• News 26.10.2007

    The News Review:

    - NFL Tries to Turn Globalization Into a Team Sport
    - Sports Share a Passion but They’re Oceans Apart
    - White spreads anti-doping gospel doubts sports will ever be completel…
    - … Jol – 26 Oct 2007 – nzherald: Sports news – New Zealand and…
    - Traditional powerhouses producing NFL talent – High School Sports

    NFL Tries to Turn Globalization Into a Team Sport
    New York Times – Oct 26, 2007
    Yet the foreign hordes of sports investors keep arriving bringing dollars or rubles or even Thai baht or Icelandic krona to the flourishing Premier League by far the best soccer league in the world. In the wake of the Glazers and other American investors comes a new incursion by the National Football League no stranger in these parts despite playing with an oblong ball instead of a round one.

    Sports Share a Passion but They’re Oceans Apart
    New York Times – Oct 26, 2007
    25 The soccer game was about to start so the men and they were all men hurried to place bets at the window on the stadium’s concourse. Nearby a man chomped his Cornish pastie or maybe it was a steak and kidney pie. They all soon left to take their seats. None carried a beer because fans at this game were not allowed to drink alcohol while sitting in the stands. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia.

    White spreads anti-doping gospel doubts sports will ever be completel…
    International Herald Tribune – Oct 26, 2007
    She knows she could go to her job as a marketing manager at a San Francisco area shopping mall and nobody would ask her about steroids or BALCO or why she ruined her athletics career — which included being stipped of two World Championship titles — by taking performance-enhancing drugs. “One thing about being a professional track and field athlete nobody knows what that is” she said referring to her fellow Americans. “They just know it during the Olympics. They're like 'Oh did you go to the Olympics?' and I'm like 'No I didn't. '” The conversations usually end there.

    … Jol – 26 Oct 2007 – nzherald: Sports news – New Zealand and…
    New Zealand Herald – Oct 26, 2007
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    Traditional powerhouses producing NFL talent – High School Sports
    ESPN – Oct 26, 2007
    The talent on the field was top-shelf; so were the teams. It transcended borders of a typical high school football game and coach Bob Ladouceur of De La Salle High of Concord Calif. had the best seat in the house on Oct.

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