The News Review:
- American Sports American Excess. No Thanks.
- SWEEP DREAMS | By MARK HALE | Sports News | Scores | Results
- … The Medium – Television – Internet Video – Media – Sports -…
- Singapore hopes a Formula One race will lead to a motor sports industr…
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
- Mavs’ Nowitzki popular in native Germany despite his sport
- SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports — Titans 13 Raiders 9
American Sports American Excess. No Thanks.
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
27 — Fat sells. Consider this — the American football player who had the greatest celebrity following in Britain was a man who was famous mainly for his appetite: William Perry known as the Refrigerator. Skip to next paragraph.
SWEEP DREAMS | By MARK HALE | Sports News | Scores | Results
New York Post – Oct 28, 2007
Regardless it will come at some point in these next four games – or they and the Rockies will make history. The Sox have easily replaced.
… The Medium – Television – Internet Video – Media – Sports -…
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
Typically parents justify the price of these videos which range from $300 to $5000 as an investment against a scholarship one that might save a kid tens of thousands on annual tuition. Student-Athlete Showcase which was founded in 2003 by Rex Grayner a former college baseball player also offers clients a full-dress press package a so-called E-Profile that includes a r?m?a highlight reel stats and a selective bio that looks suspiciously like a pedigree (the athletic achievements of a student’s dame and sire are underscored). As a sports matchmaker Student-Athlete Showcase now boasts of winning clients an average of $12000 in scholarship money or a total of $1. 7 million since the site’s introduction. But whether the highlight reels secure the big money they serve as potent keepsakes for the young athletes or maybe as video cocaine something to deliver bright highs whenever a former M… Usually the haphazard sounds of the court or field are muted in favor of an up-tempo soundtrack (pop hits are regularly used without permission) but periodically a game or showcase is selectively miked to amplify the cracking smacking and crunching sounds meant to signal to recruiters that at least one kid is giving 110 percent. Backgrounds and animation sequences grabbed royalty-free from chaotic sites like Digital Juice cosmetically enhance the on-screen action. Violent royal blue whirls and swooshes seem to define the sports-hero aesthetic while the ominous spotlight effect used to pick out a player on the field (as a dark cloud enshrouds her teammates) seems like a tool for a hit man. Alex Smith of the Laguna Beach High School football team used the old spinning-newspaper trick to show how regularly he made the local sports pages. His name and yardage were underlined in red. High-end videographers some of whom have filmed sports for ESPN or professional teams shoot from the stands the press box and even the field when they need close-ups of the decisive moments like the coin toss in football. They also openly choreograph everything from portrait-style shots to staged action sequences to useful cutaways.
Singapore hopes a Formula One race will lead to a motor sports industr…
International Herald Tribune – Oct 28, 2007
Singapore got the green light this week from Formula One's governing body to hold the sport's first-ever night race. The government will seek proposals from the private sector in May next year to build a permanent race track in Changi eastern Singapore according the Singapore Sports Council. “The government has identified the motor sports industry as a growth industry that will contribute to sports development and the economy in Singapore” said Vivian Balakrishnan minister for community development youth and sports in a statement Friday. The racetrack is expected to be completed by early 2011.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 28, 2007
1Basel Switzerland (Sports Network) – Roger Federer rolled to a straight-set win over Jarkko Nieminen of Finland to capture the Swiss Indoors title and clinch the year-end world No. 1 ranking for the fourth consecutive season. The top-seeded Federer earned a 6-3 6-4 victory to claim the title of his hometown tournament for the second straight year. It was the Swiss superstar’s seventh title of 2007 and the 52nd of his brilliant career. Federer improved to 52-17 all-time in ATP finals including 7-4 this year.
Mavs’ Nowitzki popular in native Germany despite his sport
Seattle Times – Oct 28, 2007
BERLIN — Germans love the Dirk Nowitzki story: the young local man who travels halfway around the world to play among giants in a city known mainly as a nighttime TV soap opera to conquer in a game few Germans care about. Although he’s the NBA’s returning most valuable player the Dallas Mavericks’ 7-foot forward remains a story Germans don’t really understand.
SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports — Titans 13 Raiders 9
San Diego Union Tribune – Oct 28, 2007
October 28 2007NASHVILLE Tenn. – Vince Young looked a little rusty in his first game back from a strained right quadriceps muscle. That was no problem for the Tennessee Titans because he had LenDale White and the defense to help out. White ran for a career-high 133 yards Rob Bironas added two field goals and Chris Henry scored a touchdown as the Tennessee Titans pulled out a 13-9 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday for their second straight win.
