The News Review:
- The Top Player in This League? It May Be the Sports Reporter
- The Year in Sports 2007 Stories of the NFL
- IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part I
- Five Michigan State players to sit out Champs Sports Bowl
- IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part I
- Doping at home and abroad dominates sport in 2007
The Top Player in This League? It May Be the Sports Reporter
New York Times – Dec 24, 2007
Walsh, executive editor; Don Skwar, senior news editor; and Vince Doria, senior vice president and director of news. ESPN has been paying top dollar for writers, including offering Rick Reilly $3 million a year to leave Sports Illustrated. But the high-paid objects of desire are not pitchers, running backs or point guards #151; they are sportswriters.
The Year in Sports 2007 Stories of the NFL
CNN International – Dec 24, 2007
Record chases bind us to an athletic heritage that lives on in yellowed paper volumes (along with Google searches and, blessedly, the occasional YouTube video) and connects to greatness in a language that we can understand and speak at picnics. How about those Celtics? And such. Whatever the milestone, we usually want to see it, touch it, remember it, celebrate it. Then there is the relentless march of the.
IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part I
International Herald Tribune – Dec 24, 2007
The newcomer is Mary Nicole Nazzaro, who has a particular interest in Chinese sport having lived and worked there as both a sports journalism professor and also a sports writer for Sports Illustrated China. Her perspective is most welcome as we enter in what is clearly the year of China. Or is it? We#039;ll talk about that and many other aspects of the global sports year, and I#039;ll be posting excerpts from our discussion from now into the early part of January.
Five Michigan State players to sit out Champs Sports Bowl
USA Today – Dec 24, 2007
(AP) #151; Defensive standouts Jonal Saint-Dic and SirDarean Adams are among five Michigan State players who will sit out the Champs Sports Bowl on Friday against No. 14 Boston College because of academic or other violations. The Spartans said Monday that Saint-Dic, a senior defensive end, and three other players are academically ineligible for the bowl game. Adams, a senior linebacker, violated unspecified team rules.
IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part I
International Herald Tribune – Dec 24, 2007
–> Whatever the sports or continents, champions are champions. Fame and money tend to make them very suspicious if not paranoid. Most of them only trust people they know from before the glory days. But there is maybe a difference between European and Americanstars.
Doping at home and abroad dominates sport in 2007
The Age – Dec 24, 2007
Marion Jones admitting she was a drug cheat and being strippedof her five medals, including three gold, from the Sydney 2000Olympic Games was judged best international sports story of 2007,while the Ben Cousins drug scandal and his fall from grace at theWest Coast Eagles AFL team was the biggest story in Australia. Test captain Ricky Ponting was voted Australia’s mostinfluential sportsperson but was pipped by MotoGP world championCasey Stoner for sportsman of the year, while five-time swimmingworld champion Libby Lenton nudged out last year’s winner,basketballer Lauren Jackson, for sportswoman of the year. But it was the drugs issue the dominated the year, according tothe annual AAP survey of editors. The Jones confession was “a huge international story with evenstronger impact in Australia due to the Sydney Olympic connection”,one editor wrote.
