The News Review:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
- TMS is the host with the most — for a Texas sports event – Racing
- Beach football: sport or pastime?
- An upscale style of sports bar takes the field
- Boost for sports sector over next five years: SSC
- Sporting News – Your expert source for MLB Baseball NFL Football…
- Sports centre part of town revamp
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Nov 1, 2007
1 Martina Hingis announced on Thursday that she tested positive for cocaine during this year’s Wimbledon Championships and also announced her retirement from professional tennis. Hingis denied the allegations in a statement Thursday saying “I find this accusation so horrendous so monstrous that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. “I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely one hundred percent innocent. Despite her protests Hingis said she doesn’t want to fight officials or try to battle back from injuries and instead will call it a career.
TMS is the host with the most — for a Texas sports event – Racing
ESPN – Nov 1, 2007
But this isn’t just a visit from the in-laws. Mother of all honey-dosTMS ‘to-do’ list for the upcoming Dickies 500Power wash 490000 square feet of seatingTrim 2 miles worth of hedgesMow 900 acres of grassSeed 350 acresSpray weed killer over 120 miles of gravel aisles in turf parking and campground Plant 9500 flowersUnfurl raise 290 flagsClean and service 2383 toilets 750 men’s urinals and 761 sinksUnload and place 800 porta-johnsStock bathrooms with 4. 25 tons of hamburger meat)10000 hamburger buns15000 orders of nacho chips13680 ounces of nacho cheese sauce2000 prime rib steak sandwiches.
Beach football: sport or pastime?
BBC News – Nov 1, 2007
Nigeria and Senegal will fly the flag for Africa on Rio de Janeiro’s legendary Copacabana sands. Many people believe beach football – a five-man game divided into three 12-minute periods on a pitch slightly longer than a basketball court and about twice as wide – falls short of being a sport. Yet over the past decade it has evolved from a recreational activity to a global industry recognised by Fifa. But do you care? Should a group of people in swimming trunks having a kick-about on the sand be considered a genuine sport? Is beach football really worthy of having its own World Cup?Most dictionaries defines ’sport’ as ‘an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature.
An upscale style of sports bar takes the field
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Nov 1, 2007
2 2007 Three and a half years ago when Miles O’Neil opened The Wicked Hop his “non-traditional sports bar” in the Third Ward some wondered about his business acumen. Did the Third Ward home to art galleries and trendy restaurants want a sports bar – even one with a sleek modernist décor and a menu of fresh chef-created items including entrées such as Balsamic-Citrus Salmon or Artichoke and Rosemary Chicken Scallopini? Turns out it did. On Saturday afternoon during the Badgers-Hoosiers game The Wicked Hop 345 N. Broadway was packed to the rafters. “We come for the screen and a nice place to watch” said Russ Gamsky of Greenfield who with some friends had a straight-on view of the 120-inch television that dominates the back wall of one of O’Neil’s two barrooms.
Boost for sports sector over next five years: SSC
Channel News Asia – Nov 1, 2007
The sporting scene in Singapore is revving up with the Formula One Grand Prix taking place here for five years starting September 2008. Come 2013 Singapore will host the South East Asian Games (SEA Games). And although Singapore’s bid to hold the 2010 Youth Olympic Games is still in the balance the SSC said that the future for the sports sector here is bright. To meet this demand the SSC will be working with the Workforce Development Agency to create more jobs.
Sporting News – Your expert source for MLB Baseball NFL Football…
SportingNews.com – Nov 1, 2007
He made a comment that made me think. Maybe he was quoting a reporter but anyway he said: “Guys say they want a girl that likes sports but what they really want is a girl who LET’S THEM like sports. ” Is this true fellas? I mainly have a lot of guy friends (sports has nothing to do with the reason why) and I’m often thought of as “one of the guys. ” I have a great guy roommate who has unintentionally changed a lot of my vocabulary to make me sound more like one of the boys too. I love kicking back with them and watching games on TV at a bar or at someone’s apartment. The best date I ever went on was when my boyfriend took me to a Yankees vs. Tigers spring training game in March… The best date I ever went on was when my boyfriend took me to a Yankees vs. Tigers spring training game in March. My sister and I both love sports thanks to our dad who obviously wanted a son. Luckily my dad a Giants fan now has a son-in-law who’s a die-hard Eagles fan who he can talk smack to. Anyway Johnny explained that perhaps some guys feel a sports girl is stepping on their territory. For years Sunday and Monday nights was “boys’ night” where a man could gather with his pals guzzle beer and eat trans fat enriched foods without their bickering wives or girlfriends telling them to clean up or keep it down. Today more and more women are joining in with the guys’ fun cracking open cans or beer getting Dorito residue on their fingers and keeping up in conversations around the office water cooler about last night’s big game.
Sports centre part of town revamp
BBC News – Nov 1, 2007
Kirklees Council has unveiled plans which will transform part of Huddersfield town centre. The sports centre would include a gym three swimming pools and dance studio. Its location has not been confirmed. The Tesco store in Viaduct Street will move to the site of the current sports centre in Southgate and be replaced by flats shops and offices.
