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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
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- Rugby World Cup: Springboks search for colour coordination | Sport |…
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
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- Sports Round-up
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 21, 2007
He did it by capturing Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Carlos Pace. 6 Ferrari driver crossed the finish line 1. 493 seconds ahead of teammate Felipe Massa.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 21, 2007
1Madrid Spain (Sports Network) – Andy Murray handed Rafael Nadal the year-end No. 1 ranking with a victory over Roger Federer then Nadal bowed out in stunning fashion to unseeded Gilles Simon in wild semifinal action at the Madrid Masters. Murray took a 3-6 6-3 7-5 decision to reach the final at the eighth of nine Master Series events this year. There he will meet the lanky even-tempered Simon who downed the home favorite and reigning Wimbledon French Open and Olympic champion Nadal in a three-hour 22-minute affair 3-6 7-5 7-6 (8-6). Murray’s victory gave the top-seeded Nadal the year-end No.
Rugby World Cup: Springboks search for colour coordination | Sport |…
The Observer – Oct 21, 2007
Ralepelle should have been the third hooker in the World Cup squad but a succession of injury problems in Super 14 knocked him out for the season. The suspicion is that for political reasons he was being asked to play too much hard rugby before he was properly ready. To non-South Africans the idea of quotas – albeit unspoken ones – in any sport may be anathema and most South Africans of all colours rail against. But only the most recalcitrant white rugby fans would argue against the imperative behind them – the need to transform. Rugby’s fiercest critic is Butana Komphela an MP for the governing African National Congress party and chairman of the parliamentary sports watchdog. ‘Sport cannot be exonerated from the broad picture of government programmes’ he told rugby chiefs earlier this year when they appeared for one of their quarterly floggings. ‘Sport cannot be excluded from imperatives of empowerment and transformation.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 21, 2007
The last game of the regular season was between two teams that were still in the hunt for the last playoff spot while also featuring two of the league’s biggest stars – Chicago’s Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Los Angeles’ David Beckham. The Galaxy seemed out of the race just three weeks ago but ran off a seven game unbeaten streak including five wins to get back into the race. The Fire were also on a seven game unbeaten streak heading into the last game but only two of those were wins. But the hopes of L.
SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports — Cowboys 24 Vikes 14
San Diego Union Tribune – Oct 21, 2007
–>By Jaime AronASSOCIATED PRESS4:25 p. October 21 2007IRVING Texas – Scoring a first-quarter touchdown wasn’t the spark the Dallas Cowboys thought it would be. Returning a blocked field goal for a touchdown for the first time since 1983? Yeah that did the trick. Dallas bounced back from a lopsided home loss to New England and guaranteed itself at least two more weeks atop the NFC because of an upcoming bye.
Sports Round-up
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 21, 2007
Yousuf’s 143-ball 117 ensured Pakistan posted a fighting 265 for nine in their 50 overs before the home team overcame poor fielding — dropping five catches — to restrict the South Africans to 240 in 49. Graeme Smith topscored for South Africa with a 96-ball 65 before Shaun Pollock (37) and Albie Morkel (31) gave Pakistan a scare during their 47-ball 55-run partnership for the seventh wicket. Umar Gul finished any hopes of an upset when he ended Pollock’s 46-ball 37-run knock with four overs remaining.
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Washington Post – Oct 21, 2007
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