The News Review:
- Baseball: The last weekend: 7 teams chase 4 NL playoff sports
- Print edition Sports
- Sports + science = Latest on TV
- Rutgers prof under fire for comments about student athletes – College…
- Austin steals spotlight | Sports | Golf | PE.com | Southern California…
Baseball: The last weekend: 7 teams chase 4 NL playoff sports
International Herald Tribune – Sep 28, 2007
The Philadelphia Phillies had tied the New York Mets for the National League East lead for the first time since the season began the Chicago Cubs were holding a two-game lead over Milwaukee in the NL Central and Arizona was only one game in front of San Diego and two ahead of Colorado in the NL West. The East and West teams also were in play for the wild card which the Padres led by one game over the Mets Phillies and Rockies. Phillies 6 Braves 4 “It's exciting but we still have work to do” Kyle Kendrick said after pitching the Phillies to victory over Atlanta on Thursday for Philadelphia's 11th win in 14 games. Ryan Howard who hit his 44th homer for the Phillies said: “It's a good feeling but really we haven't done anything.
Print edition Sports
USA Today – Sep 28, 2007
For the Milwaukee Brewers status quo is opportunity squandered. The Padres held ground in their dual races defeating the Brewers 9-5 to retain a one-game lead in the National League wild-card race and remain one game behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West Division. The Brewers failed for the second consecutive night to gain ground on the reeling Chicago Cubs in the NL Central. Milwaukee’s loss reduced the Cubs’ magic number to two as Chicago holds a two-game lead with three to play.
Sports + science = Latest on TV
USA Today – Sep 28, 2007
Which one is preferable of course remains a matter of personal taste. Fox Sports Net’s Sport Science a 13-part series debuting Sunday (9 p. local time) put nearly 90 top athletes in what series co-creator John Brenkus says is a “tricked-out” Los Angeles airport hangar.
Rutgers prof under fire for comments about student athletes – College…
ESPN – Sep 28, 2007
– A longtime critic of Rutgers University’s drive into big-time sports is being criticized over a newspaperarticle comment that university officials have branded as racist. At the end of a New York Times article Wednesday about William C. Dowling’s failed efforts to get Rutgers to turn away fromhigh-stakes athletics the tenured English professor responded to arguments that athletic scholarships provide opportunity to low-income minority students. “If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport that’s fine” Dowling said. “But they give it to a functional illiterate who can’t reada cereal box and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills.
Austin steals spotlight | Sports | Golf | PE.com | Southern California…
Press-Enterprise – Sep 28, 2007
Playing in the final match Austin lost his balance and fell face-first into a lake along the 14th fairway — a comical scene replayed on the large video screens around Royal Montreal. But Austin got the last laugh winning two of the final three holes for the halve. “You couldn't see who it was because his head was underwater” Steve Stricker said after teaming with Scott Verplank to deliver the only U.
