The News Review:
- Yahoo buys college sports site
- Big Ten Comcast battle over new network’s costs – College Sports
- The Chicago Tribune Ed Sherman Sports Media And Golf column: PGA…
- Gene Collier: Maybe each sport needs no-dope promise from players
- … predecessor named interim DA; to name permanent replacement…
- … put on probation fined $100000 for undercharging meals -…
- Coach fined $1000 forfeits ownership of weapon – College Sports
Yahoo buys college sports site
USA Today – Jun 21, 2007
Hoping to deepen its appeal to hard-core sports fans Yahoo is buying Rivals. com a website that provides.
Big Ten Comcast battle over new network’s costs – College Sports
ESPN – Jun 21, 2007
And the company responded emphatically: Forget it. The conference and Comcast are at odds over the price of the newBig Ten Network and whether it should be offered on basic cable. And they’re also feuding over the wording of a press release inwhich Comcast said the Big Ten network will show “second andthird-tier sporting events” called it “a niche sports channel”and added: “Indiana basketball fans don’t want to watch Iowavolleyball but the Big Ten wants everyone to pay for their newnetwork. ” Delany took exception during a conference call with reporters onThursday — the one-year anniversary of the day the Big Tenannounced plans to form the network.
The Chicago Tribune Ed Sherman Sports Media And Golf column: PGA…
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 21, 2007
(21-JUN-07) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). 21–Tim Finchem shouldn’t have had to use his mulligan on this one. The PGA Tour commissioner should have stepped to the tee a long time ago and announced there will be drug.
Gene Collier: Maybe each sport needs no-dope promise from players
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jun 21, 2007
htm –>Gene Collier: Maybe each sport needs no-dope promise from playersThursday June 21 2007Pittsburgh Post-GazetteWithout professing even half a cup’s clairvoyance into what will unfold tomorrow night in Columbus here’s the way the NHL draft ought to go and for that matter all professional sports drafts henceforth. The selected stud perhaps Patrick Kane in the case of the 2007 hockey draft should walk to the staging area pull on his ceremonial No. Yeah that should do it. As it happens hockey’s drug problem is likely dwarfed by the oversized performance enhancing medicine cabinets of some other sports but since its draft is at hand I thought this prototypical pledge should get its debut sooner rather than later.
… predecessor named interim DA; to name permanent replacement…
ESPN – Jun 21, 2007
– Durham County’s former district attorney wassworn Thursday to temporarily replace Mike Nifong who was disbarred last week over his prosecution of the Duke lacrosse case. Mike Easley picked Jim Hardin as interim district attorney a job Hardin held from 1994 to 2005 before becoming a judge. Easley plans to name a permanent replacement later. Nifong was disbarred for breaking more than two dozen rules ofprofessional conduct in his handling of allegations that an exotic dancer was raped at a Duke University lacrosse team party in March 2006.
… put on probation fined $100000 for undercharging meals -…
ESPN – Jun 21, 2007
The probation will not limit CU’s television exposure or NCAAtournament appearances however. Most of the infractions occurred in football (86) and women’ssoccer (29) but also in women’s volleyball (six) tennis (two) andgolf (one) and in men’s basketball (nine). “We knew the number of student-athletes for each sport as itcame forward. The team with the most student-athletes was footballso they probably had the most (infractions)” Dee said. Two of the violations found that some walk-on student-athletespaid a dining hall meal-plan rate instead of the highertraining-table rate. “Training table meals are approximately $14 $15″ athleticdirector Mike Bohn said. “Meals at the dining hall are about $7 or$8.
Coach fined $1000 forfeits ownership of weapon – College Sports
ESPN – Jun 21, 2007
Bonaventure baseball coach Larry Sudbrook was fined $1000 Thursday after he pleaded guilty to trying to carry a. 357 Magnum revolver onto a commercial airplane.
