 110-79 at a tournament in the Bahamas in November. Kristi Toliver led Maryland with 24 including 14 in the second half when the Terps cut a 23-point lead to seven. THER GAMETENNESSEE 68 PITTSBURGH 54: At Pittsburgh unaccustomed to playing an early round NCAA women’s game on an opposing home court Tennessee needed a big game from its best player to preserve the Lady Vols’ perfect record in the first two rounds of the tournament.
Sports Briefing
New York Times – Mar 21, 2007
Louisiana State center Glen Davis known as Big Baby said yesterday that he would skip his senior year to enter the N. Davis a 6-foot-9 290-pound junior will remain enrolled at L.
Dick Pound eyeing presidency of sport arbitration court
Taipei Times – Mar 21, 2007
PHT: AFP After seven years as head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Dick Pound has his eyes set on a new job in the lympic movement. Pound who steps down as WADA chief in November said on Monday he is a candidate to become the new president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the highest tribunal in the sports world. Pound a longtime lawyer and senior International lympic Committee (IC) member from Canada said the CAS position would be a natural fit. “It’s closer to what I actually do for a living than anything that I’ve ever done for the IC” he said. “I’d certainly be willing to do it.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Mar 21, 2007
Three other teams went on 41-of-45 runs and all three of them went on to win that season’s championship: Wilt Chamberlain’s 76ers in 1966-67 Wilt’s Lakers in 1971-72 and Michael Jordan’s Bulls in 1995-96. • The Cavaliers held an 81-71 lead with eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter at Charlotte but the Bobcats outscored the Cavs 37-19 over those eight minutes plus the five of overtime. It ended a streak of 75 consecutive losses for the Bobcats in games in which they faced a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter. Charlotte’s last such win came on Nov.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Mar 21, 2007
The formats drew criticism especially at the Tennis Channel pen in Las Vegas earlier this month when James Blake was given passage to the quarterfinals despite a technicality but was then removed from advancing. Blake was winning 6-1 3-1 in his final round-robin match to Juan Martin del Porto who retired because of breathing problems. Blake was originally eliminated but later that night it was determined he would have advanced from the round-robin group if del Porto hadn’t retired. That left Russian Evgeny Korolev out of the quarterfinals but the next day upon review of the rules Blake was removed from the round-of-eight.
