• News 22.12.2007

    The News Review:

    - Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
    - Sports policy to be put before cabinet in January
    - Incredible night for Pittsburgh sports

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
    Seattle Post Intelligencer – Dec 22, 2007
    Starace the 31st-ranked player in the world and Italian No. 1 was suspended
    for six months and fined $30000. Bracciali ranked 258th was given a three-
    month suspension and fined $20000. The suspensions will take effect on
    January 1.

    Sports policy to be put before cabinet in January
    Hindu – Dec 22, 2007
    The Sports Minister stressed that the biggest problem was that sports was figuring in the State subject along with arts crafts etc. He projected as to how Cuba was able to win 179 medals in 2006 for every 10 million of its population as compared to the relative figure of 0. 05 for India and pointed out that the success of Cuba was because every child was going to school and physical education was being given top priority in the curriculum over the last five decades. Basic facilities

    Aiyar said that it was important to provide basic sports facilities to every panchayat in the country and bemoaned the fact that it was easier getting Rs.

    Incredible night for Pittsburgh sports
    Tribune Review – Dec 22, 2007
    Based on what transpired Thursday night that could change. story continues below
    My mission was to watch three sporting events simultaneously — on the same television — while acceding to the demands of a holiday-crazed wife. Nothing I did was going to compare to say Kim Goodman who set a world record by popping her eyeballs to a protrusion of 11 millimeters beyond her eye sockets in 1998 but Guinness was sure to take note nonetheless. It turned out to be the perfect storm. Who could have guessed that all three games – Steelers-Rams; Penguins-Bruins; Pitt-Duke — would be packed with enough drama to fill an episode of “Brothers Sisters?”

    Luckily I kept a diary:

    4:15 p.

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