The News Review:
- ‘Hard sell’ in high school sports recruiting is out of bounds
- Change of venue could broaden College World Series’ appeal -…
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
‘Hard sell’ in high school sports recruiting is out of bounds
USA Today – Jun 22, 2007
The court endorsed rules to prevent “hard-sell tactics” in sports and to curtail valuing athletics over academics. The decision buttressed groups nationwide that oversee interscholastic sports. Writing for the court Justice John Paul Stevens emphasized that school and other government-related entities may not broadly curtail free speech but may enforce for example “conditions … that are necessary to managing an efficient and effective state-sponsored high school athletic league. “The case dates to 1997 when Brentwood Academy football coach Carlton Flatt wrote to 12 eighth-grade boys admitted to the private school for the fall inviting them to spring practice.
Change of venue could broaden College World Series’ appeal -…
ESPN – Jun 22, 2007
Indianapolis also has Victory Field. pened in 1996 in a section of downtown that rivals everything maha has to offer it is “the best of everything in one ballpark” according to Baseball America. And Sports Illustrated called it “the best minor league ballpark in America… That would open up the College World Series to some other great venues and cities while still keeping a renovated Rosenblatt and maha in the mix. After all there’s only one Zesto’s. David Albright is the senior coordinator for college sports at ESPN. com and can be reached at david.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jun 22, 2007
The top-seeded Federer is again the overwhelming favorite on the hallowed grass courts of the London suburb and will open his fortnight against Russia’s Teimuraz Gabashvili. Gabashvili has never played at Wimbledon and his first two ventures into Grand Slam play this year ended with first-round losses at both the Australian and French pens. Federer is trying to become the first man to win five straight Wimbledon crowns since the great Bjorn Borg accomplished the feat from 1976-80. His opening match next week will be his first on grass this year as the Swiss star did not play any of the Wimbledon tuneup events.
